Weekly Update 5

Hi, Welcome to my project. For my whole project, I would like to record several different types of classes, such as individual class, group class, and master class. After recording, I will summaries the note about what did the teacher say in this class and what I can learn from this class. This is Weekly Update 5.

This video was recorded on Calcutta Classical Guitar Festival in 2019, and it was in Calcutta (India). In the video, the students played "Una limosna por el amor de Dios" (El ltimo Trémolo) by Agustìn Barrios. Una Limosna por el amor de Dios is Mangore's last composition. The piece is based on a true story. The story goes like this: July 2nd, 1944. Mangore was in San Salvador teaching a lesson when, suddenly, someone knocks at the door. Barrios opens the door and an old lady with her arm stretching forwards tells him "Una Limosna por el amor de Dios" -"An alm for the love of God"- Mangore gave the lady a few coins and then went back to his student with a smile on his face. Looked at him and told him: "I am working on a new piece and I know what I will do with it. I will incorporate the knocking at the door in the piece"... Barrios died on August 7th 1944 and left the piece finished but without a title. When the student that was with him told this story, the piece was called "Una limosna por el amor de Dios"... for being Mangore's last composition it is often called "El Ultimo Canto" - The last song.

This piece began with two measures 8^th note, which means the someone is knocking at the door. The most important thing needs to be controlled to play tremolo piece well is balance. The balance between melody and bass is really difficult to control due to the tremolo skill. In this class, David asked student to play the melody alone and bass line alone to know the musical idea. When lift hand is jumping, right hand need to played soft to make the better balance. Some measures have the same notes in whole measure, however, when we play these measures, we need to make dynamic change between two same measures to make it more musical. In send part, composer changed the key of this section, so we need to use different color to play this part. For example, we can put hand behind to make the sound light which can make the audience know the new music idea. The other significant thing is practice with metronome. Before you start to practice, divide the piece into several sections according to the phrase. Then practicing every section separately instead of practicing the whole piece. This way could save your time and make practicing more effective.

Next week I will observe another video class or practicing video, it depends what I can find. Thanks for following me, take care and have fun!