Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 100,000 subscribers and 14 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

Study No.15, Op.35 by Fernando Sor

Study No.15, Op.35 by Fernando Sor (1778 – 1839). PDF sheet music and free lesson video for classical guitar. This performance and lesson comes from my book Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6 – Five pieces at the grade six level with…

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Tengyue Zhang Concert via Omni Foundation

Tengyue Zhang performs a live concert at St. Marks Lutheran Church in San Francisco, CA on February 22nd, 2021. This comes via the Omni Foundation online series and their Youtube channel. Opening act is Conor Padmanabhan and Zhang is later joined by…

Il Mio Tesoro by Mozart, arr. Pratten (PDF, Lesson)

Il Mio Tesoro from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Arrangement by Catharina Josepha Pratten (1824-1895), also know as Madame Sidney Pratten. Video lesson and performance. Sheet Music for Classical Guitar with both a notation-only edition and a tab edition.…

Preludio from Sonate VII by Roncalli

Preludio from Sonate VII in D Minor by Ludovico Roncalli (1654 -1713). PDF or hardcopy sheet music and free video lesson for classical guitar. This performance and lesson comes from my book Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6 – Five pieces at…

Evgeny Beleninov C.P.E. Bach Sonata

Evgeny Beleninov plays his transcription of Sonata Wq. 55/3 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), originally for keyboard. Sound and Video by Jakob Schmidt. This comes via Beleninov’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Evgeny Beleninov is a Russian guitarist based in Berlin.…

Fortune, My Foe by Dowland for Classical Guitar

Fortune, My Foe (Poulton No.62) by John Dowland (1563-1626). PDF or hardcopy sheet music with free video lesson for classical guitar. This lesson comes from my book Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6 – Five pieces at the grade six level with…

Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6

Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6

Classical Guitar Repertoire Lessons Grade 6 – PDF or Hardcopy Method Book with dedicated lessons and pieces in notation with fingering. A TAB supplement at the end includes the pieces (not the lessons). Before each performance edition there are two or three pages…

Klaudyna Żołnierek Performs Robert de Visée

Klaudyna Żołnierek Performs Prelude, Sarabande, and Chaconne in A Minor by Robert de Visée (1655-1733) on Theorbo. This comes via her YouTube channel. Nice to see more and more theorbo performances being posted online. Great performance here by Żołnierek who…

Austin Classical Guitar Presents HOPE

Austin Classical Guitar recently presented a live stream concert devoted to hope. It was a big international event featuring 16 artists from around the world (see performer list below) and full length concert at 1 hour 24 minutes. Each artist gives a…

Lesson: Combining Exercises and Fingerboard Knowledge

Lesson: Combining Exercises and Fingerboard Knowledge for Classical Guitar – The initial shift exercise is from page 70 of my Classical Guitar Technique book. I then add slurs to the exercise followed by a discussion about mapping out the octaves and…

Lesson: Note Review, Sight Reading The Imitation Game

Beginner Lesson: Note Review and Sight Reading The Imitation Game. This is from page 63-64 my free PDF Method: Classical Guitar Method Vol. 1. All the lessons for the book are listed at the download page. This book teaches classical and…