The Most Productive Pieces Are the Ones You Can Play With Ease With a Slight Challenge

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Early development The most productive pieces are the ones you can play with ease with a slight challenge. There are lots of wonderful little pieces to be played and enjoyed before trying to play the big show pieces. At the beginning and intermediate stage i think you want to play a wide range of different small pieces covering different era's i.e classical, renaissance, romantic also different keys, rhythms, positions etc etc. By picking small short pieces i think you will find the learning experience much more rewarding. I prefer more contemporary pieces than primarily Sor, Carcassi, Carulli, Giuliani Focus on phrasing, tone etc and actually making a piece musical. Brouwer studies can and should be in the usual CG student repertoire. Not only the original Estudios Sencillos, but also the additional Estudios Sencillos Nuevos. It should be noted that the Estudios Sencillos Nuevos are very different from the original Estudios Sencillos, as a whole, but are quite fantastic in their own way. If a CG prefers the more contemporary path, over the "standard" Sor/Carcassi/etc path, then more power to him!

Broewer it takes some maturity to appreciate these pieces as beginner might not see or hear the subtle complexities.
Brauwer wrote these in two "chunks", the first ten then the second, I believe separated by a decade or maybe even two (60's and 80's?). And obviously the second set of ten are substantially more complex than the first ten (XVI and XVIII particularly come to mine with their complex rhythms). So maybe the comment was made concerning the first set and then just applied to the later whole set of 20 inappropriately. No beginner is going to play VXIII. And that goes for pretty much all of the pieces in the second set of ten. Such an awesome collection of studies. New Studies, as recommended by my teacher. A nice group of pieces. sit in the grade 4/5 level, which is an intermediate level. The 1st 10 Brouwer studies and the 2nd 10 Brouwer studies weren't written together. But rather the first 10 were written when Brouwer was still doing his college degrees. They were meant as pedagogical tools for Brouwer's own pupils

that he was teaching at the time. Each one focusing on a different skill needed to play the classical guitar repertoire of the time. The 2nd 10 studies (11-20) I look at more as musical development. Brouwer works on Ornamentation, denser forms and textures within the pieces and compositional tools that he uses in his own works (you'll hear the cadenza to Brouwer's 3rd concerto in one of the studies, I believe the 18th...or 17th as well as the influence to the 2nd movement of the El Decamerón Negro in the final study of Brouwer.) While I haven't spent time working on these last pieces, and haven't taught them, I would like to at some point (both teach and perform). The last 10 etudes are more concert etudes then the 1st 10. It would be nice to program a few of them on a concert program at some point. Although digestion of his pieces might be difficult for some audiences, (and especially for the romantic-age addicts), the mysterious sounds in his music is unique and excellent,

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