It takes pain to create something of your own. To come up with a thing that didn’t exist before. Many years ago I became interested in what steps have to be undertaken to start being (more) creative. 1st, you have to hear and see what have been done before you. Describe it with simple words. […]
read moreLong time since my last post. During that time few things happened: I wrote a set of “Pieces for Kids. Level I”, finished one of my older pieces called “A Tune”, which I was composing in 2015, but didn’t finish, went to a lecture of Patrick Zeoli (student of Abel Carlevaro) about the guitar technique. […]
read moreAnother academic year is over, but already generating ideas for teaching during next year. GLOSSARY Many students start instrument playing when the school starts, age 6-7. Children’s reading skills are incomplete or completely missing. Even though actual theory learning doesn’t start at that point, it’s possible to teach to a small children musical glossary through […]
read moreПо-русски ниже. Eesti keeles allpool. EN May – June. Examinations in progress. First year of studies is introduction to guitar: simple, characteristic pieces on one, two and more strings; melodies on treble, on bass strings; solo pieces, guitar duo with teacher. Basic skills are obtained: correct posture, sound producing; improvisation, composition (song form). Second year […]
read moreIn music schools we study Renaissance and Baroque cadenzas and do exercises so to learn doing them well. But another thing is to master those skills of great composers at level that you are able to make your own nice piece using them and that it sounds nice and natural! So nowadays I am digging deeper […]
read moreIn recent weeks I felt a great lack of knowledge about different musical forms. I understood how vital it is for a composer to know ways of developing an idea: how is was done in different centuries, in different countries: form of a song, variations, sonata, ricercare and fantasia. At least this basic stuff should be […]
read moreToday with my guitar duo partner we had a master class from amazing guitarist and teacher Arturo Tallini, who is an expert of modern and contemporary music. We played Piazzolla’s Tango Suite. He helped us to understand better the style of Piazzolla’s music by saying how one could approach this music (since it is quite specific), […]
read moreComposing is basically construction: got inspired by something(1), wrote down a phrase(2) and after just adding bricks and giving shape to a piece(3). Before I didn’t take too seriously studying different ways of composing. Those of Berg, Messiaen, Bartok… Now I started. As a result – wrote one new piece for two guitars called “Once […]
read more1. Stop, put an instrument aside 2. Describe what happened (finger was not in the right time on the right place etc.) 3. Figure out a solution (there might be many: new fingering, different technique etc.) 4. Take an instrument, try the solution out 5. If it works – continue playing piece until the error 6. If solution not […]
read more11.11.2013 I played at the Estonian National Television. Program was about the “Fiesta de la Guitarra” festival in Tallinn. Organisers of the Festival gave an interview and after I had to play two pieces: one straight after the interview and another in the end of the program. Previous day I had an amazing concert experience […]
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