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After posting a video, and mentioning how frustrated and displeased I was with the recording, I decided to make another recording of the same Pavan. I’m slightly more pleased here.

Back to other pieces now.

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My second week of learning the Carnaval de Venicia. This is how the 5th variation is coming along. I had been playing all of the portamentos, but decided to take a couple out just before this recording. Still undecided about adding back some in, or talking more out.

The Darkness that Followed Hurricane Michael

Earlier this month, the southeastern United States was struck by Hurricane Michael. After the category 4 storm made landfall on Oct. 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael proceeded to knock out power for at least 2.5 million customers across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. 

In this data visualization, you can clearly see where the lights were taken out in Panama City, Florida. A team of our scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center processed and corrected the raw data to filter out stray light from the Moon, fires, airglow, and any other sources that are not electric lights. They also removed atmosphere interference from dust, haze, and clouds. 

In the visualization above, you can see a natural view of the night lights—and a step of the filtering process in an effort to clean up some of the cloud cover. The line through the middle is the path Hurricane Michael took. 

Although the damage was severe, tens of thousands of electric power industry workers from all over the country—and even Canada—worked together to restore power to the affected areas. Most of the power was restored by Oct. 15, but some people still need to wait a little longer for the power grids to be rebuilt. Read more here. 

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Want please with my playing so I sat on this recording for a couple of days.

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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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Changing things up a bit. In my late twenties I discovered a great love for film music. In particular I found that music written for horror movies was something that I liked the most. I am playing along with film music written by the great Harry Manfredini.

It’s very important to play along with recordings by ear. I have never seen the score for this film music. This is an purely an aural exercise for me.

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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.

I tried to post this same video earlier and it immediately/automatically got flagged for having adult content. I appealled the classification and was told that Tumblr determined it did not contain anything inappropriate, but the post seems to be forever in “appeal mode.” Trying it again here.

P i m/a exercise, etude for classical guitar.

Dear #classicalguitarists, what are some fun exercises and etudes for developing a solid p, i, a triplet in the right hand?

For instance, Asturias, Llobet Folias (3 & 4), Brouwer Estudio Sencillo no 4, Giuliani No. 2.Any suggestions and advice is appreciated.

Thanks!