Hello Classical Guitar Friends!
You may recall that when I first started at Elite Guitarist back in April 2020, I shared in my Introduction post that I was aspiring to become a great guitarist before buying my dream guitar. Well, it is now October. I have worked diligently to become a better guitarist, and this week is my birthday. I bought the guitar, and I would like to share my efforts of the last six month with you.
Here are the 20 pieces that I learned:
· Be Thou My Vision
· Pachelbel’s Canon in D
· Un Dia en Noviembre
· Girl with the Flaxen Hair
· Malaguena
· Torija
· Greensleeves
· Canco del Lladre
· Romance de los Pinos
· In Moments of Solitude
· El Noi de la Mare
· Wild Mountain Thyme
· Estudio 5 (Sor) in Bm
· Preludes (de Visse Suite 9) & (Segovia Lute suites)
· Julia Florida
· Cancion de Cuna
· El Testament D’Amelia
· Selva Adentro
· Estudio 6 (Sor) in D
· Prelude from Cello Suite (Bach)
You can access them at https://tinyurl.com/y37furpt. They aren’t yet performance perfect, but I hope to polish them to that level in the next several months. I welcome your feedback generally here or please post specific responses about individual pieces in that tune’s Comments area.
Yours truly,
Dan
Adding to my last comment, as well as private lessons I also watch several different interpretations of pieces to get ideas and ways of improving. For Capricho Arabe the performances that stand out to me are by Tavi, Matt Palmer and Ana Vidovic. For Lagrima I most want to play like Rafael Aguirre.
And sometimes I find master classes which are very helpful. I covered Villa Lobos Prelude 3 in my private lessons and learned a lot from the feedback I was given of my performance, and have found more again from this video which I'll try today. The piece starts at 34min.