[distressed_romeo]

Me, I've spent a few days working at Villa-Lobos' 'Etude #1', which is an awesome piece, plus a little bit of Bach's 'Bouree in E Minor'. I've also started dipping into my book of Fernando Sor studies again.

I also started working at Paganini's 'Caprice #5' again for the first time in years last night, although that's on the electric.

[progmetaldan]

I'm currently working on some Carcassi studies, a Baden Powell piece, the Brouwer Studies First Series, and Preludio Rockero by Maximo Pujol for my performance assessment in a couple of weeks...

[stubhead]

I (insanely, foolishly) agreed to play some Bach stuff at a friend's wedding, with another mutual friend who is a fiendishly-great, conservatory-trained classical pianist. I'm not doing the "wedding-band" thing, just sitting in for some excerpts from the 3rd violin sonata in C, 3rd partita in E, and a few bits from the cello suites to be determined. I've been playing out of these books for fun for years, but not as performance pieces....

Solidbody electric all the way, either into a JC120 or a borrowed Princeton with just a touch of reverb - separates the men from the boys, that. I know everybody who's going and they all expect me to break into "Iron Man" & "Johnny B. Goode" when I get lost, so it's a zero-pressure, non-paying gig anyway.

I poke at the Paganini caprices regularly too, usually the 5th, 16th, 11th & 13th. I try to read something every day, but my time is limited. The Bach cello suites are good practice for reading the bass clef & come spring there may be more bass jobs for me than anything else.

(Paganini's 6th caprice is just SRV's "Dirty Pool" played on a violin anyway? )

[progmetaldan]

^ I'd say it was probably the other way around, I reckon the Paganini Caprices might have been around before SRV...