Classical Guitar players thread

[eflatminor]

I grew up playing classical guitar but after I got into jazz, my playing expanded into new directions. These days, I still play 'finger style' but in an experimental genre. We call it 'avant classical'...guys that studied classical music but enjoy playing spontaneously composed/experimental music. Music for musicians, if you will...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBov_UsvOnI]Frank Gratkowski Scott Looney Damon Smith Kjell Nordeson 2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Dajjal]

Here is another exciting piece. I have the sheet music for it but I have not attempted it.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6SxXVpHVOA]Manuel De Falla- The Three Cornered Hat- The Miller's dance- Magdalena Duhagon, guitar - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Dajjal]

Here is John Williams playing Villa Lobos prelude no5.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUx4xkFQKfs]John Williams : Hector Villa-Lobos - Prelude no.5 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[freedombecki]

Lovely, Dajjal.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The only Classical sounding piece I can play is "Diary of a Madman". I've been working on "Classical Gas" (the Eric Clapton version) for years but I haven't finished it.

 

[Dajjal]

The only Classical sounding piece I can play is "Diary of a Madman". I've been working on "Classical Gas" (the Eric Clapton version) for years but I haven't finished it.

Hi! I have the sheet music for classical gas the Mason Williams version, but I would have trouble sight reading it now. I will have to work at it before I remember it all.
I did not pick up my guitar for more than five years until recently when I got the urge to play some Villa Lobos I saw on utube. But wanting to play it and suceeding are two different things. I have learned the first ten bars of prelude 1 and prelude 4 but I am struggling with the fingering from the 11 bar of both pieces, and they only get harder later in the works.

 

[Warrior102]

I can't believe no one has posted this yet...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzyrpfrPEI]Classical Gas Mason Williams 1968 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Jason Becker playing Paganini Caprice #5

Also, there's this

 

[Dajjal]

Here is John Williams playing Villa Lobos prelude no 2.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6znv2BRzu4U]John Williams : Hector Villa-Lobos - Prelude no.2 - YouTube[/ame]

I am progressing with prelude no 1 and can now fumble my way throught the first twenty bars. I had a problem working out the fingering at bar 11 because the music I printed out and the tablature online is different. But I got past that. However the prelude looks a lot harder on subsequent pages. It is five pages long and I am only at the end of page one.

 

[Sunshine]

Just piano. I did master the easy version of Franz Liszt's Liebestraum 3. Träumerei, Op. 15, No. 7, by Schumann is out for delivery today. If the piano technician ever gets here and works on my piano, maybe I will try the hard version of Liebestraum 3 in A flat major. Parts of it are no more difficult than the easier version, really, but there is a key change in the middle of it that makes me cringe.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJB6-qMQ_3s]Michael Lucarelli - Dust in the Wind (Kansas) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B6jOUzBKYc]Malaguena - classical guitar - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFgFYPXU9Q]Pachelbel Canon in D classical guitar - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Sunshine]

Träumerei arrived. It is definitely not bad. Can sight read it, but slowly. The actual MM = 50 - 60, so that is good. Sorry for the off topic post Dajjal! There is a 'git fiddle' in my back bedroom. I think it belongs to my daughter.

 

[Sunshine]

Recent purchases:

Gnossienne No. 1. (Haven't started working on it though.)

Tennessee Waltz (which I have somewhere but it belongs to my sister and I will give it to her son when I find it.)

Skater's Waltz

Merry Widow Waltz

Going to order: Always on My Mind. Likely today.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1YCKqBEN0]LIONA BOYD - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Spiderman]

I've always loved guitar music but I never learned how to play.

I'm 42 and my fingers are beat to hell from work I don't know if it's worth trying to learn now or not.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

I've always loved guitar music but I never learned how to play.

I'm 42 and my fingers are beat to hell from work I don't know if it's worth trying to learn now or not.

It might be a good idea to go into a music instrument shop that sells guitars. The sales assistant or manager may be able to play, so may be able to let you have a go at seeing if your fingers are nimble. Might be worth a try.

So, which is a tune you like, so we can listen to it?

 

[edthecynic]

Here is a little Sabicas and Joe Beck Fusion that you might like.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V3ctzQjeeM]Sabica & Joe Beck - Inca Song - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Pogo]

I've always loved guitar music but I never learned how to play.

I'm 42 and my fingers are beat to hell from work I don't know if it's worth trying to learn now or not.

Well if you keep putting it off it won't be...