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My selection is the Romance. I tried to learn it once before on guitar. Before I figured out my hands were too small to play a guitar. Was very happy to see it as one of the choices. I even played it live for a study group that meets at our house without it being too much of a disaster.

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Is it my imagination or all the selections for the contests getting a lot harder. I couldn’t even finish one last month.
Here is my latest. It feels pretty glacial compared to everyone else.

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Here’s my first try of Fly Me to the Moon.
I hope to do another a little more up to speed.

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I have a version of Fly Me To The Moon which has been bedeviling me for 2 years since I found it on the internet. That will be my piece for the month.

It has a few challenging chord changes. That will be my project to practice on. Working out the best way to play the initial chord so that I can transition easily into the second.

The moment of truth: Putting up a recording of playing it.

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Again, maybe a little too challenging. But I had fun playing it. I had many tracks recorded but this seems to be the best of them.

My new definition of rubato is how long it takes to make the difficult chord changes.

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I think I bit off more than I could chew, but here is my submission of summertime.
Hopefully it will be the before of a better after submission later.

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Here’s my take of Etude 37.
The challenge was to get it up to the written speed. Not quite but I made it to 110.

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I still can’t believe how hard it is to record something all the way through without a bunch of mistakes.
You all are certainly experts for what you do.

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Well, here is my final submission.
I have the before and after versions linked.
For the second one, I was able to play it from memory instead of from the sheet music.

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Since it was snowing today in sunny California, I think I will revisit O Come All Ye Faithful.
It should be a good challenge for moving up and down the neck and some chord reaches.

I should be able to find a before version that I can post with my final version.

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Well, here it is.
Etude 21 – Arpeggios

Trying to record something all the way through with no mistakes is certainly an unforgiving exercise.

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I am probably at the slightly-above-a-beginner level of playing. Learning chords and starting to learn finger picking melodies.

execution:
chords and finger picking seem to present lots of long reaches followed by long reaches much farther away. so i hope to work on that.

application: learn the finger picking etude #21. i will be going through the basic course and practicing it every day

evaluation: stay tuned for a recording of my playing. hopefully it will be in a steady time and not too horrible!!!!

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How could so much time on December 1st turn into so little time today.

Thanks everyone for your great entries. I really enjoy listening to them.

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I am really enjoying everyone’s submissions.

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