Here’s a lesson on trills in music, an ornamentation lesson presented on classical guitar. The focus here is on early music trills. I’ll be making many ornamentation lessons but I’ve started with trills since they are both very common and…
Q&A Lesson of the Week – Ornaments During Slower and Early Stages of Learning a Piece. This was a Q&A via email from one of the site’s followers. Youtube Video Link. A discussion and lesson about adding ornaments during the…
A Lesson on Muting Strings During Cross-String Trills – In this lesson I cover the difference in technique and sound between single-string trills and cross-string trills as well as the resulting pitch and harmonic intervals. Not muting your cross-string trills…
This classical guitar lesson on grace notes and ornaments in general is brought to you by Strings By Mail (thanks!) and the excellent Gohar Vardanyan. There many different types of grace notes and ways to play them but this is a nice introduction…
Grammy winner Jason Vieaux lectures and demonstrates his methods of ornamentation in the music of Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via the GFA Channel on YouTube. Nice video with the music notation below, dang I have to…
A lesson on Baroque ornamentation from Scott Morris. As he says, this is a good jumping point and introduction to ornamentation. The video was made via Guitar Salon International. He’s playing the Sarabande from Bach’s unaccompanied flute partita, BWV 1013.…