Archive for January, 2010
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Exercise (pami) Tremolo
Time 2:49
El utimo tremolo is 1 of 2 tremolo songs by Augustin Barrios. The other being “Un Sueño En La Floresta” which I hope to cover in the future. [...]
January 29th, 2010 | Posted in 1.SONGS, 3.EXERCISES (pima), Augustin Barrios, Augustin Barrios | 2 Comments
Grand Waltz (Grand Vals) by Francisco Tarrega
Grade 4 Late Intermediate
Time 3:03
Tarrega actually wrote the Nokia ringtone jingle as heard in this song. In Grand Waltz, you will play along the entire neck. You will also play certain parts with the melody in a fixed barred position for multiple measures. Be sure to hold double notes [...]
January 22nd, 2010 | Posted in 1.SONGS, 3.EXERCISES (pima), 4.GRADES, Francisco Tarrega, Grade 4, Johann S Bach | 3 Comments
Prelude in F by Matteo Carcassi (1792 – 1853)
Grade 2- Early Intermediate
Exercise (pimamii)
Time 0:22sec
Matteo Carcassi produced many valuable classical guitar lessons and exercises. Here’s another pattern in form of a short 8 bar prelude. You will learn how to pluck separate strings with a sweeping feel using the pattern (pimamii).
January 19th, 2010 | Posted in 3.EXERCISES (pima), 4.GRADES, Grade 2, Matteo Carcassi | No Comments
Andante (BWV1003) by JS Bach
Grade 4 Late Intermediate
Time 2:22
This serene and beautiful piece is taken from Sonata ii of Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin. It fits on the guitar fingerboard so well that it is unnecessary to alter a single note of the original for this transcription. Only the tempo and fingerings [...]
January 14th, 2010 | Posted in 1.SONGS, 4.GRADES, Grade 4, Johann S Bach | 1 Comment
Prelude in Dm by Matteo Carcassi
Exercise (pi)-mam Right hand 4 note pattern
Time 0:26
Matteo Carcassi produced many valuable classical guitar lessons. For this right hand exercises, you will pick with the 6 note pattern (pmamim). Carcassi wrote a method for guitar (melodic and progressive studies) that remains valuable, relevant and interesting. Arpeggio in Dm deals with [...]
January 11th, 2010 | Posted in 3.EXERCISES (pima), Matteo Carcassi | 2 Comments
Sleep of the little doll (El Sueño De La Muñequita) by Augustin Barrios
Time 1:51
This sleep of the little doll is a waltz in triple meter with harder barred chords at the beginning and artificial harmonics at the end. The latter are octave harmonics played higher from the 12 frets onwards giving the bass notes a [...]
January 7th, 2010 | Posted in 1.SONGS, 4.GRADES, Augustin Barrios | No Comments
Etude in A Minor by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
Grade 3- Intemediate
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (July 27, 1781 – May 8, 1829) was an Italian guitarist and composer, and is considered by many to be one of the leading guitar virtuosi of the early 19th century. His first instrumental training was on the cello—an instrument which [...]
January 3rd, 2010 | Posted in 1.SONGS, 3.EXERCISES (pima), 4.GRADES, Dionisio Aguado, Grade 3, Mauro Giuliani | 2 Comments