Christopher Davis

Fernando Sor: Opus 60, Number 5

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Fernando Sor: Opus 60, Number 13

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A few quick recordings I did tonight. I’ve been teaching opus 60 a lot these past few months. Great little pieces with a lot of depth and plenty of musical stuff to work on.

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I love recording myself. I found so much stuff to work on just in this little prelude by doing so. Hope you like it!

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That’s a little chunk of Malcolm Arnold’s Fantasy. It comes back several times throughout the piece.

How I’m approaching it:

• Rhythmic Variations
• Slow/Fast Alternation
• I learned it early on with chaining

So far it seems to be working okay. I’ve never done anything like this before (huge melodic arpeggios) so it’s very unfamiliar. Need to perform it soon to see how it really holds up and evaluate from there.

The fifth variation of Giuliani’s Opus 107 is fantastic.

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Some more things to work out musically still, but that’s what I was practicing today. Can you tell I need to change my strings?

I’ve been seriously working on Opus 107 for about four weeks. Late in July, during the Fort Worth Guitar Guild’s summer festival, I heard this piece done in a masterclass for Lorenzo Micheli. I knew I needed to play it after hearing what Micheli did with the student. Still took me three weeks to get around to practicing it, however.

Right now the work is in a refinement stage. All the variations on learned, just trying to get all the little musical details nailed down. It’s really a great piece–lots of good stuff to dig into.

This is one of the pieces I played the WIU Guitar Festival. Great footage.

It’s kind of odd being on the other side of the wedding music thing. As I’m a composer (sort of), and my Fiancée is contributing her visual art skillz in making invitations, I thought I should creatively contribute to the wedding plans.

So here’s my first attempt. It’s an easy piece. AND infinitely repeatable (awesome for wedding musicians).

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(very quick recording, lots of flubs, but you get the idea).

See the music here (PDF)

This is something I wrote a while back. Needs a bit more development, I think. You can get the sheet music here.

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Here’s my lecture from the WIU Guitar Festival. It just goes over some basic tips on marketing and branding for musicians. The handout for the lecture is here.

This is one of a set of Four Pieces I wrote last year. The score will be available again eventually, I just need to do some editing and clean up the formatting.

A little bit of something that will probably become a short(ish) guitar piece. I believe I’m writing a set of preludes right now. The video is a bit…artsy. The Zoom Q3 does not do well in low light.