Easy Celtic Guitar Volume 1 for Fingerstyle or Classical Guitar – PDF sheet music with six easy-intermediate arrangements of popular Celtic melodies. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate tab edition. Song list includes:…
Belmin Okanović plays Study No. 24, Op. 29 by Fernando Sor (1778–1839). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube Channel where Okanović is playing on a on a 2005 Jean-Noël Rohé. Some nice phrasing and highlighted melodic playing by Okanović. This is one of Sor’s…
Liying Zhu plays by Rondeau de Concert Op. 12 Napoléon Coste (1805–1883). This comes via GuitarCoop and their fantastic YouTube Channel. Liying Zhu is one of my favourite guitarists of our time, amazing virtuosity mixed with elegant phrasing and dynamics put her in the…
Gohar Vardanyan (sponsored by Strings by Mail) performs and teaches a lesson for Etude No. 23, Op. 38 by Napoléon Coste (1805–1883). This comes via her YouTube channel where she has been posting a number of etude lessons (check it out and subscribe). Vardanyan’s…
As many of you know, I play in the Victoria Guitar Trio with two of my closest friends and colleagues, Michael Dias and Adrian Verdejo. Over the years we’ve commissioned and performed many contemporary works by Canadian composers. Last year,…
Triple Canada! Canadian guitarist Jeffrey McFadden plays Cancion del fuego fatuo from El Amor Brujo by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) arranged by Emilio Pujol (1886–1980). Recorded by Canadian guitarist/producer Drew Henderson. This comes via McFadden’s great YouTube Channel. Possibly Canada’s…
Lorenzo Bernardi Plays Confesiòn by Paraguayan guitarist and composer, Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944). This comes via Bernardi’s Youtube Channel. Guitar made by Philip Woodfield. Some nice musical playing by this young Italian guitarist. “Also known as Confesión de Amor (Confession…
Vickers Bovey Guitar Duo (Julian Vickers & Daniel Bovey) play Prelude and Fugue in F# Minor from Les Guitares bien tempérées (The Well-Tempered Guitars), Op. 199 (24 preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, 1962) by Mario…
Alman by Robert Johnson (c.1583–1633) – Free PDF Sheet Music for Classical Guitar. Intermediate Level (Grade 6). Free Notation Edition & TAB Edition. Video Lesson Link on YouTube This edition of Alman (Allmayne) by Robert Johnson (c.1583–1633) is an arrangement…
Canadian guitarist Drew Henderson plays Caprice no. 6 from 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op. 1 by Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840). This comes via Henderson’s excellent YouTube channel. He has a large write-up on his YouTube about his personal experience with the…
Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 15 from Estudios SencillosYouTube Video Link (4k Quality) Sheet Music (complete etudes in one book) via amazon: Leo Brouwer Guitar Works Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s Etude No. 15 from Estudios Sencillos. I play the study and then give a lesson on musical and guitar…
Sanel Redžić plays Tango en Skaï by Roland Dyens (1955–2016). This comes via the Paris Guitar Foundation and their YouTube channel. The PGF Series, directed by Augustin Pesnon, showcases guitarists with quality videos. For this one, Redžić recorded and mastered the audio himself. Cool shots of Paris too!…