Classical Guitar Master Class: "Alman"

Classical Guitar Master Class: "Alman" , available at $34.99, has an average rating of 4.05, with 34 lectures, based on 11 reviews, and has 284 subscribers.

You will learn about Perform a a classical piece with confidence Make musical decisions like a conservatory professor This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for intermediate level players who are comfortable playing with their right-hand fingers and who can learn the notes to a one-page piece on their own. or If you can play with your right hand fingers, play 2 notes at the same time, and play up to the 8th fret, then you're good to go for this course. or This course is not for beginners who don't have any experience playing classical or finger-style guitar. It is particularly useful for This course is for intermediate level players who are comfortable playing with their right-hand fingers and who can learn the notes to a one-page piece on their own. or If you can play with your right hand fingers, play 2 notes at the same time, and play up to the 8th fret, then you're good to go for this course. or This course is not for beginners who don't have any experience playing classical or finger-style guitar.

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Summary

Title: Classical Guitar Master Class: "Alman"

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 4.05

Number of Lectures: 34

Number of Published Lectures: 34

Number of Curriculum Items: 34

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 34

Original Price: $49.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Perform a a classical piece with confidence
Make musical decisions like a conservatory professor

Who Should Attend

This course is for intermediate level players who are comfortable playing with their right-hand fingers and who can learn the notes to a one-page piece on their own.
If you can play with your right hand fingers, play 2 notes at the same time, and play up to the 8th fret, then you're good to go for this course.
This course is not for beginners who don't have any experience playing classical or finger-style guitar.

Target Audiences

This course is for intermediate level players who are comfortable playing with their right-hand fingers and who can learn the notes to a one-page piece on their own.
If you can play with your right hand fingers, play 2 notes at the same time, and play up to the 8th fret, then you're good to go for this course.
This course is not for beginners who don't have any experience playing classical or finger-style guitar.

This course is all about playing the classical guitar piece, "Alman" by the 16th century English composer Robert Johnson. By the end of this course, you will:

learn how to use your right and left hand in the most relaxed way that best serves the music
understand what counterpoint is, and it effects your playing
have a solid understanding of musical concepts like meter and phrasing
be able to explain to someone what "Alman" even means

This is an intermediate course, so you should be able to play a simple, one-page piece and be able to more or less learn the notes to a piece from the sheet music (either standard music notes or guitar tab) on your own. If you're a beginner, this probably isn't the best piece for you.

Do you wonder how a concert guitarist thinks about a piece of music that he or she is preparing to perform? Were you ever curious about why one book has one fingering for a piece of music while another book has a completely different fingering for the same piece of music?

If so, you'll find the answers in this course. What's unique about this course is that in contrast to a lot of other online courses, this course reveals the process that guitar teachers and students go through in music conservatories and guitar festivals when they learn, teach, and perform a piece of music.

By the end of the piece you'll be able to play a piece of music all the way through to a high standard, but in addition you'll have tools that you can use in your guitar playing to take all of your pieces to the next level.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Left Hand

Lecture 1: Position playing

Lecture 2: Shifts- measure 3

Lecture 3: Shifts- measure 5

Lecture 4: Shifts- measure 6

Lecture 5: Shifting and Handing Off- measure 18

Lecture 6: Principles of slurs

Lecture 7: Slurs, measures 5 and 6

Lecture 8: Left Hand Reach- measure 4

Lecture 9: Setting up the left hand for bass notes

Chapter 3: Right Hand

Lecture 1: Chord and Scale "Gear"- measure 1 and 2

Lecture 2: Setting up the right hand for dotted notes- measure 3

Lecture 3: Using the right hand to keep the voices balanced

Lecture 4: Right hand leads and sets up – measure 6

Chapter 4: Counterpoint

Lecture 1: Definition of counterpoint

Lecture 2: Holding notes for their full value-measure 18

Lecture 3: Continuing to hold notes for their full value – measure 26

Lecture 4: Some difficulties/ limitations with guitar tablature

Lecture 5: Playing the different voices by themselves, as if you're in guitar ensemble

Chapter 5: Meter

Lecture 1: Finding the strong beats in 4/4 meter

Lecture 2: Stopping bass notes with the right hand- measure 4 and measure 13-14

Lecture 3: What does "Alman" actually mean?

Chapter 6: Phrasing

Lecture 1: Phrasing

Lecture 2: Starting a phrase on a pick-up

Lecture 3: Holding tied notes and using some vibrato-measure 18

Lecture 4: Pattern recognition- measure 18

Lecture 5: Following the direction of the line-measure 15

Chapter 7: Fingering Principles

Lecture 1: The interesting and unique thing about guitar fingering

Lecture 2: Keeping a musical phrase together-measure 7

Lecture 3: Tone color (sometimes called timbre)- measures 1-2

Lecture 4: Fingering as problem-solving- measure 18 and 19

Chapter 8: Performance of the piece

Lecture 1: Performance of the piece

Chapter 9: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Conclusion

Lecture 2: Sheer music- standard notes only

Instructors

Brian Riggs
Guitar Teacher

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