5-Minute Guitar Warmup Routine for Better Playing Warming up is an essential ritual for every classical guitarist, enabling precision, fluidity, and injury prevention in practice sessions and performances. While it’s tempting to [...]
Chunking in your guitar practice is really quite simple in principle. Take something large and unmanageable and break it up into smaller, more manageable chunks. The obvious analogy that comes to mind is your [...]
Matteo Carcassi's 25 Etudes for classical guitar are some of the most important studies written for the guitar. They provide a technical foundation for the intermediate to advanced player. In that sense they are [...]
What tempo should I play this piece in? This is an all-too common question we receive from members at CGC Academy, especially when it's time for Grade Exam Submissions. The answer is almost always: [...]
The Baroque dance suite originated from a set of dances popular during the late Renaissance, and was further developed during the early baroque period. When early Baroque French lutenists began to collect dance music [...]
The Studies of Fernando Sor are perhaps some of the most beloved pieces of music on classical guitar. I think a lot of that has to do with the curation of Maestro Andrés Segovia [...]
