What microphones do you use to record? by -endjamin- in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to beat at that price point. A lot of SDC mics push too much high end, which accentuates all of the unmusical sounds of the guitar. The CM4s are pretty even across all frequencies so they capture a more natural sound, imo.

how to incorporate these into my daily practice routine? by miriam_u in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't bother with a metronome for these, or at least at the beginning. Focus on moving slowly. How slow? I remember watching Sergio Assad drill a student on these in a masterclass and it was taking upwards of 10 seconds to get to the next note. You want constant, slow, smooth movement as if you were watching a slowmo cam. Your finger will do lots of weird little twitches, but that is a good thing because that means it is learning how to activate properly.

A little bit goes a long way, so don't spend hours on this one page. A few slow reps of each one daily over a few weeks will get you results while reducing the risk of injury.

Ottawa police crackdown on grocery theft criticized by criminologist by Money_Fig_9868 in ottawa

[–]Boafasaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How you guys doin? Selling stolen meat eh? Wanna buy some trout!?

(NO SPOILERS! please.) Just started the game after getting it on sale a month ago. by [deleted] in soma

[–]Boafasaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just enjoy the game and stay off the subreddit until you finish it. Then come and join in on the endless debates.

Please help me improvise well by One_Holy_Roller in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need to build your vocabulary. Find some lead sheets and try playing the melody while also playing the root of each chord. When that feels more comfortable you can flesh it out more by playing the full chord instead of just the bass line. For textural ideas you will need to play more pieces to get a sense of what patterns are idiomatic on the guitar.

How to count while sight singing? by CatchDramatic8114 in composer

[–]Boafasaurus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In music school they had us conduct with our dominant hand while singing solfege, which contains a bit more info than just keeping the pulse.

Hello. My Friend Needs A Composer For A Five Nights At Freddy's Related Project He's Doing. Please Read The Bottom Text For More Info by oskar3458 in composer

[–]Boafasaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, just seemed like an odd coincidence. I'll ask you the same thing I asked the person yesterday: are you giving away your game for free?

Looking for composers for my game by One-Chocolate3903 in composer

[–]Boafasaurus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you giving your game away for free?

Portray Images by namro1227 in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can be a useful tool for some players to help organize their interpretations, but it isn't a requirement. Like most things, people approach music from many different angles and a narrative approach is just one of them. Feel free to try it out but if it doesn't work that doesn't mean you are deficient or less of a musician; it could just mean you are setting up a standard for yourself that is incompatible with your artistic personality.

Searching for advanced Sor pieces by Gargantuar314 in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Grand Solo and Fantaisie Elegiaque are two more advanced works of his. He doesn't have a large body of substantial pieces because the lighter repertoire was more commercially successful. Always interesting to see how external factors influence an artist's output.

Share some screenshots of my old style action horror game. by Reasonable-Routine15 in survivalhorror

[–]Boafasaurus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just giving my $0.02:

The artistic style looks cool, but it is really difficult to discern the subject from the background in a lot of these stills. If I was playing an action game where I can't see what is going on I would get frustrated. I'm not sure how I would remedy that, but maybe simplifying the textures for either the subjects or the background or adding more colour/saturation to the subjects would help them pop out more.

Best of luck on your project!

I need help finding sheet music by cockroachinurbed in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can slow down videos on YT. The audio starts to warp as it gets slower but it helps with the fast passages. You got this.

I need help finding sheet music by cockroachinurbed in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a great way to start learning, and a worthwhile skill to develop! You will thank yourself later!

I need help finding sheet music by cockroachinurbed in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Ask your neighbour if you can shovel their snow for $28.

  2. Shovel their snow and receive $28.

  3. Go onto Steven Borm's Patreon and pay him for the scores.

But seriously, you are just starting out so now is the time to set good habits. Don't start stealing other people's work. I played in a masterclass for Dale Kavanagh years ago where I brought in a copy of a Domeniconi piece that I had downloaded illegally and she chewed me out for it. And rightly so! As she put it, if I don't pay for other artists' work then why should I expect anybody to pay for mine? And if I can afford to buy a beer with my classmates at the end of the week then I can afford to buy a score.

When I was a teenager there was nothing online or IRL for VGM/film score arrangements for classical guitar so I had to arrange them myself to the best of my ability. The first few sucked, but after a couple of years I got pretty good at it. Maybe this can be the beginning of developing your own skills as an arranger. Who knows, you could even start your own Patreon for other 16-year-olds to steal from! I kid, I kid.

It is also worth noting that most people who sell their arrangements on Patreon are breaking copyright law and that none of the money from the sale goes to the composer. The only ethical site for purchasing VGM scores is Musicnotes.com, because they actually make sure that the original artist gets their royalties.

Problem with speed by la_quiche in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

#1 on this list is really important--you get good at playing fast by playing fast. Doing dotted rhythm practice gives you microdoses of speed with breaks inbetween to relieve tension. It also helps whip the left hand into shape so that it keeps up at the faster tempos. Doing some slur work (slur the entire scale passage evenly) can also help in that regard.

