Reviews for classical guitar albums, gear, instruments and more.
The Shearer Method: Classroom Guitar Year 1 & 2by Aaron Shearer, Thomas Kikta, and Dr. Alan HirshReleased 2025 Buy the Books via Aaron Shearer Foundation The famous revised Shearer Method is now available as a Classroom Guitar series including a year…
New classical guitar albums, editions, gear, products, and compositions for 2026. Submit your content but beware that only a few submissions a year will make the list. I can’t list every new thing people do so it’s a lottery and…
Right Hand Fingering for Classical Guitar: Concepts and Case Studies. This book aims to give students a basic criteria for justifying fingering choices and gaining confidence in deciding fingering for themselves. The combination of concepts and case studies offers a…
Canadian classical guitarist Simon Farintosh has a new album of Christmas song arrangements in all 24 major & minor keys titled A Well-Tempered Christmas. Farintosh has completed such a creative and challenging project but also tastefully listenable as holiday album. With a…
Learn more or buy from UpGuitarbus Review: UpGuitarbus Stand and Support for Classical Guitar – I had a great time trying out the UpGuitarbus guitar stand and support from France. This is a high quality and fully adjustable guitar stand…
The Woodside Support is a highly adjustable guitar support with an excellent design and quality craftsmanship. It feels secure, stable, and comfortable. It also has varying degrees of guitar mobility while attached. It uses a reliable clamp system making it…
English guitarist and composer Laura Snowden has a new album filled with her own compositions to be released on October 24th, 2025. I’ve featured Snowden a number of times on the site playing more traditional guitar repertoire but this album…
Fake Press On Nails for Classical Guitar – In this video I demonstrate how to apply fake press on nails and look at three types of false nails that use double sided adhesive tape. These are are a no-glue nail…
About This Page: This page lists modern and contemporary works I’ve performed along with links to the videos and sheet music by external publishers when possible. This is not like my other sheet music pages but I do love modern…
The Life and Times of Catharina PrattenEmma RushWrite-up and Liner Notes Emma Rush has an interesting new album out with a repertoire theme centred around Catharina Pratten. As she mentions, “The Life and Times of Catharina Pratten includes seven previously…
A Review of the Guitarlift, The Back Mounted Guitar SupportGuitarlift Website and Store The Guitarlift has revolutionized classical guitar supports since its release. The back-mounted support works on a wider variety of guitars than most other supports and offers unprecedented…
What I Saw in the Water21st Century Works for Guitar Duo ChromaDuo with Rob MacDonald Tracy Anne SmithNaxos Records, 2024 Listen, Stream, Buy: What I Saw in the Water by ChromaDuo Learn more about the album via Naxos Wonderful to hear this…