Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

Q&A Lesson: Feeling Stuck when Practicing Music

Q&A Lesson: Feeling Stuck when Practicing Music (and other tips for classical guitar). Thanks to all my patrons and supporters who submitted questions. If you enjoyed this lesson please consider supporting the site. Question & Answer Times Other Links Mentioned in the Video…

Allegro, No.13, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani

Allegro in A Minor, No.13, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) – Lesson, Performance, and Sheet Music. This is from my PDF or hardcopy sheet music edition for classical guitar: Le Papillon, No. 1-32, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani. Grades 1-7 and includes both a notation-only edition…

Allegretto, No.12, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani

Allegretto in C Major, No.12, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) – Lesson, Performance, and Sheet Music. This is from my PDF or hardcopy sheet music edition for classical guitar: Le Papillon, No. 1-32, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani. Grades 1-7 and includes both a notation-only edition…

Segovia Op. 29 by Albert Roussel

Ségovia Op. 29 (1925) by French composer Albert Roussel (1869-1937). Performed by Lorenzo Micheli via his great YouTube channel. Ségovia Op.29 was composed in 1925 and dedicated to Andrés Segovia and was the only work for guitar by Roussel. The…

Barrios Guitar Sheet Music

Un sueño en la floresta by Barrios

Un sueño en la floresta by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) for Classical Guitar – Un sueño en la floresta (A Dream in the Forest) was written in 1917 and recorded by Barrios in 1929. One of the most famous of Barrios’s…

KNA UP-2 Piezo Pickup for Classical Guitar

KNA Up-2 Piezo Pickup for Classical Guitar

KNA UP-2 Piezo Pickup with Volume Control For Classical Guitar or Any Acoustic InstrumentLearn More at KNA Buy from Amazon Contact or stick-on piezo pickups have been around for a long time but I’m very happy to see the inclusion…

Goran Krivokapić Plays Sonata del Decamerón Negro by Brouwer

Goran Krivokapić performs Sonata del Decamerón Negro (Guitar Sonata No. 3) by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer (b.1939). This comes via his excellent YouTube channel. Sonata No.3 is dedicated to the Greek guitarist Costas Cotsiolis, and first published in 2012. Not…

Grazioso, No.11, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani

Grazioso in C Major, No.11, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) – Lesson, Performance, and Sheet Music. This is from my PDF or hardcopy sheet music edition for classical guitar: Le Papillon, No. 1-32, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani. Grades 1-7 and includes both a notation-only edition…

Rebeca Oliveira Plays Improvisacion, Op.1 by Fortea

Rebeca Oliveira performs Improvisación, Op.1 by Spanish composer and guitarist Daniel Fortea (1878–1953). This comes via her great YouTube channel. Excellent performance by Oliveira with a refined rhythmic feel and crisp, clean playing throughout. Sensible musicality but exciting too. Also, I feel I learn something about…

Allegro, No.10, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani

Allegro in D Major, No.10, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) – Lesson, Performance, and Sheet Music. This is from my PDF or hardcopy sheet music edition for classical guitar: Le Papillon, No. 1-32, Op.50 by Mauro Giuliani. Grades 1-7 and includes both a notation-only edition…

Bor Zuljan Lute Concert

Bor Zuljan Lute Concert “Il liuto cromatico”

Slovenian lutenist Bor Zuljan gives a full concert titled “Il liuto cromatico” for the recorded for the online festival of the Lute Society of America. This comes via Zuljan’s YouTube channel. Excellent concert programme with the chromatic theme connecting the…

Capirola Lutebook for Guitar

Capirola Lutebook Volume 1

Capirola Lutebook Volume 1: La Vilanela, Balletto, Canto Bello, Gentil Prince by Vincenzo Capirola (1474–c.1548). PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar. Left hand fingering. Comes with both a fingered edition and unfingered edition. This is a notation edition and fingered…