Slovenian guitarist Uros Baric plays a variety of Christmas tunes: Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard), Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (John Frederick Coots / Haven Gillespie) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Johnny Marks). If you don’t know Uros Baric yet he…
French Collection by Matthew McAllisterBaros Records, 2015Artist Website: matthewmcallister.comProduced and engineered by Uros Baric.Learn more or buy the album I’m very happy to introduce you to a new album by our good friend, Scottish guitarist Matthew McAllister. Matthew has been…
Matthew McAllister gives a lesson in practicing guitar musically. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their fantastic YouTube channel. Here’s a great lesson about listening and practicing in a musical way. Practicing technique will only take you so far, you must engage…
Performing Baroque Music on the Classical Guitar: a practical handbook based on historical sourcesby Peter CrotonPaperback: 240 pagesPublisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 15, 2015)Author’s Website: peter-croton.com Look inside the book or buy: Performing Baroque Music via Amazon There are…
Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar Volume 1 – Solo Fingerstyle Arrangements with Lyrics & Chords. Includes Two Editions: Notation Only & Notation + TAB. Easy melody + bass notes + common shapes, 1st position. These are basically just the melody…
Liying Zhu plays Étude No. 2 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). I featured Liying Zhu last week playing Barrios tremolo. I’m so impressed with the combination of accuracy and musicality. Love the mild echo on the repeats yet awesome maintenance of…
The Contemporary Guitar by John SchneiderRevised and Enlarged Edition (August 20, 2015)Paperback, Hardcover, or eBook: 360 pagesLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 20, 2015) Look Inside the Book or Buy: The Contemporary Guitar (Amazon.com) The contemporary concert guitar scene, its…
Once again we hear Enea Leone play Allegro BWV 1005 by Bach. The previous video (shown again at the bottom) was filled with amazing cool shots from inside the guitar, multiple angles, changing perspectives and more! Looks like he reuses…
Christoph Prégardien (tenor) & Tilman Hoppstock (guitar) performing What Power art thou from “King Arthur” by English composer Henry Purcell (1659–1695) at Darmstädter Gitarrentage 9.12.2011. Performing a program with Purcell, Giuliani, Schubert. I’ve always loved Purcell on the guitar as it’s just thin…
Grammy winner Jason Vieaux lectures and demonstrates his methods of ornamentation in the music of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via the GFA Channel on YouTube. Nice video with the music notation below, dang I have to…
Tatyana Ryzhkova performs Prelude from BWV 998 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). I mainly posted this one for the spectacular setting of the video, although the playing is also good, maybe a bit too Romantic but that is more a…
Bidla – Agnew McAllister DuoAisling Agnew (Flute), Matthew McAllister (Guitar) Artist Websites: agnewmcallisterduo.com, matthewmcallister.com, aislingagnew.com Release Date: June 15, 2015Editor, Producer, Artwork: Uros BaricIn Collaboration with Baros Records Buy or Listen to Samples: Bidla on Amazon Repertoire: Sonata in G Major…