Group 4

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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