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Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness. This is like YouTube but with a handpicked quality filter.

Classical Guitar Tremolo Lesson with Adam Del Monte

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 with Paco de Lucia

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…

David Russell plays Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Have been thinking of Weiss this month. As I was working on a Bach cello suite and adding notes etc, I kept thinking: why not play actual lute music. Love Weiss, especially at morning and night (?). Love Russell’s relaxed…

Vladimir Gorbach plays Llobet

Another nice one from Vladimir Gorbach via gfavideo Variaciones sobre un tema de Fernando Sor, Op. 15 composed by Miguel Llobet (1878-1938) performed by Vladimir Gorbach July 3, 2011 – Legacy Hall Columbus State University 2011 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert…

European Guitar Quartet play Verano Porteno by Piazzolla

Video Link:  This is great, sounds much more like a band rather than a strict arrangement. Get’s a bit hairy at times but it just adds to the mood. Cool group with some great players. Zoran Dukic, Pavel Steidl, Thomas Fellow…

Aniello Desiderio playing Scarlatti

video link: I’ve YouTubeing Scarlatti to get ideas for a student of mine. Yes, this guy is pretty awesome. Aniello Desiderio playing Scalatti Sonata in D minor K1/L366… I believe he’ll be at this year’s GFA if you’re there…

Johannes Möller plays Asturias

I bet if I keep posting videos of this piece I could easily reach over a couple hundred videos by professional. If I included students maybe even millions. Who wants to hear Asturias one million times? Jokes aside, it’s always…

Milos Karadaglic plays Libertango by Piazzolla

Milos Karadaglic, from Montenegro, is the real deal and he’s debatably one of the most famous guitarists of recent years. His recent album for Deutsche Grammophon topped the classical charts around the world and sold over 100,000 copies in less…

Kuang Junhong plays Bach Chaconne

J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from the D minor partita played by the youth guitarist Kuang Junhong. This kid is awesome, no doubt about it. It’s very exciting to see the level of youth guitarists these days. It pretty much ensures that…