This short post is going to cover Mauro Giuliani’s fantastic RH study, Etude 5 from Opus 48. This piece gets the RH mechanism warm and flowing. A free download of the modern score is available. Etude 5 by Giuliani As a busy guitarist I don’t really have a lot of time to practice some days.Read More…
This post is going to show you how to effectively play a half barre chord: the classical guitar technique for playing chord shapes higher up the fretboard, but across a smaller set of strings. And hopefully reduce that annoying buzzing sound when you use the half barre chord. To half Barre or Not 1/2 Barre?Read More…
This post is going to show you how to effectively play a barre chord: the classical guitar technique for playing chord shapes higher up the fretboard. And hopefully reduce that annoying buzzing sound when you use barre chords. To Barre or Not Barre? A barre chord is the guitar’s answer to shifting key center harmony.Read More…
Micro study 25 – left hand basics 1, is part of the – #6stringinspiration – series of short and sweet studies that target very specific ideas. These are for those who have very little time and want huge gains from tight focused practice ideas. Micro Study 25 – Left Hand Basics 1 This is aRead More…
Tuning a guitar can be a tricky and fraught exercise. This post is going to guide you through a few solid ways of tuning the guitar. Tuning a guitar some days is akin to Gary Oldman‘s character, Zorg, in the Fifth Element explaining life: it is just “destruction, disorder and chaos”. And like Zorg,Read More…