Classical Guitar Reference Books

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So I’m going to show you a couple of really great resources, reference books that almost every student I’ve ever met has always used. They teach these methods around the world and they are really effective especially if you want to try to teach yourself a little bit of this. Here is a really good book; it’s by Erin Shear; it’s a method book. It contains a detailed version of pretty much everything I’ve explained here. It starts you off with nail shape, the names of all the parts of the guitar. Things like that, very basic and it slowly moves you into playing things like scales and patterns, right-hand patterns and lots of little exercises that really get you moving. Eventually it will move all the way into simple music for beginners. Nothing too complicated; but it will really help you start reading music and it’s pretty much an essential thing for the very beginning music student. Another really good thing to pick up is something like this; it’s an Andre Segovia who is like the father of classical guitar. It’s just a book of scales, and what it does is give a nice preface as to how you want to play them. And it focuses on things like certain fingerings, it will show you scales all the way up and down the whole fret board. And it tells you different ways to make them nice and smooth and make them sound very nice and it really challenges your technique and helps you play very defined nice sounding lines. This is very essential. I have done a lot of these scales and it really really helps your technique. You can pick these things up at pretty much any music store around town, most guitar shops will probably have them. Another really good thing to have is once you start getting into wanting to play Arpeggio’s which are things like chords that are broken up into successive notes, you’ll want to be focusing on your right-hand technique. This is a book called One Hundred Twenty Right Hand Studies. It’s also a very very handy book. Usually what it does it will give very beginner chords for the left hand that everybody starts off with. Just very simple open chords, C, D, E, A, G; things like that. But it gives you different patterns in the right hand that really help you develop your technique and allow independence with your fingers and it’s really cool; it’s pretty easy stuff. It helps you be real consistent with your tone and things like that. So check that one out; it is very handy. I don’t have a cover on mine but here is another great one, once you get into really playing music. It’s called Twenty-Five Melodious and Progressive Studies. It’s just twenty-five etudes all very beautiful. A lot of them are very simple. The first one ranges from just very simple scales and patterns you can play with your fingers all the way up into very actually complicated and let see if I can see an example, yes very complicated music that takes quite a bit of effort to play and if you work through a book like this I mean you are going to be pretty good. It’s a really good resource for beginner music. Let’s see, once you get a little more developed you can pick up a book like this. Guitar Classic II; it’s full of just tons of examples from beginner to very advanced players. All sorts of classic repertoire and it’s a really good resource to have. Pretty much any local music store would have it and you can pick those sort of things up for a pretty decent price.

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