Week 6:Reflections on the Journey: Final Touches ✨
🎸 End of the Year Challenge: "Finish Strong!" 🎉
As the year comes to a close, it's the perfect time to look back on your guitar journey, celebrate your progress, and set the stage for a powerful finish! Whether you've been steadily refining a piece all year, revisiting past favorites, or holding onto that "one day" project, now’s the time to bring it to life. Let’s wrap up this year with a final push, together!
Challenge Theme: Complete, Conquer, and Celebrate!
Goal:
Choose one guitar piece or project that has been on your list this year. This might be a piece you’ve been working on in lessons, something you’ve always wanted to learn but never started, or a performance you’d like to polish. Dedicate the final weeks of the year to bringing it to completion—whatever "finished" means for you!
Challenge Options:
Complete a Piece: If you’ve been working on a piece throughout the year, let’s aim to bring it to the finish line. Focus on refining tricky sections, memorizing it, or even recording it as a performance!
Start & Finish a New Piece: Is there a piece that’s been sitting on your "someday" list? Dive in! Start fresh, put in dedicated practice time, and see how far you can get by the end of the year.
Polish for Performance: Got a piece you can already play but want to perfect? Use this time to iron out the details and maybe even perform it for friends, family, or the tonebase community!
Challenge Guidelines:
Set Your Goals: Decide on the piece or project and set a few concrete goals (e.g., "play smoothly at tempo," "record a full video," or "memorize all sections").
Share Your Journey: Post your progress, questions, and reflections with the community! Let us know what you're working on, why you chose it, and any hurdles you’re overcoming.
Celebrate the Wins: At the end of the challenge, share your "finished" version! Whether it’s a recording, a progress update, or simply sharing your reflections, let’s celebrate together.
Dates:
This challenge runs from now until December 30th. Finish the year with a sense of accomplishment and the motivation to take on new pieces in the coming year!
Why Join?
This isn’t just about completing a piece; it’s about proving to yourself what you can achieve with focus and support. Join us for a fun, collaborative way to end the year on a high note. 🎶
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Hi all. I've not been as active as I would have liked on Tonebase this year - hopefully next year I will be appearing more! In the meantime I would like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year.
Here is my contribution to the challenge. There are a couple of glitches in the video, I don't know why they happened but it was a bit of a rush job.
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Hello all,
I have been away from the forum for several weeks but I took the time to listen to all of your recordings last night. Great performance with such a variety of music from different composers.
For this challenge, I have been working on a well known Xmass piece. The arrangement is from Trevor Gordon Hall for acoustic guitar. However, it sound good also on a classical guitar.
This was a lot of challenge for me with a lot of chord changes, rolling chords, arpeggios and pull off but I learned a lot into this project. There is still a lot of work to polish this piece and increase the tempo.
Happy Christmas for all of you. Enjoy a great time with your family and friends.
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I have been working on bits of Bach the whole year - I have always found this particular Gigue deceptively difficult - lot of slurs and pull-offs, intrinsic to the rhythm, which can often sound rushed thereby accelerating the tempo of the entire piece. Still some other errors, but I am happy with the pacing. I will try record and upload the Double later, with which this Gigue is of course paired.
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Double the speed, double the trouble. Just getting through this feels like a win (which is why I am not playing repeats!). I'm happy with the last section which involves some really quick contrapuntal passages.
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Hello to all....and happy Christmas for those who cellebrate it....here I´m posting a piece from Francisco Tarrega called Pavana....The pice has a A section ( E mayor) then a B section ( B mayor) a cadenza in pizzicato mode (palm mutted) and finally the section A repeated....I hope you enjoy.....Wish all you merry Chritsmas