Pascal Proust's Blog (16)

Arcticle initially posted on my Facebook page, The Acoustic Corner.

Photos by Mathilde Lacazette.…

That's it! I've finally started a public page - in English - on Facebook dealing with acoustic guitar and music : The Acoustic Corner.

Therefore, you're abviously all invited to join in and like my page! I'll post links, videos, and any kind of information about acoustic music: instruments (not only guitar), styles, gigs, musicians, press etc. Of…

I'm very proud to announce that the video of Yesterday's…

Have some of you seen the P. T. Anderson movie Magnolia (1999)? The topic of this melodrama deals with chance/fate, interections between people even if they are not directly related to each other. On some of the posters of this film, you read…

That's it! talented French artist Gaëlle Buswel has now her official website :

http://www.gaelle-buswel.fr

It has been online since January 20. Most of pages are in French, but…

To all the Acoustic Guitar fellows here :

Happy Holidays to…

That's it! After 3 weeks of hard work (but pretty faster than expected), I'm almost done with Heitor Villa-Lobos' Prelude n°1. There are still a few things to work on, but nothing impossible, I guess within a week or two it'll be ok technically, and I'll really start working on the final, personnal touch : nuances and interpretation. Last Friday, when I saw my…

I've finally got a home recorder!!! and a 8-track one : Tascam DP-008 :)))

I just can't wait to get this TASCAM DP-004, 4-track portable recorder!!! When I get it I'll be able to record whatever I play, covers with personnal arrangements and also my own tunes. It may take a little while until I have some pieces ready, but be sure I'll share them with you on here…

That's it! I finally gone a step forward in my guitar studies, whatever the style, and thanks to my (hard) work on classical guitar pieces. On Friday, my guitar teacher and I met up after 5 weeks off. Before going away on vacation, he let me free to keep working on whatever I wanted, and just told me to work a little on flamenco improvisation, but…

I don't know about the quality but, at least, the effect pedals by Jam Pedals look pretty cool! ^^…

Today, at the end of my weekly guitar lesson, my teacher told me that he'd like to present me for an audition next year. So I'll choose, or we'll choose together, a solo piece on steel string guitar or classical guitar, no matter the style of music. Then I'll study within a year and I'll go to the audition. I take it as a nice challenge, but I'm also a bit nervous - already! - about it. Indeed, I guess playing at an audition isn't like playing in front of a regular audience. There may be…

Practice is really worth it. Today I can finally play bossa nova standard Samba De Uma Nota So (One-Note Samba) almost well. The transciption I've got has a part featuring a classic bossa chord-melody progression (with 4-string chord patterns), with a bossa…

Tomorrow here in France, it'll be music day, as it's always been on every June 21 since 1981. It's a big celebration all over the country, with many free gigs everywhere on the streets. Here in Tours, there are a lot of amateur and pro musician (Mick Jagger even owns a mansion nearby!!). I'm posting this message today because, obviously, I'll be wandering around downtown tomorrow evening!!! ^^ Do you guys have same kind of celebration in your countries?

Here are some exerpts…

Hi all!

15th international guitar festival in Vendôme, France (Loire Valley, nearby Tours), from April 30th to May 7th, 2011. In addition to gigs, master classes…