Good idea to repeat the sections, it is a very effectful piece, but I always found it a bit short to play in a recital, unless playing the whole set of studies together. Thanks for the idea!
I like your version the best, I can't play it yet as fast as you do, but I hope you will find my video worth listening to. I like the pieces of Leo Brouwer very much, I also have Un dia de Noviembre on YouTube, and his first five etudes were among the first pieces that I learned on the guitar. Thanks for your attention, greetings from Hungary,
Gergely : Thank you very much. Yes, I saw your videos. You are a very musical and talented young man :). I have many good friends in Hungary and visited them in Hungary in 1984.
Mi consejo para ti es el practicar el arpegio con un solo acorde muy despacio. (mismo consejo que Leo Brouwer. me dio cuando era yo muy joven)
Entonces pueba repertirlo varias veces destacando por ejemplo la cuerda o nota que toca el indice. Despues lo mismo destacando el medio y asi tambien el anular. De esta forma se pueden crear muy interesantes ritmos y melodias en esta fantastica pieza .
WOW. You, my friend, are brilliant. And it made me want to pick up my guitar once again after 6 long years, thank you. Excellent interpretation. Brouwer himself would be proud, I am sure :)
It is a pleasure to know that this would inspire you to play the guitar again. I am thankful to many great guitarists for their inspiration. When I was a child I saw Leo Brouwer in concert in Habana and his work of a great artist has always been of great inspiration to me.
Hola Joecaser: Gracias, eso se lo debo a los buenos Maestros que he tenido y en especial al Maestro Mercadal que era muy estricto en cuanto a los valores de las figuras. Tambien claro, a mis profesores de solfeo en Cuba pues La Escuela de Musica Cubana es muy buena.
Homa amigo. Quiza el efecto del studio puede ser similar pero las formulas de la mano derecha son totalmente diferentes. El de Villalobos es un arpegio ascendente y el de Leo Brouwer es Descendente empleando siempre la secuencia pami.
La Armonia tambien es totalmente original de este estudio de Leo, viajando de la dissonancia y resolviendo a una consonancia.
Pero si, es un gran estudio y muy necesario al igual que el de Maestro Villa-Lobos :)
By the way, Brouwer is very flexible about the tempo for this piece, but I do know he does not like it extremely fast .The time duration mark for the piece gives a good idea of a tempo or speed for the piece.
i will try posting soon the flute and guitar version and the flute part as PDF.
I looked at about 10 videos with this piece but I like your version the best. I see that you repeated the sections AABB. That's cool. When I play I do ABB. That sounds nice too.
Hi friend: Thank you for the comment. Yes, I always played it this way because I wrote a flute part for it and and this form worked best for the flute and guitar version. I have played both for Brouwer and he liked it. I performed this at The Habana Inter. Guitar festival with flutist Christ Walker and had very positive reviews. Maestro Leo Brouwer was seating in first row, imagine that! :)
Wow that's so cool! You played right in front of Maestro Brouwer? That's so amazing!
I would be scared to play the non-original version in front of the person who wrote it, but I'm really glad he liked it. That tells a lot about the personality and the openness of the composer! I'm so happy for you!
I found that all great composers and great players I have meet have these special qualities personality that make you feel comfortable. They all know that it takes great dedication and work to create music.
I will film a video soon explaining in detail how to study this piece. All students use this method and learn the piece within a week or two. Examples of this is posted showing Clare's rapid learning of it and also Shuo a good student I teach over the internet. Shou learned the piece and within two weeks he is able to play it slowly ,smoothly at a slow tempo with NO mistakes.
Hey that was very very impressive. I just learned from the comments on another video that this is were randy rhoads got his intro to diary of a madman.
Yes, once at played this piece at a Forum at the Univ of Miami and someone told me he had the same piece played by a Rock band. He took me to his truck and I listened to it on tape , it was neat to hear it! I was already used to the idea of Brouwer's arrangements of this kind as a band in Cuba had done the same with Elogio de la Danza, and it was great!
Thank you! I am glad you are working on this pieces already, Work slowly the RH arpeggio formula, it is great practice. Many years ago Maestro Leo Brouwer told me that "it is best to practice carefully the arpeggio with just one chord "and then apply it to the rest following a smooth chord progression. The same applies to Villa-Lobos Etude I and arpeggio pieces that follow a defined or reapeated RH formula.
bigd1993: I will film a video soon explaining in detail how to study this piece. All students use this method and learn the piece within a week or two. Examples of this is posted showing Clare's rapid learning of it and also Shuo a good student I teach over the internet. Shou learned the piece and within two weeks he is able to play it slowly ,smoothly at a slow tempo with NO mistakes.
