Graded Repertoire for Classical Guitar


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It is my hope that this carefully selected set of pieces will offer guidance and clarity to both students and teachers of classical guitar. Now that music is available in such quantity and ease it is more important than ever to have a clear path laid out that will offer the possibility to explore the repertoire without putting up walls of frustration along the way.After working with several thousand guitarists online it has become clear that studying a piece of music that is too difficult can be one of the biggest impediments to learning and also the joy of music making. More often than not, students who experience struggle will put themselves at fault. However, I believe that a curated selection of music that is arranged in a progressive manner can avert frustration, foster steady progress, and make for a joyful learning experience.At the heart of this collection is a desire to foster joy and a sense of accomplishment. It is that joy that most likely brought you to the classical guitar in the first place. Each piece has been chosen because of musical, technical, and pedagogical reasons. The collection as a whole makes up the repertoire component of the curriculum at Classical Guitar Corner Academy and has been worked on diligently by a dedicated community of guitarists around the world.This edition is in standard notation and contains 123 pages. There are 52 pieces in total. Each grade is clearly marked and each piece has a brief set of instruction to help with study and focus. Composers include: Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, J.S. Bach, Napoleon Coste, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, Agustin Barrios, Mauro Giuliani, Robert De Visee, Domenico Scarlatti, Gaspar Sanz and more.




First Pieces for Classical Guitar


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Master 20 Beautiful Classical Guitar Pieces for Beginners. No Need to Read Music - Learn 20 great classical guitar pieces written by legends of the instrument - Presented in easy-to-read tablature and notation. No need to read music - Includes helpful analysis and breakdown of each piece, along with its historical background - FREE audio download - hear how each piece sounds to speed up your learning - Carefully selected pieces start easy and gradually become more complex - improve naturally as the book progresses First Pieces for Classical Guitar - Do you want to learn classical guitar, but don't know how to read music? - Do you want to build an impressive repertoire of complete pieces, but don't know where to start? - Do you want to develop style and authenticity on the classical guitar? First Pieces for Classical Guitar features 20 carefully selected pieces - each written by a past master of the instrument - aimed at beginners who want to learn to play entire, beautiful pieces. The natural progression of the studies from beginner to intermediate will help you develop your classical guitar language quickly and easily. Notation is included, but each piece is also presented in easy-to-read tablature, so an ability to read music is not necessary. Here's What You Get: - 20 beautiful, incremental classical guitar studies - Playing advice and a breakdown of each classical guitar piece - Perfectly notated music and guitar tablature with studio-quality audio to download for free. Go Beyond Traditional Guitar Lick Books This collection of classical pieces develops a satisfying performance repertoire for the advancing beginner, while progressively developing musical technique as the pieces progress. The music is drawn from some of the most famous and influential composers for the guitar, including... Carulli Giuliani Carcassi Fernando Sor TArrega J.S. Bach Marschner ...along with two traditional folk song arrangements. These 20 classical guitar masterpieces are presented in clear notation and tablature, along with a complete technical breakdown. This book is for students who have a passion to learn classical guitar, but do not necessarily read music. Hear it! Learning classical guitar pieces from paper is one thing, but once you hear them, they become much easier to learn. First Pieces for Classical Guitar contains supporting audio for each track, to help you get inside the music and quickly improve your ability. Buy it now to bring the authentic language of the classical guitar into your playing.




Intermediate Pieces for Classical Guitar


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Learn 20 beautiful intermediate pieces for solo classical guitar




Progressive Classical Solos


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This collection of easy to early-intermediate level Renaissance to Romantic works is a perfect addition to every classical guitarist's repertoire. These fully-fingered pieces range from easy, single-note arrangements to satisfying, full versions of popular solos. Each piece includes helpful technical and interpretive tips. Features works by Robinson, Vise, Giuliani, Sor, Tarrega and others. The recording includes performances of all the pieces.







Essential Flamenco Guitar: Volume 2


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The acclaimed first volume of this exciting series gave extensive insights into basic techniques of flamenco guitar playing and the two important rhythmic forms (palos) of Solea and Alegrias. This second volume continues on with an exploration of further essential rhythmic palos. The first of these is the Bulerias. Juan Martin brings his many years of experience as an internationally renowned flamenco soloist and accompanist for singers and dancers to unravelling its mysteries, explaining and demonstrating very clearly the different elements of its rhythmic structure and the various ways it may be accented and counted. He uses traditional and more modern examples of the different kinds of rhythm and melodic passages (falsetas) to provide an invaluable understanding of this wonderful palo. The second rhythmic form is devoted to the popular flamenco Rumba, then Tangos, Tientos and that most profound of all the palos, the deeply moving Seguiriyas. Juan's solo playing is complemented by demonstrations of the guitar's role in accompanying the flamenco dance (baile) and song (cante) with the help of outstanding dancers Raquel de Luna and Miguel Infante and singers Amparo Heredia (La Repompilla) and Carlos Brias. The music for solo guitar is transcribed in standard notation and tablature (cifra) and the online video contain nearly three hours of explanation and demonstrations. The series is complemented by two other best-selling Juan Martin volumes published by Mel Bay. These provide progressively graded solo material to extend the repertoire, from beginner to concert level. Includes access to online video.




Classical Guitar Music in Print


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Julio S Sagreras Guitar Lessons


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The guitar lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in didactic guitar literature. This book, which includes the first three volumes of the original six-volume series, is an ideal introduction to classical guitar playing as well as to LatinAmerican guitar music. Text written in English and Spanish with French and German translations in an appendix at the back of the book




Classical Guitar


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An introduction to the music, history, and techniques of the classical guitar. 25 lessons and studies from J.S Bach, Fernando Sor, Carulli, Aguado and more.Includes a classical guitar primer, daily practice routine, and Giuliani's 120 right hand studies. 129 pages.




Mel Bay presents complete Sor studies


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The guitar studies of Fernando Sor (1778-1839) have long been valued highly among the indispensable elements of a guitarist's training. A number of prominent virtuosi attribute a large portion of their development to the diligent study of these works. Sor's studies address an impressive array of technical and musical topics, including proper left-hand fingering, training of the right hand, interval and chord formations, scales, arpeggios, repeated notes, ligados, barring, natural harmonics, control of note duration, balance of melody versus accompaniment, and the handling of contrapuntal voices. A careful study of these pieces will lay the groundwork for a solid technique and allow the guitarist to build the control necessary for the expression of his or her musical concepts. In preparing this edition David Grimes worked with Sor's original publications, but incorporated some alterations that appear in those studies that Napoleon Coste chose to include in his Methode complete pour la Guitarre par Ferdinand Sor. Furthermore, Mr. Grimes has corrected misprints, modernized the notation and rectified some inconsistencies. Finally, some developments in technique since Sor's day have been incorporated in this edition.