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Recuerdos de la Alhambra
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Recuerdos de la Alhambra / F. Tarrega Performed Jul 7, 2003 (0:58 / 726 KB) |
"Your
tremolo is already good...A very good effort with a very difficult
piece." |
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Phillip
Houghton Composer / Classical guitarist / Artist |
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Why
I chose to play "Alhambra"?
This
was my second public performance in a competition, almost two
months ahead of my eighth birthday.
I decided on playing Alhambra a few weeks before, also keeping it a secret to surprise my teacher. At the time, my dad and I were playing with a MIDI file of Malaguena, in which we added a tremolo style. It sounded different from the original piece and for fun, I started to practice it that way. Afterwards, while going through my music library, I looked at the Pumping Nylon book and video by the Classical guitarist Scott Tennant, published by Alfred Publishing. Halfway through the video, Scott Tennant played Alhambra. His tremolo technique was called planting. It's a way to shut off the strings immediately, very staccato. I was getting used to the tremolo, which Scott Tennant does so well, with articulation and evenness. His speed burst exercises helped me daily. I found breaking down tremolo into pieces makes it easy. So I memorised Alhambra, one bar at a time. |
| Memories of the event |
In the Open division, the concert hall
was full of guitarists of all levels, either competitors or as observers,
and the event progressed till late in the evening. |
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