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Sorry I don't normally advertise myself much.

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Fanny here was the LEAST rehearsed I only saw the opening llamada before doing this performance...it was 100% improvised and I had never worked with her before

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I totally got the picture why Hollywood is the center of the entertainment world after that gig...super pro.

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I practiced like that for years, it helped me to master and maintain material and to become more consistent and experienced. It also helped me to reach and maintain a high level, but only to a certain extent. One day (close to my yearly exam) i decided that i wanted to become at least 10 times better and more drastic measures were needed.

I decided to forgot everything i'd learned during the previous 30 years and to start from scratch. I was intended to learn myself to play the guitar again from level zero. From Paco de Lucia i went back to simple exercises like 1234, but this time with FOCUS. Soon i discovered that playing 1234 was still way to difficult because no one can focus on 3 things at the same time (left hand,right hand and rhythm)....and with focus i mean 200% concentration. So i studied left and right hand separately, only to find out 4 fingers were still a lot to deal with. So i went back to 1 finger and from 1 finger to parts off fingers and from...well you goth my drift.

The first week i studied 1 hour a day....very simple exercises (blinking an eye would come close) investigating every cell in my body and my guitar. I did tonal experiments (just find yourself a perfect tone and listen to it's development), surged and found better ways to generate/transpose energy and i started to adapt mental trainings. Everything i did with incredible focus, absorbing all new elements and as soon as i new the right feeling i abandoned my guitar to continue practicing in my head only.

Every single day i emptied my glass (you can't adapt new knowledge if you are full of old crap) putting in enormous amounts of energy, guiding, monitoring and evaluating events with complete focus. 1 hour of "on focus" training equaled 40 hours of "normal repetitive training", both in input as in output. I went to hell and back. I studied complete relaxation of fingers, hands, arms, feelings, thoughts, energy generation/transposal, techniques (scales,gripings, bindings, tremolo, arpeggio, pulgar you name it) tonal generations, acoustics, feeling string energy etc.etc. Just like Grisha i favored variation, absolute focus, absolute relaxation and absolute control over rhythm and direct results. As a matter of fact i didn't only play slowly, i actually played without rhythm, favoring absolute control and awareness over all other aspects.


The next week i practiced 2 hours a day. 1 hour of mental, technical, energetical, tonal and acoustic experiments and 1 hour of adapting music, but ones again prevailing absolute control in energy input, relaxation, movements and thought over all other aspects. As it turned out focusing on extremely small objects in combination with mental visualization brings one in a higher state of awareness allowing you to spot even more. As a result various new laws of nature revealed them self to me that were completely unknown to me before. I could see, understand, handle and visualize more and more complex situations.
The third week i raised to 3 hours a day. At the end of week 3 (28 hours of training) i did indeed raise my level from level 1 to level 10 on a workable base

In stead of 6 strings and 12 positions i (more or less) felt 1 string and 1 position.
Unlike before my left hand little finger became my new point of reference for positioning, replacing the regular index finger.
My right hand could execute all techniques from almost 1 position.
I generated and transposed a "completely" different kind of energy.
I could mentally run trough complete pieces, feeling fingers, string energy, guitar resonance you name it.
I could even spot string vibration and discovered that you can only add new energy on very specific moments...it felt like pushing someone in a swing, If you push at the right moment you add energy, if you push at the wrong moment you block energy. I did that with trembling strings like i had a build in oscilloscope slowing down time.
Dynamics was "replaced" by energy levels (which is quite a different thing).
Rhythm was "replaced" by meticulous energybalance control.

After i passed my yearly exam i went to the beach, 1 day became 2 and soon i lost everything i gained. Like before i continued playing chess 12/7 (with zero results, no talents on that field i'm afraid) only attending weekly lessons at music high school and doing some occasional routine exercises. And every year (4 years on a row) i managed to rebuild myself from scratch in the last 4 weeks with above harsh regime and with consistent results.

So for me it works. None of this ever came to me performing "mindless metronome repetition". Obviously one can adapt this approach again as soon as one is re- calibrated..... if one still feels the need :-)

I know first hand that 30 hours of "power study' with THE RIGHT STATE OF MIND (both it's strength and it's weakness) beats years of medium tempo drillings. Unfortunately i lost my lust/ability to study like that 20 years ago because the amount of energy exchange is nerve ragging. So right now i restrict my training to medium tempo drillings as well, accepting and suffering all it's limitations.

i'll tell more about some of the exercises i applied later.....keep posted

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Apropos it would also be cool to see the performance of Chuscales, Ricardo and Jason.

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Once you favor 1 perfect tone over 1 year of quality time with this beautiful lady you probably are in the right state of mind to find yourself some inner truth :-)

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ORIGINAL: Florian

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Once you favor 1 perfect tone over 1 year of quality time with this beautiful lady you probably are in the right state of mind to find yourself some inner truth :-)

u mean that's all i have to give up for a year with this not bad but very self involved lady who takes herself so seriously that would use her modeling photos along side this classic song...i found her video so funny...its why i mimicked


sign me up...she would be a peach

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ORIGINAL: Florian
yes that's pretty crazy ...no need to even thinking about it...il take the money first...she will probably follow...or someone that looks just like her (same model... different name, whatever)