Turkish March, or Rondo Alla Turca as it's originally called, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is a pretty tricky classical piece for the piano that I divided up in two guitar parts - one for the right hand on the piano (lead guitar), and one for the left hand on the piano (rhythm guitar).

Turkish March, or Rondo Alla Turca as it's originally called, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is a pretty tricky classical piece for the piano that I divided up in two guitar parts - one for the right hand on the piano (lead guitar), and one for the left hand on the piano (rhythm guitar).

This is one of my favorite pieces from the Baroque era. It is somewhat challenging but worth every ounce of effort you put into it. We will work on the piece one phrase at a time and discuss different approaches to phrasing.

This tutorial takes you step-by-step through a Villa-Lobos etude.

Tremolo can be a significant addition to your arsenal if learned correctly. These excercises start with the very basics and then move into the extreme. If you are an advanced player, you still need to do the basics everyday to get the full results. Good luck!

This tutorial series of 10 lessons is the second group of 10 (Study 11 - Study 20) of Giuliani's 120 Right Hand Studies for Classical Guitar. Giuliani, a 19th century guitar virtuoso created these studies in an effort to systematize guitar playing skills for students. They are for developing right hand dexterity.

These lessons focus on advanced classical guitar techniques like tremolo, harmonics, and specialized thumb techniques.

In this tutorial we will learn a Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909) piece for solo classical guitar: Prelude No. 1 in D Minor. As in all classical pieces, be careful to note the use of multiple voices or parts. There is always a distinct upper melody part and a lower bass part. Frequently, there are also many inner voices to flesh out the sound. We will learn a few measures at a time; then, put...

Renaissance composer John Downland wrote many early music pieces for lute. The lute was a forerunner of the guitar. These lessons are transcriptions of Dowland pieces.

Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most important musicians in history. These lessons take pieces by Bach and transcribe them to be played on guitar.

This is a fairly standard classical arpeggio pattern that is useful to have in your arsenal. The right hand pattern is: T I M A M I. It's very difficult to play at first but once you get down it will flow very naturally. Make sure you practice it at a slow tempo, as I always recommend, to improve accuracy and control. This is an excerpt from Johann Kasper-Mertz's Fingals Cave.

After hearing the famous Nokia ringtone a million times on buses, trains, and wherever else I went where there were people, I decided to learn it. It's indeed a very good way to annoy people, or catch their attention at your next performance. Anyway, it's not an original Nokia composition, but in fact an excerpt from Francisco Tárrega's Gran Vals, only that the last A note is placed an octave hig...

Hi folks! This beautiful piece is the first movement of Augustin Barrios Mangore's La Cathedral. It's a great exercise for both left and right hand. Practice the chord changes slowly at first. Some of them are quite tricky.

The Modes are sectors or excerpts (with the span of an octave) from a diatonic 2-octave scale starting with A (a). There are always two modes that fit together. They are related via the Finalis (finishing note). The half-steps are always between e and f and between b and c. The modes are not scales in the strict sense of the word. They are just fragments of scales that encapsualte the note-mat...

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