This video response is played by my student Clare. She had been playing for only four months at the time of this recording and learned this piece in about two weeks.
Thank you Barogas. I once had the great opportunity to see the Mexican guitarrist Selvio Carrisoza in Habana, Cuba. This was about 1978 or 1979. Imagine the fisrt part of his recital was several Brouwer etudes and pieces and he was about to perform this in the birth place of these pieces! He performed Brouwer's #6 so well that Leo Brouwer went on the stage and gave him a hug! I learned a lot from that. This piece will be part of my repertoire always. RL
About this Etude. In Cuba many felt about it as a Prelude a piece of beauty not just a estudio. It is a great arpeggio studio as we know but also tremollo formula pami is present. Also great for being aware of chord shifting as the open strings are played. There are in most chord shifting in this piece three notes played on open strings and this gives the opportunity for relaxing and making the chord changes smoother. Most of my students are playing this piece now.
Listening to it is as music was an entity with life of its own as the playing is so clean and beautiful that makes you forget there is another spirit performing it. Los Clasicos de Cuba is another of my favorites :)
Regarding Brouwer, I have meet many great musicians but I consider L. Brouwer the most complete artist I have known. Listen also to Scarlatti Sonatas by LB recorded on Erato France, a true Masterpice. I have been listening to it since I got the record from LB Father in 1981!
Thanks for your writting. I am happy to see you are listening to other works that relare to the pieces you are playing and like. We can learn much from other instruments. I often think of violin and flute playing as these instruments can sustain and require control on every long note as vivrato and dymanics.
I will soon post videos of my Course at Univ of Florida which show what a beginner can acomplish in just six weeks. I played for the last minutes of the class this Etude by Leo Brouwer and they liked it very much.
By the way, Brouwer does recommends the practice of the arpeggio formula applied to one cord only to develop speed but does not particulary like the piece played at a very fast tempo.
right LEO'S no 6. am amatuer classical. it reminds me Bach's BWV 999 prelude and Lobos's etude no 1. different harmonies but seems same pattern and Bach and Lobos's running time is also same aruond 2 minitues
I am also very impresed and inspired by many of the students I teach. I just did the last class at UF of The Leisure Guitar Course and was very moved by these students.
It is Leo Brouwer the figure I always looked at an example of dedication. I have learn a lot from his work about studying the guitar and music in general. From this aproach of study it is possible to learn very quickly.
You make the very best of this. we can tell this is reinterpretation of VillaLobos Etude No 1. Mui respecto...This could be right speed. 9.75 out of 100
Thank you for your comments. It means alot to me that you all enjoy my playing of this piece. I have had the great privilege, honor and inspiration to have known the composer (Leo Brouwer) his sons and family (with whom I keep in touch) since I was very young and studied the guitar in Cuba.
Hi Jockim: Thank you. I do perform sometimes, just last week played for two hours at the Harn Museum in Gainesville. I also teach 54 students at the Leisure Course at UF. I would love to play in Norway! :)
Thank you for teaching me classical guitar. Your music has improved my life. I play this all the time. I am glad to see you playing on youtube even though I am far away. All the best! MD
This didn't inspire Randy Rhodes hahaha its literally the exact same. Diary of a madman intro IS Brouwer number VI.
jmoney2130 3 months ago
o.O'
igortio45 10 months ago
Thank you so much for this enlightened version of this study...it has helped me so much to understand the possibilities of this magical piece.
Kind Regards,
James
jbclassicaldreams 11 months ago
exelente!!!
eaequiel 1 year ago
This inspired Randy Rhodes guitar parts in Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman!
djjiles 1 year ago 3
Very nice, thank you, I'll be using this as an instructional vid...
apeloki 2 years ago
Good idea to repeat the sections, it is a very effectful piece, but I always found it a bit short to play in a recital, unless playing the whole set of studies together. Thanks for the idea!
rolfstraver 2 years ago
i also like to play it twice: the first time slowly, and the second time faster. it provides a nice contrast and lengthens out the piece more
stereotonic 2 years ago
this is beautiful... No wonder rhoads based diary of a madmans intro off this song...
TheBrilliantSunchips 2 years ago
I like your version the best, I can't play it yet as fast as you do, but I hope you will find my video worth listening to. I like the pieces of Leo Brouwer very much, I also have Un dia de Noviembre on YouTube, and his first five etudes were among the first pieces that I learned on the guitar. Thanks for your attention, greetings from Hungary,
Gergely Gembela
gembela07062001 2 years ago
Gergely : Thank you very much. Yes, I saw your videos. You are a very musical and talented young man :). I have many good friends in Hungary and visited them in Hungary in 1984.
