How To Practice Classical Guitar 

5:23 #2 shifts 8:01 #3 hands separate 11:28 #4 three in a row 12:08 #5 slow practice 13:12 #6 watch each finger 16:16 #7 time management 17:18 #8 listen and record 18:26 #9 smaller sections 19:06 #10 be realistic with your short term goals :)

Just tried the barre shift tip with Cavatina (Deerhunter) which despite sounding simple I've always found fiendish. Improved it with 10 mins work. Golden tips, many thanks!

A joy to follow your creative play

Thank you David, excellent suggestions and points here. In the Hauser video you say something to the effect of "some guitars are just difficult to tune" which unfortunately is one of the truest statements on the internet. But this guitar seems extremely in tune, excellent intonation, and playing!

Excellent advice, David. More of this approach, especially for players with very limited practice time, would be helpful. Thank you

This is a great series, would like to see more definitely. This tutorial would be really helpful for the Sagreras studies and any of the études.

One of the most important videos on this subject. And Ive seen many videos.

Many thanks for these tips, really useful 👍👍

Great advice, David!

A number of very useful guides/tips.I will endeavour to take these on board.Thank you for your time spent in preparing these videos.

Very practical tips and useful advice. I'll be sure to incorporate much of this in my daily practice. Thank you!

The art of practising! Thank you for this brilliant and very instructive video!

very useful tips! thank you David!

Holy moly I had no clue you were such an amazing player! It is rare to find a person who is a great teacher aswell as a player! Thanks for all the work

You give excellent advice throughout this tutorial. Learning how to learn more effectively, and applying those techniques while practicing, is something no musician should ignore. Sincere thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience here on youtube.

I really enjoy this particular tutorial. I have watched it the 3rd time, and every time, I find new angle and understand your tips better and better. All your tips are excellent. For example, I usually have specific difficulty with shifting between "nasty chords". When I try to apply tips no. 2 and 5, I see my shifting improved a lot. I also apply the tips of separating the left hand playing and right hand playing, and see improvement. Thousands thumbs up for this video. Thank you David! :x Please do more of this type of videos (practicing tips)! :)

Thank you! Really helpful.

Brilliant!

your advice helped my practice immensely...thank you again :)

I love you David

Many thanks for these ideas.

LOVE THIS VIDEO! It would be nice if you could make a video about Relaxation.

Great video David. I will be employing these tips in my future practise sessions. Learning classical guitar can sometimes seem disheartening, as you really have to work hard for every little bit of progress. But patience, and small progress everyday leads to big improvements over time. Thanks again. Will you be doing more of such tutorials? I really look forward to them!

Play an easy piece well, Great advice.Loved the 10 tips.

Excellent!

Great lesson. Thank you so much.

Amazing video!! Guitar illumination!!

Loads of great advice here David. Thanks for doing these tutorials. Looking forward to your advice on harmonics and tremolo. If there's anything to practice slowly it's tremolo, but mine still sounds like a 3 legged horse 😂

Super video, dotted practice is Imperative with Metronome, it's hard too keep motivated at times. Your tips help, be great too see you're way of learning a piece from scratch Again great lesson

Excellent advice from a great virtuoso

So helpful....

Bardzo fajny materiał. Zawsze mówiłem moim uczniom, że nie ma trudnych utworów, ale są źle wyćwiczone. Pozdrawiam serdecznie :)

4:26 suddenly Prokofiev 😅

Missing your live performances, but enjoying your playing on spotify. :-)

Thanks David of this excellent lesson. You are one of the best players I know on RU-vid. I'm always delighted to listen to those gorgeous songs you've recorded here in your channel. I have a question about slow practice. Can you please help me on this? My question is: how slowly should I start practicing a piece? And by how much should I increase the speed after I am able to play the piece with no mistakes at a given slower speed? So far I've came up with my own solution to this problem, but I'd like it to be validated if possible, so that I keep using it or change it somehow if it does not work as I expect it should. My solution is based on the 85% Rule, which states that one will be able to play at 100% speed if he can play it at 85% speed. So, what I do is basically about applying this 85% Rule recursively on the piece speed to get a series of smaller speeds to practice in each of them. For example, I am starting to practice a song whose final speed is 72 bpm. To get its smaller speeds I apply 85% to 72 bpm, and get 61 bpm. Then I apply 85% to 61 bpm, and get 52 bpm. I keep doing this until I get around 20 bpm, because I think this is a very slow speed, where it starts to become cumbersome to practice in such a slow motion. To make it clearer, here is the list of smaller speeds I get to practice a song of 72 bpm: - 72 x 85% = 61bpm - 61 x 85% = 52bpm - 52 x 85% = 44bpm - 44 x 85% = 37bpm - 37 x 85% = 32bpm - 32 x 85% = 27bpm - 27 x 85% = 23bpm Then, with this list of smaller speeds in place, I start practicing the song in the reverse order of speeds, that is, from the slowest tempo (23bpm) to the final tempo (72 bpm), like this: 1º: 23bpm 2º: 27bpm 3º: 32bpm 4º: 37bpm 5º: 44bpm 6º: 52bpm 7º: 61bpm 8º: 72bpm In this particular example I get to practice the song at 8 different speeds, so of course it adds more time to my project of getting the song up to speed, but it also gives me some structure to my practice, so that I know how far I am from getting to the final speed, that is, to getting to the finished project. Is this a good approach to breaking down a song in smaller speeds?

Hey David, great video, any thoughts on differences of practicing new pieces, interim to performance , I know for some it maybe obvious but I’m interested if it’s better to practice in a different way at each stage and the ratios of each, also, any suggestions on preparing to play in public? Cheers

cool

Can you know before hand what fingerings would work a tempo?

6:25 actually sounds pretty good lol sounds like a secondary dominant or something.

There was a time when classical is all I wanted to play but my nails keep breaking and I’m set adrift . Then they grow and break and repeat !!

I am afraid of practicing the classical guitar because I am afraid that people would hear it and I would fail and get insulted for some reason