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4/10

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Been going through lessons in a Spanish guitar etudes book. I actually just played each lesson once and I didn't care if I messed up big time, but I should be embarrassed as a musician because we should strive to produce musical sounds that are appealing to human ears. I thought it'd be a fun exercise to record one every day because then I need to at least try harder.

Below is my first solo recording - I started over more than 10 times because I kept messing up something. This is the best I could come up with because it's getting late and my fingers are getting tired. Definitely far from being perfect.

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This past Monday, we learned some rhythmic variations for accompaniment and the bridge section for the melody. My left fingers haven't developed to play bar chords well (some strings because muffled when that happens) so I am still struggling with the melody. Argh, need to practice more. The recording today actually sounded worse than last time, but it's only because this version is more difficult！

Also, I just realized my right hand position is really bad. Was surprised our teacher hasn't corrected me :( Gotta fix it soon.


Me - melody; Elliot - accompaniment



Elliot's improv went a little too wild.


Elliot - melody; me - accompaniment

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It's been a couple weeks since Curt picked up this piece for Elliot and me. We've been practicing a about an hour each week since. Today, we decided to record our little duet just for fun and realized how bad we are - a lot of noise and timing is off. I decided to make it a thing to record a video every once in a while to show our progress. (We don't have an iPhone stand so the camera was just facing a fruit plate. Will be improved next time.)

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