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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Jack Stewart Thanks Jack. Hope you're having a great time!
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JUAN ALONSO Thank you Juan
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Derek Beautiful, Derek! Merry Christmas to you as well!
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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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Andre Bernier Hey Andre. I can’t seem to play your video. When I press play it says I must sign in and then redirects me to a generic YouTube page.
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Jack Stewart
I am not sure what the problem is but just in case, here is another link
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Andre Bernier Great! That works. This really good Andre. You are getting a really good tone with Alaska picks and everything is well balanced. Great job!
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Andre Bernier ......your piece sounds as Carol, I dont know it but sounds great, Bravo and Merry Christmas to all
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Andre Bernier Great playing, Andre, and Merry Christmas to you too!
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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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Sam Greenblatt That is wonderful, Sam. Your separation and balance of voices is excellent. This was a real joy to listen to.
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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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Sam Greenblatt bravo Sam .....Bach is always very challenging and you play it very well.....specially, as you mention, the las section....congratulatiosn
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Sam Greenblatt Another excellent performance, Sam. The challenge of playing this piece (as with most of Bach’s doubles) is how relentless it is. Once again your separation and balance of voices are great. Great and impressive work! Bravo!
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Sam Greenblatt Bravo, Sam! All the voices were so clear and beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
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Sam Greenblatt great playing on both of these pieces Sam. I really enjoyed listening to them
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Sam Greenblatt Incredible! It's like you're running to keep up to a speeding train. Not only did you keep up, though, but you played it very musically.
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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
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JUAN ALONSO Beautiful playing, Juan. Very nice contrast of sections.
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JUAN ALONSO beautifully played Juan.
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JUAN ALONSO Another of my favorites. Sounds great, Juan!
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Giuliani - L'Oeillet
Another Giuliani's music from op.46, and this one is really difficult. I would like to share a better version with you all, but I am afraid I do not have time to practice and make another recording before the end of this challenge. So I decided to record it today anyway. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Wai Great work on this Giuliani piece. Which seems quite challenging. This is another of his works that I don’t know. You have a great grasp of this piece. I hope to hear your progress on it whenever you get the chance.
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Wai Wow! I have played several pieces from this opus, but I never even consider trying this one. You not only tried it, you succeeded quite well at getting it under your fingers. Amazing!
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Wai Excellent job on this so far, Wai! It is not an easy one, and you delivered a convincing performance. thanks!
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