Yair Avidor performs Sarabande and Double by French lutenist François Dufault (c.1604-1672) on an 11-course lute by Paul Thomson. This comes via his great YouTube channel. Dufault was a student of Denis Gaultier (c.1597-1672), but very little is known about his life. There are only a…
Exploring the Fretboard No.21-22: Comparing 1st Position to 13th Position 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 amount of ordered material and a…
Les Productions d’OZ with the help of Louis Trépanier have enlisted numerous guitarists to perform and record the complete Les 100 de Roland Dyens on YouTube. The set is 100 intermediate level creative works composed by the late Roland Dyens.…
Tariq Harb performs El Colibri by Argentinian composer and guitarist Julio Sagreras (1879–1942) on classical guitar. This comes via Harb’s fantastic YouTube channel. As Harb mentions, “It is a virtuosic composition written for the classical guitar that is meant to imitate the hummingbird.” Zippy performance…
Kanahi Yamashita performs Nocturne “Reverie” Op.19 by Giulio Regondi (1823–1872). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their Youtube channel. Great to hear another performance by Kanahi Yamashita. Wonderful phrasing and flowing lines as well as a lovely tremolo section. I’ve featured Yamashita on a number of occasions which…
Exploring the Fretboard No.17-20: Four Exercises on the High E 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 students a set amount of ordered material and…
Exploring the Fretboard No.16: Comparing 1st Position (Open) to 13th Position 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 amount of ordered material and…
Exploring the Fretboard No.15: Comparing 1st Position (Open) to 12th Position 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 amount of ordered material and…
The Montenegrin Guitar Duo with Goran Krivokapić and Danijel Cerović perform their arrangement of English Suite No.3, BWV 808 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), originally for keyboard. This comes via Goran Krivokapić’s YouTube channel. He’ll be releasing new movements each…
A Dream of Colour Music Inspired by the Paintings of William Blair BruceEmma Rush, Classical Guitar Buy the Album at Emma Rush’s Store. Great to hear the latest album of new music commissions from Canadian classical guitarist Emma Rush. The…
Ukrainian classical guitarist Marko Topchii performs Prelude No.5 in B major by Konstantin Bliokh (b.1976). This comes via Topchii’s YouTube channel. Konstantin Bliokh was born in 1976 in Kharkov, Ukraine and he is currently living in Tokyo, Japan. This prelude comes from a…
Stephen Stubbs (Baroque guitar) performs Pavanas by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) and Fandango by Santiago de Murcia (1682-1739) with Maxine Eilander (harp). This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube. If you’d like to play some Sanz I have an extensive collection of his works on the…