Roderick Hampton

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@thaizaloiola7538 Күн бұрын

wow😍🥰

@joejonesguitar Күн бұрын

Nice Luke

@joejonesguitar Күн бұрын

Awesome guitar - is that the classical guitar design?

@luteman Күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment. The guitar is made after an original Rene Lacote instrument held at Edinburgh University, c.1825. This is of the earlier French style with flush fingerboard. The original had been fitted later with the unique Lacote machines, but this replica has the figure 8 peghead.

@joejonesguitar Күн бұрын

Neat instrument

@joejonesguitar Күн бұрын

Good tone - maybe nails aren’t critical - I’ve been filing them shorter because they can actually get in the way of hitting the wrong stings.

@luteman Күн бұрын

Thanks very much for your comment. I use the technique of the baroque lute and early classical guitar (Sor and Carcassi methods NO nails) on the guitar of today because I'm not clever or good enough to use the 'modern' way as well! My own personal opinion is that nails have become too long. Fine for flamenco...but classical? Luisa Walker in her 'Daily Training' book said that nails should overlap the fingertip by only about 1 mm. Segovia said that if you hadn't the right shaped fingertip and nail...you shouldn't be playing the guitar at all! Well, he was an outspoken sort of chap...certainly not PC! Best wishes.

@bearshield7138 7 күн бұрын

that was beautiful

@luteman 5 күн бұрын

I'm pleased you enjoyed the music. Best wishes.

@MarkoZorecHimself 10 күн бұрын

Very good, congratulations!

@MarkoZorecHimself 10 күн бұрын

Charming - but this is not pro-level playing; it's kinda OK, also cute. Without nails, it's impossible to create a good tone, not to mention phrasing and other aspects of musical interpretation. - But great, amateur and semi-professional playing is a beautiful thing too...

@luteman 10 күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment. I am a player of lute instruments, and the early romantic guitar. In general terms, these respond far better to fingertip only playing than with fingernails, which only get in the way because of how these instruments are made, and the sound can be harsh. I play the classical guitar of today very little, but when I do , I use the same technique used on the aforementioned instruments. I have no pretentions to being a professional player, although, near 60 years ago, I was...and with fingernails! Being 81 now, I play for the love of it, and my channel seems to give pleasure to some. Nevertheless, your comment is valid, although the use of the word 'cute' is questionable! Best wishes.

@MarkoZorecHimself 10 күн бұрын

@@luteman It is possible to notice a similarity in technique to that used on the lute… The sound is also similar. My comment was not meant to be patronizing or bad-intentioned. You have charisma and feeling in your playing, which is also important. And love for music matters. I have played a lot of early music written by Baroque composers, but on a modern classical guitar. Performances on the lute are also interesting… Keep working and playing with love. I saw some of your recordings where you play Robert de Visée on the lute-that is really great! :) And sorry if I was harsh in my comment. All the best, and don’t stop playing!

@luteman 9 күн бұрын

@@MarkoZorecHimself I was in no way offended by your comment. You have a right to your opinion, and I accept that, and in some ways, I agree with you. I enjoy playing and posting videos, when I can. I do not promote or advocate my way of playing, or the instruments I use. I believe in absolute freedom of choice, which is why I have been at odds with 'the establishment' for many years. So yes, I'll continue to play, and hope for more lively comments! Best wishes.

@gavinguitar2194 10 күн бұрын

Lovely tone❤️ It's always been fingers for me. Never had rhe patience to grow nails. Thank you.

@marcodossena3295 14 күн бұрын

Bravo!!

@donnymac575 15 күн бұрын

I like the no nails part. I don't like long nails but like nylon string guitar 😊

@GreenRose242 18 күн бұрын

Absolutely amazing ❤❤❤

@luteman 17 күн бұрын

@@GreenRose242 I thank you for kind comment.

@13rahi5n63 19 күн бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤ found my inspiration. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

@YasmineBenslimane-xi6di 22 күн бұрын

Can you do please a tutorial for beginners?

