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Thanks I am also doing some lessons on Del Camp's sight very informative. I'm interested in your curriculum. I would say I'm an intermediate player, How ever always something to learn by going back to the beginning. currently learning Op 60 F Sor studies 1-25, I enjoy how you present the music. How is payment done and I suppose its a download for pdf. Thank you This is Classical Guitar. .
@@kirklandgavin6858 My site is very simple, all the lessons are free to watch and listed on the book pages. You can buy the books in PDF or Hardcopy format. So, for around $10 you should get six months to a years worth or work out of it.
Thank you Bradford... Wonderful.. I choose YOU to be my online Teacher. Great free info to start with, and of course materials to purchase as you progress through the lessons. You are a wonderfully dedicated person to classical guitar but also brilliant at drawing a person into the extraordinary world of music as an art form. Blessings forward Bradford. Well done..
Hello teacher, thank you for another special class! I'm a complete beginner and I'm very happy that you recorded so many videos. I learn more and more from you, it's really cool! I printed your book 1, I'm starting to study. Gratitude!
28:02 As someone who just returned from a long hiatus, my studies started with sight reading. Your course work has re-energized my enthusiasm to study, learn, practice and develop my meager skills. Thank you for a well thought out, organized lesson plan.
Great advice. I'm really glad you've recommended this scales book. I've only had a little instruction on reading standard notation for guitar, but have been playing rock music and tabs for a few years. After going through Aaron Shearer Guitar Technique vol 1 and 2 and then working through 100 graded classical guitar pieces from Frederick Noad. I noticed it became difficult to read standard notation beyond the 3rd position.
As always excellent advice.. Bradford explains the methods in an easy and concise manor. I have several of his ebooks and hard copies. All well thought out. I too would recommend getting other method books. I have most of Shearer's books, especially Shearer's "Scale Pattern Study" (269 pages). I of course got mine way back in the early 70s. I took private lessons at the Peabody Prep back in the very early 70s and of course the head of the classical guitar studies at that time was Aaron Shearer himself and thus my study and method books were the Shearer method and studies books. In my opinion the way Bradford presents material in his videos and his ebooks and hard bound books is on par with Shearer's and well worth aquiring. His repertoire books are also nice. What I like about the way Bradford presents material in his books, is the fact you can go to the video link for a better understanding of the material.
I learned how to read music in standard noatation before I learned how to play the guitar, because, as a kid, I learned melodica first. However, it is still a bit tricky for me to identify notes higher than a'' at first glance. Using sheets which have both standard notation and tabs is very helpful at first. Use the tabs to learn the notes, and in time, you can forget about the tabs more and more and just see and play the notes.
That's true but another factor is that the extra effort put into reading notation in one piece will pay off when learning the next piece. That said, not everyone has the same goals and time as well.
This is such an excellent video I am excited to dive into your method book and hope I will be buying the second one soon! Cheers, thanks for all the great content
Total agreement, to avoid being overwhelmed, use his beginner books to learn the notes, familiarize yourself with the fingering, and enjoy yourself as you hear yourself playing increasingly complex music. When you understand, read, and play your first piece with two notes played on two strings at the same time you will be so stoked. This has been a challenge for me because i played trumpet from grade school through HS. In my mind the notes were in my right fingertips. Playing guitar the notes are "in" my left fingertips, so there is some rewiring. For me: practice, practice, practice. His books have been perfect for me.
Well, as I said in the video, just start integrating it into 5 or 10 minutes of your practice sessions at first and then continue as you have been and keep the enthusiasm up.
Hello, awesome video. I'm just getting started. I really look forward to learning as much as I can from you. I think you are a very talented teacher. Thank you for everything you've done. There must be tens of thousands of hours of work put into your material and your dedication is admirable. I had two questions. How long and often should I practice? How long should the ist course take? I just want to make sure I'm on track. Thank you.
