Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
I love watching these timelines of luthier work. It always amazes me the amount of time and fancy contraptions needed for building classical guitars. A construction timeline slideshow of luthier Peter Oberg building a Madagascar Rosewood and Bearclaw Cedar classical…
Kevin R. Gallagher teaches a lesson on Study No. 8 Op. 6, by Fernando Sor. Kevin is a great player and teacher, previous GFA winner, and does some online blogging and video posts as well. You can check out his site at:…
A flamenco influenced lesson on playing faster scales on the guitar. There’s not a huge difference between flamenco guitar and classical guitar but the hand position is sometimes a bit different. My students should note: If you think about the…
I like this video on so many levels. It’s simplicity and execution by the student but the same from the teacher. Say what must be said and do what must be done. Efficient practicing. I’ve heard nothing but excellent praise…
David Tanenbaum is one of the great guitarists, educators, and musical minds of our day. Love this footage of a masterclass at University of Arizona with student Steven Lerman. Video is of “An Malvina” by J.K. Mertz. You can see…
Adam Del Monte teaches about arpeggios and the right-hand on classical/flamenco guitar. Some nice explainations of the differences between flamenco and classical technique. Note to my students: Please be aware that Adam is a flamenco influenced player. You should possibly…
Basic Left Hand Technique Tip for beginner and intermediate classical guitarists.This is a video I made for my beginner students. It includes multiple camera angles. The left hand position in classical guitar is not that dissimilar to the right hand…
The great Pavel Steidl on Interpreting Music & Segovia. Some nice opinions, he’s right, we need to, at the very least, understand Segovia and his editions before disregarding anything. At least for the works where Segovia worked with the composer…
This is a video I made for my beginner students. It includes multiple camera angles and, more importantly, the viewing perspective of the player. I thought this would be more helpful than trying to imitate a teacher from across the…
Flamenco star Adam Del Monte gives a lesson on classical guitar tremolo. A nice video lesson on tremolo largely discussing pre-planting the right-hand fingers (useful in all right-hand guitar technique). Overall a great lesson, just keep in mind (especially my…
Ravi Shankar died the other day so a big thank you to him for all his great music and for inspiring an entire generation of musicians. Here he is with flamenco guitar star Paco de Lucia. They do switch to English after…
Love Russell’s relaxed feel for the music and his awesome ornaments. Part I and II is the suite. Courtesy of the Official DavidRussellGuitar.com website. Live 1995 – Part I: Allemande, courante, Angloise – Part II Sarabande, Menuet, Passacaille.