Saludos.
Raymond
guitarrarl 2 years ago
Very fine interpretation.
carystrings 2 years ago
Quizás la mejor interpretación de Youtube.
Tiene la velocidad justa, la dinámica es muy buena, la agógica me encanta, esas ralentizaciones apenas perceptibles.
Y sobre todo, como juegas con las acentuaciones para que las demás notas se queden en el aire, como un adorno.
Eso es lo que no consigo aún, resaltar las notas que van con el pulgar, para que suene la melodía que subyace. Muy buena, felicidades.
Belialbaez 2 years ago
Muchas gracias! This means a lot to me.!!
Mi consejo para ti es el practicar el arpegio con un solo acorde muy despacio. (mismo consejo que Leo Brouwer. me dio cuando era yo muy joven)
Entonces pueba repertirlo varias veces destacando por ejemplo la cuerda o nota que toca el indice. Despues lo mismo destacando el medio y asi tambien el anular. De esta forma se pueden crear muy interesantes ritmos y melodias en esta fantastica pieza .
guitarrarl 2 years ago
Esto puede aplicarse a cualquier obra pero siempre con cuidado :)
Saludos.
RL
guitarrarl 2 years ago
jaja q wena tú tb por akí :D a ver cuándo te conozco en persona. soy Juli de los Ultratumba
_____
And thanks to you, Raymond, for the upload of your personal performance of this piece
JuliMoran 2 years ago
Hola JuliMoran
A ver cuando vienes por Gainesville :)
Raymond
guitarrarl 2 years ago
@JuliMoran
Ha! Seguro Saludos :)
RL
ufguitar 2 years ago
es bueno, me gusta como juegas con los matices fuerte y dulce creciendo interesante interpretacion felizidades!
PAVELROJASGARCIA 2 years ago
Muchas Gracias Pavel. Bueno con esta pieza de tan lindos acordes se puede experimentar mucho :)
Saludos!
RL
guitarrarl 2 years ago
WOW. You, my friend, are brilliant. And it made me want to pick up my guitar once again after 6 long years, thank you. Excellent interpretation. Brouwer himself would be proud, I am sure :)
DiamondSoul 3 years ago
Thank you DiamondSoul :)
It is a pleasure to know that this would inspire you to play the guitar again. I am thankful to many great guitarists for their inspiration. When I was a child I saw Leo Brouwer in concert in Habana and his work of a great artist has always been of great inspiration to me.
Saludos
RL
guitarrarl 3 years ago
Por fin alguien que respeta el aire,la digitacion,y el valor de cada figura
joecaser 3 years ago
Hola Joecaser: Gracias, eso se lo debo a los buenos Maestros que he tenido y en especial al Maestro Mercadal que era muy estricto en cuanto a los valores de las figuras. Tambien claro, a mis profesores de solfeo en Cuba pues La Escuela de Musica Cubana es muy buena.
Saludos, RL
guitarrarl 3 years ago
You phrase this piece so beautifully. Awesome.
dingadang 3 years ago
Thank you amigo :) I am glad you like it.
RL
guitarrarl 3 years ago
tis wonderfu! I hope I find some more from Leo Brouwer.
eschwart67 3 years ago
play guitar very good
sabrinaea83 3 years ago
es casi la misma copia de el estudio de hector villalobos estudio # 1 .solo que hay que arregarle los armonicos.
joseolivera1961 3 years ago
Homa amigo. Quiza el efecto del studio puede ser similar pero las formulas de la mano derecha son totalmente diferentes. El de Villalobos es un arpegio ascendente y el de Leo Brouwer es Descendente empleando siempre la secuencia pami.
La Armonia tambien es totalmente original de este estudio de Leo, viajando de la dissonancia y resolviendo a una consonancia.
Pero si, es un gran estudio y muy necesario al igual que el de Maestro Villa-Lobos :)
RL
guitarrarl 3 years ago
Great playing! TOne, accuracy and speed are excellent!!
gtrrobster 3 years ago
Gracias y Saludos!
guitarrarl 3 years ago
very nice
jimbojimbojimbojimbo 3 years ago
By the way, Brouwer is very flexible about the tempo for this piece, but I do know he does not like it extremely fast .The time duration mark for the piece gives a good idea of a tempo or speed for the piece.
i will try posting soon the flute and guitar version and the flute part as PDF.
