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This is a very popular book among my students and myself. The arrangements are great and perfect for intermediate students and for gigs too. The book includes notation and tablature (TAB) and are not often more than two pages per…
This book of Astor Piazzolla arrangments by Gary Ryan is super popular in my studio. The arrangements sound great slow or fast but are only rarely awkward or difficult. Although the book is for what Ryan calls ‘easy guitar’ be…
Two free major scale patterns for classical guitar. These are great for students learning their first moveable patterns. Some beginner students just need to get playing their major scales and reading the notation just isn’t getting through. While sprucing up…
This is a beautiful work by Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) and is by no means just a student work. In fact, some of the movements of the suite are quite difficult. However, this is a nice relaxed prelude that I…
A new section of the site is Gig and Student Works where I’ll be making videos of some of my favorite material for my students for casual gigs. I like this arrangement of Georgia On My Mind for guitar as…
Update: See the new RCM Classical Guitar Series 2018 2011 RCM Bridges Guitar SeriesI went out and bought the entire collection of the 2011 Bridges Guitar Series by the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and Frederick Harris Publishing. The price…
Buy or Learn more via Amazon:Giovanni Antonio Terzi: Arranged for Classical Guitar From the Publisher (Mel Bay): These selected works by Giovanni Antonio Terzi represent a last flowering of the lute fantasia in a motet-imitative style. They stand at a…
One of my favorite recommendations for contemporary works are these excellent etudes from Gerald Garcia. These etudes, as the composer suggests, are for the intermediate student from the third year of study onward (I would move that down to one…
Angelo Gilardino‘s Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza. Although the compositional style is very pattern-oriented and guitaristic the etudes are filled with a huge wealth of musical ideas. Each one has a dedication and resembles the style of the dedicati…
Mauro Giuliani’s (1781–1829) 120 Right Hand Arpeggio Studies (exercises) for the right hand – free sheet music in PDF format for classical guitar. This is from Giuliani’s Op. 1 titled Studio per la Chitarra. Giuliani was considered one of the…
Amazon Link: Essential Bach: Arranged for the Guitar Paperback: 116 pagesPublisher: Mel Bay Publications (December 14, 2012)Level: Intermediate to Advanced. Students could start with the cello works and go from there. Works included: Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007 Cello Suite No. 3,…
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar, from Cantata BWV 147. Comes with both a notation-only edition and a tab edition. The level is intermediate (Grade 4). YouTube Lesson…