Lesson: Etude No.1 by Villa-Lobos

ByBradford Werner
2016

A full video lesson tutorial for Etude No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) for classical guitar. I go through 4 main ideas, the right hand fingering, left hand fingering, how to navigate from chord to chord, and differences between editions. Along with Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi, and Brouwer, the Villa-Lobos etudes are the part of the core etude repertoire. Youtube Lesson Link.

Sheet Music: I still recommend this old edition by Eschig of the complete solo works including the preludes, suite, and etudes: Villa-Lobos complete works. Not much fingering in it but there is some and these days there are so many performances and lessons online to learn from.

Videos by Others

Sanel Redžić plays Etude No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos via his YouTube.

Tariq Harb plays Etude No. 1 by Heitor Villa-Lobos via his fantastic YouTube Channel.

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.