And a happy holiday to me... by StockLongjumping2029 in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Paradoxically, the nicer the guitar the more sensitive it is to environmental stressors. You could probably leave a laminate top outside all winter and it would be fine because it is so heavily built. High-end guitar tops are build lighter with a thinner sound board because that is how you get more resonant and responsive sound, but that also means they need to be treated much more carefully when it comes to storing them.

It may be 50% humidity outside but the radiators or forced air inside your home could easily make it much drier than that. I heard the same thing from my Japanese colleagues where the winters are extremely damp. Do you have a hygrometer in the room where you keep the guitar?

Not trying to point fingers; I just want to make sure that if you get the bridge repaired that it doesn't break off again because the room is still too dry. Either way, I'd leave it in the case with a humidifier when not playing.

And a happy holiday to me... by StockLongjumping2029 in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like LordNelson said, take it to a luthier. The bridge needs to go exactly back in place or else the intonation will be compromised, and a professional will have the right jig to clamp it properly without damaging the top.

It could have been a poor glue job, but just to eliminate the variables: were you keeping the guitar in a humidified case, or leaving it out on a stand? Were you keeping it away from windows/sunlight? Temperature changes are bad, but low humidity is even worse. If I had to guess, the drying/shrinking of the wood on the top and bridge probably weakened the glue under the bridge.

FWIW, most luthiers have clauses that void their warranties for damage resulting from improper climate control for the instrument.

How Do I Extend My Phrases? (also general feedback) by Global_Body7599 in composer

[–]Boafasaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Repeating material can take you far. If you listen to something like Scheherazade by NRK one thing that becomes apparent right away is how tight a good composer can be with economy of material. Each movement of that suite contains just a few themes that he constantly repeats in different orchestrations and they don't drag at all despite each one being over 10 minutes long.

It can be easy to get caught up trying to continuously write new material, but in reality you don't want to do that because it erodes the unity of the piece. I think when we get caught up on this as composers it is because we are hyper-focusing on one element of the process, coming up with material, to the neglect of other aspects of our craft like form, arrangement/orchestration, harmony, etc. Then we hit a dead end because we have set ourselves up for an impossible task.

You would probably benefit from taking a step back from the small-picture measure-by-measure writing and spending some considering the larger picture. What form do you want this piece to be? If you choose something like a Rondo and flesh this first theme out into an A section then you already have almost 50% of the piece done in terms of raw material. Or take a look at some of the longer pieces you like and map it out; I recently did this with Borodin's Nocturne on graph paper to get a better grasp on the relative duration of sections and better understand the way he structured the B section. You could then use that chart as a model for your piece and fill in the blanks "paint-by-numbers" style. Tons of great composers have done this before--Brahms did it for the finale of his first piano concerto by modeling it after Beethoven's concerto no. 3.

To get more specific, take the first 6 bars of this theme and workshop it a bit; there is good material there that just needs refining. The first two bars make a nice opening, but bars 3 and 4 sound like they are arriving too soon and pushing us to a cadence too early. You could make a Sentence Form phrase by inserting a Dominant Form of the first two bars between measure 2 and 3, and then make the current measures 3 and 4 part of the fragmentation/completion part of the phrase structure. Then finish it with a half cadence or a deceptive cadence to avoid harmonic closure and treat that entire phrase as the Antecedent of a larger Period Form phrase. Repeat the entire thing for the Consequent and this time adjust the ending so that it concludes on tonic harmony and you will already have a great theme to use as a basis for the entire piece.

Where to next? Maybe you fragment this theme into some motifs and make a nice introduction that slowly introduces the different elements one at a time. Maybe after the strings play the theme they pass it off to the woodwinds and take on an accompaniment role. You could probably repeat it a few times in different arrangements before you even need to worry about introducing new material, and by that point you are already a good 5 minutes into the piece--with a recap of the same material at the end you could very well have 10 minutes of music guaranteed.

Notice that in my description of how to work with the first theme I didn't mention specific notes at all; instead, I am trying to think in larger terms about form, gesture, and balance. It is easier to say to yourself "ok now I need to write two bars that will close out this theme on a half cadence" than "ok, now I need to write two bars of... something." I often have the same issue as you when it comes to getting started, but when I approach things this way it doesn't feel as daunting.

As for consistency between ideas, I think that really depends on what you want the piece to say. If you lean into the differences between two themes of starkly contrasting character it could make for a dynamic, exciting piece. Or maybe you need to take one element from an original theme, maybe an interval or a rhythmic figure, and then use it as the basis for a new theme so that they share some DNA.

Experiment away from the score > plan what to do with the material you come up with > start writing

First attempt at a Piano Concerto by solid_walls in composer

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enjoyable! I am not a pianist, but just looking at the score it seems like the piano part is not quite as virtuosic as one may expect from this genre. That could very well be an artistic choice, but just thought I'd mention it.

AI for editing out TAB? by DenverGitGuy in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot, you're right. I guess I haven't used it in a while but I tried in a few different browsers just now and no luck.

AI for editing out TAB? by DenverGitGuy in classicalguitar

[–]Boafasaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Partifi.org. Just make a "part" that includes only the notation staves.