(Music Sales America). The pieces and etudes you need to develop
your first classical guitar repertoire. This book and CD package
contains delightful repertory of pieces in both standard notation
and tab for the beginning or intermediate player. The selections
are drawn from all periods of classical guitar literature and have
been newly arranged and edited by Jerry Willard. The CD includes
full-length performances. Learn pieces by Sor, Carulli, Dowland,
Mozart, Tarrega, and many more.
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Awesome songs.
Fri, 3 Jul 2015 | Review
by: Tinus C.
The first few pieces are easy enough for even an early beginner like myself to play (not like Mr. Willard, of course, who plays all the songs beautifully, but well enough to keep me interested and keen to practice). The songs are simple but very attractive.
This is not a method book. It is not for intermediate to advanced students. Rather, this is a book of surprisingly beautiful sounding yet simple arrangements for the beginning to very early intermediate classical guitarist. Everyone will have a different idea of what 'easy' is, so let's be clear about this. If you're a *beginning* classical guitarist with less than a year of lessons under the belt and the ability to play only in first position (and perhaps just dabbling with second or so), unable to do barre chords yet (or not at all well), you may want some VERY easy solo material to supplement your main lesson (or method) book (like while working through the first third or half of Noad 1).
Even the early intermediate student who wants some easy pieces to warm up on or memorize will probably find 2/3 or more of this book of value. There is a nice variety of pieces in terms of musical period, composer, key, tempo and so on, as well. The inclusion of tabs and a CD is a bonus, although the tracks are slightly out of order compared to the book. Overall, I would say that for the right level of student, this book is a true pleasure to play, and worth every penny.
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