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 97,000 subscribers and 14 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.

Volume 2 Method: Menuet en Rondeau by Rameau (Duet)

C Major Duet: Menuet en Rondeau by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764). This lesson comes from my Classical Guitar Method Book Volume 2. The student plays the top part as a solo or duet. This work is originally for keyboard but arranged for…

Volume 2 Method: C Major Scales, Triads, Chords

Scales, triads, and chords in C Major. This lesson comes from my Classical Guitar Method Book Volume 2. This section presents knowledge and technique practice for the key of C major. These will be helpful for the duets, pieces, and chord…

Thomas Flippin Plays Nimble Feet by Florence Price

Classical guitarist Thomas Flippin performs his arrangement of Nimble Feet from Dances in the Canebrakes by Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953). This comes via Flippin’s YouTube channel. Wonderful performance by Flippin with such playful rhythms, articulations, and beautiful phrasing. Florence Price…

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Pastiches by John Schneider

Pastiches John Schneider, GuitarsMatthew Cook, Percussion Gloria Cheng, HarpsichordMicrofest Records, 2024 Buy or Learn about the Album via MicroFest Records or Listen on Spotify Great to hear the new release from Grammy Award winning guitarist John Schneider. Pastiches highlights an…

Partita No.16 by Giuseppe Brescianello

Partita No.16 in E Minor by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758). PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate tab edition in the same pdf. The level is late-intermediate (grade 6-8) depending…

Gabriel Bianco Plays Hungarian Fantasy by Mertz

French classical guitarist Gabriel Bianco performs Fantaisie Hongroise (Hungarian Fantasy) from Trois Morceaux op.65 (1857) by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel and played on a on a 1986 Daniel Friederich classical guitar. Fantastic performance by Bianco with a dramatic flair well-matched to the extroverted…

How to Prepare for a Music Performance

Graham Fitch gives a lesson on how to practise and prepare for a musical performance. I love Fitch’s lessons via Pianist Magazine on YouTube and very relevant to guitar practice. I watch his lessons all the time because thinking in terms of music…

Leccion No.66 by Julio Sagreras

Lección No.66 by Julio Sagreras (1879–1942) for classical guitar with performance, lesson, and pdf sheet music. This comes from my sheet music collection Grade 1 Repertoire Supplement for Classical Guitar. Contains 10 works at the grade 1 level and is designed as…

Carcassi Etudes Op.60, No.1-25 Complete

Complete Etudes No.1-25, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi (1796-1853) performed on classical guitar by Bradford Werner. This comes from my sheet music edition of 25 Etudes, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi. PDF or hardcopy sheet music for classical guitar. Includes both a notation edition…

Etude No.25, Op.60 by Carcassi

Etude No.25, Op.60 (Allegro brillante) by Matteo Carcassi (1796-1853) with performance, lesson, and sheet music. This comes from my sheet music edition of 25 Etudes, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi. PDF or hardcopy sheet music for classical guitar. Includes both a notation edition…

Jelica Mijanovic Plays Thousand Mirrors by Golfam Khayam

Canadian-Montenegrin classical guitarist Jelica Mijanovic plays Thousand Mirrors by Iranian composer Golfam Khayam (b.1982). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel and played on a 2024 Rinaldo Vacca classical guitar. Wonderful performance by Mijanovic with many delicate subtleties but also captivating forward…

Rafael Aguirre Plays Waltz No.2  by Shostakovich

Rafael Aguirre performs Waltz No.2  from Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 -1975) at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This comes via Aguirre’s YouTube channel. This work is an arrangement from an orchestral work sometimes mistakenly referred to as…