Ana Vidović Answers YOUR Questions!

Leading up to our filming with Ana Vidovic, we asked all of you - our valued community members - what questions you would like to ask a true classical guitar superstar. In this special Q&A, Ana sits down and talks candidly about topics such as stage fright, learning new music, essential travel items, and much more!
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0:00 - Introduction + Asturias lesson trailer
0:58 - Do you have a pre-performance routine? Do you have advice for people who struggle with performance anxiety?
2:31 - If you could change anything about the industry, what would it be?
3:23 - What is the best advice you've been given?
4:20 - How do you make time for creativity?
5:29 - Which living composer's music do you like to play? Have you worked with any or do you plan to?
6:50 - How do you break down new pieces to master?
9:13 - You travel a lot, what essential things do you always bring with you? What's in your gig bag?
10:33 - What type of guitar do you play, and what is the story of how you got it?
12:00 - How do you pick new repertoire?
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[@carlbussmann7559]

I just heard her in concert three days ago; there are not enough words to describe the wonder of it! She is beautiful in person as well as personality and of course in her music. Her speech and thoughts are so kind toward her audience and toward her work. I only learned about her within the past year but will now follow her onward. What a gift to us all!

[@amirhesamakbari6749]

Dear respected Ana I'm following your performance and I wish one day I will see you closely

[@georgeherrera5809]

My favorite classical guitarist.

[@joefairweatherblues8511]

Fast becoming mine too.

[@Isus273]

From my country

[@joefairweatherblues8511]

@@Isus273 She's a national treasure, indeed an international one,☺️. Love her playing, quite stunning.

[@debussychopin2766]

She's THE classical guitarist.

[@e200al1]

The. Best

[@vgfjr505]

Crème de la crème! We have come so far since the days of Segovia to the point where we now have outstanding women performers in a world that had been dominated by men since pretty much when the master himself introduced this style of instrument to the world masses. And here we have Ana, a child prodigy of the classical guitar, now a women leading a young generation of not just women but young classical guitarist. She has excellent technique and gives beautiful interpretations. Best of all, she comes across so humble and articulate, a great ambassador for the classical guitar. Segovia would be proud! My daughter is such a huge fan. Wonderful to see her in this interview. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@user-yy8ym2tr5t]

Great comment. When I was younger I sought the best teachers I could find. One of my teachers had studied under Segovia, the other teacher studied under John Williams. It's a delight to find someone (Ana) who in my teacher runs rings around both those teachers.

[@user-yy8ym2tr5t]

* Read "who in my opinion runs rings around both those teachers"

[@robertbalogh1656]

I have heard the pieces she plays, played by other guitarists. No one plays them better than she. Also the guitar she plays is the best sounding I've ever heard. Listen with good speakers or quality headphones.

[@cursodeviolaovillalobos]

I had the opportunity to watch Ana Vidovic here in Brazil twice in 2012 and 2013, for me it was 2 unforgettable and wonderful days, I hope she comes back here in Brazil and God willing I will be there in the 1st row to watch her, she is simply wonderful, charismatic, I love her interpretation and virtuosity!

[@bayareapianist]

Most amazing answers I have heard to some fundamental questions. Her answers would apply to any instrument. It took me many years to guess some of these answers. She talks very professionaly and from her heart. I know she teaches at the college level.

[@thiagogoncalves3579]

Very good interview and questions! Congratulations for all!

[@waynehicks1969]

No surprises here. There is no substitute for hard work and passion.

[@Bahimo3154]

She's so lovley

[@fusion-music]

Lip balm is good for fingertips and thumb. I worried it would affect the French polish, but it is fine. Lovely question and answer.

[@carlomazza731]

I love you Ana, because you are an incredible musician and a beautiful person.

[@juffurey]

Thank you, Ana!

[@corvavw6447]

Mijn favoriete gitaarperformer .bedankt .

[@skaywalker20]

So apparently she is not only talented and beautiful but also smart as hell... What a fantastic person!

[@VaughnFelixMusic]

❤️ so humble and beyond talented

[@ralphwagenet852]

Wonderfully humble. It's hard work, you do it patiently, you get nervous before going on stage, you focus on the music with which you really connect. I heard no vanity or pride, just gratitude for the opportunities your gifts give you, a determination to use them as well as you can and a deep desire to help others do the same. I am very impressed.

[@yendryrodriguez8865]

Thank you all so much for this

[@abby1837]

Thankyou so much Ana! You really change my perception on playing and how to practice classical guitar. Love you and may God bless you always..

