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Apr 14, 2016
The tremolo is a beautiful techniques of the classical guitar: it gives the impression of flow of notes, a continuous thread of sound. Basically it’s made playing a bass note with the thumb followed by three repeated higher notes, traditionally plucked… read more »
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Mar 22, 2016
In the world of classical guitar, the use of fingernails has become a standard. But as I have already discussed in a previous article, there are also excellent musicians who have chosen not to use fingernails. One above all is… read more »
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Mar 15, 2016
Carl Oscar Boije af Gennäs (1849–1923) was an insurance clerk and amateur guitarist. His collection includes nearly 1,000 works in print, together with hand written examples from the 19th century, including some original manuscripts by JK Mertz. This collection, which… read more »
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Mar 10, 2016
The Danish Royal Library is really a gold mine for classical guitar players. You will find on this site more than 1200 works by composers of the 19th century, known and less known. Here the list of PDFs (some links… read more »
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Mar 8, 2016
Recently I have discussed with some friends about the tunings, and emerged a theory concerning the possibility of tune instruments using the A to 432 Hz instead of 440 Hz. So, i’ve started search some informations online, and i’ve found… read more »
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Feb 29, 2016
In the previous article we report the opinions of Rob MacKillop about the use of the right hand without nail, using only the touch of flesh. Today we face a traditional point of view: the famous book Pumping Nylon by… read more »
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Feb 25, 2016
Google has built a free tool for journalists, news sites and other organizations, called Project Shield that re-routes nasty traffic through its own infrastructure in order to stop websites being overwhelmed. [embed]https://youtu.be/YZqiF5Duh0U[/embed] From Service Website: Project Shield welcomes applications from… read more »
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Feb 24, 2016
Never ask a group of classical guitarists if you can play even without the nails of the right hand! You risk being insulted brutally….and absolutely do not mention Tárrega! Seriously, I came across this video where Rob MacKillop explains his… read more »
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Feb 19, 2016
The BOYD (Bring your own device) policy starts being a very common practice in a lot of company. The ability to access corporate resources from their device makes it much easier to work in mobility, but it introduces a great… read more »
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Feb 1, 2016
Playing an instrument is like playing a sport. Muscles and joints need to be trained and kept moving. So, Every day, in addition to keep my legs in moving , I try to keep my hands in training, regardless of the time… read more »
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Jan 27, 2016
Peter Attia @ TEDMED 2013 A TED talk by Peter Attia of TEDMED 2013, about obesity and diabetes. As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the… read more »
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Jan 18, 2016
A bit of theory and some simple patterns to easily play major and minor scales on ukulele. A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, very common in many musical cultures all over the world. Pentatonics… read more »
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Dec 16, 2015
John (Williams), forgive me! :-) John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. I already talked about him in the post about the “Imperial March” The piece “When I thought of a theme for Luke… read more »
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Dec 12, 2015
Uke, I am your father! John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning over six decades, Williams has composed some of the most popular and recognizable film scores in cinematic… read more »
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Dec 10, 2015
A bit of theory and some simple patterns to easily play major and minor scales on ukulele. A diatonic scale is a scale composed of seven distinct pitch classes. It includes five whole steps and two half steps for each… read more »
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Nov 26, 2015
An interesting TED Lesson by Anita Collins: i like to share it with my readers! When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like… read more »
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Nov 10, 2015
I am a hacker in the original sense of the term, I like taking things apart, modify them and (when I can) improve them. So, whenever I find myself in your hands a new smartphone (especially Android) i feel like a… read more »
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Oct 26, 2015
My ukulele transcription of Prelude from English Suite, Op. 31 by John William Duarte. Due a request from Christopher Duarte, I've removed the transcription: HiI've just come across your ukulele transcription of part of my father's English Suite op.31. This work… read more »
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Sep 22, 2015
Geolocating in HTML5 with a single line of code? “It Could Work!” Some infos about geolocation API from http://dev.w3.org/: The Geolocation API defines a high-level interface to location information associated only with the device hosting the implementation, such as latitude and… read more »
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Sep 9, 2015
It’s pretty simple: a small tool and 15 minutes of work I had to help a user in the migration from an old laptop (with serious motherboard issues) to a new laptop. The old PC was equipped with Windows XP, it… read more »