Week 3: Rhythm Everywhere! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the third week of the "Music from Latin America" challenge!
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Do you struggle with complicated rhythms?
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Here goes Carlevaro's Preludio Americano #3, better known as "Campo". It is undoubtedly Carlevaro's most known composition. In keeping with this week's theme of Rhythm Everywhere, this piece has a great rhythm along with a beautiful melody and some interesting harmonies. The middle section is the most challenging with the inversion of the melody and the introduction of the Uruguayan samba rhythm.
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Blaise Laflamme I agree!!
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Dale Needles Bravo! Great moment, beautiful interpretation! La Zamba was perfect! Thank you for posting!
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Dale Needles This is so beautiful, Dale! I am ashamed to say that I've never heard it before. I know you said you struggled with the middle section, but I thought it sounded incredible.
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Dale Needles I really enjoyed that, Dale. This is the only Caralevara piece I have ever played (years ago). I considered it for this challenge but my list was ridiculously long and absurdly ambitious. So it (and about 10 other pieces) got cut from the list. I may have to reconsider - or at least revisit it after the challenge.
Great job.
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Moyses Lopes Thanks. And glad you could recognize the zamba rhythm in the B section.
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Jack Stewart Thanks, Glad you liked it and do take this up again. It is a great piece. BTW, am I correct that you live in the Bay Area? If so we should connect sometime.
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Eric Phillips Thanks, and glad I could introduce this wonderful piece to you and I have appreciated hearing some new and unfamiliar Barrios pieces from you as well as other unfamiliar pieces posted by others.
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Dale Needles great playing!
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Dale Needles I am in Oakland, so getting together sometime would be great.
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Dale Needles Very well played Dale, everything is coming out very clearly. It's a nice piece
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Barrios – País de Abanico (walkthrough of problem areas in the second half)
This is a long video, so I won't mind if you don't want to watch it. I'm basically talking through some problems I'm having in the second half of this piece. If anyone has any helpful thoughts, I'd love to hear from you. The two things that are particularly troublesome are:
- Measures 41-44 How can I make the high C note ring clearly?
- Measures 50-51 Is this as impossible as it seems (as written)? What do you think of my easier version in the video? It's a compromise, but I think it may be a reasonable one.
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Brouwer - Estudio Sencillo No 1
Since I'm struggling so much with the Barrios piece above, it helps me to be able to take a break and work on something easier for a bit. So with that in mind, I will be posting some of Brouwer's well-known studies.
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Eric Phillips oh! I think you're about to start a new challenge about Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos
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Blaise Laflamme That would make a great extended challenge, wouldn’t it? Right now, I’m just playing them because of the discussion Martin posted and because they give me more satisfaction than trying to play this very difficult Barrios piece.
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Eric Phillips yes for sure that would make a great challenge, and they are indeed rewarding to play, so much result in short time compared to Barrios, I feel you
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Eric Phillips Sounds great, Eric. I can understand the frustration of a difficult piece and the need to take a break with something less challenging. I should take note!
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Eric Phillips Always good to sharpen the senses
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Eric Phillips wow, it's as perfect as a textbook example, I can use it as a reference next time I practice this piece. Thank you for sharing.
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Eric Phillips Sounds great! Did you change something in the sound recording? The tone was great, brilliant and full. Thank you for posting!
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Moyses Lopes Thanks, Moyses! No changes in my recording equipment or method. Maybe the microphone placement was (unintentionally) different? I wish I knew what was different, so I could repeat it.
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Eric Phillips Now I'm listening to your "País de Abanico" posted yesterday (24), and the sound is great. I don't know what you did, but certainly, you can maintain this...
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Hi, Tonebase mates! For this week I'd like to present an arrangement of mine. It's from a song called Luiza, written by Tom Jobim. Is a waltz, I hope you appreciate it.
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Moyses Lopes Once again, you amaze me, Moyses! What a spectacular arrangement. You should look into having your arrangements published.
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Moyses Lopes Very beautiful and a nice arrangement. I know Jobim played guitar so was the arrangement from a guitar or piano score?
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Moyses Lopes Another beautiful arrangement. You're on a roll!
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