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CINCO DE MAYO WORLD WIDE
YOU-TUBE MALAGUENA GUITAR
PROJECT FOR BEGINNERS
The song: Malaquena
composed by Earnesto Lecuona.
composed by Earnesto Lecuona.
Here is a fun project for beginners (myself included) now learning this
wonderful song, to perform it using the world wide
medium of YouTube. Simply learn the song, play it
on guitar, add improvisation if you like, record and
upload your best performance to YouTube the
week prior to May 5, 2017. Participants have 6
months from now 11/2016 to master some form this piece.
A fun event suggested by taowriter5000.com
A website devoted to history, writing, and now, music.
taowriter5000.com is a non commercial experimental website.
A website devoted to history, writing, and now, music.
taowriter5000.com is a non commercial experimental website.
LEARNING
MASTERING
ON CINCO DE MAYO
2014 (week prior)
See the two lesson YouTube tutorial on
Malaquena offered by lessonsbyjames
Download his excellent PDF tab score
Carefully listen to all of the masters play
this song.
Once you know the piece begin
mastering it by playing it many times.
You might budget your time to a month
of picado, a month of strum technique,
the chords and intricate note improvs.
Your final performance might include
hints of hard work on all of these
things.
upload your performance to YouTube
using the following title line:
"Beginner Malaquena Performance
{user name} {class Z} or {class E}"
Class Z -never played and instrument
Class E-some music training
From your study, try to emulate their
feeling and style into each note you
play.
There are several YouTube lessons on
Malaguena. From the original version in
1923, many artists have added
improvisation and interpretation. Yet, the
song rings as a recognizable and
timeless powerfull melody. I used
YouTube-"lessonsbyjames" but there are
other tutorials and PDF tabs on line.
Tomas Muchaud also offers excellent
Spanish guitar and other instruction.
Getting Started
I began only over a year ago studying
the many forms of guitar genre. I
settled on Blues and Classical then
set out, taking YouTube and other
lessons, to fill my tool box with guitar
skills. Learning Malaguena is my
challenge to myself. Working a bit
each day, I see an improvement and
feel I can do it. All beginners can enjoy
this same progress with work and
good instruction private or YouTube.
What if I'm not ready by May 5?
As a beginner like you, I found I
did not know the song well
enough. So I keep practicing with
a new goal of next Cinco de
Mayo 2015. See you there!
You Tube performances on this page begin with the John Clarke. Certainly no beginner
he is a rising star in the guitar, Classical and Flamenco world. Playing with the great
masters looking on, his many classical sessions on You Tube signal exciting new blood
emerging in the world of Classical Music. Among giants like Sor, Parkining, Segovia,
Montoya, Williams, Bream and Volk, Romero, the young concert seasoned comet Ana
Vidovic, Michael Lucarelli; the names Lebosse',Clarke and Goryachev promise to
dominate the future stage. Classical Guitar master teachers like Marcelo Berestovoy
offer a door way into classical guitar for young promising beginners. To these
beginners I send out this web page invitation. Cinco de Mayo...You Tube 2015...we (I)
shall try again to make music!
Here is a slide show story of a guitar
reconstruction. Along with learning basic
guitar, I apprenticed myself to the
volumes of You Tube lessons in the old
art of Lutherie. The first project is the
restoration of a destroyed Thirties Arch
Top Guitar found road side. It turned out
to be the ideal learning tool for several
builds planned over the winter.
I'm better than I was. Not as good as I wish to be.
