Lesson No. 1 – Right Hand Walking (Alternating) – From my pdf book 20 Favorite Exercises for Classical Guitar for beginner to intermediate classical guitarists. Includes: notation, TAB, fingerings, practice tips, video lessons. YouTube Video Lesson Link. Here is lesson No.…
Matthew McAllister was just in Victoria and gave some great advice and tips to my students. So grateful for his sharing and care for the music. Matthew has a real nice touch on the instrument and I love this performance…
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 see the composer in the video. Far too often composers…
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 the topic or books myself but I did ask and…
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 guitars without a raised (elevated) fingerboard. They are simply easier…
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. However, I find it a bit odd because who ever…
Also see this page: Classical Guitars for Sale and Recommend Factory Guitars Since I’m a player and not a luthier I will fill out this article with quotes from reputable luthiers and guitarists. Sometimes these quotes can be out of…
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 special. Gabriel Bianco plays mov.1 from Sonata Op.61 for guitar…
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 guitarists who’s been taking competitions by storm. He also has…
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 of study onward (I would move that down to one…
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 has a dedication and resembles the style of the dedicati…
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 wiki page suggests, is similar to Weiss in many ways.…