Lesson: The Spider – Left Hand Exercise
Lesson of the week: “The Spider” Left Hand Finger Independence and Stretch Exercise. This exercise comes from one of the most popular books for the classical guitar: Pumping Nylon by American guitarist…
Sanel Redžić Plays Five Bagatelles by Walton
Sanel Redžić plays Five Bagatelles (1971) by English composer William Walton (1902-1983). This comes via Redžić’s YouTube. Great video and awesome to have all five of the Walton pieces in one…
Nina Bernert (12) Plays Phantasia by Kellner
Always nice to feature youth players on the site as we might hear them again down the road and they deserve so much praise for their hard work. 12 year…
Isaac Bustos plays Lágrima by Tárrega
The amazing guitarist Isaac Bustos plays Lágrima [Tear] – Preludio by Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909). Beautiful performance of this short and sweet classic by Tarrega. Audio and video by the great Canadian guitarist and…
Lesson: Shifts and String Noise on Guitar
This is from my Lesson of the Week segment of the site. A lesson on shifts and string noise for classical guitar using Ricardo Iznaola’s Kitharologus: The Path to Virtuosity (Amazon).…
Tatyana Ryzhkova Warm-up Lesson
Belorussian guitarist Tatyana Ryzhkova gives a nice lesson on melodic work, tremolo, and other warm-up exercises. This comes via her popular YouTube Channel. I haven’t been posting her lesson videos but…
Josh Moore plays Sonata #4 by Santórsola
American guitarist Josh Moore plays Sonata No. 4 Italiana (1977) by Italian-born Brazilian-Uruguayan composer Guido Santórsola (1904–1994). This comes via Guitar Salon International via their YouTube on a 2016 Luis…
Lesson: Left Hand Finger Independence for Guitar
Lesson of the week: Left Hand Finger Independence. This exercise comes from one of the most popular books for the classical guitar: Pumping Nylon by American guitarist Scott Tennant. It’s a great…
Sanja Plohl Plays Maxixe by Barrios
Slovenian-born (Madrid based) guitarist Sanja Plohl plays Maxixe by Paraguayan guitarist/composer Agustín Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). One of Barrios’ folk-flavoured dances with plenty of fun chord and scale work. It’s pieces like…
Anton Baranov plays Carillon by Terzi
Russian guitarist Anton Baranov plays Carillon by Italian composer/guitarist Benvenuto Terzi (1892-1980). Cute piece, rather silly really but looks like a good etude for left hand slurs and right hand harmonics…
Chia-Wei Lin Plays The Tango Impressions by Pasieczny
Chia-Wei Lin Plays Marek Pasieczny’s The Tango Impressions: Tribute to the Art of Astor Piazzolla (2008). This comes via Marek Pasieczny’s YouTube. You can get the score from his website. Wild piece,…
Lesson: Etude No.1 by Villa-Lobos
A full video lesson tutorial for Etude No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) for classical guitar. I go through 4 main ideas, the right hand fingering, left hand fingering, how…