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Originally posted by waroflogicI think he is just more subtle. I find that when he plays Spanish or Latin American music it can be a little dry but he is a master when playing Baroque and his rather dry style actually accentuates his performance rather than detracting from it. Playing Koshkin's Usher Waltz he is amazing and there is an elegant understated passion to his performance.
I think the argument is that whilst his technique is flawless, his play isn't as interesting and emotional as other players.
PS Sonhouse if you like Rodrigo maybe you should check out Alirio Diaz playing Invocacion y Danza, a piece that Rodrigo wrote for Diaz.
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I think it would take quite a player to match Diaz when playing Spanish/Latin classical.
Edit: Obviously the Usher Waltz isn't baroque, just thought I'd preempt that rebuff.
Edit 2: "Seis por Derecho" is quite tasty too:
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Originally posted by demonseedAmazing! Put those in my favorites immediately! And there are a bunch more in the menu. He sounds more like Segovia than anyone else I have heard!
I think he is just more subtle. I find that when he plays Spanish or Latin American music it can be a little dry but he is a master when playing Baroque and his rather dry style actually accentuates his performance rather than detracting from it. Playing Koshkin's Usher Waltz he is amazing and there is an elegant understated passion to his performance.
...[text shortened]... recho" is quite tasty too:
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Originally posted by sonhouseI did see the videos. Pretty cool, although the spoon thing is a little odd 😛
You can see that when Julian and John play together, John is stolid, Julian bouncing around, changing expressions, very emo, while John is pretty much straight up and down playing with not much emotion.
Did you watch the three video's I put in?
BTW at the risk of sounding redundant, not sure if you heard my own compositions, I compose tunes for steel stri ...[text shortened]... jenningsguitar. See what you think. It's certainly not classic but has a unique sound I think.
Checked out the myspace, I like the acoustic solo. It reminded me of Andy Mckee for some reason, I'm sure you've heard of him.
Originally posted by waroflogicOh yeah, I have some tubes of him. I just came across the teaspoon master, from what I have seen, however, he seems to be a one trick pony but he has a lot of imitators already, if you saw the side panel menu's. I have a piano-guitar wizard friend, George Winston, we email each other all the time, had to send him that one, see what he thinks.
I did see the videos. Pretty cool, although the spoon thing is a little odd 😛
Checked out the myspace, I like the acoustic solo. It reminded me of Andy Mckee for some reason, I'm sure you've heard of him.
We are always on the lookout for oddball virtuosi! A great one in fingerpicking was found by accident by Sam Charters, a well known folklorist, on a trip to the bahama's Andros Island, (I mention my job there in my bio on myspace), he has a tape recorder, it's about 1958 or so, and happens to come upon a home construction site, hears a couple of guitars going on in the back hidden from his POV, so he walks around and sees this old guy playing the guitar, he says, where is the other guy?
What other guy, I jus been playin is all man, So Sam is like totally floored, the guy's name is, well was, he died a few years ago, Joseph Spence, who later had a huge influence on Ry Cooder. Spence was a natural force on the guitar, inventing new ways to fingerpick and such, so he was recorded on the spot and then later by Jody Stecher, and Joseph started doing the folk circuit in the US. He had this almost non-singing growling kind of voice but people loved him anyway. Here is a link to 'the Real Bahamas'. I am forever miffed I actually worked on Andros for a couple of years and didn't meet Spence or the Pindar family or anyone else of note musically.
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/bahamas.html
Originally posted by rubberjaw30I can appreciate that classical guitar has been implemented into rock somewhat over the last little while, I definitely dont attribute any of that to page or perry. If you were to mention guitarists like randy rhoads, van halen or even Joe Satriani your point would have some validity. Mostly though Randy Rhoads would be who I'd credit with bringing classical guitar influence into rock, van halen kinda jumped on board when he saw how awesome Randy's music was.
to me, joe perry and jimmy paige are classical guitarists...
don't know what planet you're from...
