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COMMUNITY CHALLENGE AWARDS and FORUM-WIDE COMMUNITY AWARDS!
Alright everyone! Here we are - the moment we announced on screen during the Watch Party last week - the first-ever Community Challenge Awards and Forum-Wide Community Awards are here 😀🎉 These are…
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FINAL CONGRATULATIONS and Watch Party Announcement!
Helloooo everyone, and allow me to begin by extending a huge, heartfelt congratulations to everybody who has made it to the end of our first-ever community practice challenge!…
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READ ME FIRST: Rules & FAQ for the FIRST-EVER Community Challenge!
Alright, everyone: welcome to our very first tonebase Community Challenge! 😀🎉 So happy you've decided to stop by! Let's settle in, grab our guitars, and learn some new music together!…
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GENERAL DISCUSSION Thread: Click Here to Have a Conversation!
All right everyone, this is the concert hall intermission area - the office water cooler - the stairs outside the office building - the park in front of the skyscraper - the barbeque space:…
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Landslag no. 3 - Rock Covered Plateau
Hello fellow tonebase community members! This is a place where you can talk about Landslag no. 3 - Rock Covered Plateau. Feel free to use this for comments about the music, your performance,…
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Landslag no. 2 - Littoral Mud in the Bottom of a Fjord
Hi everyone! This is a place where you can talk about Landslag no. 2 - Littoral Mud in the Bottom of a Fjord. Feel free to use this for comments about the music, your performance,…
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Need advice on Villa-Lobos Etude 1
The sixth measure of Etude 1 (David Leisner lesson) starts with an insanely hard stretch - the 3 and 4 fingers are two frets and one string apart - 4 on G# (6th str) and 3 on B (5th str).…
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Information about the compositional styles
Hi, One topic that is really starting to puzzle me is how to identify the musical genres/compositional styles. I mean, what makes a specific piece a Gigue, a Sarabande, a Caprice, a Fantasia,…
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Random Tips
Every now and again I find something that might help other guitarists and think it might be nice to share. Maybe you have some little pearls of wisdom that you find in your practice?…
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Koshkin's Usher-Valse
After many years, I return to work on Koshkin's "Usher Valse". I would be happy if I could watch an extensive lesson on this piece on tonebase (maybe live workshop?).…
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Poll: Which is faster? i-m or m-i or neither
Mircea asked me to post this question in the general forum, so here goes. In the last workshop with Rene Izquierdo mentioned that reflexive speed of i-m is faster than m-i.…
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Come Heavy Sleep, instrumental version sheet music
Can anyone tell me where I can find the sheet music for this instrumental version? David Russell plays it on his renaissance album. I can only find it with the vocal. --Thanks!
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New Repertoire
Hey everyone, I'm looking for new, interesting, fascinating, really good, well-composed, wonderful repertoire for the guitar. Oooh dear, those are some high expectations 😊.…
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Instead of scales
I am looking for a guitar exercise that I no longer see posted. It is starting with f f# G on the bottom string and then Bb B C on the fifth string. The same pattern crosses all six strings and…
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Barrios Choro de Saudade score
Can anyone recommend the score that Sabrina uses in her actual tutorial? The score posted score does not seem to match what her finger shows. After the intro,…
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Sharon Isbin: Exclusive Interview and Webinar - wrong time for Europe
5 pm PDT is 2 am in Europe - middle of the night. Most of us (I think) are already asleep at this time.
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Music scores that match lessons in Tonebase?
Is there any way to get the exact (if possible) music scores that are used by the instructors? So far the two that I have delved into have unfortunately been wrong (either wrong score altogether or…
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Strings and things - varied vs single type
Hello all, I've just put a set of Augustine Regals on my guitar (purple trebles and blue basses), and while I like how they seem to be smooth on the right-hand and I think quite a warm sound,…
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Wonderful lessons from Sabrina Vlaskalic
What a real eye and ear opener she is! I highly recommend her lessons and you'll learn so much (at least I did) about things that I never read elsewhere.…
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Your Gear
It is always nice to learn what gear / equipment other fellow guitarists are using. Here we can mention : - current guitar being used (brand and model),…
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Gender balance in "Top 10 Classical Guitar Composers" - blog post
It's interesting to notice that Rosie Bennet has balanced the total masculine domination of her list of 10 composers with performances by 10 women. I can only imagine this to be on purpose.…
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What are you listening to at the moment?
Title says it all, really! I'm going first with a really dark one: Benjamin Britten: Dirge from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (Give it a listen if you're in the mood for something short but...…
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Stability
I was lucky enough to get the chance to play a little concert yesterday. I found my playing was stable in some parts, but less so in others, i.e. I fluffed up a bit more than I would've liked,…
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Just starting out? Click Here!
If you're just starting on your guitar journey, you've come to the right place. It is crucial to develop the right skills from the get-go to make sure you build the right foundations.…
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