How To Play Recuerdos De La Alhambra | Spanish Classic

Classical Guitar Secrets will be released on Wednesday! It starts with easy pieces and progresses to master pieces and everything else in between. This is probably the most challenging piece of the bunch, but wow is it cool… Check it out. Easy Beginner Guitar Teachings How to Add Scales to Spice Up your Guitar Riffs

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DING! DING! DING! Giving away BIG prizes. Come and win…

Hey Friend , It’s almost time to break out the champagne and celebrate the epic launch of: Classical Guitar Secrets. (if you haven’t checked out the blog yet:) https://www.classicalguitarsecrets.com/blog This is easily one of the most exciting guitar courses in years. Personally — I’ve always been a huge fan of classical and I learned more

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Villano by Gaspar Sanz | How to Play on Classical Guitar

Here’s a cool piece you’ll learn in Classical Guitar Secrets.It’s not too difficult… Check it out: Villano by Gaspar Sanz. In this piece there are several sections that youneed to damp the base notes, the open strings. For example, when there’s an A ringing, we’retalking about the second line and it’s the secondline after the

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This is soooooo simple (trained monkeys could do it)

Friend — Time to crush the fears today. I’m talking about the fear of LEARNING classical guitar because it’s “too hard”. Believe me — I had that fear too. Here’s the antidote: learn a really simple classical piece. Something that’s easier than eating a piece of Grandma’s pie with ice cream. I’ve got that piece

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How To Play The Guitar Even With Zero Talent

Hi Friend, Someone asked me yesterday: “Can anyone learn to play guitar?” “Can anyone really learn to play their favorite songs?” After thinking about it, my answer is: YES! First, I don’t believe anyone has “zero” talent. But, regardless of your level of talent, you can learn to play guitar or just about anything else

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What do drunk hillbillies and MTV kids have in common?

Hi Friend, What do drunk hillbillies and MTV kids have in common? They think classical guitar sucks! The fried MTV kids can’t focus on anything for more than 2.2 seconds. And the drunk hillbilly can’t put the bottle down long enough to learn a classical song. Fortunately, I know you’re NOT like these flunkees. And

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Guitar Secrets from Lily

Hi Friend, What’s up? What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next: Another preview of Lily Afshar’s soon-to-be-released DVD course: “Classical Guitar Secrets”. https://www.classicalguitarsecrets.com/blog This time I want to show you a sample of her teaching style. You’ll learn some neat things about guitar playing in the process. For example, “the planting technique”… Check it out.

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Classical Guitar Secrets from Lily Afshar on Video

Another preview of Lily Afshar’s soon to be released DVD course: “Classical Guitar Secrets”. This time I want to show you a sample of her teaching style. Next time I’ll show you more great performances and playing from Lily, and pieces that you’ll learn inside the course. Keep checking back here on the blog and

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pure inspiration

Hi Friend, I just uploaded another killer backing track to my blog for your jamming pleasure. https://www.claudejohnson.com/blog This one is pure inspiration! It’s “trippy” with some cool space-alien sounds but super melodic at the same time. Also on my blog, check out my guitar solo over the other jam track in B minor… I remixed

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