Q&A Lesson: Classical Guitar Technique

Q&A Lesson: Classical Guitar Technique. Thanks to all my patrons and supporters that submitted questions. If you’d like to support these lessons please visit my Support Page.

Times & Questions

1:07 – Maintaining Left Hand Thumb and Posture Positions (Donna/Patti)
5:03 – Right Hand Finger Independence (Laurina)
8:23 – Tight Left Hand Fingerings (Winifried)
10:50 – Switching to Various Guitars (Steven)
13:38 – String Damping (Junko/David)
19:34 – Favourite Exercises for the LH (John)
24:44 – Right Hand Pinky (c) (Phillipe)
27:06 – LH Strain in First Position (Ben)

Additional Material Mentioned in the Video

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.

2 Comments

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Stephen Blott

April 20, 2021 / 8:02 am Reply

Thanks for all of this.

Regarding posture… yoga helps!
Noel D Love

April 4, 2021 / 6:58 am Reply

Thank you so much! I have recently (the last 6 months) started playing seriously again, and even though I am at a somewhat advanced (Grade 8 or so) level, through watching this video I realized that you never outgrow the need for a teacher to adjust and tweak your playing as you get better.