[@spkay31]

I really enjoy hearing her answer these questions and provide her thoughts and insights. She is such a phenomenal talent I am glad to see she is very happy to share her thoughts with her fans and students of classical guitar.

[@nipulkradmsinatagras8293]

*Much ❤ for this exceptional woman.*

[@frankmayorga3118]

Lots of hard work behind your behind your Beautiful Playing!!!

[@allan2098]

What i liked about this was the direct answers. She wasn't waxing any lyrical nonsense. She was always very technically adept but as she gets a bit older and wiser, she is becoming musically much deeper involved. Everything she states here is spot on.

[@maranathashalom9402]

What a woman!!!

[@AxmihaMeuSaco]

I'm a jazz guitar player. I never thought of lotion on the left hand. Even though jazz strings don't squeak, I'll give that a try. Good tip.

[@othnielvincent]

we need more of this please this is amazing content

[@klaasdanieldijkstra6897]

You are amazing .

[@anantwashere]

Very recently, I saw her performance on youtube, and I am just mind blown! I have been tweaking knobs and programming MIDI for 12 years, and I have been associated with music for over two decades, so I know that it is not just the amount of time she has invested in the craft, but the dedication and hard work clearly shows in her work. It is beyond comparision.... And not to forget the naturally gifted people like herself.... Bravo, the world is such a better place because of such individuals. Much love to them!

[@hamzaahmetasevic5764]

Ana, the best classical guitarist in the world

[@sgonzalez_guitarra]

No

[@MrMustard2U]

Your High, NO WAY...

[@lawcch]

disagreed until you listened and watched Ms Ida Presti, France and Ms Nicola Hall from UK.

[@FerchoDelgaRams]

No, but actually is one of the best

[@sgonzalez_guitarra]

@@FerchoDelgaRams no

[@tousdr]

A lot of hidden background work... for these few minutes of playing... But you have an inherited gift that only few have: the ability to translate a masterwork from the sheet music into others ears, so that the essence of the composition can be clearly percieved and understood. Thanks for using it for us.

[@BuscadoresFlamencos]

Amazing content. Thanks for share 🙏

[@113A]

Nice to hear Ana talking and giving out some good advice 👍

[@sunking2001]

She is so charming...along with Andrea. Those two are the best.

[@Natsukashigame]

is pretty amazing how she play and interpret the score, respecting every single silence and decrescendo, magnific and congrats Ana you're so great guitar player and also please allow me to say you beautiful woman. Greetings

[@matthewbeyer8861]

Thank you Morgan for such a great question! We got an inside look at a master's approach!

[@exogarwinoputt4257]

Thank you so much, Ana.

[@EmmanuelPHaque]

Very helpful tips! Thank you, Ana! One of my favorite classical guitarist! 🎉 (just started classical guitar)

[@edwardverdugo7277]

Hello Ana my name is Edward from Los Angeles. I just want to say, I also play Classical Guitar for about 41 yrs. In 1986 I met the Great Master Andres Segovia thru a good friend of mine C. Parkenning it was the highlight of my Life! and I would Just like to tell you, if Segovia was alive , I would definitely make sure he knows who you are . Edward Los Angeles

[@valeska_kevinleahy]

Fantastic questions- thank you for the video!

[@rodneyworthington2972]

Went to see Anna Live at Kings London.Wonderful.

[@boogierandy7547]

You're so great Ana.

[@yvonlessard4676]

Merci pour tous ces conseils : les étapes pour apprendre une nouvelle pièce... l'anxiété avant une performance, jouer pour le plaisir des gens, présenter des pièces qui nous conviennent et qui sont prêtes.

[@tagetes1442]

Great answer to the sixth question--about standard repertoire. That was my original attraction. When I was 17 my father gave me three old cassette tapes he had made. One was the etudes of Sor and Carcassi. The second was a Julian Bream recording of the Music of Spain. The third, and luckily, was a tape of Liona Boyd playing much of the aforementioned pieces as well as a Greensleeves arrangement of hers. I was hooked and my father bought me a $150 classical guitar. 95% of what I play today (36 years later) is from the early early 20th century back to the early Renaissance and on a much better guitar of course. But I guess the point is to play where your heart is. Where your love is. And that is what will bring forth what the composer intended and hopefully will transmit that feeling to your audience. Otherwise it can only be experimental. Thank you Ana for your tutoring.

[@natasamladenovic1765]

I agree, remember, she is playing for herself too. Imagine polishing your skills for 30 years to be able to play (for yourself and enjoy) some of those demanding classics and your management tells you: i ve booked you a gig with the Rolling Stones!....nice but🥴 what, how, when, why ...heeelp.

