New Guitar Lesson

Been hitting the classical stuff pretty heavy lately - Bach, Paganini, Heitor Villa Lobos. Some of their pieces are simply incredible on guitar and they force you to refine your technique. Forget about those lame chromatic exercises that seem to be popular in many guitar lessons. No - I prefer actual musical pieces for developing technique.

And developing technique doesn't always have to equate to playing as fast as humanly possible. In fact, some pieces simply can't be played all that fast because of continuous changes to adjacent and non-adjacent strings (check out Paganini's Caprice XVI for instance...). It is pieces of this sort that really do wonders for technique and coordination and playing them at medium speeds can often be more challenging than playing typical linear lines as 240 BPM 16th notes...

Today my focus was Bach's Prelude in Dm (BMV 999). Decided to use it as the basis of a guitar lesson on my website. Has you continuously alternate picking across adjacent strings (i.e. no sweeping allowed - sweeping is too easy). Feel free to check out the guitar lesson at http://www.guitar-dreams.com

Later,

Brian Huether

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