Marco Tamayo - Ask Me Anything about Tension & Relaxation, Articulation & Phrasing
Welcoming a Force of Nature to the tonebase Community!
We are thrilled to welcome leading virtuoso and elite expert on all things classical guitar Marco Tamayo to the tonebase community! Recently called to the UdK Berlin as a guitar professor, he will substantially shape the future of classical guitar education. We couldn’t be more excited to have him available to answer your questions on crucial technique concepts like tension & relaxation, as well as articulation & phrasing!
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- Ask your questions right here until November 6th!
- Marco will answer questions from November 7th - 11th!
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Sorry Marco, Also speak to the phrasing of long Scales. How to determine the best groupings and accents? thank you!
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Hello Marco. Thank you
for sharing your knowledge with us at Tonebase.What can you teach us about fingerings, regarding use of slurs, string crossings and accents in fast patterns, as in the above mentioned Bach 1006 prelude. Thank you!
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joosje Hi Joosje! Thanks for your question. Slurs have to be used in any case, as slurs are idiomatically needed in musical lines. It is a wrong approach to the baroque saying that no slurs are allowed. Each word has one strong syllable and one or more week. (except monosyllables) So, the music as language isn‘t different. According to the articulation of the groups, there are fast groups with the starting input on the first note, there are other with the star on the second etc... If showing it, why not to place the slur there? Best regards! Marco
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Hello Marco, I also have some questions.
- About phrasing and slurs: In the Bach 1006 Prelude you do some slurs with three notes. Is there a rhetorical/technical/historical reason for that? And also in Cancion del Emperador you do some slurs with 5 notes.
- About changing from tirando (x) to apoyando (-) playing two notes on the same string. In Etude 5 (Regondi) you sometimes change from m(x) to a(-); bar 29, 30. In Sonata K.318 (Scarlatti) you change from a(x) to m(-); bar 38. So these changes are also no problem, because the happen on the strong beat, right? I refer to the principles in your book...
- About using fingers as a reference point. Do you sometimes use m as reference point when playing with p, i and a?
- About playing m apoyando, when placing a as a reference point on the next lower string. I saw it in a video on youtube, where you do it on strong beats in Paganini Caprice 24. So this is also possible to accent strong notes? But usually you don't use a as a reference when playing m apoyando, right?
Thank you very much!
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Philipp HI Phillip! Great questions. Thanks for that.
ok, here it goes:
- Slurs have to be used in any case, as slurs are idiomatically needed in musical lines. It is a wrong approach to the baroque saying that no slurs are allowed. Each word has one strong syllable and one or more week. (except monosyllables) So, the music as language isn‘t different. So "Melismas" existed since much before baroque, and a melisma is: two or more notes sung with one vowel, as in B minor Mess by J.S. Bach, and million of examples of it. Ornamentations got many different functions in music, and Canción del emperador is a work made by the composer filled with ornamentations as the string instrument cannot extend the sound as the voice does. The work is written originally in 2/2 measure so it is much faster to be played that what guitarist used to do. Is it more less clear what I mean with that?
- About the principles in the book: remember that in an arpegio position /R.H) it is possible to do M or A as first, and also according to the passage and the accentuation. But I must say, I love your remark!
- M as reference, almost never. Not wishing fast passages. (I would say never to be suggested)
- Be aware! Never A as reference while playing apoyando with M. I do it right after, to stop the wrong resonance of the first. It may look like it is at the same time but IT IS NOT. As I do it fast it may confuse you, but it is never to be done together. You are good in seeing!
Big hugs and all the best!
Marco
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Marco Thank you very much for your answers!!! Everything clear so far!
I‘m looking forward to see and hear more of your work!
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