
What are you going to learn in the course?
Introduction to this section and few guitar terms.
Here you will learn some music symbols and terms that will appear in the course.
Learn what is an interval in music.
Learn what is a major scale, minor scale, how they are ,built etc.
Learn what is position in classical guitar.
Learn notes on position 2 that will be used in this course
Learn how to play scale E harmonic minor which will help you in the pieces that follow.
By playing Amelia you will implement the notes on position 2 and the scale E harmonic minor that you learned earlier.
Learn chords Em, Am, and B7 by using chord diagrams.
Once you learn the chords Em, Am, and B7 we will do this strumming exercise in 3/4 time to help you to establish your chord technique which you will need in the following lecture.
Implement the chords Em, Am, and B7 by playing accompaniment (background) for Amelia which you learned earlier.
Introduction and demonstration of Etude No. 3 by Valentin Spasov
Technical exercise that should be played prior to the etude. It will make it easy to put the etude together.
Technical exercise that played prior to the etude will make it easy to put the etude together
Technical exercise that played prior to the etude will make it easy to put the etude together
Once you are done with technical exercises 1,2 and 3 you will be able to play the etude. In this video, we will put it together.
Learn scale G major 2 octaves in position II
Explanation and demonstration of Ejercicio.
Learn the first 8 bars of Ejercicio.
Ejercicio bar 9 till the end.
El Tocador - demonstration of the piece and explanations of how we are going to learn it.
Learn how to produce rapid strum with your right hand thumb, which will be used in "El Tocador".
You will learn how to do golpe which is a gentle knock on the surface of the guitar, a technique that you will use in "El tocador" also.
You will learn a technique where a finger (index or middle) plays apoyando , and the thumb plays tirando, simultaneously.
Summary of the new things that will be used in "El tocador"
Learn how to play the first part of "El Tocador"
Learn how to play the second part of "El Tocador"
Demonstration of "Habanera" and explanations.
Learn how to play the first part of Habanera.
Learn how to play the second part of Habanera.
Supplementary pieces that you can play by applying the knowledge and skills from Levels 1,2 and 3.
Congratulations and final words.
In this course, you will be building upon what you have learned in Levels 1 and 2.
Learn and implement notes on position 2.
New techniques - they will be related mostly with your right hand- golpe, playing finger (index or middle) -apoyando and thumb -tirando simultaneously
Music theory - closely related to the music that is presented in the course. I will not teach you things that you don't need now. But on the contrary, the theory is restricted to the terms and symbols which you see in the score that you play.
Ensemble playing - There will be a piece called Amelia which you will learn how to do accompaniment to it using the new chords and new strumming technique.
New pieces:
Valentin Spasov Etude no. 3
Jose Ferrer (1835-1916) - Ejercicio
Valentin Spasov - Habanera
Valentin Spasov - El Tocador.
with everything that you have learned in level 1 and level 2, You will find that you are fully prepared to play those classical guitar pieces.
Supplementary pieces by Fernando Carulli, Joseph Kuffner, and Valentin Spasov.
I have included a few pieces that you can play using the skills and knowledge that you acquired from the course.
I wish you good luck!
Valentin