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Thanks for visiting! After many years of contemplatiing, I finally decided to buy a mandolin and teach myself how to play it. I set up this blog mainly in order to track how I am going. Feel free to follow my progress here too. (And yes, in case you're wondering, I did name the mando after Mycroft Holmes).

Friday 21 December 2012

Bach update

Yet another attempt at the Bach presto. I feel like it is gradually getting closer... slowly. I've now been playing around 4 and a half months.


While I was trying to do this, I stuffed up the cadence of the first section and thought I would share, because it was such a disgusting chord to finish on! Instead of a regular perfect cadence (A7-D) I accidentally barred the E string and struck it which had the effect of adding an augmented 4th to the D chord - NOT very Bach. Here's samples of the two endings, in case you're not sure what I'm talking about. The first sample being the cadence that Bach wanted, the second is my rather offensive stuff-up.