Guess who we're sending to the Young Musician of the Year Contest!

JACKofTrades on 24/5/2006 at 22:01

Thanks Medlar! That was quite cool, looking forward to seeing more of it. Congrats Fingernail, very well done. :D :thumb:

dvrabel on 24/5/2006 at 22:51

The piece from the semi-final really showed off the versatility of the guitar and was good fun to listen to. The snippet of the final that Medlar posted was weak in comparison.

JACKofTrades on 24/5/2006 at 23:00

Well why don't you host it for us then?

demagogue on 24/5/2006 at 23:47

That was great Fingernail!! ... Happy to have finally seen it.
I noticed one of the commentators talking about weaving fugal elements into it and I noticed that too at one point that you had like separate voices going on at the same time in those quick runs, and thinking god that must be tricky to pull off so adeptly with one hand and to make it sound so fluid ... great.

And for the record (to Noid) I was largely talking about my own situation in my last post; didn't mean to imply anything about your's. I can read traditional notation for piano, but for guitar I'm abysmally slow reading it and have gone to lengths to translate it achingly slowly to tab. I was sincerely worried that it would be hard to find a tab notation of a piece like that. I didn't know that site you linked to, since I stick to jazz guitar mostly and haven't explored classical guitar, but from what I've seen it looks like a fantastic resource.

Omega on 25/5/2006 at 00:01

Good stuff Fingernail. :thumb:

dvrabel on 25/5/2006 at 00:05

Quote Posted by JACKofTrades

Well why don't you host it for us then?

Er. I would do if I could work out how since it really is well worth listening to and watching.

Headphones on 25/5/2006 at 00:08

the bbc shit is really cowboy awesome

so it's a shame that the americans cant see it

someone youtube it or something, i would but i cant

scumble on 25/5/2006 at 00:14

She said the piece was "inconsequential"? Funny thing to say. Anyway, I can see the problems of Guitar+Orchestra there - the orchestra is dropped out whenever the guitar comes in, very sharply. Makes it a bit disjointed in a way.

Shug on 25/5/2006 at 05:16

WONDERFULLY SENSITIVE PERFORMANCE

they couldn't stop talking about intimacy :cool:

Scots Taffer on 25/5/2006 at 06:00

I was thoroughly impressed. Good show, Fingernail. I think you handed in a worthy performance and I'm sorry that you failed to knock them dead, it was an impressive bravado piece with enough flair to entertain a completely uneducated musical appreciator (me, that is).