Nearly all my teaching lessons, methods, and music are contained in my book:
Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers Volume I by Bradford Werner
Available as a PDF (88 pages): FREE or by donation at classicalguitarmusic.org
There is also Guitar Victoria – Studio Series – Volume Two -Intermediate as well. Cheers. – Bradford
Have you checked out posts filed under: Lessons, Tips and My Week Teaching? There is much more on the site that is not listed on this page so please visit that category for over 50 posts on lessons and teaching.
Technique Index:
- Scale work: Right-hand alternation on open strings
- All in One Arpeggio Pattern
- Left Hand Finger Placements
- Technique Combinations: Slurs and Shifts
- Four Fingered Exercises for the Left Hand
- Giuliani 120 Right Hand Arpeggio Studies (Free Sheet Music)
- Major Scale Position Patterns
- Major Scales and Modes for Guitar
General Lessons (from my other blog The Practicing Musician):
- A Basic Guitar To Better Practicing
- Practicing with a metronome – some pros, cons, and tips
- Practicing Scales: Versatility and Vitality
- The Difference Between Playing and Practicing
- Practicing Well: Positive Success Ratios
- Rubato: a definition and word of advice
- Use good posture – not guitar posture
- Liberating students from reading troubles
- Kevin R. Gallagher on fingering vs fretboard (Used with Permission)
Professional Development & Staying Positive:
- Avoid the grind: tips for surviving as a musician(from The Practicing Musician)
- Five Lessons that Teaching Music Taught Me About Staying Positive (via Feel Gooder)
Beginner Materials:
- Fernando Sor: Lessons Op. 60, No. 1, 2, 3, 4 (Free PDF)
- Craigdarroch Castle (Free PDF) by Bratfort von Werwinkle [Great for kids]
- i, m, alternation and awkward string-crossings (from GV-Vol.1) (Free PDF)
- Reading test: Strings 1-3 (C/G Major) (from GV-Vol.1) (Free PDF)
- Triads in C (from GV-Vol.1) (Free PDF)
- Left Hand Finger Placements (from GV-Vol.1)(Free PDF)
- Four Fingered Exercises for the Left Hand (from GV-Vol.1)(Free PDF)
Intermediate Materials:
- Guitar Victoria Method Book • Studio Series • Volume II • Intermediate (Click here to buy)
- Pumping Nylon (Book and DVD) by Scott Tennant (Click to buy)
- Technique Combinations: Slurs and Shift (Free PDF)
- Four Fingered Exercises for the Left Hand (from GV-Vol.1)(Free PDF)
- Scale work: Right-hand alternation on open strings (Free PDF)
- Giuliani 120 Right Hand Arpeggio Studies (Free PDFs)
The Rhythm Trainer
The Rhythm Trainer for guitarists is from my publication “Guitar Victoria – Studio Series Vol. 2″. Here I will include midi sound files and pictures of the rhythm exercises for you to train yourself in the art of rhythm.
Covered in the Rhythm Trainer:
Time Signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 6/8, 9/8
Rhythms: quartet notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, dotted rhythms, triplets, rests
The Classical Guitar Canada Rhythm Trainer (exercises are progressive – practise in order):
- Exercise #1: Time: 2/4, eighths and quarters
- Exercise #2: Time: 2/4, eighth rests,
- Exercise #3: Time: 2/4, ties, eighth rests
- Exercise #4: Time: 2/4, dotted quarter notes
- Exercise #5: Time: 3/4
- Exercise #6: Time: 4/4
- Exercise #7: Time: 5/4
- Exercise #8: Time: 6/4
- Exercise #9: Changing time signatures
- Exercise #10: Time 6/8
- Exercise #11
- Exercise #12
- Exercise #13: Time: 4/4, eighth triplets, quarter triplets
- Exercise #14
- Exercise #15: Time 4/4, sixteenths and dotted eighths
- Exercise #16: Time: 3/4, sixteenths, sixteenth rests
