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Posted 17 November 2005 - 06:48 PM

for nylon stringed guitars, aka classical guitars. I am looking for some stuff to play that isnt rediculously hard but isnt too easy. Any suggestions, im looking for like Beethoven and the likes on classical guitar.
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Posted 17 November 2005 - 06:52 PM

Try Romanza (also known as Spanish Romance and the sort) It was the first classical song I learned. It's a basic little bit of high E, B, G strings down in a constant motion. It sounds easy, but the fingering positions you've got to go through on the fret board can throw you off. It's what you're looking for I think.
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Posted 17 November 2005 - 06:53 PM

beethoven on classical guitar? i think not. you'd never get it punchy enough.

bach is good, though the counterpoint never comes out quite as good. vivaldi's lute concerto in G is good, the largo bit, very pretty (though i may have completely screwed the title up. it's been ages since i played it).

go for stuff by carulli or tarrega. good site for classical is http://www.classtab.org.
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Posted 17 November 2005 - 10:36 PM

QUOTE (MakoMako @ Nov 17 2005, 07:52 PM)
Try Romanza (also known as Spanish Romance and the sort) It was the first classical song I learned. It's a basic little bit of high E, B, G strings down in a constant motion. It sounds easy, but the fingering positions you've got to go through on the fret board can throw you off. It's what you're looking for I think.

Thats actually Spanish guitar and I learned that tune 4 years ago when I started playing, too easy for my standards because of the way its written.
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Posted 17 November 2005 - 10:38 PM

QUOTE (dogpoo @ Nov 17 2005, 07:53 PM)
beethoven on classical guitar? i think not. you'd never get it punchy enough.

bach is good, though the counterpoint never comes out quite as good. vivaldi's lute concerto in G is good, the largo bit, very pretty (though i may have completely screwed the title up. it's been ages since i played it).

go for stuff by carulli or tarrega. good site for classical is http://www.classtab.org.

I downloaded some Beethoven and Mozart stuff from Powertabs that is for classical guitar, its just arranged from violin or whatever. I want to learn some Mozart stuff especially cause the band I am in is doing a concert as a celebration of the anniversary of Mozart's birth and I will be playing some classical guitar in it so I want to familiarize myself with the music a bit more than I do.
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Posted 17 November 2005 - 11:11 PM

QUOTE (AcousticSmash @ Nov 17 2005, 10:36 PM)
QUOTE (MakoMako @ Nov 17 2005, 07:52 PM)
Try Romanza (also known as Spanish Romance and the sort) It was the first classical song I learned. It's a basic little bit of high E, B, G strings down in a constant motion. It sounds easy, but the fingering positions you've got to go through on the fret board can throw you off. It's what you're looking for I think.

Thats actually Spanish guitar and I learned that tune 4 years ago when I started playing, too easy for my standards because of the way its written.



Alright, I often consider Spanish-style guitar playing classical since they do have quite a few similar features in terms of playing. I am ignorant to any major differences that may lie in between them, so please forgive. I was also unaware of how much experience you had, but at least I know 4 years ago this might have been good advice. tongue.gif
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Posted 18 November 2005 - 03:40 AM

QUOTE (AcousticSmash @ Nov 18 2005, 04:38 PM)
QUOTE (dogpoo @ Nov 17 2005, 07:53 PM)
beethoven on classical guitar? i think not. you'd never get it punchy enough.

bach is good, though the counterpoint never comes out quite as good. vivaldi's lute concerto in G is good, the largo bit, very pretty (though i may have completely screwed the title up. it's been ages since i played it).

go for stuff by carulli or tarrega. good site for classical is http://www.classtab.org.

I downloaded some Beethoven and Mozart stuff from Powertabs that is for classical guitar, its just arranged from violin or whatever. I want to learn some Mozart stuff especially cause the band I am in is doing a concert as a celebration of the anniversary of Mozart's birth and I will be playing some classical guitar in it so I want to familiarize myself with the music a bit more than I do.


if you were looking for piano music i'd be able to help you. i'm not too keen on music written for keyboard being played on the guitar though, the effect doesn't come out quite as well.

have you seen amadeus? it's a good movie on mozart, though not entirely accurate, and it seems i've veered off topic sad.gif. but yar, i'm not the biggest fan of mozart to begin with, or anything of the classical era really, with some exceptions such as beethoven who wasn't entirely classical. haydn is classical if you want to try and get your hands on classical stuff. CPE and JC bach is probably good as well. guitar arrangements still don't appeal to me though, but by all means go for them. smile.gif.
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Posted 18 November 2005 - 09:42 AM

Asturias... The best classical guitar song ever...
It's not that hard, but some of the song is with 3 strings... That's kinda hard...
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Posted 18 November 2005 - 11:06 AM

Bach minuets are always really fun. Any of John Dowland's stuff. or you could just go to ... http://www.classtab.org/ and knock yourself out for a couple of years.
Just an idea... Not an actual serving suggestion.
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