the best part is when you get to play it

What a lovely story! I wouldn’t consider myself very good at guitar, but it’s such a joy every time I play it. So cathartic

I grew up with this man’s lovely music and others lulling me to sleep as my dad would listen and practice into the night. Superb memories and a fantastic foundation for my love of and appreciation for classical music.

Beautiful next to sleep with such music but to wake on the Lord's Day with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Nonsense. Just look at his students.

Him and Paco de Lucia are the best

Humour.

Yes there are many sounds and timbres, pizzicato, brass, cello, drums etc. like maestro shows few of them. How and what angle pluck the strings. In Piano it is just hammer hits the strings but with guitar you can change the sound infinite. I like bending and sliding techniques (play classical and electric guitar). Of course we love an instrument what we play. I love almost every but one lifetime you can master only one.

The reason is very simple if you read more about him. For one there are countless excellent guitarists to make documentaries about. But back to Anders Segovia. Because of his association with the Spanish fascists and support of Franco he couldn’t perform in some countries outside of Spain , including the US. It was difficult because Franco was in power and fascists nearly everywhere were personas non grata. I don’t know whether he was a victim of circumstances or an actual ardent Frankist.

@@StopFear Interesting. I don't know much about his political origins, but I do that he did in fact perform and teach classes here in the US. And still, that is no reason not to make a film about the most influential musician of the 20th century. Just listen to his audio book biography. What an amazing life he lived. The politics should only make it more interesting. No one has ever catalogued more of our history of music on a single instrument, than The Maestro. Nor has been anyone more significant to a world of music, aside from Bach, then Maestro Segovia.

@@tedcabanathis IS a film and it’s great. Someone could make a dramatic movie though

and so He did :) and it's worth more than any amount of money…

I know...it sounds like sacrilege, but was it the same Ramirez as in Highlander?

😂😂,👏🏻👏🏻​@@lincolnosiris3665

Better late than never to see it...:) Segovia at Los Olivos was produced in 1969. I bought the DVD over 25 years ago. I must have watched it 50 times. I think I have every piece of music he played in the video in my music library.

That’s your opinion bro, personally I like Julian breams playing a little more but Segovia’s amazing and wonderful contributions to the classical guitar repertoire are undeniable.

@@kanker5256 no shit! please don't break my heart!

Fascinating.

Yes. Flamingos... those pink feathered dragons have threatened the nobility of the guitar for too long. Thank you Lord Segovia for rescuing the guitar from them and any Paraguayn composers who write their own music.

I do say that he was complicated, and snobby, and single minded to the point of putting others down (this is documented) but at the same time, a genius, crucial to the history of our instrument, a pioneer, and yes, he brought joy to millions, including me. It's perfectly OK to be honest about a famous person's deep flaws, because they did affects many as well, while also being respectful about his legacy.

"Might as well quit guitar if you don't have good nails. They must be very hard but also soft (wtf?)." Love that can-do attitude. Yeah he was a bit of a dick but love the music.

@@christiangasior4244 Yes, that bit is a load of tosh. Many folk with greater disabilities play wonderfully well. Django Reinhardt comes to mind! What did Segovia say to Bream when Bream smashed his arm? I hate to think!....

@@tasmedic I love Django. It’s like his limitations forced him to find a new, totally unique way to play.

Have you listened to Sharon Isbin; she studied with Segovia, you can hear the influence.

What piece is that he is playing?

just like a pick but harder

@@67madchops "La Filla Del Marxant" It appears to be Llobet's transcription of the Spanish folk song. Segovia plays it exactly like Llobet's score except for the last couple of bars at the end--Segovia plays the final E and the harmonic A notes--also Segovia shortens the repeat a bit. Beautiful song.

Lmao only the fingertips touch the frets so it doesn’t matter if your fingers are fat. His hands were not small either.

Thanks for the compliment

Christian Gasior that's a stupid analogy, living has very little to do with video games

