Month May 2016

Review: Best Classical Guitars on Amazon

What is the best classical guitar to order online? I teach over 30 students each term at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and I’ve seen a lot of good guitars and a lot of poorly built ones too. Of course…

Review: Pour guitare by Steve Cowan

Pour guitare by Steve CowanWith guest guitarist François BergeronArtist Website: stevecowanmusic.comRelease Date: 2016 Listen to Samples or Buy via Amazon: Pour Guitare by Steve Cowanor iTunes / CD Baby Canadian guitarist Steve Cowan recently released an album featuring a collection of works by…

Andrea Gonzalez Caballero Plays Ségoviana by Milhaud

Spanish guitarist Andrea Gonzalez Caballero plays Ségoviana, Op. 366 (1957) by French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). We are indeed lucky to have a piece written for guitar by Milhaud, a member of Les Six, also known as The Group of…

The Best Clip-on Tuner for Classical Guitar

Review: D’Addario Planet Waves NS Micro Tuner Clip-On.Small and compact, I never take this tuner off the guitar. I’ve had it on there for over a year. Works great, only $11. Metronome is only visual which could be useful for some…

Idea: built-in design for attaching guitar supports

An idea to integrate guitar support attachments into the design of classical guitars. Let’s do away with suction cups, clamps, and magnets and have it all part of the guitar. It would just be a small hole and then a…

Lesson: Grace Notes on Classical Guitar

This classical guitar lesson on grace notes and ornaments in general is brought to you by Strings By Mail (thanks!) and the excellent Gohar Vardanyan. There many different types of grace notes and ways to play them but this is a nice introduction…

Thomas Viloteau Plays Ponce’s Folia Variations & Fugue

French guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Variations and Fugue on ‘Folia de España’ (1929) by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This is one of a handful of monumental works for the guitar. This fantastic set of variations ends with a…

Sheu Pettit Duo play Brasilerinhas by Assad

The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo, Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit, playing Conversa de Botequim, the third movement of Clarice Assad’s Brasilerinhas. This comes via the great Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. Guitars: 2005 Pepe Romero Jr.; 1994 Miguel Rodriguez ‘Centenario’. “Brazilian-American Clarice Assad is a…

Lesson: Siciliano by Carcassi (beginner)

Siciliano (Sicilienne) for Classical Guitar by Matteo Carcassi (1792-1853)From: Classical Guitar Method Vol I • Beginner. Notation, 80 pg: Free PDFLevel: Easy, Beginner This lesson is for my graded repertoire lesson series which you can find halfway down the lesson…

Lesson: The Swan (Beginner Method)

The Swan for Classical GuitarFrom: Classical Guitar Method Vol I • Beginner. Notation, 80 pg: Free PDFLevel: Easy, Beginner This lesson is for my graded repertoire lesson series which you can find halfway down the lesson archive page. When I teach…

Lesson: Leyenda Theme (beginner method)

Asturias (Leyenda) Theme by Albeniz for Classical GuitarFrom: Classical Guitar Method Vol I • Beginner. Notation, 80 pg: Free PDFLevel: Easy, Beginner This lesson is for my graded repertoire lesson series which you can find halfway down the lesson archive page. When I teach guitar…

Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo Play Castelnuovo-Tedesco

The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo are Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit playing the 3rd movement of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo–Tedesco’s (1895–1968) Sonatina Canonica on two “pre-Millenium” guitars built by Thomas Humphrey (so-called because they pre-date his famous Millenium model guitars. Recorded…