This week’s episode is a look at Carlos Salzedo’s extremely fun to play “Short Fantasy on a Catalan Carol“. (Aka Fum, Fum, Fum).
A music video of the piece:
Category: Muffling
Ep. 143 – Avoiding buzzing in Debussy’s “Arabesque”
I’m home from my fall 2018 European tour and ready to get back into recording Harp Tuesday episodes! Here’s a look at a short section from Debussy’s 1st Arabesque that features two different places where you have to be very careful to avoid buzzing!
Ep 135 Open octave/muffle refresher course
A quick look at left hand muffling with open octaves. Also check out Episode 24.
Ep 129 How to play fast – Salzedo’s Seguidilla
In this episode I take a look at Carlos Salzedo’s “Seguidilla” from his suite of eight dances. I give some tips on it in general, and then talk about playing fast and offer some ideas and ways to work on speed.
I also made a version of this episode which shows the sheet music onscreen as I talk about it, though the video quality is worse overall. You can watch it below:
Ep. 24, muffling and dampening techniques
A two part look at muffling and dampening techniques:
Plus check out episode 135:
And these Slow Motion Monday videos: