Nina Fourie Gouws

This is Nina Fourie Gouws, AKA Nina_Guitar. I wrote about her earlier.
Nina is a South-African guitarist. Active as a concert player as well as a guitar lecturer at Stellenbosch Konservatorium where she teaches pre-undergraduate and undergraduate practical music studies, accompaniment, repertoire studies and teaching methodology.

Nina plays a cedar top concert guitar with, as you can see in the picture above, a beautiful back.

Nina is very active on Instagram where I found all photos in this post – taken by Marnhe Grové. Among other things, she uses Instagram to keep herself motivated and to share her ideas about practising .

Last year she challenged herself with a so-called # 100daysofpractice in which she posted a video of her progress every day. This year she is doing something similar but reduced the challenge to # 40daysofpractice. Below you can watch day 32: a short video from Asturias, recorded by candlelight due to a power outage.

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Day 32 of #40daysofpractice . We are currently experiencing rolling blackouts (power cuts) throughout South Africa and as a result I lost the footage I recorded earlier today. As you can imagine my frustration levels are rather high BUT a promise is a promise, so here is a short practice clip of Asturias by candlelight recorded with my old iPhone 5 🤦🏻‍♀️ . Tomorrow the sound and footage will be back to normal. Have a great Sunday everyone and thank you for listening! ✨ . 🕯️Piece: Asturias from Suite Española (Op. 47) for piano by Albéniz. Guitar transcription by Segovia with revisions by myself🕯️ . #classicalguitar #guitar #accousticguitar #Spain #albeniz #strings #musiciansofinstagram #asturias #femaleguitarist #classicalmusic #womanguitarist #classicalmusicians #electricguitar #guitargirl #fingerstyle #guitarstagram #classicalguitarist #pickariff #guitarlicks #musician #instaguitar #guitarsarebetter #guitarsdaily #guitarra #lickwars #riffwars #instaguitarist #loadshedding #candles

A post shared by Nina Fourie-Gouws (@nina_guitar) on Feb 2, 2020 at 10:50am PST

Keep it up Nina, only 8 more days to go!