Thursday, October 14, 2010

Warm-up/Technique:
String Walking exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight notes @ 90 bpm
String Walking exercise with l quarter notes @ 85 bpm

Right-Hand Velocity (Pumping Nylon pg. 63) with i,m sixteenth notes @ 105 bpm
Same with l, m with sixteenths @ 80 bpm

Repertoire:
Estrellita
Analyzed recording made yesterday. Worked on 1st eight measures. Identified problems in measure 1 (finger stretching problem) and dynamics problem in measure 3 (playing the high A too forcefully). Re-recorded as private run-through - which means the 1st 20 seconds of the recording is silence as I go through the center - connect - count - play steps. It sounded good.

By the way, going through all these steps, you can't help but think what an amazing amount of information the brain is processing.

Need to analyze the second part tomorrow.

Memorized section C up to measure 4.

Pica Pica
Tried to establish what the piece means to me, but no ideas yet.....Strange, heh!?

Thoughts:
I browsed the compilation I downloaded from the Classical Guitar Forum to find easier material with which I could practice performing. An etude by Carulli caught my eye, but I think I would get bored with it. I'll try to stick to the two pieces above for now. At least they're exciting for me.

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