RL
guitarrarl 3 years ago
I looked at about 10 videos with this piece but I like your version the best. I see that you repeated the sections AABB. That's cool. When I play I do ABB. That sounds nice too.
chocolixous 3 years ago
Hi friend: Thank you for the comment. Yes, I always played it this way because I wrote a flute part for it and and this form worked best for the flute and guitar version. I have played both for Brouwer and he liked it. I performed this at The Habana Inter. Guitar festival with flutist Christ Walker and had very positive reviews. Maestro Leo Brouwer was seating in first row, imagine that! :)
guitarrarl 3 years ago
Wow that's so cool! You played right in front of Maestro Brouwer? That's so amazing!
I would be scared to play the non-original version in front of the person who wrote it, but I'm really glad he liked it. That tells a lot about the personality and the openness of the composer! I'm so happy for you!
chocolixous 3 years ago
I found that all great composers and great players I have meet have these special qualities personality that make you feel comfortable. They all know that it takes great dedication and work to create music.
guitarrarl 3 years ago
Per the comments in this video -- Do you teach over the Internet? How does that work? I may be interested.
Thank You.
cbvillanueva 3 years ago
dude, you're awesome!
MasterOfGodfathers 3 years ago
géniale interprétation bravo à l'artiste vraiment bien;)
Adrionizukasan 3 years ago
Adrionizukasan Thank you so much.
I did the video on how to study the piece but have to find time to edit it as it is from a long class.
guitarrarl 3 years ago
bigd1993:
I will film a video soon explaining in detail how to study this piece. All students use this method and learn the piece within a week or two. Examples of this is posted showing Clare's rapid learning of it and also Shuo a good student I teach over the internet. Shou learned the piece and within two weeks he is able to play it slowly ,smoothly at a slow tempo with NO mistakes.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Hey that was very very impressive. I just learned from the comments on another video that this is were randy rhoads got his intro to diary of a madman.
cornholio2576 4 years ago
Yes, once at played this piece at a Forum at the Univ of Miami and someone told me he had the same piece played by a Rock band. He took me to his truck and I listened to it on tape , it was neat to hear it! I was already used to the idea of Brouwer's arrangements of this kind as a band in Cuba had done the same with Elogio de la Danza, and it was great!
RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
great!
you're really good, congratulations ;)
I play that study too but i'm starting, I only have 14 years old :D
play more browers to us ;D
bigd1993 4 years ago
Thank you! I am glad you are working on this pieces already, Work slowly the RH arpeggio formula, it is great practice. Many years ago Maestro Leo Brouwer told me that "it is best to practice carefully the arpeggio with just one chord "and then apply it to the rest following a smooth chord progression. The same applies to Villa-Lobos Etude I and arpeggio pieces that follow a defined or reapeated RH formula.
RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
thanks!
but i already play quite well (not so good like you xb) because i'm playing it for almost a year
I'm portuguese and i'm in the 5 degree of guitar (I don't know if you have degrees in guitar)
continue playing ;)
bigd1993 4 years ago
bigd1993: I will film a video soon explaining in detail how to study this piece. All students use this method and learn the piece within a week or two. Examples of this is posted showing Clare's rapid learning of it and also Shuo a good student I teach over the internet. Shou learned the piece and within two weeks he is able to play it slowly ,smoothly at a slow tempo with NO mistakes.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
perfetto!!!
leo brouwer è un genio.
le sue composizioni sono stupende!!
bravissimo
koyteSSS 4 years ago
Thank you amigo :)
guitarrarl 4 years ago
I have read your comments very carrefully because j've now to study his music ! Thanks
luc14122006 4 years ago
This video response is played by my student Clare. She had been playing for only four months at the time of this recording and learned this piece in about two weeks.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Thank you Barogas. I once had the great opportunity to see the Mexican guitarrist Selvio Carrisoza in Habana, Cuba. This was about 1978 or 1979. Imagine the fisrt part of his recital was several Brouwer etudes and pieces and he was about to perform this in the birth place of these pieces! He performed Brouwer's #6 so well that Leo Brouwer went on the stage and gave him a hug! I learned a lot from that. This piece will be part of my repertoire always. RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Smooth, accurate, relaxed execution, the way this wonderful piece should be played.
Bravo, senor.
