Right Hand Musical Balance on Classical Guitar

ByBradford Werner
2024

Right Hand Musical Balance: how to bring out musical lines or even out the sound of the right hand on classical guitar. In this lesson I’ll show you two ways to practice bringing out a particular finger or musical voice in a texture as well work on evening out the sound of each finger in the right hand. This is useful for bringing out the melody of a piece while softening the accompaniment or equalizing the right hand for more musical balance.

Here’s a link to my technique book if you want to use my many exercises for developing these skills. If you like these free lessons you help by supporting the site.

Times

0:00 Intro and Discussion
1:58 Lesson Outline
2:21 Two Ways to Emphasize a Finger or Musical Voice
5:28 Soften the Accompaniment
6:20 Four Exercises for Right Hand Balance
8:44 Conclusion

Here’s the YouTube link if you want to watch it there.

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.