Masterclass #1: Etude 1 by H.Villalobos

Description:

The workshop will tackle effective strategies to cope with the difficulties of this etude. Join the Masterclass to get all the tools you need to master it!

Masterclass Agenda:

We will be breaking down the Villalobos Etude n1 in a 2h long session and here's what you will learn:

Understanding the score:

• What does the manuscript tell us?
• Tempo indications throughout editions
• The mystery of the repeat signs
• The incongruencies of fingering on the manuscript
• The fate of the manuscript

The famous Etude 1 arpeggio:

• Breaking down the arpeggio
• Understanding the movement to enable high arpeggio velocity
• What not to do when practicing
• What to pay attention to
• Thumb importance and how to train it
• Practice blocks and preparatory exercises to make your hands technically ready for the Etude.

A Left-hand workout:

• Two very different kinds of approaches and why you need to control both.
• Common mistakes
• A fundamental practice strategy
• Preparatory exercises
• Study of progressive changes of position
• Rubato, examples and implicit rubato.
• 'Cheating' fingerings
• Carlevaro technique
• Slurs sequence
• Some other possible fingering solutions
• The last missing harmonic

Duration: 

2h aprox (including Q&A).

How to join?

Register in the event and you will receive a private invite to join us in our Zoom meeting.

MFA Members: 

Students and MFA Learning Group members get a 100% discount on the ticket. Please log in when registering for the event so that the discount gets automatically applied during checkout.

Timezones Schedule: 

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Co-host: Carlo Marchione

Carlo Marchione, winner of seven major prizes at international competitions, has been part of the leading group of classical guitarists of the last 30 years. Carlo has performed as a solo guitarist, with orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Nowadays he is a professor and regularly leads master classes at various European Conservatoires as well as being a regular guest at Festivals throughout Europe. For his outstanding contribution to the development of the guitar, in 2017 he has been awarded with one of the most prestigious international prizes for the didactic, the Golden Guitar.

Besides that, he has inspired composers such as A. Carlevaro, C. Domeniconi, S.Iannarelli, K.Vassiliev, A. Ourkouzounov, G.Drozd and John Duarte to write pieces for him. Always looking for new ideas for his repertoire, he discovered almost forgotten compositions which come out like jewels through his genial transcriptions. Highly praised by the press of his editing Violin Fantasies 12 by Georg Philipp Telemann, which is released as a CD and music book.

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