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duets - how-to?
I'm working on some duet guitar arrangements. My duet partner lives far away, so we're hoping to record a CD of new tunes during a weekend visit.
What's the best way to prepare for this? The pieces are very sparse and timing errors will be magnified, I think. Art |
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If you're working out an arrangement before hand and have your partner look it over prior of getting together, I don't see a problem of getting something done. However, from my experience, if you or he are introduced cold to an arrangement, it can become tiresome. I don't mean so much from a technical aspect, although I don't know the degree of difficulty of the music, but purely from the music itself. Sometimes, you have a particular feel in mind and your partner doesn't get right away, you're spending more time talking than playing. That said, I think, preparation would be beneficial.
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However, it takes me a long time to learn 50 minutes of new music, which I plan to do because I'm not a great sight reader. I recorded the bass part and tried to play the melody live against it. It was not a pretty sound For a duet guitar transcription of a piano piece, would the left hand guitar or the right hand guitar lead? I'm worried that if the timing is off even a little it will sound sloppy. A piano player doesn't have this problem. When people do internet collaborations, do they use click tracks; how do they intro the music? Say "one, and-a two and-a three"? Art |
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Treat the weekend like a ''test run'' and see what happens. Experience tells me that you will be more relaxed if the expectation is not to finish a CD in a weekend. |