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Post by creamburmese on Feb 3, 2020 11:37:17 GMT
I recently was introduced to Peter Nuttall compositions- he’s one if the few composers that write pretty tunes with beautiful harmonies for beginner and intermediate classical guitarists. After you tire of popular songs you might give one or 2 a try
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Post by creamburmese on Oct 8, 2018 20:21:53 GMT
Very best wishes for tour speedy recovery...
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 25, 2018 18:33:10 GMT
You guys have the advantage of being even able to contemplate those stretches! I would have to totally fudge it! For instance in the "harp effect: which is apparently BEFGAD (all the notes of the scale except C?) I'd just miss out the bass string, leaving - er - all the notes of the scale except B and C - lol! Or do what classical players have been seen to do - ie use their thumb ON TOP of the fingerboard to reach - though you'll not see me doing that either. Pierre is definitely unique and has skills I can only dream about. Anyone notice he changed his guitar position so it now seems to be a hybrid between regular and classical position? Evidently he was having so much back pain from hunching over the guitar he switched... though to be honest he's still hunching over the guitar...
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 16, 2018 1:46:36 GMT
Hi Mark Its a replica of a guitar built in the romantic period - which I believe encompasses music from the mid 1700’s to the mid 1800’s though of course anythingcwritten before also. My GT played some Dowland on it and it sounded really good. It is indeed small and has more of a fundamental tone, scale length is 630 (24 3/4. ) and nut width is 48mm. I will record something when I get new strings on it
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 13, 2018 20:07:07 GMT
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 13, 2018 19:44:39 GMT
Good luck Larry! (And if you find the online course format works for you, consider also the ClassicalGuitarCorner Academy (Though you do have to pay for it - it's not exorbitant). That site has a great community Best Julie
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 3, 2018 21:46:48 GMT
Nice job Jonny!
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 3, 2018 21:25:18 GMT
One additional thing - I recently had to record nearly 20 minutes of technical exercises in time to a metronome (don't ask!) - when I listened back I discovered I wasn't nearly as "with" the metronome as I thought I was. so it might be worth recording yourself playing to a nome or backing track to make sure you aren't fooling yourself (like I was!) Julie
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Post by creamburmese on Sept 3, 2018 21:21:16 GMT
One thing I haven't seen mentioned (maybe it's a classical thing) is to use visualization - the same as pro-athletes do (only in minature ) A very excellent teacher told me - (after figuring out the phrases and whether it's impossible, etc) to first play a short section from the score - several bars, a bar, a figure - whatever you can keep in your head - then play from the score and look at your left hand, then read the score and visualize what your left hand is doing without touching the guitar, and when you can do that you should be able to play it from memory. I am fine until I get to the visualization bit - that takes me an age - so unless I am getting stuck I tend to pick sections and just repeat them until I can do them without looking! Sometimes I start from the end, to avoid the problem Keith mentioned of knowing the beginning really well and falling apart later ...
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Post by creamburmese on Jun 4, 2018 18:09:59 GMT
Just wait till he wants you to do the scales in 5 positions... Julie
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Post by creamburmese on May 29, 2018 19:17:27 GMT
At the risk of introducing more seditious classical guitar material - here's another on how to reach things that are otherwise impossible.... and I can personally attest that Kevin Gallagher usually nails it... Julie
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Post by creamburmese on May 18, 2018 18:33:26 GMT
I'm into dot-journaling now... yet another attempt to keep tabs on what I"m playing in an organized manner... Personally I think pink squares are much more rewarding than a simple spreadsheet - of course you may prefer blue if you are of the male persuasion....
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Post by creamburmese on May 15, 2018 16:39:06 GMT
I recently wrote a couple of blog posts on focusing and using a journal to improve the efficiency of practice - of course I wasn't practicing while I was doing this... but it certainly felt like I was doing something useful!
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Post by creamburmese on Feb 4, 2018 22:04:05 GMT
That sounds like a bom bada bom bom rhythm to me Good luck !
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Post by creamburmese on Feb 4, 2018 21:59:24 GMT
HI Alison. I know exactly how you feel - I'm trying to work up some pieces for an online certificate and have had the exact same pieces now since LAST JULY (!) If I have to hear myself play Maria Luisa badly one more time I'm going to start wearing earplugs!!! The way I handle is I will work on one piece for a bit but alternate it with something easy and fun (or not easy and fun, either works, so long as its fun!)
And the following things are supposed to help with memory - 1) Playing excruciatingly slowly. This removes the "muscle memory" we tend to rely on - I've found I didn't know pieces nearly as well as I thought I did when I applied this technique 2) Learning the right hand by itself (this might be unique to me, but I always concentrate on the left hand and sometimes it's the right hand that's lost). 3) Going over stuff right before bed then readdressing it the following morning - this is a well-researched area and I'm sure we've all experienced it - the brain consolidates while sleeping and sometimes things that wouldn't come together the night before miraculously get fixed in the morning. 4) interleaved practice - this is hard to do, but is based on the principle that the brain learns best when it's having to try hard - so quitting when you've almost got something, working on something else and then coming back to dig it back up again tends to put down more long term memory than working on something for the same amount of time in one session - IOW 3 15 minute sessions separated by something else will work better than one 45 min session (but are much harder work).
So stick with it - looking forward to hearing the final product! Julie
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