The Miscelanea Guitar Quartet via Aesthis Records have been putting out very high quality videos with some great playing. For this one they are playing Apophis by Marios Joannou Elia. It’s nice to actually…
After last week’s theme of “Instruments & Design” I’ve had a few people contact me regarding resources so I thought I’d just make a post. However, I don’t know too much about…
Elevated Fingerboard (or raised fingerboard) is actually a bit of misleading name as it’s the top of the guitar that slopes down. Nevertheless, I will never go back to playing…
My experience with soundports: Sound portals are a bit strange at first because you’ll hear a whole new range of overtones, not to mention a volume increase while you play.…
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Amazing playing by the excellent Gabriel Bianco . I love his clean playing, control over the sound, and highly expressive performance. He is great at pacing himself and making certain moments very…
I’ve featured Tariq Harb on Classical Guitar Canada on many occasions but rarely here on this is classical guitar. He’s excellent and certainly a one of my favorite upcoming professional…
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…
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…
Theme of this week: The German Baroque (click to see all posts). Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676–1754) is the last composer I’ll feature on this week’s theme of the German Baroque. His music, as his…
Theme of this week: The German Baroque. Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787) wrote some amazing works of beauty that are not often played. One reason for this is the unavailability of this works. To…
Theme of this week: The German Baroque (click to see all posts). Adam Falckenhagen (26 April 1697 – 6 October 1754) was a German lutenist and composer. He travelled around from court to…