RIGHT HAND CLASSICAL GUITAR TECHNIQUE PRINCIPLES 

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I truly hope that this inspires more creator and teachers. Every instrument deserves educational content of this sort and caliber.

Mark my words , this is gonna be a revolutionary video for guitar players.

i'm a 40 year guitarist (classical, and flamenco). this is the best video about guitar i've ever been watched. many many thanks....

THE SEQUEL IS HERE 😭😂😂❤❤ i cant wait for the left foot classical guirar 😭😭

The work you put it into these will help so many people. This should become a standard reference, like "yeah, check the RHP to see how you do that".

This is probably the best content i have ever seen. Please don't stop it.

this is a masterpiece. The combination of knowledge with beautiful animations is just amazing. It makes me respect classical guitar much more now. All the details and technique that goes behind a song.

Fully subtitled, amazing animations, well-spoken and knowledgeable explanations, critical information... this video seems like the end product of a pHd to me... bravo

A master class in art & science education, combining classical, flamenco, 3D animation, anatomy, biomechanics, guitar & sound physics, ... (Troy Grady's Guitar Anatomy taken to a whole new level)! Engaging, quality repertoire & superb execution... Many details to soak up .. must watch again

If I could go 8 years back in time, this is the video I would want to see befor getting into guitar. Brilliant educational video. I learned so much.

Been waiting on this ever since I saw the left hand video!

The science of the right hand has progressed immeasurably since our lectures in the seventies with Aaron Shearer. He made hinged cardboard finger representations to illustrate his ideas about extension and contraction, and if I remember well, he said the joints of a finger should all extend or contact together, but not do both. I'm not sure he was right, or that I remember right. Be that as it may, your analysis, representation and your amazing sound are excellent. Thanks for this, from someone who didn't continue guitar, but now, after forty years of fortepiano building, it's all lute playing for me, in between constant travels for piano work in the field. Bravo

And the Oscar 2024 goes to... David Galvez!

0:40 The Physics 3:15 Finger Joints 5:38 Nail Shape 6:34 Alternating Fingers 8:23 Finger Curling 11:35 Index - The role model finger 14:15 Shape of the nail 15:52 Right Hand Rotation 17:40 RH Zone 19:50 RH and Guitar Stability

What is the piece at the start of the video? The intro goes so hard i instantly liked the video. Good job! 👍

David, thank you for the video and lots of wonderful details about the right hand not taught anywhere. I also enjoyed hearing the Reynoso guitar.

The knowledge and production of these videos is absolutely amazing. And it’s free! I haven’t seen anything else that explains how the body works such detail. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

David, last night I watched your video on left hand principles and was blown away by how in depth it was - I'm very excited to give this one a watch. I didn't realize until the end that it was you, I recognized you from your arrangement of Oblivion that I purchased around 4 years ago. It is a beautiful arrangement that I still enjoy playing - so thanks!

Inspiring, next level, a capstone in a niche of human achievement. What a gift you’ve given us with these videos

Great. Standing ovation for this video. And I'm generally sparing with compliments.

Encore une video talentueuse, sans autre égal que celle sur la main gauche. J’ai 50 ans de guitare derrière moi, et grace à vous, je vois que 50 années supplémentaires ne seraient pas superflues. C’est bien de pouvoir partir un jour en sachant qu’on avait encore tant à apprendre et que cette richesse nourrira les suivants. Cet instrument m’a offert, et m’offre encore tant de merveilleux voyages, et parmi ceux-ci, bien en lumière, les 2 perles que vous nous adressez. Un IMMENSE MERCI à vous pour ce somptueux cadeau à la communauté guitaristique. ❤

This is just what I needed. Thanks.

This (together with the LH one) is simply one of the best video out there! Congrats for your beautiful work, so informative, concise, exhausting and clear!

You are a gift that keeps on giving. I can't thank you enough! God bless you David🤍

Thank you for all this hard work. These videos should be linked as standard by guitar teachers. I feel that your steady and methodical approach is good for both beginners and experienced players.

Really great video of the highest standard, thank you. Could you please list the names of all the music played please?

Absolutely INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!

OMG, what a fantastic content. Can't believe how you managed to produce it in such a detailed way. Let alone the 1000s of hours of 3d work.

Greatly appreciated the effort for creating and sharing this video even I've been playing classical guitar over 10 years. Very informative and inspiring ;)

The best guitarist is the one, who has the best hand-, nail- and fingertip shape…and of course, the most formidable Instrument.

Holy, this video is incredible as a PT student I felt in love with the biomechanics animations. Congradulations!

