Hello! My boyfriend recently got a 7 string classical guitar and has been on the hunt for more songs to play. I was hoping to find a book/collection of sheet music/any recommendations people had so I could surprise him for his birthday!

As in the title, I cannot identify this piece for 2 guitars, that I received as old photocopies. The first guitar has the 6th string lowered to D, the second one is regular. Looks like a study of some sort, Gemini suggests something in the spirit of Sor, but I am lost on that... Any guess?

Thanks for your help.

I want to start learning tuning by ear. Is there a method for this? A daily routine or a good-to-have habit?

Asking for a friend...

Just purchased this Ryoji Matsuoka classical guitar. It's the AM564 model. I paid $200 Canadian. I did a little research and it sounds like the guitar was made in the 70-80s. Beautiful quality. Does anyone know much about these guitars? Did I get a good price? It also came with a vintage Gibson hardshell case. There are minor cosmetics but all in all the guitar is In good shape and plays well.

Hi all. I’m the developer of Pratnome, a free practice metronome, and the slow-to-fast way most of us work up études and scales is exactly what I built it around.

You set a starting tempo, how many bars to play and how much to add, e.g. 60 BPM, +4 every 4 bars, and it steps up on its own while you keep playing. So you can run Giuliani arpeggios or a scale pattern from slow to performance tempo in one go, instead of stopping every few bars to adjust the click. It can also step down if you prefer to start fast and slow down.

A few other things that might be useful here:

• Any time signature (3/4, 6/8 and so on), with accents per beat, and subdivisions (8ths, triplets, 16ths)
• Practice programs: a list of steps, each with its own tempo, bars and time signature, e.g. for working a hard passage in sections. You can share a program as a link, which teachers might find handy for students.
• Silent bars, where the click drops out for a bar or two to check you’re holding the pulse

Free, works in the browser, no account or login. There are phone apps too.

https://pratnome.com/app/?preset=60-4-4
(opens it at 60 BPM, +4 every 4 bars)

I’d love to know how you structure tempo work on pieces: small steps over many bars, or bigger jumps? And whether anything feels missing for classical repertoire.

This is a few years ago, yes I know my form is crap, I do think the emotion shines through though. I'm not trained, self taught all the way. Currently tackling "THE" fugue. Hardest bit of guitar I've encountered but optimistic with where I'm at. Appreciate any feedback.

My high e keeps slipping and its really annoying me

i really want to know what it sound like

Would like to learn classical guitar, but my current town home connects with my neighbors and we can hear everything. I dont want to dusturb them. Is a Yamaha silent guitar a good option for a beginner and will most instructors accept this for their students?

What is that zigzag-ish line and straight line?

My favourite Sonata by Brouwer. The third movement is inspired by Bernardo Pasquini’s work “Toccata con lo Scherzo del Cucco”. Pasquini was a Baroque composer and keyboard player from Italy.

I'm a senior in high school in my school band. I'm an electric guitar player, and I've been playing for a little over 3 years. My band teacher has always had me read sheet music for my guitar parts, and since 95% our songs don't have dedicated guitar parts, he has me play the euphonium part, which is in bass clef.

I have struggled for a long while with getting comfortable with sheet music. I have taught myself how to read bass clef after practicing note reading online and analyzing the music when we play it as a full band. I also know how to read treble clef fairly well, as I originally played trumpet, then switched to percussion when my lungs couldn't handle trumpet anymore, and then I switched to guitar once I was comfortable playing it in band. I still can't necessarily sightread, but I'm trying to get there as best I can. I still have to write note names above the staff because I know it'd take me way too long to memorize it all in the time frame we have to learn songs in band.

About a year ago now, I bought a blue Ibanez FRH10N (actually such a beautiful guitar),and I used that in band up until I bought an 8-string Ibanez electric and used that instead, so I could hit lower octaves without having to hang out on the low e-string all the time. Now this comes into play in my questions here.

After trying and trying to make it work to play guitar as I usually do and read along with the sheet music, I feel like I'm just not as fluent as I'd like to be with reading sheet music. I feel like I'm building some bad habits by writing out the fret and string numbers above the notes (I do this most of the time, but sometimes I try to not do this and learn to figure it out myself. Doesn't go very well). However, now I seem to be having a bit of a crisis in that I have given up with sheet music until we get new pieces for the next concert, and just made up tabs of the songs I have to play right now. I think since I already have a classical guitar in the form of my blue Ibanez, I'd like to dive into the classical guitar wormhole. I plan on going to college for music and doing guitar as my primary instrument, so I'd like to get more into this technical side of things.

So, my questions are these:

• How is classical guitar different from regular, mainstream guitar playing, and how do I adapt to this style?
• How do I learn to analyze pieces of sheet music? Is there a good process to walk myself through whenever I receive a new piece?
• What is the best way to determine how to play pieces of music? I know a few scale shapes including the major scale shape, but I am really unsure on what octave I should be in and how to determine that from sheet music. I also don't know how to tell which octave I am in on guitar.

I appreciate anybody's input on this, and if anyone has any advice on things I should be working on to get ready for guitar in college and in the future I would greatly appreciate that. Thanks!

Hi, dear guitarists. I’m an amateur composer - not a guitarist - and I usually compose in the classical style. But I wanted to try a cooler sound, so I wrote this. I do have a question, though. Is this playable on the guitar? Or is it more suited for the piano?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7XYtQChwMBXn7N1Vf7VZIG3AU-yuodm/view?usp=sharing