Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
Any suggestions for some short classical pieces to practice. I'm interested in trying something different (i.e. other than flamenco). Something that will blend in nicely with a bag of flamenco stuff.
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
What's your level? How about a bit of Carcassi? You can work on your scales and arpeggios at the same time! I have "The Guitar Music of Spain - Vol 1" - over 50 traditional pieces by Bartolome Calatayud, graded from simple to advanced. You can see the info and contents list here. Message me your email address if there's a piece on the list you fancy trying - I'll scan it for you
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
Anything by Agustin Barrios Mangore or Francisco Tarrega will lead you in the right direction. Some of their material is fairly difficult though, as will gladly demonstrate - speaking of which, La Cathedral happens to be one of my favorite pieces.
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to kovachian)
quote:
Anything by Agustin Barrios Mangore or Francisco Tarrega will lead you in the right direction. Some of their material is fairly difficult though, as Berta Rojas will gladly demonstrate - speaking of which, La Cathedral happens to be one of my favorite pieces.
La Cathedral is a three song suite. Rojas plays Allegro Solemne. I really like Denis Azabagic's performance of this piece. It's on YouTube so here's a link to compare--Agustin Barrios: La Catedral, III. Allegro Solemne:
Posts: 1607
Joined: Dec. 24 2007
From: Siegburg, Alemania
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
"Romance Antiguo" by Anonymous (Narciso Yepes played this as "Jeux interdits") isn't too difficult. I've uploaded the score and tab to the Tabs-section. score&tab
For "modern classic" I find deFalla as played by PdL has a definite "flamenco" touch (PdL really let's you hear the origins of the music).
Posts: 15725
Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
Avoid classical composers that did not play guitar. Ie most all. it wouldn't fit along with your flamenco stuff, since flamenco is guitar music by guitar composers. Go for stuff like Villa Lobos, actual guitar music by a player. There are some others.
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
I took a stab at some Bach, but quit that pretty quick. :) Asturias I have and that's kind of fun to play, but I only know a small part so far. I'll look into Villa Lobos.
I occasionally try different stuff just for fun. The other day I was was learning some Frank Gambale stuff.
Another day ... Tony Rice actually sounds pretty good on my Blanca ...
So far my favorite non-flamenco piece, that I can actually play ok, is Jorge Morel's interpretation of Misionera, which is a really nice piece.
Posts: 907
Joined: Mar. 13 2006
From: Vancouver, Canada
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to n85ae)
Here's a good source for some classical tabs, including I think all the above-mentioned Albeniz and Romanza (the same one called "romance antiguo" elsewhere in this thread).
There are tef, mid and pdf files for pretty much all of them.
Posts: 370
Joined: May 23 2007
From: Frederick, MD
RE: Classical Pieces, Suggestions (in reply to Ricardo)
quote:
Avoid classical composers that did not play guitar. Ie most all. it wouldn't fit along with your flamenco stuff, since flamenco is guitar music by guitar composers. Go for stuff like Villa Lobos, actual guitar music by a player. There are some others.
Ricardo
I second that. The best music for classical guitar was written for guitar and not transcribed from compositions fof other instruments. Albeniz is beautiful but it shows that it was written for piano. In addition to play Albeniz properly takes years and proper classical training. Youtube is ripe with people playing Asturiaz but very few actually play it right. De Falla also wrote for piano and to do the pieces justice like Paco did you should be Paco. La Vida Breve which is a genious composition is really a duet and loses a lot in solo performance. I have a sheet for it for solo guitar (which I can share) but my lack of technique and talent make playing that a complete joke.
Picking classical piece to learn is similar to picking apppropriate flamenco piece. If this you first attempts perhaps La Barrossa will not be the best thing to pick. In classical La Catedral is along the same lines. So is Aljambra and perhaps even Villa Lobos. I consider his compositions fairly difficult.
There are beautiful pieces by Sor that are not simple studies but are also very achievable and sound beautiful on guitar. There are also some by Aguado. Rondo in Am is great but fairly difficult as it develops. There are Ponce pieces written for Segovia specifically, those are great.
Bach is beautiful but there is nothing easy about that, especially in pieces with counterpoint.
I wish I could be more helpful and offer tabs for these beautiful movements of Aquarelle, but for the moment I'll leave that to the chance that more resourceful members of the foro are able to assist =]
Printable Version
)
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread