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Hi everybody!
This week I have for you ONE SINGLE TIP that will hopefully become very useful to enhance expression on your playing!
For those of you who are studying pieces from the Baroque & Classical period, THIS VIDEO IS FOR YOU.
If you find the video useful, and let me know in the comment box if you have ever been told this before!
I wish you happy practicing! Merce
Merce, this video is scary. It sounds like you have to be a serious musicologist to play music effectively. That is beyond the reach of most of us. Is there essential reading to get some basic ideas of historical performance practice for the period of Sor? Tarrega?
Brava Merce! Even if I am one (of the absolute minority view ) that Bach and guitar are an adquired taste. I am old (:) enough to claim that 40 years ago those two words (Bach-guitar) would rarely go together. But I guess it is the same of an illusion as someone playing Bach on the xylophone.
So - for those of us born after 1839 (Sor's death) this may seem like an esoteric playing practice - but think context... How many Marshall Amps existed back then?
Airplanes/Jets?
Trains?
Cars?
Factories?
Recordings by Metallica?
Peoples' hearing was so much more subtle in the early-middle 1800s - because (relative to today) there was virtually no noise pollution in daily life. So the difference between an aggressive pull-off vs. a softer slur was like the difference between a Martin D-45 and a Hendrix stomp pedal.