Originally posted by pawnfondlerHey, thanks for the invite! I may be able to join in a few weeks, right now I have my hands full with work, I am basically living in a hotel right now, home on weekends. I set up my little recording system in the hotel, a Gateway lap w/external USB 80 GB drive, very small, and the M-audio firewire 410, I had some problems with it but and asked for help in the general forum but I must be the only one with that combination, but I figured out what was happening anyway. It seems the power plug for the 410 is a bit touchy, I moved the 410 only a couple inches and saw it do its thing which is, Sonar loses the drivers and it's a pain in the butt to reload, very non-intuitive. Fortunutely, I downloaded the latest driver from M-Audio and put it in a folder on my desktop, good thing I did, I had to reload the stupid drivers three times last night before I figured out what was causing the loss. Now I know I better not touch the 410 while it's running for fear of a short glitch in power, the wall wart power supply has a standard plug and they don't exactly lock in place. One tiny power glitch while it's running and the drivers go bye bye. So with everything running, I started working on a daughter-father project. If you went to my myspace site,
I can appreciate that classical guitar has been implemented into rock somewhat over the last little while, I definitely dont attribute any of that to page or perry. If you were to mention guitarists like randy rhoads, van halen or even Joe Satriani your point would have some validity. Mostly though Randy Rhoads would be who I'd credit with bringing class ...[text shortened]... nfluence into rock, van halen kinda jumped on board when he saw how awesome Randy's music was.
donjenningsguitar, you may have seen the flute player on my top friends list, that is Heather, she is a music professor at a university in Brazil, up north near the equator where the tip of Brazil sticks out into the atlantic, the town there is called Maceio, so anyway she wrote a song (while stuck in traffic!) and emailed me an MP3 of it, I converted it back to a WAV file so I could input it into Sonar ( I just found out I can do that job within Sonar now so I don't have to do the extra step of an external conversion) and I am adding guitar and mandolin tracks to it, the song is un-accompanied so I am free to do with it what I will. So that is keeping me busy. Finally I have a small recording system for on the road. On a guitaristic note, she is singing in the key of Bflat so that presented some problems getting a decent sound at first but then I figured, I can cheat! I just lowered the tuning about three frets and now I play the tune in good old G, F, and C! I did likewise on the mandolin. The guitar has an interesting bassy sound to it, never did that before! So that project is underway, just roughed out for now. So you see why I have my hands full and will have to hold off joining the coffeehouse set! Don.
Originally posted by PalynkaWhat a beautiful sound! The instrument looks more like a 12 string mandolin, narrow fretboard. Do you know the name of the instrument?
Some of you may appreciate this. From the deceased Carlos Paredes (Portugal's greatest musical genius, in my opinion).
Verdes Anos (played with a Portuguese guitar, 12-string instrument):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwhV1ivYNsQ
I put this one also into my favorites. Great images too, love the one where the guy is seranading his lady and she is obviously digging it!
Originally posted by sonhouseSeconded. Cheers, Palynka.
What a beautiful sound! The instrument looks more like a 12 string mandolin, narrow fretboard. Do you know the name of the instrument?
I put this one also into my favorites. Great images too, love the one where the guy is seranading his lady and she is obviously digging it!
Originally posted by sonhouseIt's called a Portuguese guitar:
What a beautiful sound! The instrument looks more like a 12 string mandolin, narrow fretboard. Do you know the name of the instrument?
I put this one also into my favorites. Great images too, love the one where the guy is seranading his lady and she is obviously digging it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_guitar
I'm glad you like it. I feel homesick and longing for Portugal every single time I hear that song... It embodies the feeling of "saudade" perfectly. Check out more things by Carlos Paredes if you liked this one. He was simply amazing and we called him "The man with a thousand fingers".
Originally posted by demonseedYou know what ticks me off about Youtube? I haven't seen many video's where the sound and video is in sync, always off by a second or so, disconcerting if you want to take a close look at some of those wonderful guitarists where they do those spectacular close ups of their fingers and the fretboard, when it's out by a second, it spoils the whole effect. Like the Ilrio Diaz, there isn't one where the sound and vid is in sync. That sucks, don't know why it happens.
Seconded. Cheers, Palynka.
Originally posted by sonhouseI know what you mean. I play the music but don't look at it which is a shame because I have been curious as to how these various maestros look when they are performing having only listened to their interpretations previously.
You know what ticks me off about Youtube? I haven't seen many video's where the sound and video is in sync, always off by a second or so, disconcerting if you want to take a close look at some of those wonderful guitarists where they do those spectacular close ups of their fingers and the fretboard, when it's out by a second, it spoils the whole effect. Lik ...[text shortened]... there isn't one where the sound and vid is in sync. That sucks, don't know why it happens.