Month December 2012

Classical Guitar Duets – Free Sheet Music (PDF)

On this page I’ve listed classical guitar duets for beginners, intermediates, and advanced guitarists. The sheet music is from this site as well as other publishers and trusted stores. Also keep an eye on my sheet music page as I’m…

Basic Right Hand Technique for Classical Guitar

This is a video I made for my beginner students. It includes multiple camera angles and, more importantly, the viewing perspective of the player. I thought this would be more helpful than trying to imitate a teacher from across the…

Classical Guitar Tremolo Lesson with Adam Del Monte

Flamenco star Adam Del Monte gives a lesson on classical guitar tremolo. A nice video lesson on tremolo largely discussing pre-planting the right-hand fingers (useful in all right-hand guitar technique). Overall a great lesson, just keep in mind (especially my…

Ravi Shankar with Paco de Lucia

Ravi Shankar died the other day so a big thank you to him for all his great music and for inspiring an entire generation of musicians. Here he is with flamenco guitar star Paco de Lucia. They do switch to English after…

David Russell plays Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Love Russell’s relaxed feel for the music and his awesome ornaments. Part I and II is the suite. Courtesy of the Official DavidRussellGuitar.com website. Live 1995 – Part I: Allemande, courante, Angloise – Part II Sarabande, Menuet, Passacaille.

Complete Solo Lute Works of John Dowland

Just got this yesterday and it’s a beauty! Nothing new, it’s a 1998 edition but I didn’t get around to buying until now. It’s an expensive one but I love reading right off the French tablature and couldn’t pass up getting…

Review: Viaggio by Jorge Amaral

Listen to samples or buy:Viaggio by Jorge Amaral via CD Baby, or Amazon Artist Website:www.jorgeamaral.com Tracks: D Minor Partita BWV 1004 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Invocation y Danza by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) Sonata Op. 47 by Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) I recently reviewed Duo Amaral’s Súplica praising…