The Art of the Cadence
This short post will introduce voice leading and cadences on the classical guitar; it will focus on effective ways of highlighting the cadence, which will help with creating your own
This short post will introduce voice leading and cadences on the classical guitar; it will focus on effective ways of highlighting the cadence, which will help with creating your own
This article and video is about learning your way around the fretboard through a few simple orientation techniques. These will not only improve your knowledge of the fretboard but also
This is an interactive video lesson on approaching etude no. 6 by Leo Brouwer. This study will be segmented to gain the most from practicing. The lesson breaks the study
This overview article will delve into the CAGED system, what it is and how it works. Highlighting how it supports learning the fretboard and what it can do for a
A practical hands-on lesson that delves into the mechanics of how J.S. Bach composed Invention no.1. BWV 772 which was written around 1720 to teach his young son Wilhelm Friedemann
This short Orange legato workout, inspired by Concerto De Aranjuez, is designed to work all finger combinations in a moto perpetuo slurring exercise. It is split into 4 bar sections
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
This four step lesson delves into harmonic devices and how to arrange them on the guitar. Hopefully having fleshed out the basic melodic structure from the Christmas Harmonization Part 1,
This six step festive lesson utilises the melody of the Coventry Carol as a vehicle for learning the basics to harmonisation. This piece was originally part of a mystery play