Week 3: Rhythm Everywhere! 🔥

joosje Oh, they bother me plenty! When I'm done playing this, my left hand is in pain. Moyses said that Barrios had unusually large hands, so pieces like this were probably not very hard for him to play. The rest of us ... ouch!

Eric Phillips that was great Eric! Everyone should have a 635mm classical guitar scale at hand dedicated to Barrios music 😂

Blaise Laflamme Great idea, Blaise!

Eric Phillips Great job! It sounded sweet and beautiful already.

Found an interesting article from a very old Taiwanese guitar magazine. It told the story that Barrios was invited by Sergovia to perform in Europe in 1935, Barrios had high hope for the trip and thought that eventually, he would have a chance to go and perform in Japan. However, the story didn't end well, and he dedicate this piece of music to Japan to express his disappointment of not being able to go to Japan.

Well, the article was translated from another old Japanese guitar magazine and was a fourth-hand story (it claimed that it was told by one of the Barrios students, Mr. Benites, who heard it from another student of Barrios), the source of the story I think was quite skeptical, so read it with a big grain of salt. (Hope you understand what I wrote, it was difficult for me to write all these in English😂)

Wai I do understand your English perfectly. Thank you for passing that along. Even if it's not completely accurate, it at least gives us something to go with. Much appreciated!