Posts from ‘August, 2008’

recently I met a German man in the Internet, who loves the Chinese music and plays the Erhu, the Chinese violin. Because we want to know each other, I decide to show him one of my trials to reflex the modern Chinese Popmusic. In fact my pieces are not like “Chinese Popmusic”, but you can [...]

The best to know something about Leo Brower is to google or directly move to Wikipedia: Leo Brower, where you can find a lot of  links to other websites about this composer. The Etudes simples are technical not too difficult, but its beautiful music, rich of colours and fantasy. The number five I ve already published [...]

To know how to practice the guitar is so important and there are a lot of different opinions and discussions about how to practice an instrument. I tried different ways, but I am still searching. Here I want to write down some suggestions for my students.  If you want to learn a new piece, it [...]

Holidays are over and I hope, everybody had a nice, relaxed time! The guitarclasses will start again next week. For those who are coming to Lakeside, the day will probably change from Wednesday to Tuesday. But the first time is on Wednesday the 27th of August.   Frome the week after it will be on Tuesday. [...]

may be it is already the first reaction of the new outfit of guitarshanghai, I received an email from Hansel Gonzalez, who I don`t know, with the following sentence: guitarist, producer,asian tour now at beijing,to check more about click the link below                                 [...]

This year I participated on the international guitar competition in Iserlohn. It was a very good experience and I have to ask myself why I never did something like that during my students time at the conservatory of music. My generation in Germany has a difficult relation to competitions in general what is pity and [...]

This piece is from the shanghai artist level examination book: the first piece of the sixth level:  Araujo,Song de La Campanellas: The fingering is possible, I didn`t change. The song is written in D major, the middle part in the subdominant G major. The form is: A1A2 B1B2 A2. The Harmonic is: Part one, D [...]

To show you a typical Jazz Samba I choosed the Chega de Saudade from Antonio Carlos Jobim. I recorded that piece two times. First I played the chords and the next time I played the melodie. To make sure, that I am always using the same speed, I ve recorded with metronom. That you can hear in the [...]

There are a lot of Latinamerican pieces composed for the accustic guitar. I want to introduce the Samba composed by Jorge Cardoso and compare it with the Samba for Jazz guitar.  First you can listen to the music: Jorge Cardoso:Samba.mp3 The Samba is a group of dances in Brasilian, but took its rise from Afrika and [...]