12 Days C Major Classical guitar Challenge (Diabelli)

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This first landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

Each part is repeated once, so the overall structure is A-A-B-B.

There is no particular technical difficulty for this first piece.

For each part, we're going to play it at 40 beats per minute.

I'll play it first and the part will be repeated again, still at 40 beats per minute for you to play along. To ensure you can hear yourself well when playing, the soundtrack on the video is lowered. Now it's your turn!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

For this second day we are doing landler 3. It is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

The overall structure of this piece is A-A-B-A-B-A

There is no particular technical difficulty for this piece.

For each part, we're going to play it at 40 beats per minute.

I'll play it first and the part will be repeated again, still at 40 beats per minute for you to play along. To ensure you can hear yourself well when playing, the soundtrack on the video is lowered. Now it's your turn!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

For this third day we are doing landler 5.

It is composed of 2 parts, A and B. As for landler 1, each part is repeated once.

The overall structure of this piece is A-A-B-B.

There is no particular technical difficulty for this piece.

For each part, we're going to play it at 40 beats per minute.

I'll play it first and the part will be repeated again, still at 40 beats per minute for you to play along. To ensure you can hear yourself well when playing, the soundtrack on the video is lowered. Now it's turn!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

The overall structure is A-A-B-A-B-A.

Each part is made of 2 phrases:

- 1 with a simple alternation thumb/index, thumb/major.

- the second phrase uses the tremolo technique.

Let's have a look at the tremolo technique before we start playing the piece.

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

Each part is repeated once to make the overall structure A-A-B-B.

The technical point we are going to study with this piece is the hammering technique.

What is the hammering technique?

The hammering consists of hammering the string on the fretboard, to produce the note without having to pluck the string. The hammered note sounds smoother and is produced quicker than by plucking the string. This technique is used for speed and tone effect. It's generally done with the left hand in classical guitar. This technique is very common for electric guitar and they even use the right hand to do it, in combination with the left.

In this piece, the hammering is only composed of half a tone each time and only produces one note each time.

And we are going to use the following hammering patterns:

0-1

2-4

3-4

The numbers are corresponding to the relative finger on the left hand, such as indicated on this figure.

Let's do an exercise on this hammering technique using the C major scale.

The notes in red are to be hammered by the relevant finger. We'll play it twice. It's your turn!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

Each part is repeated once to make the overall structure A-A-B-B.

The technical point we are going to study with this piece is the use of grace notes.

What is a grace note and how does it look like?

A grace note is a brief note added to a standard note, that we'll call principal note and it has the function to embellish this principal note. It is classed as an ornament.

To recognise it look for a smaller sized note in front of the normal sized notes.

There are various types of grace notes, depending on the duration applied to them. In this landler number 2, there is only 1 grace note, right at the beginning but we'll have more grace notes in most of the next landlers we'll do.

On the first bar of Landler 2 the grace note is a semiquaver, accompanying a crotchet. To play it very quickly

we are going to use the hammering technique we've seen with Landler 10 and hammer the crotchet. It's your turn now!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

Each part is repeated once so the overall structure is A-A-B-B.

This landler is going to serve as an introduction to pull-off.

What is a pull-off?

The pull-off is basically a hammer on but in reverse. So instead of hammering the string on the fretboard,

your finger is pulling the string off from the fretboard.

The pull-off fingering patterns used in this landler are:

- 4 to 3

- 4 to 2

- 4 to 1

- 2 to 0

- 1 to 0

Let's play an example. Grab your guitar and let's go!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

The overall structure is A-A-B-A-B-A.

This landler uses the pulling off technique to produce the grace notes.

Each part will be played at 40 beats per minute.

I'll play it first and the part will be repeated again, still at 40 beats per minute for you to play along.

To ensure you can hear yourself well when playing, the soundtrack on the video is lowered. It's your turn now!

First thing: ensure you guitar is tuned in standard tuning.

Reminder: EBGDAE

This landler is composed of 2 parts, A and B.

The overall structure is A-A-B-B.

This landler uses the pulling off technique and also the hammering technique to produce the grace notes. The particularity of this landler is in part B, bar 13, with a double grace note.

Instead of hammering 1 string, you'll have to hammer 2 strings at the same time, with your first and 4th finger. Let's rehearse this in isolation before diving into the whole piece.