The Beatles on classical guitar (books, sheet music, tab, videos). Just as classical pieces often have a melody and accompaniment, arrangements of The Beatles on classical guitar provide great melodies and accompaniment to recreate these well known songs. Below are…
Emmanuel Sowicz plays Quatre Pièces (pour la guitare) by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their amazing Youtube Channel. Great playing by Sowicz, filled with expressive but clean and clear articulations and ideas. Keep listening for the beautiful…
The Shearer Method Series Books 1-4by Aaron Shearer, Thomas Kikta, and Alan HirshAlfred Publishing, Released 2012-2019 Buy the Books via Amazon, Aaron Shearer Foundation, Sheet Music Plus I recently looked at Book 4 from this series and was very pleased…
Botti Guitar Duo (Han Eun한은, Heo Yulim허유림) play Evening Dance by Andrew York (b.1958) on Walter Verreydt guitars. This comes via PARTITA Guitar Salon in Seoul, Korea on their YouTube channel. Listen all the way through for some great ensemble playing with some very…
Matthew McAllister plays the 3rd movement, Preludio e toccatina from Aquarelle by Sergio Assad (b.1952) during a session via Uroš Barič and Baros Records in Slovenia. This comes via McAllister’s YouTube channel. Great playing as usual and you can always…
Augustin Pesnon plays Notes Indiscrètes by Roland Dyens (1955–2016). This comes via the Paris Guitar Foundation and their amazing YouTube channel. Sound Engineer: Basile Segouin; Guitar: Greg Smallman & Sons 2011; shot in Paris, France. Directed by Dora Surdeau. Nice little piece with…
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet & Clarice Assad Play ‘A Mi Pueblo’ By Ismael Ledesma. This comes via their YouTube Channel where they wrote this: “A Mi Pueblo is a beautifully haunting piece of music written by the Paraguayan harpist Ismael Ledesma.…
Pavel Steidl plays Liebeslied by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via CaminoArtes in Camino de Santiago in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, Spain and their amazing YouTube channel. Liebeslied (love song) comes from Mertz’s Bardenklänge (Bardic Sounds), Op. 13. Beautiful playing as…
Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944) – The complete works of Barrios for guitar are available from this excellent edition by Rico Stover. It’s such a great collection that I have little to add and so haven’t made my own versions for…
Trouble with 4th finger slurs (hammer-ons, pull-offs) and alignment on classical guitar? Here’s a lesson that should help. I take a look at a perfect finger placement first and follow it with the slur, it does wonders! YouTube Lesson Link.…
Matthew McAllister demonstrates an exercise which helps develop speed and movement on classical guitar. This comes via his amazing YouTube channel where he’s posted a number of other great lessons. Nice combination exercise here that places an extra check on speed…
Guitar Harmony by Dr. Alan Hirsh The Shearer Method Book 4 Buy or learn more at the Aaron Shearer Foundation I was very pleased to receive this copy of the new Guitar Harmony by Dr. Alan Hirsh. This is book…