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u/br33dlove · 9 pointsr/Guitar

Lots of great books out there. I don't see anything for classical guitar on your list, but I highly recommend The Christpher Parkening Guitar Method Volume 1, and Volume 2, as well as [Pumping Nylon: The Classical Guitarist's Technique Handbook] (http://www.amazon.com/Pumping-Nylon-Classical-Guitarists-Technique/dp/088284721X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416410512&sr=1-1&keywords=pumping+nylon+by+scott+tennant) by Scott Tennant.

u/pvm2001 · 5 pointsr/Guitar

You can't buy a factory made classical guitar that is truly high quality. Yamaha makes great beginning classical guitars. I wouldn't pay over $500 for anything with a "brand name," if you're looking for a nice classical then start looking for luthiers or a dealer in your area that sells luthier guitars(either should let you try their guitars before you buy).


D'addario Pro-Arte strings are generally regarded as the all-around best classical guitar strings, and fortunately they're also the cheapest. Go with normal or hard tension if you like more resistance.


The book Pumping Nylon is a great technical resource for classical guitarists at any level.
http://www.amazon.com/Pumping-Nylon-Scott-Tennant/dp/088284721X

http://www.amazon.com/Library-Guitar-Classics-willard-Series/dp/0825614759/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

^ Volume 1 and 2 of that guitar classics book are great for finding rep out of, they have great music from different eras, composers, and difficulties.


More specifically, studies by Sor, Carcassi, or Brouwer are great for beginning pieces. You can move from there to pieces by Tarrega, Villalobos, possibly some easier Bach like BWV999 or Cello Suite#1. Really anything you want. For best results, seek our recordings and videos of well-renowned(not just some shmuck on youtube) guitarists. Use these to make sure you're not playing wrong notes, inspire your own interpretation, and possibly steal their fingerings if it's a video.

u/seis_cuerdas · 5 pointsr/classicalguitar

Some of the more common ones for guitar are the 120 studies for right hand development by Giuliani, the 20 Sor studies (segovia), the melodic and progressive etudes by carcassi, and the Segovia scales (even though they are pretty useless IMO). There is also Pumping Nylon by scott tenant as well as Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos and Nuevos Estudios Sencillos if you are looking for something more contemporary.

u/Zalamander · 3 pointsr/Guitar

For those who may be reading this that play Fingerstyle or Classical, I can't recommend Scott Tennant's book Pumping Nylon enough.

u/insomniacfc · 3 pointsr/classicalguitar

Scott Tennant has a book out that will keep you busy: http://www.amazon.com/Pumping-Nylon-Classical-Guitarists-Technique/dp/088284721X

u/shrediknight · 2 pointsr/Guitar

Learning to read music is probably most important. While there is more and more classical repertoire available in tab, the tendency is to get stuck in someone else's fingerings. People talk about classical as being very rigid and set in its ways but the freedom to play a note wherever it works best for you is one of the great strengths of the guitar. This is something that tab can take away from you. The "correct" position that is variously so lauded and derided is - at least today - a compromise of ergonomics and technical requirements. The guitar is not a very ergonomic instrument so apparatus usually needs to be brought in to play in order to get it in the right position but this position varies considerably from player to player. The main concern is that the music is playable; much of it would not be without full control of technique. "Proper" position is something that takes years, even decades, to figure out, I know players in their 60's who will tell me "I found this new support that works with my footstool, now my height is nearly perfect!"

Resist the temptation to attempt pieces that are too advanced too soon. You're going to do it, every player is, but the frustration of moving so slowly with little to no results is dangerous. I've heard so many students come in and play Asturias or Bouree (or any of the other "standards") without any concept of the pieces in a musical sense. They play the right notes mostly but there is no division of melody and harmony, no concept of counterpoint, dynamics or anything else that makes this music brilliant. These students often become completely dejected when they are told by a teacher, jury or audition panel that they are not nearly as good as think they are, in so many words. The problem usually comes from a poorly structured education, either from themselves or teacher(s), and jumping into material they don't yet understand.

I would strongly recommend finding a good teacher because any one book is not enough (there are a few good ones like Aaron Shearer's Learning the Classic Guitar and Pumping Nylon) but none of them cover everything you need and there will be some contradictions. In order to learn most effectively, you must do so without confusion and error. If you learn a mistake or bad habit, it will be more difficult to fix later on than if you never learned it wrong in the first place. If you don't understand what you're doing or why, you won't get very far with it. In the absence of a good teacher, I would get as many reputable instruction/method books as you can and read them all thoroughly.

u/skoomy · 2 pointsr/Guitar

This technique might work for "this" guy, but don't play like him if you want proper right hand technique. I would try Pumping Nylon for classical songs and exercises.

u/BattlePogs · 2 pointsr/classicalguitar

The Noad book is a good start. Scott Tennant's Pumping Nylon has a lot of good excercises, too.

u/Apparently-Wrong · 2 pointsr/Music

I've been playing and practicing for 2 years 4 months at this point. For the entire first year of practice I utilized the Seinfeld Method of Productivity. My goal was to practice guitar for at least 30 minutes a day.




This helped me get to the point where I felt comfortable handling the instrument and was actually able to start to get some more creative enjoyment from it.




