Here is an update of where I am with Asturias, also known as Leyenda (Asturias is an autonomous community in Spain and Leyenda translates legend in English). I’m now reasonably fluent with the first twenty-four bars of the simplified and shortened arrangement of this classical guitar piece I’ve been practicing for a while. I still can hear in the video some hesitant notes and some galloped ones, but I think it’s good enough for now.
When I recorded the first twelve bars, I was already practicing the next three bars. Later, I moved the target to be able to play the first eighteen bars, but when I was copying by hand those additional bars to my practice score I realized that I could instead move the target to be the first twenty-four bars. I didn’t imagine that it was going to take me two year to be reasonably fluent with those. Due to the repetitive nature of the piece, specially in those bars, I was expecting a swift memorization of the note sequence and not big hurdles with the actual playing. What actually happened was that having repetitive notes didn’t mean it was easy to memorize the variations and that after automating playing B on the second string as a pedal note for the first 16 bars it was not easy for me to switch to play E on the first string as the pedal note for the next 8 bars.
For now I’m planning to leave the remaining 48 bars for later entertainment, play these 24 bars as repertoire, and move to another classical piece, but the hand is already itching to copy more bars of the score to be able to continue exploring this piece.