Aquarelle Guitar Quartet & Clarice Assad Play ‘A Mi Pueblo’ By Ismael Ledesma. This comes via their YouTube Channel where they wrote this: “A Mi Pueblo is a beautifully haunting piece of music written by the Paraguayan harpist Ismael Ledesma.…
Pavel Steidl plays Liebeslied by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via CaminoArtes in Camino de Santiago in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, Spain and their amazing YouTube channel. Liebeslied (love song) comes from Mertz’s Bardenklänge (Bardic Sounds), Op. 13. Beautiful playing as…
Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) – The complete works of Barrios for guitar are available from this excellent edition by Rico Stover. It’s such a great collection that I have little to add and so haven’t made my own versions for…
Trouble with 4th finger slurs (hammer-ons, pull-offs) and alignment on classical guitar? Here’s a lesson that should help. I take a look at a perfect finger placement first and follow it with the slur, it does wonders! YouTube Lesson Link.…
Matthew McAllister demonstrates an exercise which helps develop speed and movement on classical guitar. This comes via his amazing YouTube channel where he’s posted a number of other great lessons. Nice combination exercise here that places an extra check on speed…
Guitar Harmony by Dr. Alan Hirsh The Shearer Method Book 4 Buy or learn more at the Aaron Shearer Foundation I was very pleased to receive this copy of the new Guitar Harmony by Dr. Alan Hirsh. This is book…
Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon Plays Balada para Martin Fierro (Aire Sureño) by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez (1921–2010). This comes from the amazing GuitarCoop and their fantastic YouTube Channel. On this GuitarCoop page Zanon says of this work: “I first heard the Balada by Ariel…
Guitarist Xuefei Yang Plays Xodó da Baiana by Dilermando Reis (1916-1977). This comes via her great YouTube channel. The piece was also recorded by Xuefei on her album Colours of Brazil (Decca). Nice quick tempo and clean playing as always…
Roland Dyens Sheet Music for Classical Guitar. This page lists classical guitar sheet music and tab editions for Roland Dyens. Roland Dyens (1955–2016) was an influential French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger. Know for his amazing performance flare and abilities…
Matt Palmer plays the Andante from Sonatina by Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982). This comes via his great YouTube Channel and his sponsor, Strings by Mail. Expressive but still nice and clean playing. The guitar was a January 2016 model…
Recercar by Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) – Free PDF Sheet Music and Tab includes two editions: Notation Only & Notation with modern TAB. Sheet Music for Classical Guitar, PDF Download. Level: Early-Intermediate (Grade 3). All fingering and tab for 3rd…
Peter Graneis plays Courante from Suite XVIII (originally G major) by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Really nice playing here by Graneis with some excellent cross-string ornaments and clean, crisp but…