The Most Popular Guitar Tutoring System on the Internet Jamorama can also be used to learn to play classical guitar.

If you are one of those people who play classical guitar but also want to play Electric Guitar  Guitar Super Stars is made for you. Both Jamorama and Guitar Super Stars are video based and give the benefit of having pre-recorded music you can play along to. Users report that these systems give quicker results than standard music lessons, and of course each lesson can be repeated until you master it. This makes them both a cheaper and faster way to learn.

For those that want to learn to play classical guitar by listening to music and emulating it there is a neat new product on the market that allows you to slow down the music but keep the correct pitch for each of the notes Riff Master Pro. You speed the music back up as you improve until you finally can play with the correct timing. This is a great way to learn to play classical guitar.

If you have a good ear for music and think you can learn to play classical guitar by ear there is a fantastic new learning product that helps you get absolute pitch and relative pitch skills so that you can name any note and even place it in relation to where it is played on the instrument. The Pure Pitch Method. Wow!

When learning to play Classical Guitar and Lead Guitar one of the secrets is mastery of the scales so here is a great course on mastering guitar scales. Guitar Scale Mastery.

Many people (like me) have for some reason or another put off learning to play classical guitar for many years and now there is a great course just for us! Adult Guitar Lessons. This course has been specially designed to suit the older learner, seems like a great idea to me!

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This is a custom site search to help you find anything within the Play Classical Guitar site. The videos are a selection of the classical guitar videos from YouTube. When a photograph from a video is shown click on read the rest of this post, to view the video. Thank you.

The Classical Guitar is one of the oldest instruments in terms of evolution, however it really found its current form with the great Spanish Masters, Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Carrulli, Matteo Carcassi, Mauro Giuliani, Isaac Albeniz, Dionisio Aguado, etc. These composers and players were the foundation of the modern Classical Guitar with its distinctive broad body and bulging pear shape. These great artistes all lived in the late 1700′s and early 1800′s and between them laid down the largest part of the currently played and recognized Classical Guitar repertoire.

So good was their mastery and skill at composing that even some of the recognized Great Classical Composers notably Beethoven and Schubert wrote works specifically for the Guitar! Beethoven once commented “The Guitar is a veritable orchestra unto itself”. Fur Elise was written as a classical guitar piece for his niece who was learning to play.

“Many of the celebrated Vienna composers were familiar with the guitar and played it as an accompaniment to songs. Both Schubert and von Weber were players and both published a number of songs with guitar accompaniment. In The Guitar and Mandolin (Schott, London. Revised edition 1954), P.J. Bone wrote, “The majority of Schubert’s accompaniments were conceived on the guitar, and only afterwards did he set them for the piano, and many of his early songs were originally published with guitar. Many of his accompaniments show clearly and indisputably the influence and character of this instrument; they are in truth guitar accompaniments.”" Frederick Noad, The Classical Guitar (Ariel Publications, New York, 1976).

The deep body and rigid sides of the Classical Guitar have been specifically designed to amplify the sound and to produce the deep rich tones that we associate with today’s instruments. The design gradually evolved from early stringed instruments that probably made their way across the globe from India and Africa, via Arabia and finally to Spain where the modern Guitar finally took shape. There are of course many cousins such as the Banjo, Lyre, Lute, Mandolin and Ukulele to name a few.

The size and portability of the guitar made it a very popular instrument and early versions were played and were popular as far back as the Elizabethan era and even earlier in the UK. It is hardly surprising therefore that when electricity made the amplified electric guitar a possibility the instrument began a second career as the instrument of choice for Rock Bands, Country Musicians and bands in general.

The Classical Guitar  is plucked with the finger nails of the right hand and the notes are selected with the fingers of the left hand, on the fret board, which is usually made of a hard wood such as Rosewood or Mahogany, the body is made of softer woods to allow for the shaping, Spruce is often used. The Face Board should be solid. many cheaper instruments are plywood faced, which can degenerate with time, so these should be avoided. The strings are nylon with the base three (typically) being wound with metal. Some brands of string wind the G and B strings with finer nylon (Saverez for one), this is to give the string a more consistent width and therefore purer sound for each note, nylon tending to stretch with age and thereby distorting notes due to the variations in string width.

Strings typically last from one to four months depending on the use of the instrument and quality of the strings used, as well as the physical attributes of the player! Sweat and body oils can change the string life noticeably.

The Classical Guitar is a great choice for your first instrument since the wider neck makes it easier to avoid left hand fingers touching the wrong strings, the nylon strings are also easier on the left hand finger tips. Finally the classical guitar is played ergonomically. The position is seated on a square backed chair with the left leg supported on a foot stool so that the guitar rests on the left thigh, the inside of the right thigh with the top of the body resting on the lower part of your chest. The fret board should make an approximately 45 degree angle to the ground, this leaves the left hand totally free to move up and down the fretboard, the left hand plays no part in supporting the instrument.

The main difference between a classical guitar and a steel string guitar is in the strength of the instrument a steel string requires much higher tension to tune than does nylon so a Classical Guitar should never be strung with steel strings, this could break it in two. The bridge of the Classical Guitar includes a plastic insert over which the strings pass they are then threaded through a hole and are twisted over the string two or three times and the loose end is passed along the bottom of the bridge plate and held in place by each subsequently threaded string. You string from base E to treble E in sequence (E, A, D, G, B, E). A steel strung guitar uses some form of peg to anchor each string and this is the easiest way to tell the instruments apart.

