I’m super late to this party Sylvia! Don’t know how I missed this one. Another beautiful piece from the Community ‘classical girl’.
Your finger strummed and sung piece was great too. Sexy Sadie needs some work (I’m sure you know that).
The kids were terrific. Loved the 1,2,3,4 bit. 
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Thanks Steve, I much appreciate you listened and commented.
What’s good about Dreamer Songs is that I would listen like really many times in a row and since we have YouTube Pros’ performances to observe (their hands especially) we can re-think of our skills-level and decide if and how the piece would be doable for us.
Exactly I thought this while watching Rogier playing Canon in D…Rogier if you’re reading…I’ll learn that one too some day!
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Thank you Gordon…you’re late because you were on holiday: you’re well justified!
I’m afraid it requires more than that…but I’m doing my best and, since I’m working it out by myself, whatever the result will be I’ll just try to just accept it as something that reflects my present overall competence and leave it open to all the improvements I might be able to add along the way. I should have been wiser in the choice of the tune 
Oh and they did so well at the party! We all did great! I’ll take sometime to tell you more about that in my next update!
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Actually I’m still in France. I must have been en route when you posted your video.
As for Sexy Sadie needing work, I’ve set myself the challenge to have a go at Justin’s steady thumb blues whilst on holiday (and beyond!). That certainty needs a lot of work and I’m finding the independent thumb thing quite difficult. Fortunately because it uses fingers you can play very quietly so my campsite neighbours don’t have to listen. 
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Yes, didn’t you hear him sing in your head? 
I love that style and would like to learn something like that too one day!
One day at the open mic maybe! Anyway I need to learn some more surprising stuff!
Silvia, what a wonderful video! I love all the parts!
I am always in awe when you play those classical pieces! Strumming is quite a bit easier and when I fingerpick, it’s almost always with some repeating bass pattern, so that’s easier too than the ever changing classic bass and treble parts…
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Hi Dominique and thanks for your comment! I’m really happy you liked my recordings!
If you need some sheetmusic for italian (and more) songs I highly reccomend this site
On the Menu you’ll need to edit the title of the song or the artist in the bar where it says “Cerca una canzone o un artista”
As anything else on the guitar that requires just practice, on different levels, it takes sometime.
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Thanks a lot for your reply, Silvia!
… but I’m so lazy, haha 
Thank you for refering me to this site! I took a look!
And now I feel like I’ll have to post a Celentano song sometime soon!
If I use it, it will just have to make me think a little longer because of those Do, Re, Mi… I remember that was the first way we learned notes, like at around age 9 or so, but later it was C, D, E… all the time. And the english “B” is a “H” here in Germany, while B exists too, but this is the english Bb … Never learned the history of why it is so…
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Yes, please 
… I know 1/10 of the songs which are posted on the AVOYP section …I’d love to find an italian song, just for once!
It’s easy 
I know about the German H…I felt it was a bit confusing.
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June Update - Part 1
One Two Three Four! 
Prendi un’emozione, chiamala per nome, trova il suo colore e che suono fa…
The School party was on June, 3rd and…we all rocked 
This is the 4th year I play at School Parties and if I think what the first one was emotionally 
This time I wasn’t nervous, not even a bit, we had several rehearsals and we all were more than ready! It’s been much committing and I debated with myself, especially for the long song whether it was a correct choice for very young children, to have such a long and articulated song with just guitar and without the original song as a backing track like they do (and we did too before I started learning the guitar) in most kindergardens; with a backing track or you sing or you don’t sing or you just sing lazily it doesn’t make much difference…but without it and just the guitar…
We’ve been talking about this with my colleague too and in the end we had to agree that yes it was all worth it, the response from the children was amazing and seeing them all (including those few we wouldn’t expect to!) sing so passionately all together re-paid for all the effort we put in it…no matter a bit out of tune or key or whatever , the joy, the enthusiasm and I guess the feeling part of something bigger…all that made the magic…oh and I had restringed the guitar for the event and the fresh sound of the new strings added much to the magic!
On the Felicità tune, they did a sort of ring 'a ring 'a roses thing in three groups and it came out just perfect…they were all really disciplined to make it work in groups, the public was instructed to sing along and…it was even more magical!
The English Medley…lol…I really wanted to put my self to test with that! And again all the work paid off as it went all smooth, just after a couple of rehearsals my colleague knew exactly where the singing started for each tune of the Medley and I was able to make the transitions musical by decreasing speed at the end of a tune and connect it to a solid beat (four instrumental bars) to introduce the next tune. Spring made an exception to the steady beat: the end of winter with the kids falling asleep on the floor had a wow effect on the public…in the video you hear a “Oohhhh!”…then there was uncertainity about what was going to happen next as I was fingerpicking a chord progression in 6/8 as a lullaby and the kids wouldn’t move from the floor…then a little bit of Rallentando on the last chord and as soon as the Carulli Waltz started they woke up as they had been trained, guess what?..TO LISTEN!..they knew exactly when to get up!
Boris @Boris1565 I wasn’t able to transition to summer the way you suggested so I kept it as it was, only I slowed it down a bit and in one month of practice it became smoothier.
Here’s the video I had recorded at the beginning of May.
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I am very glad Silvia it went so well, I never doubted it will. 
What you do is fantastic, I am sure that you helped create a life long precious memories for many kids! They will remember you playing and singing with them and that feeling of togetherness. I love my memories from kindergarten.
