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Nov '25 •
Technique Class 4th December
Please let me know any techniques you’d like covered in the 4th December session 😊
1 like • Nov '25
Fast pinky trills. Seriously. Especially when the pinky is stretched 2 frets above the ring finger. I can do it, but it always takes a lot of effort and focus. p.s. I'll try to actually make it this time, but if I fail, I'll watch the video.
Oct '25 •
Do you prefer a Cedar or Spruce top?
I don't want to start a debate about which one is best 😅, just know what you find most suitable for your playing style and sound, can be both, but not for the poll!
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11 members have voted
2 likes • Oct '25
I played a spruce top for over 40 years (albeit a mid-range factory one), then acquired a cedar-top guitar a year ago. It changed me. I started playing less Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical repertoire (which went well with the bright, bouncy sound of the spruce) and more Latin Romantic and Modernist repertoire (which goes well with the deep, smoky voice of the cedar).
Oct '25 •
New Goals
I've spent the past several months working up (and doing seven performances of) "The Spanish Programme". Now it's time to move on to other pieces. Rather than tackling all-new material, I'm revisiting music I once had memorized but had set aside for one reason or another. Most often, because I was (a) tired of playing it and (b) more tired of playing it not-very-cleanly. LH accuracy has been a bugaboo for me for as long as I recall. Micro-rattles and buzzes, LH fingers not landing at precisely the same point every go-around. I truly do not understand how Pro Competition winners can manage this, repeatedly. The live on a different plane of existence. On the list now: HVL: Preludes & Choro Barrios: Estudio inconcluso, Minuet in C, Medallon antiguo, Gavota al estilo antigua Milan: Pavanas 2 & 3 Segovia/Tarrega: various transcriptions of Gluck, Schumann, Grieg, Franck, Handel, Bach, and yes -- Leyenda. Which I promise not to inflict on anyone here! And which I also refuse to call Asturias, which is a publisher's title never used by Albeniz.
1 like • Oct '25
@David Norton My finger tips are 8–12 mm wide; the pressure point when I press on the string must be at least 3–4mm wide. I'm not sure 0.01 mm targeting will ever be in my future. 🙂
1 like • Oct '25
@Franc Proc I think it's a good thing learning to play the guitar by feel rather than staring at your fingers on the neck. Slow down if you need to work on your accuracy, but stick with it! I suspect some guitarists memorise because they have no choice: they're entirely dependent on watching their fingers, and couldn't land their position shifts if they were looking at a score. 😕
Sep '25 •
Problems?
What problems are you having in your playing at the moment ? Could be a passage that isn’t coming together. An aspect of technique that could be improved. Not practicing efficiently. Doubting your ability to improve. Going in circles and not learning something fully before moving on. Please comment below and we will do our best to help with advice ⭐️
1 like • Oct '25
I'm at a point now where the problem passages in the pieces I'm working on aren't consistent. It seems every time I play, I run into trouble somewhere different, where I didn't have trouble before. That happens during both slow and performance-speed practice. The next day, that section will be fine again, but a different one will suddenly give me trouble. If I were always having issues with the same passages, I could isolate them and work on them, but this is impossible to pin down. One suspicion I have is that it's actually a matter of focus. Perhaps my mind drifts a little bit, which is why problems always happen in different places.
Sep '25 •
Sheet or Digital Music Scores?
Do you prefer the traditional method with sheet music or are you more modern with digital music and a reading app?
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13 members have voted
0 likes • Sep '25
I can annotate much better and more finely with a mechanical pencil on paper than I can with a stylus on a tablet, and paper has higher resolution and no backlight glare, so it remains my preference. I do use my tablet for jazz lead sheets because of the portability and convenience (you never know what you're going to be playing at a jazz jam), but a tablet just doesn't feel right to me with classical guitar: it's like an awkward digital intrusion into a beautiful analogue world.
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@ottawa-canuck-4594
Playing on and off since 1982. Early advanced level. Love mid-century Spanish cedar guitars more than nomex/lattice ones (but they're all great).
Active 15d ago
Joined Aug 2, 2025