Q&A Part 1 of 3: General Questions for Classical Guitar and Music. Thanks to all my patrons and supporters who submitted questions. If you enjoyed this lesson please consider supporting the site. Here’s the YouTube link if you want to watch the video there. I held…
Irina Kulikova performs Ständchen by Franz Schubert (1797–1828) on a 2022 Ramin Fallah classical guitar. This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel. The arrangement is by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) who arranged many of Schubert’s lieder for solo guitar and often played guitar accompaniments…
Exploring the Fretboard No.32-33: Single String Exercises on the Fourth String, D Major and Triad, Eb Major, from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers students a…
Pastorale, No.15 from Studi facili per chitarra by Angelo Gilardino (b.1941-2022). Published by Edizioni Curci. The subtitle or etude description is: Monodia con suoni armonici sui tasti VII, IX, XII e polifonia (Monody with harmonics on the VII, IX, XII…
Canadian guitarist Adam Cicchillitti performs Prelude in C Minor by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Cicchillitti’s YouTube channel and recorded by Drew Henderson. Great performance by Cicchillitti with beautiful phrasing and pacing. One of the great preludes by Barrios, solemn but not without a few…
Exploring the Fretboard No.30-31: Comparing 1st Position to 13th Position and Major and Minor Triads on the Third String, from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers…
Thu Le and Alexandra Whittingham perform Prelude and Fugue in E Major from Les Guitares bien tempérées (The Well-Tempered Guitars), Op.199 which is a collection of 24 preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968). This comes via Whittingham’s YouTube channel and recorded…
Exploring the Fretboard No.28-29: Single String Exercises on the Third String, G Major and Triad, A Major, from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers students a…
Antonio Rugolo performs Estudio de Velocidad by Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909). This comes via his YouTube channel. Nice playing and phrasing by Rugolo of this etude by Tarrega that really pushes lots of single lines but also a number of other techniques. Rugolo is an Italian guitarist…
Exploring the Fretboard No.26-27: Comparing 1st Position to 13th Position and Comparing Major and Minor Triads, from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers students a set…
Michael Butten performs three works by Luys de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549) on classical guitar. This comes via the Omni Foundation for Performing Arts and their great Youtube channel. Great repertoire and performance by Butten, he explains his arrangement of the Glorioso in the Omni description, “I…
Exploring the Fretboard No.23-25: Single-String Exercises: Comparing E Major to E Minor Triads, B Major Scale, D Chromatic Scale, from my book Exploring the Fretboard: 100 Exercises for Intermediate Guitar. PDF sheet music with notation, left hand fingering, and video lessons. This book offers…