Damping - When Less Is More!
Creating space by removing notes, enhancing transparency by cleaning up resonances, defining harmonic development by cleaning up hanging notes! This workshop is all about damping and how it takes the sonority of your instrument to the next level! 
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
Forum questions will be answered first!
Ever felt that your interpretation sounds somewhat muddy, intransparent or simply sloppy? The guitar resonates, but simply with the wrong notes? Then this workshop is tailored to your needs, because we are going to look at hanging notes, fine-tuning a melody and get resonances out way! We are going to look at damping!
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This sounds great! I only took formal classical lessons for three years, and that was about 30 years ago, Believe it or not, I don't remember my two teachers ever teaching me about damping. As a result, I'm a bit new to it. I look forward to exploring the when's, why's, and how's with you!
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Eric Phillips Great! I'll show some exercises by Carlevaro which we can adjust to work on the agility of our thumb and present some case studies, including:
- Barrios - Vals op.8 No. 4
- Torroba - Sonatina
- Sor - Study in b minor
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Martin Sounds great, Martin. See you later today (but you won't see me, unfortunately).
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Eric Phillips Oh, that can be arranged, we're doing our Europe/Africa Virtual Hangout before the livestream, feel free to join!
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