Hi, thanks for the kind words. Aim to practice everyday if you can but only a small amount. Make it productive and you can increase the amount of time as you get more comfortable with practicing. The first book can take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years but it totally depends on your personal situation and many many variables.
@@Thisisclassicalguitar thats great! I'm so excited. I've always wanted to play classical guitar when younger but ended up playing rock. Now I'm ready for this new journey. Loving it! Can't wait to get great enough to excel in all your courses. Take care!
I'm reading shearers supplement 3 now. I'm a beginner to intermediate when I started one year ago. I'm on page 50. But, I did skip ahead to the second position. So I start practice in the second position now and work on my first position through the flat scales. How many times do I need to play a scale perfectly in a row to feel good enough about it to move on and at what speed. Thank you so much.
wow lots of info thanks again I really have a ways to go. SO awesome thanks for sharing your knowledge, about music an playing. between this an your technique video I just learn a whole lot without even playing an instrument. I suppose it discipline and coming u with a routine for daily practice and for how long each day..
Good to hear, kind of a generalized topic since my main advice is to find a good method and teacher but I hope there are some other ideas in there too!
@@Thisisclassicalguitar I will have my first music theory class next week :), this video is just an introduction for me. Thank you for the advice and effort.
Can someone give a link to the scale pattern book that mentioned, the 279 pages. Erin I believe was the name, but could not find it on google. I really appreciate this content, and I have your method books. As someone who still develops and teaches on early levels, I only can say that I wish that you were there on RU-vid 15 years ago. Great content!!!
Your right when you say that tablature is a secret language that only guitarists understand idk how many people outside of the guitar community can hear “0-3-5”
i struggled in a 4-part harmony course as the only guitarist...the others were piano players who could read bass/F clef naturally...advanced site reading should include other clefs, in order to relate the guitar to other instruments in the score - well worth the effort... your content is excellent btw
Ya, it's important to build a strong foundation. I usually have my students use a basic theory book for beginners and then another one again just to make sure everything feels comfortable before starting anything like harmony.
Well, my method books would be a good start. Do you already play fingerstyle? You might want to integrate the books slowly as just part of your regular material to ease into it. But anyway, my educational material outline is here: www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/learn-classical-guitar-education-series/
I tried yousician but I see why tabs are easy, its similar to my video games. But im trying to learn the music notation standard notation and what not. Unfortunately I’m self teaching for now, but your method book and blasting a playlist of classical solo artists like Ana Vivodic pretty cool she has your guitar, and Johannes Moller from your C12 review. Is it best to write down the notes? I wanna try to learn it so when I see sheet notes from other videos and website I would get a hang of it. Is it best to use a metronome? And whats a good pace to stick with? Everything seems too fast 😂 and my left hand right hand rhythm kinda stinks I learned the fret board sorta, note names, sharps and flats I can play happy bday on the G and B strings but whats cool what I found out I can play the same tune to any area in the fret board 😃 Lastly I try to spend 1-3 hours of playing classical, time passes too fast, but I also try to watch my posture constantly left hand technique is pretty tough atm but following your duet videos is so very helpful ☺️
Do you have any advice for someone who's a fairly advanced guitarist but a beginner in reading music? Right now, my main struggle is keeping up the motivation, since the pieces you have to start with are too simple and uninspiring.
As i said in the video, integrating a little bit of reading at a time. So maybe just 5 min a day for the first month and 10 min a day the second month etc. Don't stress it, just start doing it and get yourself an easy easy method to start with.
I would just start from a low level and work your way up with the intention of playing everything super high quality. What kind of pieces are you playing? Have you gone over a method book before?
What i find more difficult is that music written for the guitar don't always have fingering and that leaves it up to you. There are so many "D"s to be played it becomes much more difficult to know which fret and string to use.
Good method book series usually start filtering out fingering as they progress and at higher levels only give the oddity fingerings. Of course this is not true of every series. The Shearer scale book mention would be a good one to study though.