This is absolutely fantastic thank you so much for putting in the time to make this. Hero

Awesome presentation! Thank you.

I love you 😂 thanks dude, I started June 30 so these videos have been very interesting for someone who loves to understand the tech.

2 weeks ago?? gosh cant believe i missed this thank you david you're a gem im sending this to all my friends who are into guitar

Trémolo disparejo, la mejor posición para hacer arte con la guitarra es la de la escuela Tárrega, Andrés Segovia, Pepe Romero, Manuel López Ramos por ejemplo.

Fantastic, David! I have eagerly been awaiting this full-length version since watching your left=hand video. Once again, you have "hit it out of the park". Well done! 👍👍👍Thank you for this fantastic work!

Thank you for this invaluable knowledge and help. Can’t wait for the next project. 😊

Thank you for this amazing explanation

Even if I never get this right, it's useful to know about the proper technique.

Excelente! Todo la fluidez de la explicación,abarcando todo!. Gracias por Compartir tu trabajo,Gracias..!!

what a treasure, thank you so much for sharing!

The graphics and explanations are fantastic. Previously, my go to reference on the subject was Classical Guitar Pedagogy by Anthony Glise, 1997, which has informed my playing and teaching for years. But this is a reference for the 21st century. As others have commented, I do wonder about the use of the "collapsing tip" of the 'm' finger, but each individual can decide what works best for them. The idea of returning to the natural relaxed state of the hand is a great place to begin.

Thank you once again! Your work is fantastic! Truly informative 🙏

As an engineer who plays classical guitar, I find these videos exactly on point. I am obsessed with technique exactly because I can see the science behind playing the guitar, and how it affects playing this instrument. It’s just beautiful. Glad to see someone finally put the principles in a video that shows it. I am a fan of Pujols because he was the first to truly bring logic into the guitar technique. Carlevaro in South America soon followed. Shearer is one of the first to bring logic and science into classical guitar to the English masses, although he called it the natural way of playing. Segovia thought this concept was junk, but in my opinion he was wrong. Duncan in The Art of Playing the Classical Guitar was probably the first to explicitly use physics and biology to blend science and guitar technique.

Excellent work and explanation, thank you 😇🙏! ... was eagerly waiting after watching the left hand part.

What a great video... this could be the first time ive ever commented. Blown away.

What a treat

Great!!...So much hardwork went into making one video...Highly appreciated.....It will get great number of views, that it deserves in due time, I'm sure

Thank you so much for a great content! It must have taken you many hours to make the content so thorough, so detailed, and so clear! And the time filming the demonstration of the right hand playing the right passages of different pieces to visually show the points must be a lot! What a rich content! I have learnt a lot, I cannot thank you enough!

This video is amazing.

i put the release date in my calendar so i would be able to watch this day one. who needs dune part two when you have scientific explanations of the ins and outs of classical guitar right hand technique by david galvez

Super interessant das mal aus dieser Sicht zu betrachten 👌🏻👍🏻🙏🏻😊

This is a great video in general. In comparison to other content on the topic I saw, this video is greatly outstanding. Thank you for sharing this publicly with people. I consider this a great addition to human audiovisual heritage, and I am happy it is freely shared. One thing I am missing is further reading recommendations, and maybe even citations. I wish, at the end or via video description, I was pointed to some reading resource covering the topic in not less detail, and extending, perhaps with some exercises. The presented material seems to be of a kind that is likely covered entirely by a single, short book, but if not, perhaps your own reading notes would still be a valuable addition. I hope to see more, and wish you are gratified for your effort. Thank you.

Could you please do the same for the flamenco arpeggio position.

The intro goes so hard

Man I just subscribed to your channel the moment I watched that intro😅 it's really amazing ❤

David, excellent explanation. Thank you for the extraordinary work.

So informative and inspiring! I feel like Neo, the first time he sat down in the training chair in the Nebuchadnezzar. _And_ done in a foreign language, probably one of many that you speak. Thank you so much for sharing.

Amazing video.

Your video is exceptionally detailed thank you

Great content, excellent presentation ! Thanks a lot, this is extremely helpful. (The only thing that seems a bit confusing is that - even though we are talking about the right hand - the animation sometimes displays the left hand)

Absolutely Brilliant production... Very well done. Thank You.

Please do a violin one. These are more than extraordinary. Bravo!!!

