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December 4th, 2009 | 
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There is plenty of argument about what constitutes the best Classical Guitar, however there is some general agreement. The best instruments are made with hardwood backs and sides (mahogany or rosewood) and a more flexible face board usually cedar or spruce. The neck of the instrument is usually made of rosewood, maple or ebony. It is common in Classical Guitars to make the neck of a cheaper wood such as maple and to front it with a fingerboard made of rosewood or ebony into which the frets are set. Some guitars are quite elaborately decorated with mother of pearl or ivory used to mark the main playing positions (the positions marked vary from make to make) but usually the 5th 7th and 12th frets are marked. Many Classical Guitars appear to have no position markers, but in these cases it is customary to mark the positions on the left side of the fingerboard so the player can see the positions but the audience can not.
The question as to which guitar is best is of course an aesthetic one as each player and each listener will prefer different aspects. A good guide is the hardness and stiffness of the materials used the harder the woods the more strident and bright the music that is produced. Some people will prefer the clearer and brighter sound of the harder woods and some the softer and more mellow tones of the softer woods. What is without question though is that the cleaner the manufacturing processes and the higher the quality of the workmanship the better any particular instrument will sound, and of course since they are made of natural materials no two will ever sound quite identical!
This said most people believe that the best guitars for Classical Players are those made by the Ramirez family, but for those of that can not afford a truly hand made and crafted instrument, those guitars made by Yamaha are excellent factory produced examples. The Yamaha process is one of supreme accuracy in cutting and preparing all of the parts and when you inspect any of their instruments the gluing is delicately and precisely done and there is great attention to detail.
My first guitar a Yamaha CG 100 A actually had better tone than one of my tutors hand made guitars from Germany! That cost many times its price. Westwood, Washburn, Alvarez and Hohner are also manufacturers that make excellent mass produced instruments. It should be noted that Yamaha now also make hand crafted top end instruments that are very hard to beat in terms of value for money.
Eduardo Díaz playing The Beatles Yesterday Composed by Paul McCartney. Its basically Larry Beekman arrangement transposed to the key of G, I took some from ideas from guitarist Gabriel Rodriguez.
“Yesterday” is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. According to the Guinness Book of Records, “Yesterday” has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. The song was not released as a single in the UK at the time of the US release, and thus never gained number 1 single status in that country. However, “Yesterday” was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners.
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CustomGuitarVideo.com | José Romanillos talks about the option to make the top of a Classical Guitar out of 3, 4 or even five pieces. José Romanillos became famous by building the guitars for Classical Guitar Virtuoso Julian Bream. He his one of the last icons in Spanish guitar making tradition. His guitars are among the most sought after classical guitars. José wrote numerous books about the Spanish guitar and the man who defined the classical guitar as we know it today, Antonio de Torres. We spent a whole week in Següenza, Spain close to Madrid to document his last guitar. In the first part José talks about how to select wood and the validity of old methods. This is right from the workbench. Spanish “Guitar Making” at its best.
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Tags: classical guitar, guitar making, how to, José Romanillos, luthier, nylon string, sound, spanish | 
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Scenes from the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain accompanied by the wistful tremelo of Tarrega’s “Recuerdos de la Alhambra” (Memories of the Alhambra).
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Paul Gilbert playing classical guitar. This video is Paul’s best shot at Flamenco guitar. The song name is “Flamingo”. He named it as a joke for his supposed “inability” to play real Flamenco. Everyone knows Mr. Gilbert can play anything..
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Classical Guitar Graduation Recital Part 7
Performers: Alain Carlson and François Bergeron
Piece: Sonata K.408
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti
This is a video (Part 7 of 10) of my Graduation Recital at Cambrian College on April 11th, 2008. Let me know what you think! I realize it isn’t perfect, but I hope you enjoy it all the same!
All the best,
Alain
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Acoustic guitarist Andrew Ohren playing Ave Maria. The best quality sound and video around! Footage is of the guitarist in the snow. The
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Read me?
I once heard this song covered by a girl ‘Loona’ from the netherlands but I think its originally a ‘Mecano’ song.
Just heard the song (now that Mecano-version) and played it, I have no tabs, sorry.
But this might help:
Basically you can play the song in ‘a’ like this:
Intro and verses (very simple):
a-G-F-G
Bridge (give it some try):
a-G-F-G a-G-C-D
Chorus (perhaps not that easy at first):
e-D-C-H
e-D-C-h7
e-D-C-H
e-D-C-h7
(ahaha ahaha…)
e-h7-e-D-C
(hijo de la luna-aa…)
F-G-a
If you like singing it like Mecano, use a capodaster (is it called ‘capodaster’ in english? I’m not sure. I’m from germany) and transpond it 4 semitones up (a becomes cis , but with the capodaster you play like a. thats all the trick).
Anything I’ve forgotten?
Any tips against possible mistakes in my english texts? 
Just let me know.
And please don’s ask for tabs.. just try out a little and have fun playing… thats the best advice possible I think…
Please share your opinion!
And of course, you can use this video as a backing track to sing on it. Please post it as a response afterwards and I’ll look forward to hear you sing.
Be sure to visit this link:
It’s Nynke21 singing with this instrumental as backing track. I think, she’s very talented and I like her singing a lot!
Also be sure to subscribe to my channel, since more videos will follow, also non-covers.. I have some funny ideas of what needs to be played with the guitar…!
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About this Video:
photography and editing by me.
About back ground Music:
This music recorded on March 2007( just for practices).
performance by 3×15 years old high school student(two boys and one girl)
but they don’t want to put their name down for now! because they think they can do better.
I knew their Guitar teacher very well, and I wish them all the best in the future!
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