@luteman 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment. A tutorial to play the classical guitar with right hand fingertips only?.....there would be a few problems....I play with a technique I have developed for myself, over years, based on historical baroque lute and early romantic guitar, but, because I suffer with focal dystonia in my hands, it deviates from 'accepted' historical methods considerably. If I were to make tutorial videos describing my personal method of playing, I would only get....comments....condemning my deviations from the norm as 'heresy' and that I must only follow the 'establishment' way or be ostracised. I thank you for asking, but there will be no tutorial. I will though, continue to post videos in my own way, on whatever instrument! Best wishes to you.

@litemetal 23 күн бұрын

Brilliant 🎉

@virginialeite2787 24 күн бұрын

💖🌸

@regsilverside9089 24 күн бұрын

I didn’t know King Charles could play guitar.

@richardsrensen4219 28 күн бұрын

hi you got a beautiful it look like you are playing this with thumb and 2 fingers is that true ?

@luteman 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I play with the technique of the baroque lute, and the early 19th century version of the classical guitar...the techniques are in fact very similar. See my other videos. This means that I play without fingernails, and the right hand 3rd finger is used sparingly. I just transfer this technique to the more 'modern' classical guitar, so I find there is no need to use the right hand 3rd finger when playing this piece, hence thumb and two fingers only. Best wishes.

@duigiud Ай бұрын

Beautiful! Tell me something about your guitar, why 7/8ths and what is the make/model?

@luteman Ай бұрын

@@duigiud Thanks for your comment. Well, this is just a normal 7/8th size modern classical guitar which means that the body is that much smaller than standard, the scale is 63cm rather than 65cm, and the nut width 50mm rather than 52mm. In my opinion a better instrument for anybody except a concert virtuoso. This is a Cordoba Dolce, a lesser version of the Cordoba C9 Parlour. I string it with Aquila Ambra 800 strings at a pitch of a=432 rather than 440 to better suit playing without fingernails. There is plenty more information on line. Best wishes.

@duigiud Ай бұрын

@ Thank you for the response!

@Igor55565 Ай бұрын

Beautiful. I have a question : how do you determine the choice of each string in order to get the right pitch at the right tension ?

@brendacollins505 Ай бұрын

Beautifully played thank you 🙏☺️

@luteman Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I'm pleased that you enjoyed the music.

@paulofernandes1151 Ай бұрын

Muito bom

@robertobonomo7983 Ай бұрын

ATTENTION position main droite les arpèges moins forts pour mieux faire ressortir la mélodie, bravo quand même. Amitié j ai 60 ans de pratique

@luteman Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. I had my first lesson on the guitar 70 years ago. I have played many plucked and bowed stringed instruments since then....and I am sure that I could have done better every time! It is too late now though. Best wishes.

@dougnickerson Ай бұрын

Excellent

@luteman Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment, and best wishes to you.

@ezekielschmittfilm Ай бұрын

Tremendous performance! Thank you so much for bringing such beauty to life!

@mertgercek6708 Ай бұрын

I really liked your playing, full of emotion. thanks for this beautiful video!

@luteman Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment, and I am pleased that the music gave you pleasure. Best wishes.

@Tom-yh8xc Ай бұрын

What a wonderful pure tone! Thank you for sharing your beautiful interpretation, Roderick. I'm very happy that I discovered your channel. 🙏

@luteman Ай бұрын

That's very kind of you to say so, and I'm happy that the music gave you pleasure. Best wishes.

@fifahunter927 Ай бұрын

I love it, it's so good 😍

@luteman Ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment. Best wishes.

@jwschrijverhidma Ай бұрын

Ik speel mijn hele leven al zonder nagels, niets mis mee hoor. De klank wordt natuurlijk wel warmer daardoor.

@JFridGuitare 2 ай бұрын

J’ai toujours aimé écouter “Jeux interdits “. Très joli jeu et une écoute au casque fort agréable. Félicitations 👍

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, it's much appreciated. I know of the use of this piece in the 'Forbidden Games' film of 1952. It was first heard by many in the film 'Blood and Sand' film of 1941, played on the film score by the Vicente Gomez quintet. Gomez published it in the 1950's as part of an album of his own pieces for classical guitar, but it's certain he didn't compose the melody, as it was known in the 19th century. Best wishes.

