Week 1: A Continent Full of Music! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the first week of the "Music from Latin America" challenge!
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz NIce Stefanie. I've just bought the music for this and the Cancion de Cuna - not tried it yet but I will do!
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Derek Thank you. I love that music, love other peaces of Brower too, for example dia de novembre or danza charakteristika or the estudios sencillios. But I have to work a lot on it. I wish you joy with that- he knows a lot about the behaviour of the guitar
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz This is beautiful as well, Stefanie. I just realized they are in the Eschig edition of Brouwer's Guitar Works (which I recently acquired). This is a good collection of his works.
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I started to work on these peaces in December and it still is clumsy but I try to improve during the challenge. I made these movies on saturday and I was disturbed by the camera, I hope it is getting better while repeating the procedere. It is a lot of work and love in it...
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I have a short pinky, so I had to find a way to do the B in bar6....
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Stefanie Mosburger-Dalz you're right, the extension is not easy to do there. You can use alternate fingerings like an open B and the D on the third string or eventually a finger extender
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Blaise Laflamme yes, I take the b and d with 3 and 4, I could try out to take 1and 2 and take the a on 2.string
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Dilermando Reis - Uma Valse e Dois Amores
This is a fun piece. The title means "A Waltz and Two Loves" and I take that to mean that there are two "voices" carrying an alternating melody, one high and one low. I'm not sure if I pulled that off, but that's what I was trying to do.
I think this one might need a bit more work, as there are still several trouble spots. I got through it, though.
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Eric Phillips another interesting piece by Dilermando Reis, thanks Eric!
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Eric Phillips I like that and I love to play and to hear such romantic tunes just for fun on evenings
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Eric Phillips I think you more than got through it Eric. Nice piece - well played
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Eric Phillips You play this beautifully, Eric. It kind of reminds of early twentieth Century american popular music. (No I wasn't around then- just heard recordings).
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Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. I can hear that similarity too. The many secondary dominant chords definitely give it that feel. Also, the chromatically descending dominant chords at 0:40 sound like popular music as well.
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Eric Phillips Both this one and the "Nostalgia Op 19 No 3" were so beautiful! Latin American music sounds so romantic and is always a pleasure to listen to.
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Wai Thanks, Wai!
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Eric Phillips Are you sure you haven't been born in Brasil? It's sounding great, man, you're a "seresteiro" (serenader) by birth! Thank you for sharing!
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Moyses Lopes Close. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). This city is not exactly known for its great seresteiros! More like steel workers and American football players.
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Hi, this is me Rodrigo Paiva and my father Cleivan Paiva playing his Marcha Rancho / Frevo composition called Pôr do Sol. Jan, 2022.
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Rodrigo Incredible playing from you both! You were so locked into each other rhythmically. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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Eric Phillips Ah it is great you liked it Eric!
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Rodrigo Paiva wow so inspiring! bravo to both of you!!
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Rodrigo Paiva wow, thats sooo good, thank you!!!!
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Rodrigo Paiva guitarheaven
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Rodrigo Paiva Brilliant Rodrigo - keep on posting these videos!
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Rodrigo Paiva wow Rodrigo - it sounds beautiful !
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