Inversely a fast tempo may have long durations. F major has one flat and that is Bb, so it means that as guitarists we will not be able to make good use of the open second string. As you progress in your classical guitar studies the right hand develops more finesse and we start to listen for not only tone quality but a variety of tones and dynamics within a single hand movement.Repertoire might require any number of left hand acrobatics to realize the music and they can add up to a great challenge in terms of choreography.

Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Originally written for the violin, the great virtuoso Andrés Segovia made this piece a well known work in the guitar repertoire and has even fooled audiences into believing this piece was actually written for the guitar. Not so much, but otherwise in agreement. Whatever the case, the rhythmic components can fundamentally change how easy it is to read and play a piece of music.On a musical level, having two or more distinct lines to consider will impact not only the comprehension but also memorization, and musicality.

Since I have formally studied both classical guitar and flamenco guitar, I see two different sides to this. C Major or B minor etc.) Reading music is not as difficult as you may think when you study it correctly.

This one, however, has been especially valuable for students AND teachers.

Such a lovely piece and difficult technique.

In classical guitar, and for classical music on any instrument where memorization is often expected (voice, piano, for example), a lot of music is difficult to memorize. Some are obvious, such as length and speed, but others are more subtle and harder to identify like left hand independence and transitions.In the end you will likely need the guidance of an experienced educator to get the answers you are looking for but we can delve into the various aspects that make this problem so complicated.Certain key centers (i.e. It seems as if every piece has some sticky bit to it that must be overcome in order to have a smooth performance which feels satisfying. personalized lessons.Sign up for more information about our private lessons. Once again this comes down to how familiar we are with reading music on the guitar.Similar to key center, our fingerboard knowledge will impact how difficult a piece is to learn, comprehend, and memorize. The piece was written for the legendary guitarist Julian Bream and is based on the piece Come, Heavy Sleep by the Lute composer from the Renaissance, John Dowland.Ready to learn to play this beautiful classical guitar music? I don’t think it was all that technically difficult (it was in the John Thompson book appropriate for me) but for some reason I just couldn’t get it. As we delve into the flat keys, however, we start to come across hurdles of familiarity (or rather a lackof familiarity) with mounting flats to deal with. It is one of those things that we can work on as guitarists for a long time. I included this piece because besides being beautiful, it is also known as “the most popular tune” because it was used in a popular Nokia cell phone ringtone.This piece is originally written for the Lute. Thank you, very helpful to hear with such thoughtful detail.Simon, you were my lunch companion today. Relaxation/Tension – Longer piece, especially faster ones with lots of notes, can result in an accumulation of tension unless you take steps to monitor your relaxation Not a bad thing in itself but it can be troublesome if there is already a lot of new challenges presented by a piece in addition to a new technique.Extended techniques are seldom used and therefore will take some dedicated work within your practice regime.A longer piece will obviously mean more material to cover, however, there are some other challenges that length can bring to the fore:Ensemble pieces will have all of the aforementioned challenges but additionally you need to consider the challenge of playing the parts together.

One key is not objectively more difficult that the other to rea… I had a specific reason for listening to it related to specific difficulty that I’m having learning the last piece of added repertoire, Simple Mambo, in Grade 2.

That is, the idea that pieces of a certain level are the goal. Of course having multiple musical lines to take care of brings with it technical difficulties too, but we will deal with that a little later.One of the bigger aspects affecting difficulty will be the style in which the music is written. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced virtuoso, these are pieces which at some point, a classical guitarist needs to have played.A beautiful piece written by a Spanish composer, Francisco Tárrega. If we had a heatmap of the fingerboard that represented how much time we spent in each position, surely the lower strings up in eighth position would be the coldest.