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What Can You Change When You Can’t Change the Notes?
New classical guitar video on creative interpretation. In this video I play the same piece 5 or 6 completely different ways, and show you how you can experiment with this too.
How do you manage to practice a piece of music that many times and still not go crazy?
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...
Learning Repertoire: Jarabi Runthrough
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. I have the piece...
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