Puppy any tips for classical guitar? It’s my goal to get one this year and learn some classical.
4 things and they're contradictory, but that's what it is
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1) Skip the serious guitar school books like Parkening, Sagregas, Schearer or heaven forbid, what I learned from the Pujol Guitar school (hundreds of pages across multi-volume crap that would put the most boring person to sleep). If you already know your away around, don't waste the time. My friend Scott wrote an excellent book that covers methodology well enough without getting too serious
https://www.amazon.com/Pumping-Nylon-Classical-Guitarists-Technique/dp/1470631385In essence: Don't get caught up in technique and it doesn't have to be a slog to learn. Also keep in mind that there's no one way to classical guitar proficiency.
2) While I'm telling you to not get too serious about the method, you have to be serious about what you intend to play. You can't get into a piece without planning. This is classical music, you can't "wing it". For example, here's a pic of my first day at a bach fugue (notice, I only did one page, I didn't touch the second page until my planning for the first page was done).
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And that's day 1. By the time it's "Performance ready" It's much much worse. Also, keep in mind you gotta start SLOW. A piece when I start it sounds like nothing. I usually start playing at about at 5th or slower speed and then work up. Don't go into a piece thinking you can just play it.
3) Start small. Everyone wants to get to Bach and Albeniz and the cool stuff. Cool your heels. Find some easy pieces you like and get those 100% right before moving to other stuff
4) I just said there's no one way to guitar proficiency, BUT if you can do these sets of studies/etudes a performance grade you're ready for almost anything. My professor insisted I be able to do all these before I could move to a non-etude piece. It was a painful 18 month slog, but after I could do all these I was ready for anything. They're listed in the order I'd approach it in. Now I wouldn't suggest you go full bear like my teacher and not play anything else til these are done. But I'd suggest always have a few of these in your practicing.
Guliani's 120 Arpeggios
Brouwer's 12 simple Etude's
Sor's 24 Etudes (The Segovian Selections)
Villa-Lobo's 12 Etudes