@beejay56 hello Brian, thanks for listening and commenting! I’m glad you found it musical, I worked it with the metronome all the way through and to be honest I’m not able to do much more than keep with the beat as best as I can, the Teacher’s demo in the lesson is so more musical! Anyway I’m content with this, I started with 50bpm and going slow helped also to keep the right hand still and the playing being relaxed…I brought it to 70bpm gradually, in the lesson is a bit faster.
@BurnsRhythm Thanks David, I appreciate much you listened and commented!
Oh no! I’m very proud of my tapping foot! It’s the first and biggest achievement (really, as weird as it may sound)…I’ll never forget how it felt when I realised I could do that without thinking about it! But objectively…you don’t see many classical guitar players tapping their foot and I can’t miss a good chance to have a good laugh at myself! It’s a fun part of the journey too
Silvia, sounds wonderful. Keep tapping your foot and anything else that supports your timing, feel and being in the zone. Watch the pros and you’ll see all they do. And that includes guitar faces, though maybe not so much the classical players As for clothes, not detracting for my appreciation and admiration for your playing
This is great advice…also I’ll never be tired of watching how graceful the fingers of my favourite guitarist Ana Vidovic are!
And this is something I’m very happy with
The phrasing or some forte/piano dynamics in this piece are still difficult for me, because mixing the 8th and 16th notes still requires attention.
Hi Sylvia, that was wonderfully played with true musicianship. It reminds me that when I got a used classical guitar many years ago the sales person added a book of Carcassi selections - I think that it was called the Carcassi method but to me it was incomprehensible and I looked at it over the years but never attempted to play. Your playing has finally inspired me to try the Werner Classical Guitar Method. I know my progress will be very slow. I won’t be playing classical guitar every week as you do and classical guitar will be just part of my practices. I only played the 1st two Etudes or studies this week. But I can use your progress as inspiration. Thanks.
That was beautiful Silvia the only disappoint was the shot framing cutting out the whole of your head. We could see you smiling but I reckon your eyes were on fire as you played this !
Love etude and reminiscent of an acoustic blues piece I am working on, just some subtle syncopation and timing differences. We often say that The Blues underpins all “modern” music but forget that the “classics” under pins the Blues.
Hi Steve, your comment brought a couple of tears to my eyes, thank you so much for it! I feel honoured my journey is inspiring to you and I’m sure you’ll do well in this new Classical Guitar adventure. The Werner Method is a very good one IMHO, it starts from the very basics. At the beginning one can find the single-notes melodies a bit boring or too easy, but you learn so much from them and you develop your skills by building them with a positive sense of achievement, instead of maybe struggling through difficult stuff! For me it’s not about learning pieces at this stage, but about developing skills…of course one also want ti be able to play the pieces eventually! The Practice Advice at the beginning of the Method Book are very good and you can rely on that without me telling you any further.
The slowiest the better! It’s all about developing your self-awareness, how you’re sitting and holding the guitar, how the fingers move etc…and we’re self-taught, there’s a lot of problem solving too! It just takes time!
Only…Just try to be consistent, maybe 10 or 15 minutes a day? I do 40 minutes/5 days a week and it’s already a lot, I wouldn’t be able to focus much more! Thanks again for your very kind feedback!
I really hope to find sometime to read through your LL this week, so that I can know about you and your guitar journey a bit more!
Ah…you’re right! This was part of one of my (very) early morning practice session and it wasn’t supposed to be posted, but it’s been a crazy month and I couldn’t find a chance to do a better video! My eyes…I guess they looked a bit silly as this te-Tate-Tate-Tiritiri-Tate thing is damn funny to play and get right and on time!
Thank you Silvia, for giving me inspiration to play classical again. Many years ago, in 1977, I was young and single and living in a small town in a rural area and a very small cheap apartment, before internet or even cable television. I had just moved for a job and had nothing to do at night. So I had my used classical guitar and found a book by F. Noad on Solo Classical Guitar, book 1. I had a subscription to a guitar magazine with some hints for beginning classical guitarists and I had a vinyl LP record of famous classical guitarist to listen to. So I decided to spend 1 month on each chapter of the book and practice every day. I already knew how to read music and how to sing so I could use my ears to determine if what I was playing was reasonable. I focused on classical guitar because I was fascinated by Mood for a Day by Steve Howe of the progressive rock group Yes heard here Yes - Fragile - Mood for a Day (2008 remaster). Here is a YouTube link to Steve Howe playing Mood for a Day. I never learned to play it but it is now on my dreamer list. I had no instructor or video lessons to watch, but I practiced for a year and learned several songs in the first position, like Greensleeves. When the book moved to the 2nd position, I got discouraged and gave up. For the last 20 years my guitar had been stored under my bed and the strings were rusty and I was missing the B string. Last year, you inspired me to put new strings on my classical guitar and I have used it a couple of times to record fingerpicking exercises and my version of Happy Birthday. Now I can learn to play real classical pieces. I subscribe online to Guitar Techniques magazine, which has a monthly classical guitar lesson with video demonstration of the classical guitar song. Justin Sandercoe has been writing a column for Guitar Techniques for several years, so you may have heard of it. If you wait for holidays, you can get specials to buy back issues cheaply. Even though I have the free PDF of the Werner method book !, I plan on buying the physical paperback copies of books 1 and 2, because it is easier to make notes. Later I will get the technique and repertoire books. My apologies for writing so much, but I am excited to add this to my practice and to share my classical guitar story.
A few pictures from today’s Uke session with the children
Ooohhh the landscape from up there, we’re just a couple of kms from Camogli, Genova is on the right side and Portofino is just behind the corner on the left; I couldn’t help stopping to take a few pictures on my way back home…
…the light blues’ game was just amazing but can’t be captured by a camera!
Sylvia, I don’t think that the 2nd position is that difficult. You use it for the key of D, since you don’t need to use notes in the first fret in the key of D when your first finger is positioned in the second fret. I am making excuses, since the real reason is the common story of - I went back to school, I was very busy and life got in the way. I didn’t want to discourage you.
and I can’t miss a good chance to have a good laugh at myself! It’s a fun part of the journey too 
As for clothes, not detracting for my appreciation and admiration for your playing
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don’t tell me that! I’m just starting feeling quite comfortable in the first position…I might spend another couple of years and stay there 
way back home…
