dsdsguitar
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This is a little better than last night.
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Two videos today. I wasn’t pleased with playing the theme and variation in one take. I’ll try it again with new strings when they come in soon. The strings I am using are old.
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Working on adding some slurs to this passacaglia by Rodrigo.
In the background are things piled up that have no place to go because my home is still being worked on 13 months after the hurricane hit ya.
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Excerpt from Zarabanda lejana by Rodrigo
Classical guitar events this weekend
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Starting to run through several minutes of my pieces in these daily recordings. I feel that it ads some healthy stress to performing the piece. Playing through nerves will definitely help with the final recital.
Just wanted to document the cracks in these nails. I just put them on yesterday, and they’re already cracking. They will eventually cause a bad tone.
There are many factors that could cause the cracking. I do a lot of work with my hands even when not playing the guitar. I also probably wash them too much. However, I still believe these nails crack really really fast.
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I need to put slurs to this. However, I also want to keep practicing it without slurs because it is a great exercise for the right hand.
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This lefthand slur warm-up really helps me navigate the fretboard. My slurs get a little too trill-y sometimes.
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Want please with my playing so I sat on this recording for a couple of days.
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Played this entire piece for an audience. Here I’m working on one of the variations that I’ve had problems. In this video I’m trying to make a new habit with my lefthand pinky. When I do a glissando with my fourth finger, I have a habit of landing on the far right side of the finger. This can make the pitch sound out of tune. So, I’m trying to land closer to the left side of the finger.
This is a hard piece to pay if you haven’t had much time to warm up.
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The introduction from Carnaval de Venecia.
It still feels like I just learned it, but I think I’m getting better with it. It’s a tricky introduction.
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A little bit of the introduction from Carnaval de Venecia
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Meant to post this one last night. Still been a little too busy to mane a decent video. In the moving-back-to-school process. Stressed.
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These get hard after you practice them for several minutes.
65. Minuetto by Tarrega
This is my first time recording this minuetto in its entirety. It feels similar to playing the piece in front of someone for the first time.
I think my phrasing of the first theme sounded better in the opening than it did in the recapitulation.
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Patching this minuetto by Francisco Tárrega. Says to play the entire piece with pizz. It’s so tempting to play normally.
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The h armonic variation.
If your nails are too long, you are bound to be clicky with this technique. Notwithstanding, if you’re playing too strongly with ‘m’ the harmonic voice will be over shadowed. There is also the risk of tapping the feet board with ‘m’.
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Strings are old. Nails also need to be changed. I have no thumb nail.
This is the hardest variation. I put quite a bit of time into it before recording it this evening. It’s hard.
Pondering on which fingers to use with this passage. One idea is to do a slur with the fourth finger. The sections idea is to slur with the first. I think I like slurring with 4 better, but I’m going to listen to this recording to help determine what I like better.
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My middle finger gets a carpet burn after I practice this one too much. I try not to c look at the guitar cv too much with this variation, relying mostly on eae and feel for the landing part of the descending glissando. I look at where the glissando starts, but I mostly use my ear to determine where it stops.
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Playing entire passages with pizzicato can be challenging. Tarrega also has minuet in E major that’s supposed to be played primarily with pizzicato.
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The pizzicato variation that comes after this one gave me a lot of trouble today. Gotta fix that.