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Ok, so I’ll have at least one fan! I’ll have to work hard to get the accent half way right! 
And never tried to sing like him yet. Not sure how it will sound…
Haha, thank you for posting this! Never saw the film of this musical but I’ll have to, of course!
I am supporting every word Boris just above said in his post! For my son, for example and his class and probably a lot of his age, music became less popular after they didn’t sing during Corona, and never really did as much afterwards as they did before or I did at the same age at my school (while on the other hand, a lot is better nowadays on his school than it was in mine in the 70s here in Berlin) I love that you bring music to the kids!
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Hi Silvia,
This keeps echo and makes me happy , great that you and yours had such a nice end of the year
Greetings and I hope you get some good good rest this holiday 
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Thank you @domi7 and @roger_holland ! Dominique do you speak any italian?
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Uhm, not really.
Speaking french and I had learned a bit of portuguese.
Reading I normally get at least the picture of what is written there in spanish or italian. And I remember having had the strange feeling after my friend lent me two (or three?) Eros Ramazotti CDs a long time ago and I sang along looking at those lyrics (over and over), … I had the feeling I had learned a tiny bit of italian back then and understanding people who spoke italian better.
So now I wasn’t scared to look at those lyrics lately, but the few Celentano songs I looked at, it felt much more difficult than in my memory… maybe age? Or the speach in Celentano’s songs is more difficult than in those Eros Ramazotti songs?
But it was just a first scan of possible songs yet.
I also plan to sing a wonderful song in spanish one day, a language which I can’t speak.
Do you remember singing along with english songs and you didn’t speak the language? Probably all children do. With a few Beatles songs I only discovered much much later what this or that word was really meaning…
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@domi7 Dominique I hope I didn’t get you in trouble ! I thought you spoke some italian. I guess Celentano’s songs are more articulated than those of Eros, in which you might maybe find more repetitions in choruses; he’s a great artist and had a lot of success internationally, he’s not among my favourites though but has a few songs which are really beautiful.
Please just do what inspires you without taking me too seriously…it’s going to be harder if you don’t speak the language…it’s surely harder for me when I sing in english and my level is labelled as Advanced
…harder but not impossible if the song really inspires you. Have fun!
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Haha Troublemaker SIlvia?
Challenges are great anyway - the whole guitar journey is one big challenge!
And the wish came out of my deepest self
Thank you for the encouragement! Well… but it might take me a little while…
Uhm - there seem to be lots of smileys around somehow
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@Silvia80 @domi7
As for the Italian language… I can only echo what you say, Dominique, getting those Italian words to the right place is not as easy as it seems .
I too speak no Italian (shame on me, when I think about Italy being one of my favourite holiday destinations…), but I certainly have an ear for the language as it feels pretty close, I hear it a lot around.
I’m currently working on a Celentano song and although it seemed to be quite easy, there’s something about it that needs a lot of practice…getting the words into the right place is one of those things… a special task… Sometimes it feels like too many words for the space given by the chords he plays .
But I have so much fun with it…there’s always a smile on my face when I practice . I always have Celentano’s mischievous grin in my mind… 
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Oh, you too - wonderful! Maybe we could have some Celentano Session one day with you -Silvia - an open mic with three Celentano songs! Or post them in in AVOYP under “Celentano forever” or so
I felt the same, that fitting more sillables or sometimes less in the same place of the song, but maybe verse 1 versus verse 2, the additional words make it ever so harder.
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I’m afraid it’s not about a specific language for me no matter the language I still need to do the counting oftener than not!
Which one Andrea?! I need to know!!
yes Celentano’s songs are fun!
have a look at this old video where he makes fun of Mina’s Parole Parole
Oh let’s do it! An Om might not be easy for me, but a AVOYP would be great! I need to know which songs you’re working on…
…you could record the music and I could do the singing maybe? Or we can just work separately on 3 different songs and open a thread…I guess Brian would take part too.
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June Update - Part 2
After the party, the main thing to be really happy with this month was actually finding sometime to practice guitar…I had to prioritize and decided to be consistent on my Classical Guitar Practice Routine, which includes also 15 minutes on Ear Training (which I’m doing my own ways) and working on chord melody arrangements…ahhh Sexy Sadie…really I’m like a child who throws the ball and starts running happily after it unconscious of anything else The difficulties weren’t much on the peculiar chords progression, I chose my notes and simplified the shapes to make it easy to play…but identifing where some of the melody notes were in the bar was a pain, especially those “every-o-oone”: I listened and just kept on tapping my foot and trying to get there by feeling…and what you hear is the best I could do. More than that I got trapped into Left Hand Legato Techniques when I didn’t feel ready for those as there were other skills in my mind which I thought I needed to further develop in the first place. To say it shortly I felt a bit stupid and had to cope with my own stupidity 
I didn’t expect people would like it, there’s something weird about it, something that makes me feel unconfident…I forced a G final chord but… I might be able to improve the arrangement when I’ll re-visit it in the future.
My Acoustic Guitar 
I didn’t practice or play it at all… I was feeling I was doing so well with my Fingers Strumming! 
And there are loads of songs I want to learn! But not only time was boss, also I wasn’t much in the mood with my husband’s health getting worse instead of improving as we were expecting. Fingers crossed 
And now in these last days of the month…uhhhh…I found a little gem 
which makes me really happy !!! I hope to record it soon, as it’s very short, and share!
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