One thing I notice is if I push myself to focus for a prolonged period of time (usually 15 minutes plus) doing the same kind of practice, I would get distracted by my own thoughts and I would keep pushing until I felt tired and mentally exhausted - because of my conditioned disciplined mindset. Throughout such long practice sessions, I always felt guilty of having other thoughts and compelled to fight through distractions. Progress was made, however I know that my mind was always somewhere else and I would feel bad for myself / stuck rather than feeling fulfilled. This helps answering many questions! Thank you. :)

The first 3 notes are "Stairway to Heaven" :)

You have motivated me to learn classical music. Thank you.🥰

Thank you 😊 I also enjoy distracting thoughts while considering my progress. Nice to see yours while enjoying your beautiful talent. 🎉

❤

Hi Beatrix, can you please tell me the make and model of the classical acoustic guitar you are playing in this video? Thank you!

Great video ... subscribed, thank you!

Thank you❤ I have the 🚚 delivery truck 😊

Thank you🎉

Fantastic performance! *-* Where do I get the notes (sheet or tab)? I cannot find them anywhere :O

Yea! I noticed this , you need to let your brain defrag for some time!

I love the deep wisdom casually spoken.

For sounds like these, you do not just need 12 seconds, you deserve an eternity! The way you play the guitar is truly incredible!

mmmmm I like u so much

Ha ha, I really enjoyed that.

Easy listening❤

Very helpful choices. Many thanks 🎉

1st one is easy & enjoyable to play

This is beautiful. I play steel string and bass, but you always make me wish I had been exposed to more classical guitar when young.

showcases some of the finer voices of the guitar-luv it❤

❤ Canzone D'Amore by Maria Linnmann my favorite to spend time on.😊

Andante Ferdinando Carrillo

Good 12 seconds

I heard it first, listening to the complex, beautiful notes. So, I played it again to watch how you played it. (I play a little and always enjoy seeing that). But instead I saw the depths of your beautiful soul, expressed in your face. ❤👏😊 Bravo!

+1 Slides on thin note

Would be good these 12 seconds to change in 12 minutes... hmmm 12 hours? Its a challenge, but so wath, why not.

I see you used D'Addario EJ46 Pro-Arte strings. I will try them. It's not easy to judge strings without comparison on the same guitar. I have used EJ27N that seem to be good and less expensive. But; They seem like after playing them for a few months, intonation drifts lower.

My musical theory head is blown, not really keeping up with some of this! I guess advanced people talk about advanced things. It should and is a little uncomfortable being inside the mind of a genius. Love the video thank you ❤️

Wow That's A Lovely Tune

The best 12 seconds of the day contender

Hi Beatrix, very nice playing. I've just bought the score and played through - perfect guitar music - easy to play and sits so well on the instrument. Just one thing, you play some extra notes in bar 32, after the chord, which in the score is a semibreve. Are those your own addition? Anyway, subscribed for more. Well done. I have a composition you might enjoy. Can I send it? Thanks for sharing and the video is so lovely too. Best wishes, Joseph UK

You won my ❤ 20 years ago

For you, I have years

Epic! What piece is that?

I'm a self-taught hobbiest musician who started in 2020. I found "deliberate practice" useful only after I've got a general sense of what the "whole piece sounds like". My musical projects / exercises involve taking movie soundtracks and creating fingerstyle and heavy metal guitar arrangements out of them. For example, I will take "The Battle" by Hans Zimmer, which is a 10 minute orchestra piece, then start composing/arranging my finger-style+heavy metal style for it. Before I can do deliberate practice, I need to take time to plan out exactly what notes to play, what octave substitutions to make, what chord voicings I want, which guitar pedal effects to use, what to do for intro to foreshadow middle-breakdown 5 minutes later etc...THen I need to play the "whole thing" over and over again until I feel the "10 minute musical journey" tells a coherent narrative. Eg. "should i use more glissando in the intro if part 2 is going to be more finger picking? or should i reverse the roles?" It's like I need a rough first-draft BIRDS-EYE view of my entire composition, before I can start fine-tuning the individual parts through deliberate practice. once I have an idea of what I want the whole thing to sound like, that's when it comes time to record the entire composition to my computer, that's when I do deliberate practice. I strategically splice up the 10 minute composition into smaller 10 second to 30 second pieces, and practice each piece over and over and over again with the computer "record" button on. I splice at points that cause the least amount of undesired audio artefacts when merging everything together afterwards (eg. certain palm muting parts can make a good location for a splice, or parts where I need to let some notes ring for a long time before changing scales is also a good splice location) So in short, i feel I can only apply deliberate practice AFTER I have a general sense of what I want my entire composition to be. Trying to do deliberate practice before I know what the whole thing should be felt liek creating a hodge-podge mess of unmatching musical elements.

This is the first time one of your videos has come up in my feed. Really good advice and transfers to other topics you need to study in life too. Great video I have subscribed. Now to look at some of your playing videos.

Apparently, I do.

Incredible tone

Fortepiano sound

Lovely topic. I think if you made a vid about wrist position that would be even more impactful. Two sides of the same coin right? I tend to think about wrist a lot, not so much thumb.

I like to play with a sling, neck angled up yes, even when seated. I feel this puts the guitar in a neutral position independent of the legs and feels very stable to me. Many players (not classical) set the waist of the guitar on the right thigh with neck horizontal. This baffles me! Does not feel good! I play a steel string, but obviously position counts no matter what type of music.

Lovely interview - many feelings here that I've been through and still experience. I've never been an accomplished classical player but I had a small repertoire that I played well about 20 years ago. These days I just write fingerstyle instrumental guitar pieces / song ideas for a duo I'm in on steel string mostly - but still with a classical technique. I have put several instrumental eps out and most recently the duo's debut album just last week. I'm 55 now but the guitar is still part of my daily life even though my output hardly gets any attention. Playing music is such a wonderful place to be regardless of any success.

Try out love waltz

19+ minutes!

Flawless playing of a tonally superb guitar; beautiful 👌

👍👍

It's so beautiful.

Well that’s just fantastic.

Beautiful ❤

Welcome back !!!!!!! MAGA 2024 !!