Practice Times

Post what your practiced in a comment, and for how long!

Treat next week for those who do this every day,
and if you do it for two weeks, we'll go out for
ice cream.

Bonus treats for anyone who comments on somebody else's
post (like, thoughts on a recording, etc.)

Zach

It's been a while since our last lesson! Here's our new piece: Rumores De La Caleta (Rumors of the Caleta). I'm glad you want to learn this one. You should know at least a little history of this piece. It was originally written for piano (because Albeniz was a pianist) and is from a 7 piece collection called "Recuerdos De Viaje" (Memories of Travel).

Christopher Parkening (check out that comb-over!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhfkmNSUW78

Piano version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-0ICyloiU&feature=related

Sam & Melissa

Sam and Melissa just rocked out a pretty good take of May Song. Here's the recording: www.poodus.com/guitar/SM_MaySong_take4.mp3

Why May Song in June? Don't ask.

Collected Recordings

Conner playing Allegro from Suzuki Book 4
www.poodus.com/guitar/Conner_Allegro.mp3

Lily playing Waltz Espanol from Suzuki Book 5
www.poodus.com/guitar/Lily_WaltzEspanol.mp3

Zach playing Waltz Espanol [video, 27MB]
www.poodus.com/guitar/Zach_Waltz_Espanol_6-14.wmv

Brandon and I at his book 1 recital 2 years ago [video, 18MB]
www.poodus.com/guitar/Brandon_LLA_recital9-07.avi

Lily

Raseguado Exercise in Solea - here's a recording (mp3 file) by one of my old guitar teachers, John Wayland Harr.
http://poodus.com/jwh/7.Raseguado_Exercise_in_Solea%27.mp3

Post a comment to let me know you found this.

Conner

Good work on the "double stop" technique! Now we'll use it in a really cool Waltz from Book 2. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEKclLd5wg (the performer is 5 years old. incredible)

Post a comment when you get this.

Tyler and Brandon

Tyler is working on some rock material- "Barracuda" by Heart. Specifically, work on playing at the same speed as the recording. You were really close today, just keep strummin'. Here's a video to play along with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bt_-R5LInU

Using a metronome would help, too ;) And of course, don't forget your Suzuki Review, sir.

Brand-o! Keep working on Capricho this week and see if you can get back to where you were - keep fighting the good fight! I'd love to see you finish this piece. Here's a recording I made: http://www.poodus.com/audio/Capricho_Arabe.mp3

Good luck this week. Make a comment on this page so I know you got here - and please share any progress or questions.