[@jamesdufeu8046]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[@bill1226]

Really enjoy this ty

[@Larry30102]

Super. Many thx to Ana and Tonebase

[@bessonovalexander9534]

Thanks for video!

[@JousLoLMale]

I am bananas for Ana! :)

[@jean-francoisbresciani7556]

I couldn't imagine that it was possible to be as smart as Ana because she is, on my opinion, one of greatest musician of the World but so humble and generous by giving a lot of advices to everybody. No doubt that J.-S. Bach would have appreciate and would certainly have composed thousands of masterpieces to Ana !! Vive Dieu le seul qui pourrait nous faire remonter le Temps. Bises Jeff

[@avjake]

Bananas in the gig bag. I'll have to try that. Seriously, very informative - thanks very much.

[@cursodeviolaovillalobos]

Tive a oportunidade de assistir Ana Vidovic aqui no Brasil por duas vezes em 2012 e 2013, pra min foram 2 dias inesqueciveis e maravilhosos, espero que ela volte aqui no Brasil e se Deus quiser estarei lá na 1º fila para assisti-lá, ela é simplesmente maravilhosa, carismática, adoro sua interpretação e virtuosismo!

[@roygertel4647]

Beautiful lady with beautiful playing... Greeting from Israel 🌹

[@PenguinFace32]

I think I lover her

[@omrhmdgl]

My love, Ana ....love you...

[@lemilemi5385]

meaningful questions and answers

[@jrudokas3141]

just picked up a really great sor book I've had for a while. You have to know where all the notes are. That's what I'm working on.

[@c.maaniii]

nobody; my guitar teacher making me watch this for homework

[@j.r.torres6790]

Siempre tan extraordinaria, es mi artista preferida en guitarra clasica

[@tracemiller7261]

Many of the comments are about the intelligence she's presenting. Do you see the bubble that she has developed, incredible, just gorgeous, huge, stunning, from her eyes to her hair line, that, that, is the intelligence, that your seeing and from her connection to the instrument. Music makes you smarter , smarter because it rearranges your perceptionairey animal mind and you begin thinking in the language of the existing energy transfer in the. universe. She has completed this by learning sonic,,, energy transfer. This one,,, is a powerful female, who, has learned well. She has my respect and admiration, so far.

[@bgjettme2109]

Your are awesome! And beautiful!

[@arataka57]

Nice!

[@noahosk1832]

it would be great to hear you play the blues Ana, even one vid an hour long. And do you write yourself? and many thanks for the amazing content you have shared. I listen every night.

[@MarceloSotomayormusic]

thxx ... Ms Classical Guitar Master

[@shagunsingh5355]

🙏❤

[@input3471]

Big fan lady

[@sinahazeghi511]

i would have love to ask this QUESTION to her: DO YOU ADVICE guitarists to play multiple style That are likely compatible (for example classic + Flamenco) or to stick in one type of guitare

[@shoneharcourt]

i love you anna

[@rickydarrah5538]

She should play in my metal band.

[@roddyg3692]

Time to get a new guitar.

[@ThomasLuca]

Ana, would you ever consider playing for motion pictures?

[@peaveawwii1]

What a beautiful woman

[@salvatorejuccioincarbone2191]

Cara Ana, occorrono diciture scritte in italiano e in ogni lingua che ti consulta. Dear Ana, written translated captions are needed in the language of the local country one lives, f. i. italian. Thank you.

[@user-mo5qp7hf1n]

Hi Ana. Do you have a use Hauser Instruments ?

[@helenaxxx6134]

Can i have question? How much do you practise? And how much did you practise in the past?

[@hectoraguilar770]

Hello Ana! Are all your scores written in the G clef only? What about to read some music for guitar in the F clef and in the C clef... well, what I am doing so far is to rewrite some guitar scores in F clef and C clef.... I'd like one day to show them to you, would be a pleasure to give you some of my scores. The music I am writing It is too easy, then for you would be as taking away a candy from a baby...What I am doing it is to play to match and connect the middle C sound with the real middle C note. In other words, for me to play the middle C in the guitar is the one that is in the 2nd string and 1st fret... and the middle C in the G clef is the one appear on the low 1rs ledger line... therefore, I decided to use the C clef instead the G clef. You are my favorite classical guitarist, I admire your awesome talent... how do you do to memorize all those notes and so many long difficult and fast melodies and musical pieces? Wow! You are incredibly talented! Greetings from Tijuana!

[@TheMiratommi]

Hey! I like you🎸

[@robertmarcus9653]

Would you play the music of Atahualpa Yapanqui. Have you heard Roberto Aussel.

