Dance of the Red Dragon is a piece I composed for a guitar student. I wanted to write a piece that was fairly easy to play and that used rasgueados. This piece was also designed to be played at different speeds depending on the students skill level.
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What Wondrous Love Is This has a beautiful melody that works well on the guitar. This is an old hymn that was first published back in 1811.
An interesting nugget about this piece is that it is in the Dorian mode. The dorian mode can be built by first writing out a natural minor scale (ex. A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and then raising the 6th note. So a dorian scale on A would go A, B, C, D, E, F-sharp, G, A. This particular melody is in D dorian so the scale goes: D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D.
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La Catedral is a great piece composed by Agustin Barrios Mangore. The last two movements were composed earlier in his life and then he added the first movement (the one in this teaching video) later in life. He reworked this piece throughout his life and you will find multiple versions of it. For more information about La Catedral I would recommend checking out: https://www.savarese.org/music/LaCatedral.html
Of the three movements, this one is my personal favorite and the reason I started learning the piece many moons ago.
Agustin Barrios was a guitar composer and composed a lot of really good pieces. He was born in Paraguay and was praised for his concerts as well as recordings. If you don’t know this composer I would highly recommend checking out his other pieces.
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Amazing Grace is one of my favorite melodies of all-time. The words were written in 1772 by John Newton. It was common back then for words to be used with a variety of different melodies and it wasn’t until around 1847 that we first find a publication joining the words with the melody commonly used today called, New Britain.
This arrangement in this guitar lesson comes from my first volume of easy arrangements. As the title implies, I tried to make this as easy as possible to play while still keeping the integrity of the original tune.
I hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can find more videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.
La Catedral is a great piece composed by Agustin Barrios Mangore. The last two movements were composed earlier in his life and then he added the first movement (the one in this teaching video) later in life. He reworked this piece throughout his life and you will find multiple versions of it. For more information about La Catedral I would recommend checking out: https://www.savarese.org/music/LaCatedral.html
Agustin Barrios was a guitar composer and composed a lot of really good pieces. He was born in Paraguay and was praised for his concerts as well as recordings. If you don’t know this composer I would highly recommend checking out his other pieces. I hope you enjoy this teaching video. For more videos like this please check out my guitar school found at my website.
Ave Maria is a beautiful piece of music composed by Franz Schubert. Schubert originally composed the music as part of a collection of seven songs titled, “Ellens dritter Gesang” and is part of his Op. 52. Eventually words from the Roman Catholic prayer, Ave Maria, were added adopting using Schubert’s original melody.
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Sakura is a popular folk song found in Japan. The translation means “Cherry Blossoms.” I’ve always loved this melody. The first time I heard it performed on the classical guitar was by John Williams who was playing an arrangement by Yuquijiro Yocoh. That is a very virtuosic arrangement (and beautiful arrangement). For this arrangement I wanted to arrange it for the late-beginner, early intermediate level student.
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I made this arrangement of the Rondo Alla Turca last year and finally got around to recording it. It took so long because it is difficult and I wanted to adjust the arrangement so that it was less difficult to play.
Mozart composed this piece in 1778 and is the last movement of his Piano Sonata No. 11. It was meant to imitate the sound of Turkish Janissary Bands.
I’ll be making a teaching video for this song very soon.
In this guitar lesson I teach this wonderful etude by Carcassi. This is a good etude for the intermediate player because it sounds nice, has a repeated pattern in the right hand and isn’t too bad in the left hand.
Carcassi was an Italian virtuoso guitarist and composer who spent most of his professional career in Germany and France.
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This is a fingerstyle / classical guitar arrangement of the beautiful theme composed by Francis Lai for the movie, Love Story. The theme was composed for the movie and then lyrics were added and it became a popular song, called Where Do I Begin?, in the early 1970s. The original singer was Andy Williams.
