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Week 2: What's on your music stand? 🎶
The Summer Sessions thread rolls on. Share whatever you've got in progress: a clip, a rough take, or just a note on what's clicking and what's fighting you. New here? No catching up required.…
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✋ How do you decide your fingerings?
Every score we play is really two decisions deep: the notes, and the hundred small choices about which finger, which string, which position gets us through them.…
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What do you think is the biggest obstacle to performing at your best, beyond the musical or technical aspects?
Hello everyone, My name is Jacopo, and as well as working as a tonebase Guitar coach, I also work as a coach with musicians, focusing on performance mindset, confidence, and performance anxiety.…
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Week 1: Play Whatever You Love ☀️🎸
Summer's here. Longer evenings, slower days, and hopefully a little more time with the guitar in your hands. This one's wide open. No set piece, no required technique, no weekly checklist.…
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Week 3: Let's hear it 🎥
Got something you can put on tape? Post a video or audio of what you're playing this summer, rough edges welcome. And leave a kind word or a tip on someone else's take while you're here.…
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Score for Bach BWV 998
Greetings! I’m a new member from Toronto, Canada. I’m about to start the new track for the Bach 998 Prelude. I’ve searched but can’t find any score on Tonebase for it.…
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👩🏫 A teacher, or on your own?
So much guitar learning now happens alone — a screen, a library of lessons, and your own two ears as the only feedback in the room. Some of us have never sat across from a teacher,…
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New Tracks Feature really rocks!!!
Martin Zimney , Thank you, thank you, thank you for the excellent directions on the new tracks feature. For me that has been a big game changer on how to learn a piece so much more completely and…
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Week 6: Rise of the Maestro
Hello tonebuddies! 🎶 A long time ago, in a practice room far, far away... you picked up a piece. You were excited. You cracked it open, worked through the first page,…
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AI analysis
This week I recorded BWV 1007 prelude on iPhone Voice Memo and uploaded it to Gemini for analysis. And then asked it which measures I should work on. It listed the measures and an analysis of the…
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⏱️ You and the metronome — what's the real story?
Speed is the thing everyone wants and almost no one talks about honestly. Most of us have a method — nudge the tempo up, back off, creep forward again — and most of us have also hit the wall where…
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Everything Will Be Allright - Wolfgang Vedral
Nothing beats a lovely “Fingerpicking” to start the summer holidays… Except perhaps having a good time! See you soon in an upcoming challenge and have a great summertime!
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🎧 What has recording yourself taught you?
The camera and the microphone are honest in a way our practice-room ears are not. Plenty of us record for lessons, for challenges, or just to hear where a piece really stands,…
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🤚 Let's talk about nails
Nails are the most personal piece of equipment a classical guitarist owns, and no two players shape them the same way. The sound that comes out is decided in the half-second of contact between nail,…
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Q&A Group
Hi guitar buddies ! I create this "Group" for others to have a place to ask questions! Have fun asking questions don't forget to answer others !!!
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Level system
Hi! I find the tonebase level system very useful to plan how to make use of my time, of course, more difficult pieces demand more time. How do you access the objective difficulty?…
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Fingerings
Lessons on how to select fingerings for good tone and ease of performance.
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🎼 Bach on guitar — where do you stand?
Hey tonebuddies! Bach didn't write for the modern classical guitar. The repertoire we play is some combination of: 🪕 Lute originals (BWV 995, BWV 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000,…
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🌍 Where in the world are you tuning in from?
Quick show of hands. 🎸 The tonebase Guitar community is more global than you'd guess — we've got members across five continents, in cities you'd expect and ones you wouldn't.…
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Welcome to tonebase!
Hey everyone - this is Igor from tonebase 🙂! It's such a pleasure to welcome you as one of the founding members of the tonebase community. Please introduce yourself in a post below with the…
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What do you do when you are cold before performing
I went to a competition and before I perform i get extremely cold (like freezing) . What should i do next time?
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🏁 When is a piece actually "finished"?
What does it actually mean to finish a piece? Six weeks of Unfinished Business just wrapped, and that question is worth sitting with. Some players call it done when they can play it through cleanly…
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"Beginners Forum" Invitation
I wonder if there are other newer classical guitarists who would like to discuss learning and repertoire. I am "technically" Grade 2 - which means I passed a Grade 1 examination,…
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Prelude update
I took a bit of a break from classical guitar and am getting back into the swing of things. This is the first piece I returned to, Ponce's Prelude in the Style of Weiss.…
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Recording classical guitar
I thought I would throw this out to the community and see how other people are handling it. When laying down multiple takes of a guitar piece, for syncing purposes,…
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