@N.I.K.A_Ortodox 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic job!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment.

@Guitar4life99 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Very kind of you to say so, many thanks.

@antonkushelev4474 2 ай бұрын

Очень сильно! Очень красиво. И в меру трагично. Отличный баланс чувств и музыки!!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comment.

@gbee8888 2 ай бұрын

Very nice. Looks a lot harder using only the first two fingers.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Many thanks for your comment. I use the technique of the baroque lute and theorbo on the guitars I play, and that uses the right hand third finger only when absolutely necessary...mind you, it's still difficult to play, because of the higher string tension.

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

I didn't know there were people who questioned the use of flat picks with nylon string guitars, but then I don't get out much. I enjoyed this performance. I play more often with just my fingers, but I like playing my classical guitar with a flat pick. It's a different sound and feel and good for fast, single-note passages. I know it's not that common but I don't know why anyone would object to it or even comment (negatively) on it. However, I've had my run-ins with the "guitar police", so I'm not really surprised. You have a nice collection of guitars and lutes. I like the big oval sound hole. I don't have any acoustic guitars with cutaways, except for an acoustic bass guitar, which isn't the same thing at all.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

People get fixed ideas, and it's very difficult to offer reasoned alternatives. Playing the nylon strung guitar with a plectrum is just....well....normal! After all, modern technique classical guitar players use plectra all the time...they're called fingernails! There are nylon strung archtop guitars available as well, the archtop being an archetypal plectrum guitar. Daniel Slaman and Steve Grimes make superb archtops made for nylon strings.....at prices a long way outside my level though! There are no police worse than the early music 'authenticity special branch'! Best wishes.

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

@@luteman I think archtops are very pleasing aesthetically but in the case of electric or semi-acoustic ones, I have my doubts whether the form of the body influences the signal that comes from the pickup all that much. I haven't had the opportunity to test this, though. I don't own an archtop and don't have the money or space to buy instruments that more-or-less duplicate ones I already have. I do have a resonator guitar and it is loud and has a nice sound. It's one of my favorite guitars to play and was surprisingly inexpensive. I own fingerpicks but have never warmed up to them. I think a problem with Early Music is that it has become academicized (if that's a word). I think back in the day, there was more of a spirit of discovery and less dogmatism. I like flat picks, but I wish someone would invent one that would jump back out of the soundhole on its own after being dropped in.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

@@laurencefinston7036 I have owned a couple of archtops, an original 1936 Epiphone Triumph, and a Andy Manson hand carved acoustic, both for acoustic only playing. I don't own any now, but I would jump at the chance of a Daniel Slamen 'Dome' nylon strung archtop. There's quite a few vids on YT featuring The Dome! I agree entirely with your summation of Early Music, or perhaps better, Period Music. It has become 'mainstream'....with those 'fixed ideas'...and anyone who steps out of line is an heretic!

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

@@luteman I think authenticity, or even just correctness, is important when it comes to editions and that urtext practical editions are a wonderful thing. Especially with the guitar repertoire, there are still many editions in print which are very free in their interpretations, to put it mildly. However, with respect to performing, I think one has to has to use one's common sense. For a few years, I had regular access to a piano and I played a lot of Bach. It just didn't make sense to me to try to play it as though I was playing a harpsichord (or clavichord). I always try to play things so they sound good to me on whatever instrument I'm playing at the time.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

@@laurencefinston7036 Bach's English and French suits are among my favourites, and I can listen to them just as well played on a Steinway D as a harpsichord. The same goes for any period music. I only play the baroque lute and various guitars now, no keyboard any more, but after all the traumas, I'm glad to be able to play anything!

@SoothingEchoes-h8m 2 ай бұрын

So, I don't like this one. I never paly it, but the way you do it ....! Wonderful, I never thought this song can sound so good.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Most kind of you to say so, and many thanks for your comment.

