{"id":7577,"date":"2017-08-09T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2017-08-09T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T22:24:10","slug":"music-to-play-prelude-no-4-by-blue-yates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/music-to-play-prelude-no-4-by-blue-yates\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Play: \u2018Prelude No. 4\u2019 by Blue Yates"},"content":{"rendered":"
From the Fall 2017 issue of Classical Guitar<\/em><\/h6>\n

Click here to download a PDF of Prelude No. 4.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We asked English guitarist\/composer\/teacher Blue Yates to tell us a bit about himself and the piece we\u2019ve selected.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

My interest in classical guitar began when I heard Rodrigo\u2019s Concierto de Aranjuez<\/i> as a child. The music seemed so evocative and caught my imagination. I started playing guitar when I was 11 years old and completed my Grade 8 exam at age 17 in 1988. <\/span><\/p>\n

I continued to play for fun, but while living in Italy I found myself playing to some guests and their reaction took me by surprise. It seemed to me that at the time, classical-guitar music and musicians were regarded with more interest and respect in Continental Europe than in the UK. Inspired by this, and having worked in classical-music retail for some years, I decided to start a business as a professional guitar teacher and performer. <\/span><\/p>\n

As the business grew, I invested in recording equipment and a decent microphone, and made numerous trips to visit luthiers in Madrid. I started to write and record music and also to notate some of it, initially to offer some interesting repertoire to my students. This has continued and I established a sheet music imprint, Rekoba Editions, last year. <\/span><\/p>\n

My Blue Yates Guitar Tuition business has been successfully operating now for 14 years in the UK Midlands town of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, and in that time I have taught more than 150 students.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have always had a fascination with the work of South American composers such as Rodrigo Riera, Jo\u00e3o Pernambuco, and Antonio Lauro. While my collection of 12 Studies<\/i> is designed to develop specific technical qualities, the 6 Preludes<\/i> are a freer form, exhibiting melody and texture inspired, to some extent, by the sound of the guitar in South America, and offering the performer an opportunity to experiment with tonalities and other variations in articulation.<\/p>\n

This piece is about tonal contrast as much as anything, so when playing the repeats (or repeated sections) try to vary them. This could\u00a0be different fingerboard positions, varying tone from ponticello<\/i> to tasto<\/i> or dynamically. I have indicated some specific positions and kept others more open to interpretation.<\/p>\n

For more info and to purchase music, go to blueyates.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guidelines for submitting pieces for \u201cMusic to Play\u201d can be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Fall 2017 issue of Classical Guitar Click here to download a PDF of Prelude No. 4. We asked English guitarist\/composer\/teacher Blue Yates to tell us a bit about himself and the piece we\u2019ve selected. My interest in classical guitar began when I heard Rodrigo\u2019s Concierto de Aranjuez as a child. The music seemed so evocative and caught my imagination. I started playing guitar when I was 11 years old and completed my Grade 8 exam at age 17 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-musictoplay","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Blue-Yates-Prelude-No.-4-Classical-Guitar-Music-to-Play-Repertoire.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}