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This tutorial we'll practice basic open chords in a classical guitar style. Chords covered include: A major, A minor, A7, B7, C, C7, D major, D minor, E major, E minor, E7, F, G7. In each exercise two chords are paired for a tonic (I) to dominant (V7) musical pattern. Classical guitar style right hand fingerstyle technique will be used to illustrate the way classical guitar style uses minimal chord voices, close harmony motion & small melodic phrases to walk from the dominant chord back to the tonic.

In this tutorial we'll learn the basics of the classical guitar style tremolo technique. Tremolo is an Italian word that means trembling. It refers to a type of musical articulation, to rapidly repeat a note or notes. The purpose of this technique is to mimic the way other musical instruments keep notes constantly sounding or ringing out by using a rolling picking motion.

Dave will show you the classical guitar part that consists of sophisticated jazz chords in a sparing way, single notes lines and 6th interval diad lines. There's also an elegant guitar solo and some triads by an overdubbed second guitar.

In this tutorial we'll learn some basic two voice, or two part, classical guitar exercises. In each exercise, one voice will be scale played up then down; the other voice will be a repeated pedal note. Playing two voices simultaneously in two different registers (bass & treble) is an important aspect of classical guitar style. We'll use an E major & an E minor scale. Both scales will be played in the bass register (lower, bass strings) & then in the treble register (upper, high strings). The pedal notes will be played on the opposite register as the scale.

"Sleepers Awake" by Johann Sebastian Bach is a beautiful choral piece that's been arranged many times for solo classical guitar. In this tutorial we'll learn to play an advanced beginner arrangement of the main theme by the master of the Baroque era of music.

Christopher will show you how to play this traditional classical guitar piece that has beginner level skills as well as intermediate.

In this tutorial we will learn a classical guitar style arrangement of the main themes from the 'Nutcracker March' by Tchaikovsky.

In this tutorial we will learn a classical guitar arrangement of a theme from Peter Tchaikovsky's 'March Slave'. This is a great piece for learning to transition from beginner level to intermediate level.

In this tutorial we will learn a classical guitar style arrangement of Pachelbel's 'Canon In D'.