@sergegirard9712 2 ай бұрын

Robert Fripp took me here! Very nice playing; I love it !

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment.

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel and I like your playing very much. Aside from that, I appreciate that you just sit there and play, without extraneous posturing, gesturing, and facial expressions. I think those things ruin many otherwise good performances. I'm a purist, but only part-time. I believe people are lucky to have an instrument at all. When I was playing more classical guitar, I played this repertoire a lot. I couldn't afford a lute back then and more recently I've chosen to buy other instruments. Lutes are expensive and not as readily available as mass-produced guitars, for example. I also agree with you about nails. I always had problems keeping my nails from breaking and long nails interfered with other activities. I keep my nails short and don't really miss the sound you get from playing with nails. It really helps build up one's calluses, too, so that I even play my steel-stringed instruments without fingerpicks.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thanks very much for your comment, and I'm pleased that you enjoyed the music. Nails.....I played with nails, pretty good ones, for close on 20 years, but in the mid 1970's, like other players of early plucked string instruments at that time, I changed to fingertips only...and it was pretty hard work at first...but since then, I have at no time felt the need to revert, even when I was hit with focal dystonia in 1997. I would add the opinion that while callouses are good on the left hand, you don't want them on the right! I conditioned my fingertips over many years until they are strong and...sort of leathery...the only way I can describe them...but no hard skin at all. Have you read the 'Dilemma of Timbre on the Guitar' by Emilio Pujol? Written many years ago, but still resonates today....nails versus fingertips. Best wishes.

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

@@luteman No, I haven't read that essay (?). I have a book (in German) by Konrad Ragossnig about the lute and guitar and he goes into the topic. My calluses aren't really thick on either hand, except for one spot on my right thumb. It may be that my fingertips have just become desensitized. I do use a flat pick on the guitar sometimes and almost always with my mandolins, mandola and Greek stringed instruments. Fingers alone don't work too well with them, although I sometimes play that way, anyway, just for a change.

@laurencefinston7036 2 ай бұрын

@@luteman If you had been playing for 20 years in the mid-1970s, you've been at this awhile. I was 12 years old in 1975 and didn't start playing the guitar until I was 20.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

I always believe that you should follow the way of playing that best suits you, guided perhaps, but true to yourself. Nail playing versus fingertips has been in contention for centuries. Alessandro Piccinini discusses it, and Thomas Mace is vociferous on the subject....and these writings apply only to the lute!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

@@laurencefinston7036 Yes, I'm in my 80's now, but I'll continue as long as I'm allowed. You never know what's just around the corner.

@datdudeCharles 2 ай бұрын

I cannot stop watching your videos. Thank you for sharing all of these treasures on your channel! So much knowledge being passed on. We've got a lot to learn from your masterful playing my good sir

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@Michael-Kreutz 2 ай бұрын

Sounds very warm. Bravo Frederick. 👍

@us4marine 2 ай бұрын

Excellent, beautiful and precise. Thank you for sharing.

@michaelharris6383 2 ай бұрын

this is a terrific piece and very MUSICALLY played!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your kind comment.

@sergeyhrupchik5375 2 ай бұрын

It's a very beautiful performance.

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

I thank you very much for your kind comment.

@juanmiguelsuarez 2 ай бұрын

This is superb, Roderick! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

I'm pleased that you enjoyed the music, Juan.

@John-s8s8q 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment, and I'm pleased that you enjoyed the music.

@fourquartets7900 2 ай бұрын

A very beautiful and haunting performance, thank you!!!

@luteman 2 ай бұрын

And thank you very much for your comment.

@zed1962 2 ай бұрын

Belo.

@cancionerodelpalacio 2 ай бұрын

Lovely!!!!

@mikaelk2009 2 ай бұрын

That sounds nice ! So I have a Baroque lute and am learning but it's good to know mods can exist which are not historic. I would like to do this some day to annoy the pedantic purists.

@w.lixfeld8164 2 ай бұрын

wirklich wunderschön. danke

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