Barogas 4 years ago
I love the Brouwer pieces, they sound kind of futuristic, very out of the ordinary for classical guitar in my opinion
kifani1 4 years ago
casi fuga el estudio de leo brower posee una armonia muy bella, la melodia en los bajos increible , bella interpretacion also
NOPELAOS 4 years ago
About this Etude. In Cuba many felt about it as a Prelude a piece of beauty not just a estudio. It is a great arpeggio studio as we know but also tremollo formula pami is present. Also great for being aware of chord shifting as the open strings are played. There are in most chord shifting in this piece three notes played on open strings and this gives the opportunity for relaxing and making the chord changes smoother. Most of my students are playing this piece now.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Listening to it is as music was an entity with life of its own as the playing is so clean and beautiful that makes you forget there is another spirit performing it. Los Clasicos de Cuba is another of my favorites :)
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Regarding Brouwer, I have meet many great musicians but I consider L. Brouwer the most complete artist I have known. Listen also to Scarlatti Sonatas by LB recorded on Erato France, a true Masterpice. I have been listening to it since I got the record from LB Father in 1981!
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Hi
naturanaturans:
Thanks for your writting. I am happy to see you are listening to other works that relare to the pieces you are playing and like. We can learn much from other instruments. I often think of violin and flute playing as these instruments can sustain and require control on every long note as vivrato and dymanics.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Right this is Leo Browers. Similar pattern of Lobos's etude no 1
BlueJazzyClassic 4 years ago
The complete arpeggio formula comprises three descending formulas
a) pami
b) amip
c) amip (but on the strings set 2,3,4,5)
and its study is quite effective if studied that way. RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Thanks for free tutoring
naturanaturans 4 years ago
right Brower's No 6
naturanaturans 4 years ago
right PROFESSOR leo brower's etd 6. sound similar with bach bwv 999 and villa's edute no 1. different ages only
naturanaturans 4 years ago
I will soon post videos of my Course at Univ of Florida which show what a beginner can acomplish in just six weeks. I played for the last minutes of the class this Etude by Leo Brouwer and they liked it very much.
By the way, Brouwer does recommends the practice of the arpeggio formula applied to one cord only to develop speed but does not particulary like the piece played at a very fast tempo.
RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
right LEO'S no 6. am amatuer classical. it reminds me Bach's BWV 999 prelude and Lobos's etude no 1. different harmonies but seems same pattern and Bach and Lobos's running time is also same aruond 2 minitues
naturanaturans 4 years ago
right Brower's this is. I found it similar with Bach BWV 999 and Villar etude no 1
naturanaturans 4 years ago
I am also very impresed and inspired by many of the students I teach. I just did the last class at UF of The Leisure Guitar Course and was very moved by these students.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
It is Leo Brouwer the figure I always looked at an example of dedication. I have learn a lot from his work about studying the guitar and music in general. From this aproach of study it is possible to learn very quickly.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
wish have time to learn from great Leo fly to cuba. I am smiply salary man fell into claissical guitar. once played in metros in europe
naturanaturans 4 years ago
BEST
naturanaturans 4 years ago
Pefect Echo
naturanaturans 4 years ago
Realized this is right reinterpretaion of VillaLobos Etude No1 6 stars
naturanaturans 4 years ago
Dear Interpretator
You make the very best of this. we can tell this is reinterpretation of VillaLobos Etude No 1. Mui respecto...This could be right speed. 9.75 out of 100
naturanaturans 4 years ago
Dear
naturanaturans and friends:
Thank you for your comments. It means alot to me that you all enjoy my playing of this piece. I have had the great privilege, honor and inspiration to have known the composer (Leo Brouwer) his sons and family (with whom I keep in touch) since I was very young and studied the guitar in Cuba.
guitarrarl 4 years ago
what a gretest network respecto
naturanaturans 4 years ago
damn man u deserve a bigger audience. try maby some talant show u will do good Norway got talant.. ;)
jockim100 4 years ago
Hi Jockim: Thank you. I do perform sometimes, just last week played for two hours at the Harn Museum in Gainesville. I also teach 54 students at the Leisure Course at UF. I would love to play in Norway! :)
RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago
This just flows so niceely 5 stars
mattsuzo 4 years ago
Randy Rhoads made Etude # 6 ROCK !
theheffer 4 years ago
Me gusto mucho su interpretación, creo que capta a plenitud el espiritu de la obra.gracias.
tachiniger 4 years ago
Thank you! I studied this piece while going to Music School in Habana, Cuba. Everyone there plays it!
guitarrarl 4 years ago
Dear Raymond,
Thank you for teaching me classical guitar. Your music has improved my life. I play this all the time. I am glad to see you playing on youtube even though I am far away. All the best! MD
bossanovaman 4 years ago
Hi friend, it is great to hear from you. Thank you. RL
guitarrarl 4 years ago