Thanks for watching! It’s great you're into guitar. If you’d like some inspiration or pointers, check out these free guitar ebooks: bit.ly/3ICiJyt. Cheers!
Hi your tutorials helped me tremendously. Your knowledge is a treasure in classical guitar community! I can't appreciate enough, thank you for sharing this. I'm studying music in University it's been 6 months since I've started classical guitar, glad that I've found your tutorials early. It's uncomparable to any teachings in the Internet or classes available out there. You teach very professional AND effective at the same time. Hope you're well wishing the best for you.
A big “aha” for me was realising I didn’t need my finger to cross perpendicular to the string. Chasing this caused me to have a funky wrist angle. Once my wrist was in a natural position, tendons all flowing & big knuckle working, my natural finger draw was slightly angled across the strings…..and a lot nicer to play.🎉🎉🎉
I don't play classical music, but I have benefited from watching your videos, Allen. Your advice is very helpful to me as I grow in fingerstyle playing, and I do sometimes use a nylon string guitar, so thank for your wisdom and input.
Hey! Thank you for the great instructional videos and the free sheet music. Your videos have been really helpful to me. It would be amazing if you could create a video recommending the best guitar pieces to learn, ones that are both instructive and beautiful. Providing a few examples for each difficulty level would be immensely helpful, as it's often challenging to decide which pieces to learn. Thank you for considering this idea!
This is a very valuable lesson: topical, informative, well organized, enjoyable. I saved the video for replaying before tomorrow’s practice. Your enthusiasm for playing is infectious. Kudos and thanks.
"like flapping a wet noodle on it" ha ha. Guilty of only one mistake, but us fingerstylists don't really count as classical guitarists. However wow, I can't imagine fingerstyle not rooted in classical style!
So I gather that a guitarist like Lagoya, who played using the right side of the fingernail, would be breaching rule number 3. I could approve this conclusion, since my teacher, decades ago, despite being a wonderful scholar and guide, had students playing with the right side. Unsurprisingly, we almost all abandoned this technique. Still, I recall that the sound was incredibly powerful; but it did not justify the discomfort.
I think that people who say you should only play off the left side of your nails is just snobbery. It seems to come from Segovia. nobody would say to adopt his cramped posture today so why still this snobbery.
Also people who say that they do are just fooling themselves if you watch closely you can see m and a are not doing this. The left side only is not how your hand is formed
Thanks for watching! It’s great you're into guitar. If you’d like some inspiration or pointers, check out these free guitar ebooks: bit.ly/3ICiJyt. Cheers!
Hi your tutorials helped me tremendously. Your knowledge is a treasure in classical guitar community! I can't appreciate enough, thank you for sharing this. I'm studying music in University it's been 6 months since I've started classical guitar, glad that I've found your tutorials early.
It's uncomparable to any teachings in the Internet or classes available out there. You teach very professional AND effective at the same time. Hope you're well wishing the best for you.
A big “aha” for me was realising I didn’t need my finger to cross perpendicular to the string. Chasing this caused me to have a funky wrist angle. Once my wrist was in a natural position, tendons all flowing & big knuckle working, my natural finger draw was slightly angled across the strings…..and a lot nicer to play.🎉🎉🎉
I don't play classical music, but I have benefited from watching your videos, Allen. Your advice is very helpful to me as I grow in fingerstyle playing, and I do sometimes use a nylon string guitar, so thank for your wisdom and input.
I love this channel. I am very bad at playing my classical guitar but this channel has still helped me improve a lot. Thank you!
Hey! Thank you for the great instructional videos and the free sheet music. Your videos have been really helpful to me. It would be amazing if you could create a video recommending the best guitar pieces to learn, ones that are both instructive and beautiful. Providing a few examples for each difficulty level would be immensely helpful, as it's often challenging to decide which pieces to learn. Thank you for considering this idea!
Thanks.
Thank you for your important and useful advice to improve our playing...🙏🌹
Thank you!
Great lesson on avoiding right hand mistakes. Do you have any for left hand mistakes to avoid?
This is a very valuable lesson: topical, informative, well organized, enjoyable. I saved the video for replaying before tomorrow’s practice. Your enthusiasm for playing is infectious. Kudos and thanks.
"like flapping a wet noodle on it" ha ha. Guilty of only one mistake, but us fingerstylists don't really count as classical guitarists. However wow, I can't imagine fingerstyle not rooted in classical style!
So I gather that a guitarist like Lagoya, who played using the right side of the fingernail, would be breaching rule number 3. I could approve this conclusion, since my teacher, decades ago, despite being a wonderful scholar and guide, had students playing with the right side. Unsurprisingly, we almost all abandoned this technique. Still, I recall that the sound was incredibly powerful; but it did not justify the discomfort.
I think that people who say you should only play off the left side of your nails is just snobbery. It seems to come from Segovia. nobody would say to adopt his cramped posture today so why still this snobbery.
Also people who say that they do are just fooling themselves if you watch closely you can see m and
a are not doing this. The left side only is not how your hand is formed
I definitely don’t do any of these , and yet my right hand is crap 🫣
So DON'T play like you're flapping a wet noodle? Got it!