Romance D'Amour without nails

[@litemetal]

Brilliant 🎉

[@GreenRose242]

Absolutely amazing ❤❤❤

[@luteman]

@@GreenRose242 I thank you for kind comment.

[@datdudeCharles]

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]

You are so welcome!

[@sanchitahuja7890]

I just learnt this piece, you played perfectly.

[@luteman]

Thanks very much for your comment. I'm probably wrong, but I couldn't find a version on You tube that was played with finger tips only, no use of nails, which is why I posted my version.

[@sanchitahuja7890]

@@luteman Oh, without nails it actually sounds soothing and calm.

[@brendacollins505]

Beautifully played thank you 🙏☺️

[@luteman]

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

[@Tom-yh8xc]

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

[@luteman]

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

[@marcodossena3295]

Bravo!!

[@us4marine]

Excellent, beautiful and precise. Thank you for sharing.

[@mertgercek6708]

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

[@luteman]

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

[@mixedpsychosis6679]

One of my favorites. Beautifully done. ❤

[@luteman]

Thanks very much for your comment.

[@laneotaku7855]

What a tone, beautiful

[@luteman]

Thanks very much for your comment. It does take some work to get a good tone from finger tips only, and a different method of attack. The strings you use are also a factor. I also use a'=432 pitch rather than a'=440.

[@AlexModeling]

Beautiful! Thank you! 🇵🇹👏🙂

[@luteman]

And thank you for your comment.

[@andresimony1634]

Well done Roderick, sound is great! Beautifully and expressively played! 👌👏👏👏

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@Michael-Kreutz]

Sounds very warm. Bravo Frederick. 👍

[@N.I.K.A_Ortodox]

Fantastic job!

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@TheRussianGenius]

love this, thanks for the music

[@steveb9325]

How beautiful ❤thank you sir🙏

[@luteman]

I'm so pleased that you enjoyed the music. Thank you very much.

[@MarcosSantos-lq5sr]

Great! Congratulations!!!

[@JFridGuitare]

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

[@luteman]

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.

[@fifahunter927]

I love it, it's so good 😍

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment. Best wishes.

[@donnymac575]

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

[@13rahi5n63]

❤❤❤❤❤ found my inspiration. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@sanntint8802]

composed and calm music, Sir !

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@ILoveMYOOZIK]

Amazing, Bravo!

[@luteman]

Your comment is much appreciated, thank you.

[@turjo7934]

Amazing 💚💚

[@luteman]

Thanks very much for your comment.

[@pierrevernay3223]

felicitation j adore cette melodie , bravo

[@luteman]

Merci beaucoup!

[@johns.3006]

Very beautiful good sir.

[@luteman]

Thanks very much for your comment.

[@SoothingEchoes-h8m]

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]

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

[@Guitar4life99]

Wonderful!

[@luteman]

Very kind of you to say so, many thanks.

[@santiagobisuard1906]

nice playing! thanks for sharing

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@BurtVanWyk]

Very very beautifull!

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@leemonjoseph]

Just awesome ❤

[@Method971]

Magnifique, bravo

[@w.lixfeld8164]

wirklich wunderschön. danke

[@pantelismisikos9023]

Awesome!!

[@lucynagawlikguitar8128]

Wonderful performance 👌👍

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment.

[@pavolsokolik2193]

sounds very well . Have a nice day.

[@gavinguitar2194]

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

[@dougnickerson]

Excellent

[@luteman]

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

[@NgocHa-ri7wr]

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[@virginialeite2787]

💖🌸

[@duigiud]

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

[@luteman]

@@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]

@ Thank you for the response!

[@jean-francoisbedel8916]

Cette romance est connue avec le titre éponyme du film "Jeux Interdits" (mélodrame qui se déroule en 1941) Jeux interdits est un film français de René Clément, écrit par Pierre Bost et Jean Aurenche, sorti en 1952. Le film est tiré d'un roman de François Boyer ...Notons que la mélodie originale, Romance anonyme, se trouvait déjà dans le film de Rouben Mamoulian Arènes sanglantes, réalisé onze ans avant le film de René Clément. This romance is known with the eponymous title of the film “Forbidden Games” (melodrama set in 1941) Forbidden Games is a French film by René Clément, written by Pierre Bost and Jean Aurenche, released in 1952. The film is based on a novel by François Boyer ...Note that the original melody, Romance anonyme, was already featured in Rouben Mamoulian's film "Blood and Sand", made eleven years before René Clément's film.

[@luteman]

Thanks for the information. I was aware of the 'Forbidden Games' film, but I think that many people will have first heard this 'Romance' in the Blood and Sand film of 1941. Although Vicente Gomez wrote much of the music used on the sound track, the melody seems to have been around since the 19th century, and no one seems to know who actually composed it, so the Gomez attribution is the arrangement played in the film, not that it was an original composition. I recorded it just to show that it can be played without the use of the ever present fingernails, just an alternative version.

[@franciscojavierescuderomor918]

Música de España

[@matthewharding676]

A very hard song to play perfectly. Il give you a 9 out of ten though! Well done!

[@luteman]

Thank you very much for your comment Matthew, it's genuinely appreciated. I thought about 8.....but as I'm in my 81st year, I'll take anything above 7!!

[@matthewharding676]

@@luteman 🤣

[@NC-TC]

❤❤❤

[@gbee8888]

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

[@luteman]

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.

[@jwschrijverhidma]

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

[@paulofernandes1151]

Muito bom

[@YasmineBenslimane-xi6di]

Can you do please a tutorial for beginners?

[@luteman]

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.

[@richardsrensen4219]

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

[@luteman]

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.

[@prandallwright1]

Wonderful! I don't play with nails. Thanks...

[@robertobonomo7983]

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]

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.

[@MarkoZorecHimself]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@regsilverside9089]

I didn’t know King Charles could play guitar.