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Started pretty good and got steadily better throughout. As a former teacher myself, I recognised so many great skills here from Brandon. Not just the obvious stuff identifying technique issues or hearing musical opportunities, but also in pacing the lesson, redirecting distraction, using language that works for the student, and avoiding the tendency to “showboat” (a tragic aspect of many teachers). Everything I see from Brandon just makes me appreciate how lucky we are to live in this time when we have great teachers/musicians *and* the technical capabilities to share the education far and wide. This is how we grow and preserve our precious heritage.
Firstly, bravo! for Judah, for the solid initial performance, for putting yourself out there in sharing this lesson, and for making great progress in the lesson. A second bravo! to Brandon for the fantastic insights into this performance, and performance in general. Very eye-opening for this amateur guitarist. -Tom
Thank you Judah for your courage to play in front of such a big online audience so that we can get better from Brandon's amazing insights. You did great by the way!!! High value video!
Lately I discovered "la catedral" by Agustín Barrios Mangoré. I would be delighted if you could play it for us. It is amazing! Thanks for the lesson in any case :)
Thanks! Scales are the best opportunity for improving legato playing. Try staccato(detached) first and then legato (connected). Go back and forth. Try to move your fingers at the last possible moment so there's no gap in between each note. Good luck! Brandon
@@brandonacker thank you so much! you are literally one of the best youtube teachers, wathced all videos I think so far! but the petting your dog tip isnt working for me right now maybe because I play without nails and when I try to let the joint loose my thumb feels very unnatural to play the low strings
Thanks so much! That tip was for the index middle and ring fingers only. So keep playing normally with your thumb. You could take my course No Nail Guitar in 10 days if you want to learn more. It's 3 hours of everything I know about making a great sound, playing fast, and tremolo all without nails. classicalguitarpro.teachable.com/p/no-nails-in-10-days
Thank you for the upload, I find your intuition and videos interesting! Just one question - Why haven't you guided him in the beginning of the performance to play it slower? I think the fast pace caused him to mistake a lot. 10:30 - Good tip, I also revised it with my teacher long ago, and one of the first errors is to mess up the harmony and the melody.
Thanks for your comment and interesting points! Yes, we did slow down the B section for that very reason. Of course everyone should practice the piece very slow for accuracy but another trick is separating the voices to hear each part because then it is easy and you can focus on the music before putting them back together. We did this for the A section and Judah found a wonderful balance of voices and a slower tempo at 12:29
Judah was amazing, i'm in my 4th year of playing guitar and I feel like I could never do something like this a year ago. I was playing loads of studies by giuliani and carcassi, sor. Now I'm fighting with Milonga and after every try my left hand is twitching and I honestly don't know how to relax my hand while playing with other fingers while doing the barrè. Any tip?
You need to learn how to use your arm weight + gravity instead of using the strength of your hand. Also you need to use minimal pressure so your hand is relaxed and the other fingers can still move. I go deep into barre chords in my new intermediate online course at classicalguitar-pro.com
🎸BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Get $40 OFF my Beginner online classical guitar course at classicalguitar-pro.com/
-6 hours
-53 HD multicam videos
-Give your first recital of beautiful classical guitar music
-Learn to read music
Started pretty good and got steadily better throughout.
As a former teacher myself, I recognised so many great skills here from Brandon. Not just the obvious stuff identifying technique issues or hearing musical opportunities, but also in pacing the lesson, redirecting distraction, using language that works for the student, and avoiding the tendency to “showboat” (a tragic aspect of many teachers).
Everything I see from Brandon just makes me appreciate how lucky we are to live in this time when we have great teachers/musicians *and* the technical capabilities to share the education far and wide. This is how we grow and preserve our precious heritage.
Awesome student and teacher ❤
Thank you! 😃 Judah did a great job
Firstly, bravo! for Judah, for the solid initial performance, for putting yourself out there in sharing this lesson, and for making great progress in the lesson. A second bravo! to Brandon for the fantastic insights into this performance, and performance in general. Very eye-opening for this amateur guitarist. -Tom
Thank you Judah for your courage to play in front of such a big online audience so that we can get better from Brandon's amazing insights. You did great by the way!!!
High value video!
wow, 2 and a half years? Great playing! Thank you for posting these videos Brandon!
Its nice to see you on youtube recommands
Sounds great Judah! Keep it all going!
Don't understand why nobody observes the glissando in the 2nd bar of the 'B' section. Great lesson! 👏
Lately I discovered "la catedral" by Agustín Barrios Mangoré. I would be delighted if you could play it for us. It is amazing! Thanks for the lesson in any case :)
the lessons are very great it seems
how can i improve playing legato?
Thanks! Scales are the best opportunity for improving legato playing. Try staccato(detached) first and then legato (connected). Go back and forth.
Try to move your fingers at the last possible moment so there's no gap in between each note.
Good luck!
Brandon
@@brandonacker thank you so much! you are literally one of the best youtube teachers, wathced all videos I think so far! but the petting your dog tip isnt working for me right now maybe because I play without nails and when I try to let the joint loose my thumb feels very unnatural to play the low strings
Thanks so much!
That tip was for the index middle and ring fingers only. So keep playing normally with your thumb.
You could take my course No Nail Guitar in 10 days if you want to learn more. It's 3 hours of everything I know about making a great sound, playing fast, and tremolo all without nails. classicalguitarpro.teachable.com/p/no-nails-in-10-days
Thank you for the upload, I find your intuition and videos interesting!
Just one question - Why haven't you guided him in the beginning of the performance to play it slower?
I think the fast pace caused him to mistake a lot.
10:30 - Good tip, I also revised it with my teacher long ago, and one of the first errors is to mess up the harmony and the melody.
Thanks for your comment and interesting points! Yes, we did slow down the B section for that very reason. Of course everyone should practice the piece very slow for accuracy but another trick is separating the voices to hear each part because then it is easy and you can focus on the music before putting them back together. We did this for the A section and Judah found a wonderful balance of voices and a slower tempo at 12:29
@@brandonacker The illusion of two instruments.
You are a good teacher :)
Judah was amazing, i'm in my 4th year of playing guitar and I feel like I could never do something like this a year ago. I was playing loads of studies by giuliani and carcassi, sor. Now I'm fighting with Milonga and after every try my left hand is twitching and I honestly don't know how to relax my hand while playing with other fingers while doing the barrè. Any tip?
You need to learn how to use your arm weight + gravity instead of using the strength of your hand. Also you need to use minimal pressure so your hand is relaxed and the other fingers can still move.
I go deep into barre chords in my new intermediate online course at classicalguitar-pro.com
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