CLASSICAL GUITAR

If you're tired of playing mindless chords and boring riffs and you want a real challenge, try playing classical on you guitar. Not only is playing classical guitar more fun, it benefits you a lot: once you get good at playing the most difficult style of playing, everything else becomes very easy to play. Here are some classical pieces in TAB form (some are also in standard musical notation form, which is better than TAB because it's more accurate), in chronological order. There are MIDIs of each of the pieces that you can download (and a few MP3s), so you can know how it sounds.

CANON in D by JOHANN PACHELBEL (1653-1706) .....somewhat difficult TAB..........MIDI...... SONATA K. 322 by DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685-1757) ....difficult TAB...........MIDI SONATA L. 238 by DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685-1757) ....difficult TAB...........MIDI MINUET in G by JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) ....easy MUSIC......TAB......MIDI JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING, from Cantata No. 147 by BACH ....easy MUSIC......TAB......MIDI BOUREÉ, from Lute Suite BWV 996 by J.S. BACH ....somewhat difficult TAB...........MIDI TWO-PART INVENTION no. 1 in C by J.S. BACH ....somewhat difficult TAB...........MIDI SARABANDE, from Lute Suite BWV 996 by J.S. BACH ....somewhat difficult TAB...........MIDI ALLEMANDE, from Lute Suite BWV 996 by J.S. BACH ....somewhat difficult TAB...........MIDI PRELUDE, from Cello Suite BWV 1007 by J.S. BACH ....somewhat difficult TAB...........MIDI GIGUE, from Lute Suite BWV 996 by J.S. BACH ....difficult TAB...........MIDI PRELUDE, from Lute Suite BWV 996 by J.S. BACH ....difficult TAB...........MIDI SONATA k. 331, Theme from 1st movement (Adagio) by WOLFGANG ...........................................................AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) ....easy TAB..........MIDI FÜR ELISE by LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) .....somewhat difficult TAB..........MIDI MENUETTO, 3rd movement of Sonata opus 22 by FERNANDO SOR .................................................................................(1778-1839) .....difficult.... TAB..........MIDI CAPRICE 24 (theme) by NICOLO PAGANINI (1782-1840) .....somewhat difficult MUSIC......TAB......MIDI......MP3 VIOLIN CONCERTO (theme) by FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1843) .....very easy MUSIC......TAB......MIDI FANTASIE IMPROMPTU by FREDERIC CHOPIN (1810-1849) .....very easy MUSIC......TAB......MIDI   RECUERDOS DE ALHAMBRA (Tremolo Study) by ........................................................FRANSISCO TÁRREGA (1852-1909) .....difficult TAB..........MIDI.

 

MP3s Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) - Jason Waldron, guitar - jesu.mp3 - 1.26 MB Boureé (Bach) - John Williams, guitar - bouree.mp3 - 858 KB Allemande (Bach) - Andrés Segovia, guitar - allemand.mp3 - 1.1 MB Menuetto (Sor) - Monika Rost, guitar - menuetto.mp3 - 1.32 MB Caprice 24 (Paganini) - Jason Waldron, guitar - caprice24.mp3 - 547 KB MIDIs Sonata K. 322 (Scarlatti) - John Sankey, harpsichordist to the Internet Canon in D (Pachelbel) - David Lovell Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) - John Phillip Dimick Cello Suite Prelude (Bach) - David J. Grossman All Bach Lute Suite MIDIs - David J. Grossman Two-Part Invention No. 1 (Bach) - S. Khorasani Für Elise (Beethoven) - ?? Menuetto (Sor) - David Lovell All other MIDIs were created by me

 

Get "POPULAR CLASSICS OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS" Volume one by Jason Waldron. It has 35 beginner pieces arranged for guitar, and it's a great repertoire for the guitarist. There's five more progressive volumes going all the way up to advanced. The book is only $15, and it comes with a CD with the author playing all the pieces. The first few pages of the book is woth the price! This is not an advertisement, it's a recomendation! (link to barnes & noble)

 

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