Guitar Lesson With Brandon Reflections | New Year, New Me - Part 69 | Guitar Practice Log 342
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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And my thing, what's on the docket?
The Docket:
Morning:
BWV 1001
Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9
BWV 1009
Night:
Morel: Sonatina
Lamentos do Morro
BWV 997
Villa-Lobos Preludes and Choros No. 1
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First. That lesson was one of the best guitar videos I've ever seen. I didn't want it to end! Two of my favorite guitar youtubers in a lesson, very cool.
That lesson was super valuable to me. You and Brandon have become two of my favorite content creators in the classical guitar space, and I’ve been working on this piece as a hobbyist for about a year and a half. Brandon’s insights on the interpretation of the piece combined with your earnest and well thought out questions illuminated many ways that I can improve my own performance. I hope to release a performance video of it in a few weeks/months, and the lesson with you two will definitely inform my playing of it moving forward. Thank you SO much for what you do.
bro, your channel has helped me a lot with discipline and motivation. I'm an amateur classical player and student, at the sime time i'm on my senior year on college, so I'm really busy and full of responsabilities and commitment at all times. But because of your content I found the will to continue with my guitar lessons throughout this tough year, so thanks man. You rock.
Keep practicing, I'm 50yo playing for 30 and only been the past few years I've been happy with my playing, able to Flow and sound musical and melodic in my playing. Mostly because I wasted 20 years on electric guitar with rock riffs, amps ,knobs and dials, before tossing it all away for proper academics, classical and flamenco, learning theory memorizing the fret board and CAGED.
For me, the process became much more satisfying and less frustrating when I killed my ego and gave up on dreams of being a prodigy and instead enjoy practice and learned to love the journey, not the hopeful destination of being able to play like the legends. Ive played for 30 years and I still don't have a complete set memorized, although I am close enough now, I can start playing sets in restaurants in a few years for a few hundred dollars a night, which was my goal in retirement. It really is a lifelong commitment to learn to play professional.
At least for me, its been a slow journey of brute force. I didnt take me 10,000 hours but 100,000 hours, but I was never born with natural ability, others I have seen pick it up 10x faster than I can.
Cam, my man. You are playing that so well. Is there a reason you really want to take that Sor to an audition? You remind me a lot of myself in between my undergrad and master degree. I can tell this time out of school has been doing you well as it did me. I made a living playing, singing, and putting together commercial groups. All those years singing really did phenomenal things for my ear in terms of attention to line. I got so good in the 4-5 years before my masters. Much better progress than when I was in school not having the distractions of an 18 hour course load… etc. You are going to be a fine guitarist and this self motivated academic push is proof. If something happens and you don’t get the deal you want to come study, try somewhere else. You are going to be great.
Thanks for the encouragement man, and thanks for watching!😄
20:24 literally crying as im listening to this 😢
Hell yeah dude
I love Ponce Sonata 3 first movement. I never got it performance ready as the middle section annoyed me, as well as some of the stretches. I look forward to watching you develop that piece. From an old guy with fist and last name as the handle.
For me, the most important thing Mr. Acker was saying wasn't about fixing wrong notes, or resolving appoggiatura. It was about directionality -- using dynamics and articulation to transform notes into phrases, phrases into stanzas, etc. Singing the lines, imagining the lines sung, and making sense of the music in this way. Moving forward horizontally. Prioritizing the lead voice, distinguishing between important and unimportant notes. Without all this, one is just stupidly playing notes and moving fingers. It's great music, so even when played so idiotically, it will sound OK. But without this, it is like a painting without shadows. No depth or perspective or source of light. Cheers - s
I agree, it's amazing how melodic and musical a single open chord or single string melody can sound, by just adding the lyricism and melodic flow.. Remove them and suddenly that open chord sounds non musical and boring. A difference of milliseconds and oh so slight variations in volume and attack
I mean, just don't suck. /s
In all seriousness, this is all pretty high level classical stuff. You're already a great guitarist. You're just moving onto a much higher level now!
My undergraduate lessons pale in comparison to higher-level lessons I've had.
One of the major criticisms I have here is that you tuned up to E in the second part. Even though that is the way it is written, this is a wrong move because tuning in the middle of a performance breaks the flow. If you listen to David Russell perform this, he plays the second part with the drop tuning, likely for that reason. You have to make one or two awkward stretches and rewrite one or two small parts of the second part to accomodate, but Morel would have no problem with that (Russell surely doesn't).
TL;DR: play the second piece in drop D, not standard.
The comment from Brandon ref your music consumption of other classical.music, opera, etc try Pergalesi Stabat Mater with James Bowman and Emma Kirkby is very moving and one of my favourite recordings ❤
Duuuude making recordings of major etude collections would be such a contribution to the guitar community. It can be difficult to find quality examples of entire collections to listen to for self guided learning. Probably would be lucrative as people repeatedly listen while learning the pieces.
Hi, my man... what are your thoughts on also composing stuff? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it and would be thrilled to hear pieces from you.
Did you disclose where you are auditioning?
Guitar LOSER gets lessons from guitar WINNER and FIXES his LIFE
Excellent title
Yeah it's time you got more academic. Isaac Newton had laid the foundations for modern science before your age
also, when are you going to bust out that accordion?
Cam, I thought you were playfully mispronouncing his name to be funny!!😭
Like, how my mom calls him "Brucey"
part 69 🤭
Nice😎
So many cuts... it was off-putting. I lasted 1:35
That’s how long I lasted with your mother