In order for children to learn to play before their fingers are fully developed Classical Guitars are made in 1/2 (4-8) and 3/4 sixes (9-12) as well as full size. There are copious amounts of guitar sheet music available on line and even teaching and lesson systems. The biggest plus of all is if you learn to play classical you can play anything!

Just to get you started I have included Classical Guitars for all ages of players along with my favourite strings and music books to get you started. Please bookmark the site and visit often, for more inspiration from some of the world’s best teachers and players, the site is updated regularly. Thank you.

John Williams Plays Asturias

I chose this video because John has the almost perfect position for playing Classical Guitar, you do not need to be this good until you have practised 8 hours a day for 30 years!

Contrast the playing and position to that of Andres Segovia probably the greatest ever Classical Guitarist.

Andres Segovia Plays Asturias

Asturias is one of the greatest compositions of Isaac Albeniz.

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Expert: John Armstrong
Bio: John Armstrong has been teaching guitar at Keller Music for over 15 years now. He has played with countless musicians over the years, and in bands ranging from classical ensembles to rock groups.
Filmmaker: Jason Sager

Duration : 0:2:28

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Guitars From Mars – Classical. Part 1 is edited short version.
The lifetime is a creation and destruction.

MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart001.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E12AXRBV

VIVALDI The Four Seasons / vivardifours001.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O8P18DI1

vivardifours002.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U50ZT0K7

BACH Toccata & Fugue (BWV565) / bachtf001.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RQVKYDE6

bachtf002.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KEKHU20Q

BACH Harpsichord Concerto No.1 (BWV1052) / bachhc001.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1UG476WW

BACH Concerto for 2 Violins & Orchestra (BWV1043) / bachcf2vo001.pdf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OUT01QSC

Suite for cello Unaccompanied No. 3(BWV1009)
BWV1009001.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/jp/?d=4UCVS0X8

LISZT Symphonic Poem “Mazeppa”　 list002.zip 　http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5EA26S6V

MOZART Symphony No.25　 mozart25.pdf 　http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BHSMNNG2

BEETHOVEN Rondo A Capriccio / Rage Over A Lost Penny lostpenny002.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B822E7OH

J.C.BACH Harpsichord Concerto　 jc-bach001.pdf 　http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AQVR6MM1

BACH little prelude (BVW924) bach924001.pdf http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KG722ULM

BACH The Well — Tempered Clavier Book 1 ; No.1 (BWV846) Prelude　 bach846004.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RKMQNSMI

BACH Invention for Harpsichord No.4 (BWV775) bach775004.zip 　

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3P3HQ8IX

BACH Invention for Harpsichord No.8 (BWV779) 　 bach779006.zip

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SPWY9KL1

I dedicate this file to people in all parts of the world

MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
BACH Toccata & Fugue (BWV565)
BACH Harpsichord Concerto No.1 (BWV1052)
BACH Concerto for 2 Violins & Orchestra (BWV1043)
LISZT Symphonic Poem “Mazeppa”
BACH Invention for Harpsichord No.8 (BWV779)
BACH Suite for Cello Unaccompaied No.3 (BWV1009) ; Courante
MOZART Symphony No.25
BEETHOVEN Rondo A Capriccio / Rage Over A Lost Penny
J.C.BACH Harpsichord Concerto
BACH The Well — Tempered Clavier Book 1 ; No.1 (BWV846) Prelude
BACH Invention for Harpsichord No.4 (BWV775)
BACH Invention for Harpsichord No.8 (BWV779)

Duration : 0:10:30

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This a song i made using arab, harmonic and phrygian dominant scales. also combining different techniques i know. its not really complex, i improvise in some parts. This a really fun song for me to play

Hope you like it.

Guitar is tuned: DADGBD a half tep down

Edit:
New info..
Well i have gotten many request for a tab and explanation of what did the song include. Im terrible for making tabs and dont have the time for it. As for how to get playing this style:

The style is focused on always using a constant note as the background ringing, also known as the drone note. In this case its D, it can be any. With the the note always ringing you play using the phrygian mode and the harmonic minor scale, which i think its called phrygian dominant scale, on a Normal tuned guitar it will look like this.

This is on E (it cant be moved anywhere on the fretboard)

e- 0 -1 4-5 …
b- 0-1-3
g–1-2
d- -0-2-3
a- 0-2-3
E- 0-1-4

Lastly i dont know anything o arabic stuff or indian in music. The idea and influence of this piece i got it from a song called home by dreamtheater, check it out if you want to get a feeling with the style

Duration : 0:2:29

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The speech on the beginning is:
“Directamente de Rio de Janeiro Sergio y Odair con una sonata de Domenico Scarlatti. Aqui los tenemos.”

That can be translated as:
“Directly from Rio de Janeiro, Sergio and Odar play a sonata by Domenico Scarlatti. Here they are.” Thanks to YouTuber Alvaroguitar for the help.

According to the tape label, this is from Saturday, January 26th 1980. (although it’s remotely possible this date was from something that was previously recorded on the tape – the label is partially ripped and written over – perhaps if someone could find the TV schedule for WCIU for this day we could see what show this could be from)

Visit – http://www.FuzzyMemories.TV
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television – for more fun!

Duration : 0:7:42

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Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

Full support at the web site where you will find hundreds of lessons on a wide range of subjects, and all the scales and chords that you will ever need! There is a great forum too to get help, no matter what the problem.

And it is all totally free, no bull. No sample lessons, no memberships. Just tons of great lessons

To get help with your lesson or song look up the number at the start of the video title (like ST-123 or whatever) on the Lesson Index page.

http://www.justinguitar.com

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Duration : 0:4:6

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Duration : 0:1:5

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