Group 1
This Two Week Intensives will cover the essential techniques of staccato, portato, and legato for guitar players. Staccato involves playing notes in a short, detached manner, while legato involves playing notes smoothly and connected. Portato is a style that falls between staccato and legato, with slightly detached but still connected notes. The class will also delve into the development of left-hand technique that you need for proper articulation!
Sanel Redžić is one of the most promising and virtuoso guitarists of the younger
generation, who has created an important name on the international scene, having a wide
repertoire from baroque to modern music.
Sanel currently teaches at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Weimar and at
the University of Erfurt in Germany. He is also artistic director and founder of Tuzla Guitar
Week in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Repertoire:
- Scales (major with parallel melodic minor scares)
- Leo Brouwer - Etude Nr. 1
- Agustin Barrios - Mangore - 3rd movement of La Catedral
- Fernando Sor - Etude Op. 35, No. 22 (Segovia No. 5)
- Any other example by participants
Assignment Videos
I compiled a playlist with 5 Videos! More Videos will come :)
- Video 1: Intro
- Video 2: C Major scale with i-m
- Video 3: C Major scale with p
- Video 4: Arpeggios
- Video 5: Brouwer no.1
Assignment:
- Submit a video containing either one or several of the exercises. For example, start with a simple C major scale playing once as legato as possible, repeat with portamento and then one last time with staccato. Please tell us what articulation you were aiming for!
- Feel free to apply the learnings to either Brouwer Etude no.1 or your own repertoire!
Feel free to ask questions in a written reply and/or add them to your video!
Assignment Week 2:
- Read and play through the piece provided by Sanel and play the basses staccato and the upper voices legato!
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Sanel Redzic In Dance of the Dwarfs - measures 76 thru 82, I was going to play the "D" and "A" top bass notes Staccato with m-i, m-i, etc (and stop each of those notes with the same finger). The bottom bass notes melody played legato with Thumb.
Is this the way you do it? Thanks!
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Sanel Redzic Hi Sanel, Were you planning to tell us something about Catedral (Mvt 3), as it is mentioned in the course description?
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Here's a take on part of "Dance of the Dwarfs" from the repeat of the a section to the end. Getting the dynamics and articulation right between the voices is going to take some time. Quite the independence challenge. Thanks, Sanel Redzic .
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Sanel Redzic Here is the Dance, which is still a work in process. I'm not playing yet at full tempo and still poor at sight reading it from score (so sorry for the mistakes...lol).
In measures 76 to 82, I've experimented with different solution and decided to stop the Staccato notes using the "a" finger. Is this a good solution for that tricky section? (still requires concentration).
This piece is more challenging for me than it first appears. Please let me know your comments/suggestions. Thanks!!
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Sanel Redzic I found this transcription of a selection from El Amor Brujo, and just started working on it. The piece requires articulation with Staccato, mostly in the bass.. Please review and let me know your comments/suggestions. Thanks!!