Villancico de Navidad (Christmas Carol) by Agustín Barrios is a festive guitar lesson that will walk you through this beautiful arrangement, in a step-by-step manner. You will learn the three harmonisations, with fingerings, and hacks to get the dots off the page to on your fretboard. There are some amazing moments in Barrios’ arrangement, fullRead More…
This is the second lesson on La Catedral (The Cathedral) and it is going to help you learn the second movement – andante religioso. It will help you nail this modern classical guitar piece composed by Agustín Barrios. We will help you learn it through small bite size micro studies. Get the Score Get yourRead More…
Wishing every one a merry start to the yuletide festivities this year. Please enjoy this video from out erstwhile Guitar Editor Rhayn Jooste. This is a traditional Christmas Carol by Agustin Barrios; it is also the alternative version, the one with harmonics. A very Merry Christmas to all. It is available to buy from theRead More…
This is a review of the Agustin Barrios Mangore book: El Inalcanzable; the title of which stems from Villa Lobo’s description of Barrios and his music. Authors: Margarita Morselli; Carlos Salcedo Publisher: Asociacion Cultural Comuneros Published: Asuncion November 2007 ISBN: 978-99953-843-0-2 This thick full size soft cover book explores most aspects of Barrios’ life,Read More…
This post shines a little light onto Agustin Barrios Mangore’s approach to teaching and fingering musical scales. Scales, considered the bane of most music students lives, are the vehicle that effectively bridge the gap between technique and performing. So is it possible to make them musical? I think so, and so did Barrios. FollowingRead More…