WEEK 3: Dóbry wétscher (Good Evening)!
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Study 9 Update
Here is where it's at right now for me.
What was easy: Tuning the sixth string down to D maybe?
What was difficult: Playing all the notes. 🙂 But here are some specifics.
- The slurs in measures 11, 16, and 18 sound strained and not beautiful at all.
- The huge leaps and shifts in measures 12-14 I almost never play accurately (including in this video).
- The right hand harmonics in measures 20-23 are so hard for me to play in time. I'd love to be able to pluck them with my thumb, as Koshkin suggests, but I'd have to drop the tempo by about half to hit them in time. So I gave up on that (at least for now) and am plucking them with the ring finger.
- At this tempo, the harmonics in measures 24-27 are rarely accurate. I think I just need to commit these measures to memory so I can keep my eyes on the guitar and not the music. I don't know if this is my age showing, but I find it very difficult to see the correct frets up so high, and I almost get dizzy trying, especially at tempo.
I'll keep plugging away. I really want to be able to play this one well, as I love it so much, but I lose hope sometimes, especially when recording it.
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Finally got around to recording myself. This is study 1. First time recording so I don’t know about sound quality.
things I found easy- this piece is really nice to practice, so it’s enjoyable to play around with.
things I found hard- getting the dynamics right. Getting ahead of myself and fluffing a note. -
Still plugging away with 1,2 and 4, although I have had a look at some of the others. Mainly been trying to get 4 to a decent level though I've also got lots of other pieces which I need to finish soon as well.
Easy (number 4). Bars 4 to 6 aren't too bad.
Hard: bars 7 and 8 are still tricky as are bars 19 to 21
Video attached it fell to pieces a bit at the end but this was about the 15th attempt so it is as it is