Classical Guitar Solo - Romanza

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Classical

Excerpt: Hey there and welcome to another lesson with me here at the web's coolest guitar instructional site! We will be looking at a very popular piece for classical guitar entitled 'Romanza'. There seems to be a variety of titles for this piece but in order to avoid any confusion let's stick with the most frequently used title and after all, it's the music that we...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Classical

Excerpt: OK, what I think would be a great way of approaching this study would be to play each triplet pattern as a block chord, homophonically just to get those chord shapes under your belt. What I tend to do once I have those is to play each block chord but bring out the melody note. The way we can do that is(once we have prepared the fingers by placing them on the...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Classical

Excerpt: Exactly the same practice technique can be employed for this section too. It will be a little more challenging however as some of the stretches required by the left hand may need specific practice. What you must remember is to maintain a nice steady flow throughout the piece and be sure to experiment with rubato and dynamics to really make the piece come al...

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