The important thing here is deliberate practice. Meaning, don't lose focus, figure out what you're going to be working on for that 1/2 hour and stick to it. This could be theory, chords, alternate tunings, etc. Just make sure to cover the basics somewhere in there. I bought a great book to help me with the fundamentals, Pumping Nylon. This book is for folks getting into classical guitar. Though, in my opinion, all guitarists ought to start with classical if you'd like to develop the best/most efficient techniques in your right and left-hands.



Beyond that- I'd say the most important component is passion. Ask yourself why you're willing to put in so many hours into something. Come up with reasons that keep you excited for the next thing!



For me, my passion comes from the fact that, in this lame world we live in, magic doesn't exist. I'll never be able to pursue my childhood fantasy of becoming a Wizard. However- Music does exist, and, in my opinion, music has many of the same qualities of magic. You can transport a listener into an emotional landscape of your making. You can create a world of sound where you get to call all of the shots. You can ease someones pain, create excitement, wax-poetic about love, you can even create unease and a sense of creeping dread. It's all up to you and how you handle your instruments of sound.



This is what keeps me pursuing the guitar and music. The rest of the world fades away while I'm playing. I suppose it's almost like having a day dream that other people can hear.



I'm not sure if I answered your questions or not :P

tl;dr - Deliberate daily practice and passion seem to be working for me.

u/sleaze_bag_alert · 2 pointsr/Guitar

work through the original Aaron Shearer books (I linked book 1, there are 3, you should at least go through the first two and maybe some of the supplemental ones) . If your classical technique is decent then you will breeze through them pretty quickly but you might pick up a few subtle things like playing rest-stroke with your thumb at the same time as free-stroke with your fingers and vice-versa. Once you are good there there are two books you should buy: Pumping Nylon for the various exercises it has. They are very good if you play them regularly. Then buy The Library of Guitar Classics. It is a big spiral bound book of repertoire that looks like a lot of those piano-rep books. It has music ranging from easy to very hard and from the renaissance period all the way through the romantic era with pieces by Tarrega and Albeniz. There is a lot of really good rep in there. There is also a second volume of the book that is almost as good. When it comes to more modern music buy the Villa-Lobos book and work through some of that stuff. It is a great book that was edited by - if I remember correctly - Frederick Noad. There are also some really good books with the complete Bach cello/lute suites (although some of that can be found in the books I already mentioned).

If you REALLY want to kick your ass, see if you can dig up a copy of the Abel Carlevaro right hand book. It is like the Giuliani 120 studies on steroids. I have never struggled that hard to play an arpeggio in my life! I think it is this book but I am not sure. I had a really old photo-copy of it and I don't know where it came from.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/classicalguitar

Hey,

In terms of learning large volumes of work quickly, what's best to do when if you have a variety of difficulty levels is just play through the easy ones that you know will be OK every day. With the harder ones take care to isolate the difficult passages and practise them not only slowly but with different rhythms - if you have a fast quaver passage then practise it 4 times with dotted quaver (dotted eighth note) - semiquaver (sixteenth note) in the place of quaver - quaver. Then another 4 times with semiquaver (sixteenth note) - dotted quaver (dotted eighth note). Experiment with different rhythms.

To get used to the pieces it might be a good idea to get a few versions of the harder pieces you have to learn onto your mp3 player. Just get used to hearing them in the way the best players play them. It might result in your interpretation being pretty close to the guy's one on the track you listened to 10 times on repeat during your morning jog, but to be honest when you only have 2 weeks to learn a bunch of pieces you really want to make sure you can play it. If you feel really shitty then obviously it would be a good idea to ask maybe some of the players (a drummer and a few horns?) if they would play with you a few times away from the orchestra, in their own time, before the concert.

Are you used to playing with nails? If not then this will be a small part of a many year journey to find the right shape anyway... Don't apply any varnishes or anything - even many so-called strengthening solutions are just layers of a kind of varnish that ultimately damage the real nail. Eating a boiled egg in the morning helps keep them strong, as does jelly. Start doing things more with your left hand (ie. opening doors). Buy a nail buffer and look at Scott Tenants Pumping Nylon as a starting guide to nail care:

http://www.thebodyshop.co.uk/hand-care/accessories/big-nail-shiner.aspx?cm_mmc=FusePump-_-GoogleShopping-_-TagMan-_-Link&gclid=CLPjnKa0gbcCFVMftAodomUAgQ

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pumping-Nylon-Classical-Guitarists-Technique/dp/088284721X

Good luck :D

u/BroseppeVerdi · 1 pointr/classicalguitar

I've known a number of players who sort of consider Scott Tennant's "Pumping Nylon" to be sort of a classical guitar technique bible. I found the speed burst exercises very helpful, myself. The Segovia scales and Christopher Parkening's method books were also somewhat ubiquitous when I was a young player... maybe not like "Hanon" ubiquitous, but very common.

Edit: Added links

u/stanley_bobanley · 1 pointr/Guitar

Thanks! The most robust book I can think of off the top of my head is Pumping Nylon. It's a great publication with loads of exercises.

Having said that, if you have the patience the most enjoyable way is to learn classical pieces. I understand that sheet music is hurdle (or deterrent) for lots of folks. I used to sit down with a legend for standard notation and mostly rely on the ear!

u/guitar2adam · 1 pointr/guitarlessons

Pumping Nylon is a terrific finger exercise book for left hand and right hand, which I think translates well to all guitar styles.

u/USS-SpongeBob · 1 pointr/Guitar

Have you checked out this book? It has some good stuff in it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Pumping-Nylon-Classical-Guitarists-Technique/dp/088284721X