Many readers that come looking for classical guitar sheet music for beginners and other materials and free sheet music so I’ve decided to offer a post just for them. When I refer to beginners I am thinking of a player who has figured basic first position notes and simple time and key signatures. I’ll include material from this site but also from other sites on the web. I’ve actually had a bit of hard time finding quality material for free, if you know of some great online sheet music for beginners leave a comment on this post.
For methods and repertoire I usually recommend my books for beginners:
Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers • Volume I • Beginner by Bradford Werner Available as a PDF (88 pages): FREE or by donation
GuitarVictoria • Studio Series • Volume II • Intermediate by Bradford Werner - (Third edition and revamp coming January 2012)
Classical Guitar Sheet Music For Beginners from Classical Guitar Canada:
- Lesson Archive
- Technique Lesson – Left Hand Finger Placements
- Rhythm Trainer: Exercise #1, Exercise #2, Exercise #3, Exercise #4
- Scale Work: Right-hand alternation on open-strings
- Four Fingered Exercises for the Left Hand
- Liberating students from reading troubles (C major patterns, C major duet, C major repertoire, C major position reading, C major duet involving position reading, Rhythm study on open-string and C major, The Fretboard – Triads & Inversions in C major, An essential concept of RH fingering exercise)
- Fernando Sor: Lessons Op. 60, No. 1, 2, 3, & 4
- Complete Matteo Carcassi Etudes Op. 60 [FREE] (P.D. edition)
- Giuliani 120 Right Hand Arpeggio Studies (Free Sheet Music)
Classical Guitar Sheet Music For Beginners from the web:
Methods:
- The first guitar lessons, Guitar Method I, Guitar Method II (Method for beginners with accompaniment. Icelandic text) (http://www.classicalguitarschool.net)
- Learn Every Note on the Guitar from the Classical Guitar Blog (you have to join the newsletter) from (http://www.classicalguitarblog.net)
- Aguado: Metodo de Guitarra I (http://www.classicalguitarschool.net)
- Methode for the Guitar by Fernando Sor (www.imslp.org)
- Eggers Guitar Method from the combined works of Sor, Mertz, Carcassi, Coste (https://rex.kb.dk/)
- Sor-Coste: Metodo Completo (http://www.classicalguitarschool.net)
Classical Guitar Sheet Music for Beginners – Repertoire:
- From the Eggers Guitar Method from the combined works of Sor, Mertz, Carcassi, Coste (https://rex.kb.dk/) These are great works for beginners that have learned their first position notes and basic rhythms and key signatures.
- Tempo di valse by Ferdinando Carulli
- Andantino and moderato by Fernando Sor
- Andante and Andantino by J.K. Mertz
- Allegretto by Ferdinando Carulli
- Andante by J.K Mertz and Andantino by Ferdinando Carulli
- Adagio by J.K. Mertz and Menuett by Napoleon Coste
- Tempo di valse by Ferdinando Carulli
- Cantabile J.K. Mertz and Andante by Ferdinano Carulli
- Andantino by J.K Mertz
- Allegretto by Matteo Carassi and Moderato by J.K. Mertz
- Landler by Fernando Sor and Allegretto by Matteo Carcassi
- Poco Allegretto Ferdinando Carulli
- Tempo-di-marcia by Fernando Sor and Allegretto by Matteo Carcassi
- Allegro by Napoleon Coste
- Aguado: 25 pièces pour guitare : extraites de la Méthode (https://rex.kb.dk/)
- Carulli: Morceaux progressifs pour la guitare: Oeuv. 264 (https://rex.kb.dk/)
- Carulli: Waltz, op. 241, no 1 (http://www.mutopiaproject.org)
- Carulli: 18 petits morceaux, faciles et progressives : Op. 211 (https://rex.kb.dk/)
- Eythorsson: 19 Studies, Preliminary with accompaniment (http://www.classicalguitarschool.net)
- Giuliani: 32 Easy pieces, Op. 30 Volume I (http://www.classicalguitarschool.net)
- Giuliani’s Opus 1: exercises and studies (www.muslib.se)
- Sor: Andante, op. 35, no. 1 (http://www.mutopiaproject.org)
- Sor: Allegretto, op. 44, no. 2 (http://www.mutopiaproject.org)
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