[@sromonasengupta9-c512]

Do you have your own compositions?

[@antunleut9739]

Postovana, kada ce te negdje blizu mene u Baden Würtembergu dati koncert?

[@arataka57]

Wondering what kind of strings you use. You are great of course!

[@natasamladenovic1765]

She uses Galli strings and the Jim Redgate guitar.

[@arataka57]

@@natasamladenovic1765 I have seen written she uses D'Addarios

[@natasamladenovic1765]

@@arataka57 google up: Entrevista a Ana Vidovic (subtitulada,), in the middle of that interview she says Galli

[@natasamladenovic1765]

@@arataka57 ok, I now see it is an old interview, but i only saw it yesterday...so, maybe she changed them in the meantime

[@natasamladenovic1765]

@@chris.h.9227 😊

[@benjamingreer1660]

Ana you and Estas Tonne are my favorite guitarist I would love to see you 2 play together one day. Do you think that would ever happen?

[@lucaborzani56]

what is tonebase?

[@lazymjs]

What strings do you use to get that lovely mellow spanish sound?

[@natasamladenovic1765]

In another interview she said Galli, but that is an older interview, so maybe she has changed them

[@victorhugoortizcabrera1007]

En español please!

[@MohammedYASSINE]

do you know guys that I've been hesitating to join Tonebase since a month and I decided to join it now because of Ana

[@equisoide]

I have a question for Ana: What goes through your mind when playing Asturias and someone in the audience coughs?

[@tyg715]

A dove!

[@pdxeddie1111]

your such a beautiful lady

[@niceguitar6144]

Please help me, someone! I obsess with music, and when I hear a piece it’s impossible for me to rest until I find it and learn it. So, what is the name of the wonderful, Baroque sounding piece which we here before Anna goes into the first question? We only hear a few bars of it, and I’m fairly certain it starts in D. That piece sounds so beautiful and promising, I have to know.

[@igorlichtmann6206]

Hey Stephen. It's Domenico Scarlatti Sonata K.333. You can find the performance here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epypgJh_pbhnmpY And the lesson to it on www.tonebase.co ;) Happy practicing! Igor

[@niceguitar6144]

@@igorlichtmann6206 so very kind of you. I will sleep tonight. Really; i suspected DS but there are 500 of them:). Thanks again

[@ohchunglee2987]

😀😆🤣😊😍😁

[@guidofeliz8384]

Wish Ana had more time for her fans. She has ignored several emails from me in the past.

[@alleduc3976]

What do we take from this candid video Q and A? Have you guy's ever seen a girl that hot who is mirroring that talent with music abilities?

[@robertodeluise749]

Sarei curioso di sapere che chitarre suona,ma lei farebbe cantare anche una chitarrina per bambini...

[@ivicafandic1131]

Ana... Komponujete li?

[@jean-francoisbresciani7556]

I know why Bach is weeping in the fugue appassionata n°rt4562 XXL or something like that : GOD has told him that a little girl will become a fantastic musician playing on a small guitarounette. BUT GOD also said in french to him that Moïse wouldn't have followers anymore : "Tout Bach que tu es, tu ne pourras pas refaire avec le Temps ce que Moïse a fait subir à la mer Rouge depuis des temps immémoriaux et tu ne pourras jamais entendre cette fameuse Ana, que je réserve pour un autre compositeur génial que je ferai naître en 1963." Merci Jeff

[@JoeKool5738]

I think it is good when you do some crossover pieces. It makes people want to know more about the musicians. This leads to them to classical music. Your cover of Tears in Heaven sounded better than Clapton's. Your agent did not return my call btw after the Feb concert in 2023. You suggested I call her. You are the best representative for classical music guitar today, Imo. ❤😎

[@herisuryadi6824]

Anda berasal dari negara mana ana vidovic??

[@mirapejic9527]

CROATIA

[@weaponx9728]

One question. Will you marry me?

[@DingleberryPie]

As a member of the audience, I will judge you if you make mistakes. One is all you get..

[@hospitality5522]

Mastress lesson.

[@rainerriedelsheimer3252]

I think it's very disgraceful and unwise that Ana doesn't share her Asturias Tutorial by KZbin with the rest of humanity. Tonebase is very expensive and not fair. Now only rich people can get the blessings of her Tutorial. I am a fan of Ana since years, but this decision is very ego driven and unwise. Many other teachers share their knowledge for free on KZbin. Now many fans are disappointed and can't watch her Tutorial for which they waited for so long ... it's very unwise, Ana doesn't share it for free with us fans :(

[@lawcch]

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