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As for your question: firstly I can assure you I didn’t just rock up, take one look at it and nail it one take! Clive and I gigged it a couple of times before recording which was good fun. Technically it fits under the fingers quite nicely for the most part (although the speed of the final movement can be hairy!) I think the main thing with it was trying out a good few possibilities: both in terms of musicality and in voicing the melodies. The score doesn’t tell you where to play anything specifically (it’s just the dots), and whilst a lot is fairly obvious, there are a good few areas in which it could be played in a few different positions, and left up to the player to decide. I know I do a few bits differently to JW. I also enjoyed experimenting with where to move to rest stroke / free stroke / sweet / brittle etc etc. Also interesting to note that this recording is the opposite of what’s on Clive’s album - I’m playing G1 here on steel, which JW played on classical, and Clive played G2 on classical which he initially did on steel for his album. And the final thing of course is simply reading one another in terms of phrasing, chord rolls, slowing down etc. For this session, if memory serves, we did the 1st movement in 1 take, then 2 takes for movements II and III to try a couple of options, and same again for IV and V. Amazing how different a take can feel by just changing a couple of bits and bobs. Anyway, bit of a ramble there, but hopefully it gives a little bit of insight! Thanks for listening, Mike! |
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Thanks for making my day!
We have an acoustic guitar series locally. Its a small venue of about 150 seats. I've been lucky to have seen Clive a couple of times. He is beyond amazing.
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