by Jay | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Front Page, Music
Here’s my performance-ready version of this amazing endless melody of a piece. I’ve been enjoying Derek Grippers arrangements of Kora music for classical guitar for years, and finally got a chance to try some of them out. Someone once said (I forgot who)...
by Jay | Aug 8, 2023 | Art, Blog
When you are learning a piece of music, you have to play it hundreds of times. Over, and over. And over again. The same notes, the same chords, the same fingerings. In one life, you might play the same set of notes tens of thousands of times. I haven’t done the...
by Jay | Aug 3, 2023 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Guitar Lessons
This is a follow-up to last week’s video on “finishing” learning a challenging piece of music. In this video I run through Jarabi, the arrangement by South African guitarist and composer Derek Gripper of Toumani Diabate’s amazing Kora version....
by Jay | Jul 6, 2023 | Blog, Classical Guitar Basics, Classical Guitar Lessons, Teaching Videos
Once you can play something well enough that it’s fun to run through, the temptation is to stop practicing it and just play it over and over. Here is one method I use to keep myself focused on mastering repertoire up until the time it’s actually ready to...
