Nathan Mills is the creator of Beyond the Guitar. He has come up with some creative ways to translate video game, movie, and television music, onto the classical guitar and in the process he is welcoming a completely new audience to the instrument. Here is [...]

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How to Teach Yourself Classical Guitar In this article I am going to walk you through how to teach yourself classical guitar. It is important to acknowledge from the outset that: Nobody is really “self taught” A teacher does not make you a better player A self taught guitarist does not sit in a room [...]

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Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco is the granddaughter of composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. For several years now she has committed herself to making her grandfather's music more available especially to performers of the maestro's music. Along with Edizioni Curci she has organized to publish many of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's unpublished works and continues to champion his music and his legacy.   [...]

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If your learning has been sporadic and spanned several years (or decades) with multiple instructors, chances are that you will have a mixture of strengths and weaknesses in your technique. I find that prime suspects for technique issues are players that have transferred from other styles of guitar playing, players that have had a substantial [...]

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CGC Summer School Class of 2017 The participants of the CGC Summer School came from far and wide. There were guitarists from India, Germany, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Many of us had known each other through the Classical Guitar Corner forums, but this was the first time to meet [...]

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Louis Trépanier is a Canadian guitarist (hailing from Ottawa) and a member of the Canadian Guitar Quartet who is the Coordinator of the Guitar Sector at the University of Ottawa School of Music. Trépanier did his formal studies with Patrick Roux, but he has also studied Jazz with the composer and guitarist Randy Ellias. He [...]

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How to develop speed in the right hand In this article we'll look at how to develop speed in the right hand. For whatever reason we always want things we can't have. The classical guitar excels in producing soft, dulcet tones. So, therefore what do players want to do? Play loud and fast! I have dealt with [...]

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Andrew York is one of today's most recognized and accomplished composers for the classical guitar and he is an internationally renowned concert performer. York is one of the founding members of the LA Guitar Quartet, with whom he received a Grammy award. He also received Grammy awards for his own compositions that appeared on Grammy-winning [...]

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Álvaro Pierri, born into a musical family in Montevideo, Uruguay, is one of the greatest and most accomplished guitarists of his generation. His early musical education was at the hands of his mother, Ada Estades, on piano and his aunt, Olga Pierri, on guitar (Olga was well known in Uruguay and recorded with a group [...]

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