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3:33

Prelude No.4 - Villa Lobos

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2025/09/15

The piece is played on Roberts 2nd Hybrid guitar built when he was living in Nuremberg and working for Deliveroo. The guitar has a strutting structure of carbon fibre and is maple with a spruce sound board - effectively a white guitar with ebony saddle and nut with the Wittner pegs once again. Very distinctive looking and with a good sound across the range. Prelude No.4 is described by Turibio Santos as a Homage to the Brazilian Indians - the stillness of the opening theme contrasted with the...

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3:28

Living on Air

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2025/09/14

The diet some of the families in Gaza are having to live on is little more than Living on Air. There is a ( not well supported ) belief that a human can live on air and light alone: Breatharians ? The breatharian lifestyle requires that a person give up food and water altogether and live purely off prana, which they also call "living on light" or "living on air." Foremost Breatharian, Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, reportedly started today's breatharian movement. Her Prana Program adv...

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5:41

Prelude No.3 Villa Lobos

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2025/09/13

The piece is described by Turibio Santos in his book Heitor Villa Lobos and the guitar as a homage to Bach - and the second section certainly is.. I just think there is a bit of Django Reinhardt in there particularly in the chords and arpeggios of the first section. Villa Lobos was in Paris in the late 1920's - I think - its inconceivable to think that he didn't hear Django .. Anyway I like to think he did .. This prelude is played on the Alhambra guitar I use for teaching and Robert re-built...

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2:40

Bittersweet

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2025/09/12

Lifting some chords from Prelude No.3 by Villa Lobos this piece is a light tune - Fridays here!

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3:41

Prelude no.2 - Villa Lobos

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2025/09/11

The second of the 5 Villa Lobos " Preludes" recorded over the summer - A lot of finger squeak - too late for me to change a habit of a lifetime ! Also on Roberts Hybrid guitar - which has these wonderful witter planetary tuning pegs, a laser cut rosette based on a crop circle pattern and carbon fibre struts....I could go on but you get the idea.

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3:13

Blood from a stone

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2025/09/10

Most of your average Joe's ( I include myself in that !) think the employers of the world want blood from their employees - Most of the employers think their employees just don't give enough.

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4:54

Prelude No.1 - Villa Lobos

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2025/09/09

In the late 1960's, when I started to learn the Spanish guitar - as my teacher called it - the 5 preludes by Villa Lobos were concert pieces recorded by the great English players - John Williams, Julian Bream. I have played them for a long time and , as with pieces you get very familiar with, your own bits creep in. During this summer I went back to the sheet music and have recorded them. This first prelude is played on the Hybrid guitar my son Robert built in 2013 for his degree. It was call...

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4:24

Already been and gone..

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2025/09/08

Timing is everything - who you meet , who you fall for, where you end up - totally reliant on the time and place. It could even come down to a matter of seconds - right place - right time. That life changing episode you don't even realise is happening sometimes - its already happened.

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2:43

..and so it begins

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2025/09/07

After days of courses, meetings, training and safeguarding off we go again tomorrow .. I'm looking forward to a new term some new enthusiastic pupils and not too much IT training. I don't think the last would happen - wishful thinking on my part.

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3:29

Grace and Favour

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2025/09/06

In the UK this is indicative of some form of privilege. The wikipedia bit: A grace-and-favour home is a residential property owned by a monarch, government, or other owner and leased rent-free to a person as part of the perquisites of their employment, or in gratitude for services rendered.[1] Usage of the term is chiefly British.[1] In the United Kingdom, these homes are mostly owned by the Crownor a charity and, in modern times, are often within the gift of the prime minister. M...

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4:24

There you go ...

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2025/09/05

There you go .. what a weird expression that is - what does it mean ? It seems to be slightly dismissive, lets move on, type of phrase. The AI bit on google tells me: The phrase "there you go" is an idiom used in various contexts, typically meaning: Here is what you needed: It is often used when presenting something requested, e.g., "There you go, the complete works of William Shakespeare". To explain or justify: It can be used to justify a decision or action, e.g., "I needed their manpower, ...

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1:41

Song for Malcolm & Sarah

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2025/09/04

The second piece I played during the signing of the register in August 1985 was originally called Song for Sarah - I didn't include Malcolm as it felt a bit weird at the time. For the 40th anniversary I re-named the piece Song for Malcolm and Sarah.

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2:00

Spanish Ballad

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2025/09/03

In August 1985 I was asked to play at a wedding. In August 2025 I played at the couple's 40th wedding anniversary - the Ruby Wedding. It was a lovely occasion with children, grandchildren and friends of old all in attendance. The piece I know and learned as a Spanish Ballad is better known as Romanza.

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6:41

Now and again

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2025/09/03

Amidst all the turmoil we, at the bottom of the pile, have to try and remain as human as we can despite the inhumanity so often being shown by the great and good who lead us.

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4:05

The Stress of Success ?

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2025/09/02

Stress and Pressure is there in so many things we all do - from work, home, relationships, children, relatives anything we care about - Oh Lord - this was meant to be a positive contribution. Maybe just put it all into perspective ( whatever that means?)

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3:30

Saving Face

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2025/09/01

This tune was called Saving Grace - for the meaning of the phrase - the one saving grace that prevents something being completely bad. Robert Plant has a new album called Saving Grace - absolutely nothing to do with this piece. I've renamed it Saving Face - it was an attempt to re-work something that I wasn't very happy with.

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4:03

Do what you wanted to do

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2025/08/31

Over the summer I've met a few oldies ( like myself) who harp back to the good old days and what they could have done if only etc etc etc..... The message seems to be - you gotta do want you want to do . Nobody really cares about what you do as much as you do. This is an upbeat tune to reflect that self evident truth

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3:45

The wrong end of the stick

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2025/08/30

When you look this up there are many versions or interpretations - but they all come back to the same thing; you've misunderstood something. Day to day life usually rumbles along happily enough until these tension points : a misunderstanding, a chance to become an email warrior and go at someone full on. There are two tension points in this piece, one close to the beginning one near the end - the rest is a doddle, gently meandering along .

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3:13

A Way of life or just a bad habit

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2025/08/29

Many endeavours we undertake have little what is called "value added" to society. I'm really not sure that matters.

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6:42

Art of the put down

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2025/08/28

Quickness of thought and tongue is something I was not blessed with. Some teachers and parents have the ability to wither their charges to nothing with just one short phrase. I think the damage it does to their victims is awful - humiliation doesn't seem to be a great tactic in managing any relationship. I'm probably wrong - I usually am about these things

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