When you learn Cavatina hands together from the start, the melody tends to lose its tone and direction before you've had a chance to shape it. Xuefei Yang shows how playing the melody alone, with a rest stroke and the mindset of a duet partner, builds the sound image you'll spend the rest of your practice trying to match.
Before becoming a 20th-century guitar classic, this piece was originally written by Stanley Myers for the piano. It was first featured in the 1970 British crime drama film, The Walking Stick and popularized as the main theme of the 1978 war drama, The Deer Hunter. John Williams transcribed this piece for the guitar and turned it into a staple of the contemporary guitar repertoire. In this lesson, Xuefei Yang, John Williams' most widely acclaimed protegee, dives into aspects of musicianship and technique.
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