Hey David, wonderful work indeed. If you don't mind me contributing. When you speak about shifting the right hand's position. We go from the bridge (ponticello) to the fretboard (sul tasto) in order to change the sound. Now the smoother sound we get close to the fretboard does not end on the last frets. In relity, the smoothest-roundest or as you call it "dark"sound has its sweet spot always twelve frets apart from the left hand playing position. That is if we are playing on the second position the roundest tone will be achieved by playing with the right hand fingers on the fourteenth fret. The moment we narrow down or further up the righ hand fingers from that spot the sound begins being less round or dark. Once we understand and try this it is easy to come to the conclusion that our "normal" sound (not sul tasto neither ponticello) is to be found placing the right hand fingers half way between the bridge and the specific "sweet spot for tone roundness". I hope you follow my explanation. Just give it a try. A last suggestion, we have to be carefull when measuring positions or relating to the bridge placement because in different guitars these are located in different spots over the soundboard. Due to the scale length, type of guitar, bracings, etc. In the guitar it is better to understand how things work in order to recreate them on every specific instrument instead of taking set-fixed references like the bridge postion, etc. Again, many congrats for another fabolous video. 🙂

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just finished the video!!!! cant wait to see what you come up with

The amount of technical details there are while playing the guitar is incredible, I learned several concepts that I previously did without thinking about it. A question, what theme plays in the background during the video, I like the part at min 24:37

25:07 the difference in tone here is amazing

Thank you friend

lets go!!!!!! Ive been waiting for this

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Brilliant!!!

This is going to blow up

Like the video about the fretting hand, this was so fascinating to watch. Thanks for sharing this interesting and valuable information! I hope your videos and your channel, will eventually get the attention they deserve.

So good 👏

Brilliant David! 💡🧠🤌 Just Brilliant. Thanks for illuminating the under-appreciated role of the guitarist’s right hand and giving it the scrutiny it deserves.

Awesome and very detailed work! Congrats David! Even better than your Oblivion arrangement 😎 Greetings from Montenegro.

guitar lesson plus bonus anatomy lesson.

Thank you for sharing

Excellent but can you describe(i want to know) the names of peices that played in this video!

Excelente explicación anatómica y técnica

THANK YOU

That's a lot of 3d work! Nice!

It would be awesome to collaborate and do a similar video for Oud.

many thanks...

About the thumb pick discussion starting at 35:40 -- the value of the thumb pick would be that it allows the player to do palm-muting of the bass strings, as in the Travis-Atkins-Emmanuel style. Without the thumb pick, you an use the fleshy side of the thumb, but (as you show so clearly) you can't use the thumbnail while palm-muting. Right? It's a trade-off issue. I guess I'll stick with using the side of the thumb, but I *can* get a bit of nail on the string, maybe enough.

What’s the name of the intro piece? I’ve been looking for a while

omg that was such a great video, where is the violin one! :(

Just thx buddy

You mean 12:20? That’s Etude Op 60 No 22 by Fernando Sor

Would you consider creating a right hand guid using a pick?

Your videos on both Left and now Right hand mechanics/acoustics are amazing and groundbreaking! I'm sure they will become the standard 'go to" videos that all classical guitarists will see as fundamental to our understanding of these complex movements. But I feel your adjusting to the longer length of the m finger in rest stroke by allowing its distal tip joint to collapse (7:00 on)--Paco de Lucia notwithstanding--to be a solution that I can't see necessarily following from your analysis. I would suggest that holding the RH with a bit of inward rotation of the right forearm (which Aaron Shearer termed "tilt") could address the issue without resorting to this. (Raising the right wrist slightly higher (which Shearer termed "arch") will also probably be necessary to allow for this adjustment.) On another point, there is a school of thought--to which I ascribe--wherein the tip flesh contacts the string as the nail is seated, but has no role in its release or the resulting tone. Under this view the contact point on the string--in both rest and free stroke-- should be securely with the nail only, and obliquely to the string, so that the release is from its initial contact point, not sliding along the ramp of the string before it releases. David, I don't mean to disparage your wonderful work. We all have our personal solutions to problems that work for us individually. The entire guitar community is indebted to you for this deep dive into the mechanics and acoustics of RH technique!

I don’t even play classical yet. Just started a few weeks ago but came for the documentary. 😂

What's the name of the piece at 12:17 ? Great video, thanks for uploading! :)

Could someone please identify the piece at 22:00? Thanks so much for this Mr. Galvez, it is by far the most complete explanation of the mechanics of both hands on the guitar. Bravo!!

AMAZING BRAVO PROFESOR👏👏👏👏

Very helpful video, 15:50 what's the name od this piece?

I can't believe Eugene Khutoryansky learned classical guitar