Estudio 2 Coral Estudio 3 Rapido I played these Estudios when I studied with Thea van der Meer in the eighties of the last century. Estudio 2 Coral is relaxation with light dissonances. Estudio 3 Rapido, well, the name says it all, speeding it up!
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I played this Estudio when I studied with Thea van der Meer in the eighties of the last century. Estudio 4 Commodo has a beautiful melancholic melody in the bass line.
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I played this Estudio when I studied with Thea van der Meer in the eighties of the last century. Estudio 5 Montune has tricky rests that caused me some trouble to understand.
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I played this Estudio when I studied with Thea van der Meer in the eighties of the last century. Estudio 6 Arpeggio is an attractive arpeggio study with a mysterious sound because of the open strings.
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Bailongo (A Long Baile) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). A Baile is a traditional dance form from flamenco music. Pujol turns it into a South American piece. Difficult in this piece is counting with the syncopation while you still have to stay on the beat. The end result is a
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Pasan y Pasan (They keep passing by) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The name says it all, the piece is made up of a number of repeated patterns. In this piece you need concentration on the right hand fingering in a finger-picking pattern. This becomes extra difficult in the variation
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Eléctrico (Electric) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The 12/8 time already suggests it: This is a piece with a clearly swinging bluesy atmosphere that would not be out of place on a steel string guitar. The ornamentations -slides on two strings- require some practice and the chords require attention. In
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Canción de Cuna, that’s a lullaby. This one is said to come from El Salvador, a country with a short but eventful history full of dictatorship and regimes supported by foreign powers. Corruption and gang wars are a major problem at the moment. The interesting website Freedom House declares the country partially free based on
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Like many of his contemporaries, Alfred Cottin earned part of his living from music lessons. He wrote a method for this purpose, entitled Méthode Complète de Guitare. The French publisher Alphonse Leduc published the work. This music publisher started as a family business in 1841 and it still exists, although it has now been bought
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La Juana is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The title looks like a woman’s name, but the dictionary gives me the translation marijuana or weed. This sheds a different light on the piece and therefore also makes the term “fleeting pieces” clearer. 😉 When you’re already high, heaven is closer. The
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