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01/23/2010

Classical Guitar Lessons Online? No Way; Really?

Filed under: Academic,Music and Stuff — admin @ 5:37 am

Just so you know, online classical guitar lessons don’t actually “sux0r” as much as you would think.

Here’s a glimpse of some simple ones that should give you ideas of your own for teaching and/or taking lessons this way:

Hi ____,
How are things going with that part I of the Boceto?

Here are several youtubes of people doing a not so good job with it. I thought as long as you’ve already played from the sheet music a few times, you’d be able to work from these without building too many of their bad habits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41TH7zb4NY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V24VKqJUp8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXobn1QNr6k

This one’s probably the closest I’ve found to how the Boceto SHOULD be played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA9DQV2AKNU

But that’s just my not so humble opinion. And I only mean relative to the others, I’m afraid.

And I hope you’re ready for this one!

Here’s how an orchestra chose to do it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HakH_km1jLI

Begins very nicely but gets VERY stiff, and then I don’t know what to say about the end. Orchestras tend to do things like this and I lose interest.

They did manage to keep some of the melody intact though, which amazed me.

Feel free to ask me any number of questions, and I’ll try to answer everything I can.

Cheers,
marco

oh, and ps:

for more than you’ll ever want to read about classical guitar, goto:

http://frucht.org/carulli.html

and for more than enough free stuff about music in general see:

http://frucht.org/anicmusic.html

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