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Arm Rest Recommendations
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good arm rest?
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Week 3 - Tears of Joy 🎉
Final week of the Lágrima Challenge. Time to put it all together and play it through, from the first notes to the Da Capo. 🎉 We close out with a Watch Party on Friday November 6, 5pm CET,…
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Sous les toits - Michel Dalle Ave
I’d like to share a lovely ballad by Michel Dalle Ave, which opens his debut album, "Chez Moi," released in 2022. Thanks for listening!
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Week 2 - Blood, Sweat & Lágrimas 💧
Week 2 of the Lágrima Challenge, and this is the week of honest work. 💧 Every piece has a spot that fights back. Maybe it's a barre in the E minor part, a shift that clunks,…
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🎸 Your guitar, and how you found it
The instrument in our hands shapes everything we do on it, and no two of us arrived at ours the same way. Some searched for years and saved for the one, some play a guitar that found them by accident,…
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Week 1 - Make It Sing 🎶
¡Hola tonebuddies! 🎸 The Lágrima Track is live, and for the next three weeks we're all learning Tárrega's little teardrop together, in the same place, at the same time.…
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🌊 Your tremolo, honestly
Tremolo is the technique that pulls people to the classical guitar and then humbles them for years. That rippling p-a-m-i has a way of sounding effortless in a recording and falling apart the moment…
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👀 Let's be honest about sight-reading
Sight-reading is the skill most of us quietly avoid, the one we know we should work on and somehow never schedule. Some play through new music fluently at first sight, some decode it note by note,…
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Preludio de Adios - Alfonso Montes
A little musical moment for the weekend... and to enjoy a Hannabach 815 strings set!
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Villa-Lobos Étude 2 fingering help needed
Hello, I'm learning the second etude and I'm having trouble seeing what right-hand fingering is used on the second 1/2 of the first bar. The PDF doesn't have it and he plays it too fast in the…
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Week 4 - D Major and the Ending
Final week. Suggested focus: Sections 7 and 8 (bars 45–73), the D major theme, the pianissimo return, and piecing together the ending. Then the whole piece, bar 1 to bar 73.…
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🧗 The piece just out of reach
Most of us are carrying a piece we are not quite ready for, the one that sits a level or two above where we are and keeps pulling us forward. Some chip away at it in private for years,…
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Pavel Steidl – Masterclasses/Courses on Expression & Phrasing
I would love to suggest bringing Pavel Steidl on board as an instructor for tonebase guitar! Pavel Steidl is undeniably one of the most expressive, unique,…
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🔁 Relearning a piece you learned wrong
Almost every long-time player has one, a piece learned years ago with a wrong fingering, a rushed passage, or a bit of tension baked so deep that the mistakes come back every time,…
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Can you identify the short melody ? (classical guitar)
Hi guys, In a lesson called On Essential Principles, I heard a short melody. I don't know any songs from the repertoire as I am a beginner. Check the audio file.…
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Week 3 - Into F Major and Turning Up the Heat
Halfway there. Suggested focus this week: Sections 5 and 6 (bars 35–44), the F major theme with its barres and stretches, then the arpeggio up the fretboard and the chromatic scale.…
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🧱 How do you build a practice session?
An hour at the guitar can go a hundred different ways, and how we spend it usually matters more than how long it lasts. Some of us split the time into fixed blocks — technique, new piece,…
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Week 1 - Harmonics and the Main Theme
¡Hola tonebuddies! 🎸 The Capricho árabe Track is live, and for the next four weeks we're all learning Tárrega's most beloved piece together, in the same place, at the same time.…
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Week 2 - Arpeggios, Slurs, and the Theme Returns
Week 2 of the Capricho árabe Challenge. Suggested focus this week: Sections 3 and 4 (bars 19–34), the big arpeggio, the slur chain, and the theme coming back around.…
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🎨 From correct to musical
Getting the notes right is only the doorway, and we all know pieces that are accurate yet somehow flat. Turning a clean run-through into something that breathes, with shape, colour,…
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Guided practice (Tracks) for the core études (Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Sor, Carcassi) 💪
I've been really loving how Tonebase is teaching the Tárrega Capricho Árabe in the current Track, and it got me thinking that it would be amazing to see that same kind of treatment applied to the…
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Week 4: Play us out 🎉
We're closing out Summer Sessions with a Watch Party, so post your performance video here to be featured. Doesn't have to be perfect, just yours. Whether you've been at it all month or you're only…
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New Member Orientation and Q&A
Hello everyone, Would you like to make the most out of your time as a premium tonebase subscriber? Book a New Member Orientation session at any time convenient to you.…
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🐌 How slowly do you really practice?
We all know we are supposed to practice slowly, and most of us still play faster than we should when no one is watching. Real slow practice is harder than it sounds — it asks for patience, attention,…
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🔥 The first ten minutes — how do you warm up?
Before the real work starts, there is that first stretch at the instrument, and everyone treats it differently. Some run scales and slurs like clockwork, some noodle until the hands wake up,…
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