Clip: Laura by David Raskin

Marco

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Sep 20, 2006, 5:33:41 PM9/20/06

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Hope you enjoy my : "Laura by David Raskin" at :

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=414662

There is some Morgen arr. (last JJG) and something arr. coming from me. I
used some "tremolo". I played tremolo much better when I was 15 years old,
now at 43 years I am trying to re-vamp it. This song re-call in my mind some
italian mandolin. Don't know why. Enjoy.

Marco

Gerry

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Sep 20, 2006, 5:58:36 PM9/20/06

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The name that is endlessly misspelled: David Raksin. Poor sod.
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What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.

Marco

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Sep 21, 2006, 2:18:19 AM9/21/06

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> The name that is endlessly misspelled: David Raksin. Poor sod.
> --
> What a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.

Updated. No more sod.

Ozzker

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Sep 21, 2006, 7:31:26 AM9/21/06

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Marco schreef:

> There is some Morgen arr. (last JJG) and something arr. coming from me. I
> used some "tremolo". I played tremolo much better when I was 15 years old,

Nice, I like the tremolo. How do you play that ? Do you use i,m,a on the
same string and melody with thumb ? I've been trying to play tremolo for
a while but gave up. I can't make it sound fluent, but maybe I should
practice harder :-)

regards,
Oz

Marco

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Sep 21, 2006, 8:25:41 AM9/21/06

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Ozzker wrote:

> Nice, I like the tremolo. How do you play that ? Do you use i,m,a on the
> same string and melody with thumb ? I've been trying to play tremolo for
> a while but gave up. I can't make it sound fluent, but maybe I should
> practice harder :-)
>
> regards,
> Oz

Classic Tremolo: a,m,i on the same high string and bass note with the
thumb or......as for Flamenco Tremolo: i,a,m,i on high string and bass
note with the thumb. There are other variations.

I suggest do not practice harder otherwise you stop after some days,
just 10' a day always is enough. Nail's shape are very important. You
should file the nail giving a shape that let the string escape easly,
the "nail hill shape" is not the best, better is the "wave shape" where
the nail is filed low in left side and high in the right side
(difficult to explain w/o pictures), so the slope is smooth and very
gradual and the string leave the finger/nail fast.

Thanks for listening!

Marco

ott...@hotmail.com

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Sep 21, 2006, 10:11:05 AM9/21/06

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Wow Gerry,

Unbelievable about David's name.
I goggled Raskin intentionally and it come up with Raksin anyway, the 2
names are almost synonymous by now.
Bg

ott...@hotmail.com

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Sep 21, 2006, 10:14:04 AM9/21/06

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Sheesh my spelling sucks, of course, I could say that I wore my Goggles
while Googling and therefore it really is Goggling :-)

Nice work, Marco.

Bg

Marco

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Sep 21, 2006, 10:42:11 AM9/21/06

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ott...@hotmail.com wrote:

> Nice work, Marco.
>
> Bg

Thanks. I appreciate you listening!

Marco

Gerry

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Sep 21, 2006, 11:12:49 AM9/21/06

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On 2006-09-20 23:18:19 -0700, "Marco" <m.nospam...@tin.it> said:

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>> The name that is endlessly misspelled: David Raksin. Poor sod.
>

> Updated. No more sod.

I was referring to Raksin as the poor sod. I heard him on an NPR
interview 20 years ago and he pointed out that his name was misspelled
most of the time he saw it in print.

Marco

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Sep 21, 2006, 12:49:12 PM9/21/06

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"Gerry" <some...@sunny.calif> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:2006092108124975249-somewhere@sunnycalif...

> I was referring to Raksin as the poor sod.

Brother.....that was 100 % clear for me :-)