Lessons and Teaching Materials

Nearly all my teaching lessons, methods, and music are contained in my book:

Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers • Volume I • Beginner by Bradford Werner – Available as a PDF (88 pages): FREE or by donation

Classical Guitar: A Method for Students and Teachers • Volume II • Intermediate by Bradford Werner

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:

• Classical Guitar Technique and Posture: Four Videos of Great Artists
• 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

• David Leisner – lesson and rules for performance anxiety
• 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:

• Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers by Bradford Werner (Volume 1: free!)

• 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 (Free PDF)
• Reading test: Strings 1-3 (C/G Major) (Free PDF)
• Triads in C (Free PDF)
• Left Hand Finger Placements (Free PDF)
• Four Fingered Exercises for the Left Hand  (Free PDF)

Intermediate Materials:

• Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers by Bradford Werner (Volume 2)
• 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: Classical Guitar: A Method for Students & Teachers by Bradford Werner (Volume 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