My entry for the Steemit OpenMic Week 82 is a piece by the great Augustin Barrios Mangore. Barrios was a Paraguayan and he was born in 1885. This was his last piece that he wrote for the guitar.
The story goes that in 1944 while he was teaching his student he heard a knock on the door. When he opens it sees an old lady with her arm stretched out and he says to him “Una Limosna por el amor de Dios" -"An alm for the love of God" Barrios hands the lady a few coins and goes over to his student and says to him “I am working on a new piece and I know what I will do with it. I will incorporate the knocking at the door in the piece” Barrios died on August 7th 1944 and left the piece finished but without a title. When the student that was with him told this story, the piece was called "Una limosna por el amor de Dios"... for being Mangore's last composition, it is often called "El Ultimo Canto" -The last song-.
So you can basically hear the knocking of the door in the beginning of the piece and in carries on throughout the whole piece along with the melody, which is played using a Tremolo technique. This technique is a very difficult to execute well and it’s one of the most difficult technique on the guitar. It gives an illusion that there are two instruments being performed simultaneously. Obviously this is a very difficult illusion, so I decided to use it wisely by playing this here at the openmic...mainly to show how amazing the guitar can be. I’m quite sure that a lot of you would probably have not seen this technique.
All the best to all the participants and thanks to @luzcypher and all the sponsors of this contest!
