NEW: Thomas Viloteau On Practicing
Thomas Viloteau discusses the topic of practicing and gives tips for using your time as efficiently as possible.
Among the suggestions include when to use a metronome, how to find the right fingerings, and using repetition to your advantage.
Watch Thomas On Practicing
NEW: Gohar Vardanyan On Cordoba (Albeniz)
Gohar Vardanyan walks through “Córdoba” from Chants d’Espagne, originally written for piano.
Musical aspects discussed are using rubato effectively, balancing the melody & accompaniment, and more.
Watch Gohar On Cordoba
IN THE PRESS: tonebase Featured By Yale Press
tonebase has been featured by Yale News! Read about our mission to bring high-level education to everyone.
Co-founders Chris and Igor give a look into how we got to where we are, where we want to go, and look into the idea behind tonebase.
Read The tonebase Feature
NEW GIVEAWAY: “In The Black Box” by Thomas Viloteau
Tell us one of your personal practice tips for a chance to win Thomas Viloteau’s technique book, “In the Black Box.”
Enter by commenting on the Facebook post below and make sure you like our page to qualify!
Enter The Giveaway Here!
WEEKLY SERIES #008: On Practicing
This week we’ve been focusing on the theme of practicing and how to practice better.
We’re throwing it back to October when we released Marko Topchii’s lesson- Introduction & Vivace. Topchii shares his approach to playing Introduction & Vivace by Nikita Koshkin.
Watch Topchii On Intro. & Vivace
VIDEO HIGHLIGHT: Prelude “Asturias” by Sabrina Vlaskalic
This week’s highlight features an incredibly popular piece- Prelude or “Asturias” by Albeniz.
Sabrina Vlaskalic begins by addressing the confusion around the name of the piece and goes on to thoroughly demonstrate the piece!
Watch Vlaskalic On Prelude
It’s the last week of the first month of the year- can you believe it?! Okay, but really, in slightly less confusing terms, we can’t believe how quickly the weeks are blowing by.
Here at tonebase we’re spending our time building, onboarding new artists, filming new videos, and keeping you all updated along the way! If you didn’t catch our very own Chris Garwood’s excursion to NAAM (where he saw a ton of incredible guitars and guitarists) be sure to catch some of the aftermath over on our instagram page!
In other news, we were featured by the Yale News where Igor and Chris deep dive on what tonebase is all about, and we’re gearing up the platform and adding a bunch of new designs and features as we move towards tonebase Premium.
We’re looking forward to launching, but before that we’re exciting to bring you the tonebase Forums this week- a place for you to engage with the tonebase community and meet fellow guitar enthusiasts. A place to discuss anything and everything tonebase/Classical Guitar, and a place where you can win some awesome swag with our Monthly giveaways.
Stay tuned for that and more soon- in the meantime, have an incredible week and just keep on keepin’ on!
Signing Out,
Abhi, Chris & Igor
the tonebase team
