etudes

[jguitar]

what studies do you guys use after the carcassi and sor ones? Recently, I have been doing two coste etudes and estudio Barillante by D Alard. Has anyone tried Pujol's Los Abejorros?

[brian richardson]

you can't miss with villa lobos.
difficult and worth the work

[jguitar]

hi, brian, do you do all of them? My teacher says these etudes are just called etudes but really they are concert pieces. No1 is not that bad, so I guess I will try that one first.

[brian richardson]

jguitar,
i know 1,5,11, the 5 preludes, choros#1, and parts
of the brazilian suite. it took a few years
the 'etudes' are concert pieces but, they also
target certain techniques. arpegios, slurs. block chords, etc.
and some for the right hand development(1st etude prime example).
the first time i heard the etudes i was an instant fan-still am!!
good luck

[selma600]

the Brouwer - the old and the new ones - are really STUDY pieces and I have found them useful at all levels of my playing. They each focus on a particular "problem" and the music is interesting to listen to while you are playing. I find some of them the finger equivalent of "tongue-twisters" and tend to "wake me up" if I am just mechanically going through a practice-time.

[t.j.]

i learned(and got most up to speed) all 12 of villa-lobos's etudes but it only took 1 or 2 weeks.

[brian richardson]

t.j.,
that's one etude a day :shock:
you figured out the fingerings?
i've never heard of someone learning
all 12 in one 'or' two weeks.
sorry to doubt you but............

[Zak]

Going to have to agree with Brian here...that sounds pretty much impossible. Move over John Williams :?

[JerryZ]

Welcome to Oklahoma...

Where men are men...and sheep are nervous!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

I'm glad someone pointed out that exaggeration...T.J., you meant to say about a MONTH or two right?

[rdubb]

I love the V-L studies, they are simpy amazing pieces of music that do wonders for your technique if you're willing to invest in the time and are willing to put some dents in your wall from banging your head into it :)

i'm working on 7-12 right now.... I gotta say the slur section in number 10 is just driving me up the wall, as well as getting the portamentoes in #12 in the up in the 12 position clean driving me nuts as well

the last 6 have definitely taken me a bit more than a week or two, try more like a few months...

[Sandra]

Giulianni, Diabelli, Carulli, Coste and others I can't think of off the top of my head.

Gerald Garcia has written some nice contemporary ones, IMO. :)

[t.j.]

hmm i really dont have any problem finding fingerings. i can figure fingerings and everything like that just while im sight reading at a tempo.

[brian richardson]

hmmm and that was all in 'one or two weeks'?

[Jubilee Valence]

i learned(and got most up to speed) all 12 of villa-lobos's etudes but it only took 1 or 2 weeks.ok--two weeks for most "up to speed"--I thought he meant two weeks for EACH("almost"...;) )--BUT NOW THIS! quote:"hmm i really dont have any problem finding fingerings. i can figure fingerings and everything like that just while im sight reading at a tempo."end of quote....NOW I'm really confused!....."all 12....2 weeks...mostly..."....shouldn't've took him more than the first sit down & turn th' page, daddy! WHEWWEEEE!!!!!! :roll: ....uh-'scuse me!...pero es "Senor t.j.-si?"--y tu es amigo o mas... con "frinkin'dinkin'stein"?--no?....o ttboy?--si?.....*remember "nucklebrains" & "Recuerdos...."--2 weeks....., but he needed to "work on" "the Ol' Tremelo"--ummm-hmmmnn!......yet all the while cursed with a rare handicap, which separated him from the rest of the population, in that he was, alas, incapable of applying the "F" chord.....are these like...Indigo Kids?....or....Katzenjammers?...sum'ptin' like 'dat?......

[brian richardson]

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