Pro Art Guitar http://www.proartguitar.com Guitar Blog | Contemporary Guitar | Classical Guitar | Lessons | Videos | Sheet Music Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:54:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 proartguitarhttp://feedburner.google.com Fernando Sor Study – Op. 44 No. 2 (Classical Guitar) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/proartguitar/~3/a1Uc49WgBMk/ http://www.proartguitar.com/2010/09/fernando-sor-study-op-44-no-2-classical-guitar/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:49:36 +0000 admin http://www.proartguitar.com/?p=82 Student Repertoire and Etudes – For Classical Guitar and Electric Guitar

This section of the site features videos and sheet music that may interest students. The recordings are intended as a basic reference tool for students. Following the sheet music and video together should provide students of the guitar tips on fingering for both hands and an idea what the music will sound like. Hope you enjoy it!

Check out the Student Repertoire and Etudes Archive for a list of works organized by difficulty.

This week: Classical Guitar – Fernando Sor – Andante Op. 44 No. 2

Level of difficulty: Easy-Intermediate

Buy the sheet music here. (The edition used in the video – Sheet Music Plus)


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This section of the site features videos and sheet music that may interest students. The recordings are intended as a basic reference tool for students. Following the sheet music and video together should provide students of the guitar tips on fingering for both hands and an idea what the music will sound like. Hope you enjoy it!

Check out the Student Repertoire and Etudes Archive for a list of works organized by difficulty.

Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles

Level of difficulty: Intermediate

Buy the sheet music (amazon): The Beatles for Classical Guitar (Guitar Solo)


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Look, Listen, Learn. The Score Study is one of the most useful lessons for every student of music. Simply follow along with the free sheet music provided and learn how the pros shape phrases, articulate the notes, and handle complex textures. There will be a score study every Monday.

Download the complete lute suites by Bach here, the fingerings and edition are not great but for our uses it will suffice.

Read about Johann Sebastian Bach at Wikipedia.

The basics: Bach (1685-1750), Baroque Music, solo violin arrangement for lute.

John Williams:


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Duo Verdejo: http://www.duoverdejo.com

Composer’s website: www.myspace.com/ericjschwartz


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This section of the site features videos and sheet music that may interest students. The recordings are intended as a basic reference tool for students. Following the sheet music and video together should provide students of the guitar tips on fingering for both hands and an idea what the music will sound like. Hope you enjoy it!

Check out the Student Repertoire and Etudes Archive for a list of works organized by difficulty.

This week: Classical Guitar – Fernando Sor – Andante Op. 44 No. 1

Level of difficulty: Easy-Intermediate

Download the sheet music here. (Fully fingered in PDF – This week is a free of charge!)

This week’s etude is pretty straight forward for the left hand but requires solid i, m string crossings in the right hand. The sheet music has more instructions and tips.


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Look, Listen, Learn. The Score Study is one of the most useful lessons for every student of music. Simply follow along with the free sheet music provided and learn how the pros shape phrases, articulate the notes, and handle complex textures. There will be a score study every Monday.

This Week: Bruno Giuffredi plays Introduction & caprice Op.23 by Giulio Regondi

Download the free score: Introduction & caprice Op.23 by Giulio Regondi

Bruno Giuffredi plays Introduction & caprice Op.23 by Giulio Regondi


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Seth Josel: electric guitar
Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics

Info: http://www.essl.at/works/sequitur/seq…

Score

The score of Sequitur VIII can be downloaded for free. Please note that the music is protected by copyright.

Recording

This recording of Sequitur VIII can be downloaded for free. Please consider that the files are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License and must not be modified.


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Lars Frandsen & Kevin Gallagher


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Electric Guitar version of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring by french musician Brice Delage, guitarist singer for Chugga Chugga.

All parts were played with an Ibanez Roadstar, using distortion, wah, whammy, e-bow, and different tunings…

Enjoy !

Here’s an excerpt for anyone who has not hear an orchestra perform the work. Note, if you haven’t it’s time to get down to some music history classes at your local Conservatory/Music School!

STRAVINSKY : Rite Of Spring – V.Gergiev (1/3)

Rite Of Spring (extract)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader Andrew Haveron
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Barbican Centre London 2007


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