After a considerable amount of struggle, owning mainly to a full-blown case of mike-fright, I have finally uploaded a video of myself playing a solo guitar piece.
While I’m not entirely happy with my performance here, I consider it to be passable for a first upload. On the plus side, I frequently search YouTube under the composer’s name, and I’m probably the first person to play this particular piece and upload it.
I also had issues with the sound quality, which is to be expected when you record an acoustic guitar into a smartphone camcorder. You may have to turn it up quite a bit to hear it, depending on the device you are using. It plays better on some playback setups than others; in my case it sounded best when played through my Roku box and HDTV.
Well, I’m impressed. Played a bit of classical guitar as a younger person myself, always with the intention of taking it further (had an ‘ear’ for music so to speak) but once kids and real life came along it went on the back burner.
That was really cool to watch and listen Spectre. Keep it going!
Well, thank you all for the kind words of approbation.
They more than make up for my new Facebook friend who so enthusiastically encouraged me to do this, but has since gone almost totally silent nine days ago and has not even acknowledged or said anything about the clip, or anything else since that time.
Next will be another Roncalli piece. Unfortunately, because of the tuning explained in the YouTube entry, I have to rearrange/relearn them as compared to the score I originally learned from. I’d like to do a few more of these before I change the tuning back to standard, after which I can move on to some other material. Come to think of it, the tuning itself is a major part of why the guitar sounds the way it does, given that it has much less “bottom” this way. Most of Roncalli’s music doesn’t work too well in standard tuning, IMO.
The guitar is about 35 years old and was given to me by my brother in the early 1980s. I don’t know the exact model, but I think he paid about three bills for it at the time, maybe three-fifty.
It’s quite likely. The composer was a count in the aristocracy of northern Italy; the article in your link says that the late Pope, despite the very humble circumstances of his birth and upbringing, belonged to a minor branch of a noble family which must be the same.