​@@soundknight Except for the fact so called life is just a dream. In the morning we stop dreaming/sleeping and enter another world (so called real daily life) where we feel awake, but one can feel awake and be conscious in dreams too, so no difference, this is just a dream we choose to live (or were drawn to be part of, like as we answered a call, a request). One thing has to exist anytime in order to be really real... then what about for example a great pain, physical or mental? It seems real and simply present, but when you finally fall asleep it disappears. Next morning, you feel it again... where was that pain? During those sleeping hours it simply wasn't, when asleep and dreaming that pain didn't exist. When asleep and not dreaming... I don't know where "we" go... but indeed "we" (our Soul?) don't stop existing, we are always present (that's the secret of Immortality, being aware that your true *You* never stops existing, and being conscious of it, such as remembering you are *You* every new incarnation you live). We live in a world with certain rules, we have our innate game-controls (5 senses plus the decoder sense i.e. the mind which makes this world seem real), game begins, has difficulties, joys, challenges and ends when the energy of the player is over or he has been wound (game over). But then again, being the video-game analogy simply perfect, we constantly and automatically choose to re-start the game (a new incarnation) over and over again, till we really wake up, see it's all just a dream, a game, and decide to switch off the videogame or maybe change the game and appear in other worlds, why not? I think knowing this so called real life is exactly like a video game gives it a new meaning: try to be the best player you can, if you're a charitable player then use your talent to help other players, if you're competitive try to become Motogp world champion, if you're under Jupiter influence become a sommelier... if you want to see what's behind the game (all the architecture, programming, music etc. behind the videogame) then study and practice some Science to get in connect with your Soul.

Stop speaking in those goddamn gamer terms. Learn respect

I've seen numerous comments made about him, but humble and modest??? Hahaha, what the actual

Riiiiight

Agustin Barrios was a better player and better composer.

Dude, he's a virtuoso. He could play it blindfolded.

Dude its not that hard to play without the dots

They are on the side of the guitar neck.

Try playing a fretless instrument like the Oud, Violin, Cello 😅

Very inspiring except when he is telling you not to play guitar if you don't have hard nails that are also soft.

Not to diss Segovia as a guitarist, but in my opinion he is really self-centered and egotistical that he thinks he has created an innovation while hundreds before him has already done what he did. Tarrega, Barrios, Lobos has put forth the guitar on the main stage and even going far back there's Sor who created beautiful music for guitar. Hell if we even go back some of the major composers of the world acknowledged the guitar how Segovia sees it (Beethoven once said that "the guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself".

Segovia was a massive egoist, big part of his legacy today is, I'd say, a product of branding, marketing and clever propaganda

I tend to give him a pass on his narcissistic flights. Still, it’s good to hear someone defend his predecessors. His marketing hype can be irritating at times.

Exactly. I could elaborate but you've crystallized this Perfectly.

You're absolutely right, of course. However, you have to hand it to the man. He spent much of his life on the road, bringing beautiful guitar music to the masses. He transcribed a lot of stuff (often in a very difficult and quirky way which made it tough for those trying to make it through his expensive copy), and brought nylon strings to the guitar (thank God for that!). So, I think he deserves a bit of latitude when he exaggerates his legacy. He did do an awful lot for the world of Classical Guitar!

SQUIRE LOVA Agreed. The guitar, electric too, is the popular instrument "par exellence". The main reason is because it accompanies better than any other instrument the human voice. And secondly due to the direct contact the musician has with the string. The latter applied manly to the electric guitar. On guitar the personalities of each musicians vary a lot from one to another, not only from electric of course, but also classical. Compare Jimi Hendrix with Gilmour and Jimmy Page, or Segovia with Julian Bream and Yepes and vicebersa. The musical possibilities are also enormous on the guitar. Again, due to the contact with the strings with both hands. Classical guitar on the greatests masters, who are probably the only ones to really listen to, has a lot of musical possibilities. The guitar builds and unifies musical thematics throughout a single piece almost more clearly than any other instrument in my opinion. And if wr regard the expressive qualities of the instrument... omg my god. Listen to Jimi Hendrix, Gilmour, Slash, Page, the blues... IMO, popular music has something more appealing than classical music. Its a bit more real and raw, and that without any significant background studies from the musician, which may explain its power. One thing is clear, one of the reasons has to do with simplicity. And here is why classical guitar music sounds so great in good hands too. Because of due to the nature of the instrument, it only admits pure and "simple" music which goes straight to the heart.

i don't understand your view in that point. Nope. The greatest musicians are the greatest COMPOSERS, regardless of what instruments they play, write music, compose and improvise. Piano is the strongest instrument for composing and is as important and strong in performance as any guitar.

Imagine how much would he seethe 😂

He couldn't handle the truth....

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First song is La Maya De Goya by Granados

uneedtherapy42 thank you for the info. I just found a cd on iTunes that has a lot of these same songs performed by him.

La MAJA de Goya.

What is he playing at 29:50?!?!?

Noel Mckinney Recuerdos de la Ahlambra by Francisco Tàrrega

Haha, every time I hear him play Bach's Chaconne in D minor I am totally undone.

Lmao can she even play like segovia

She told you the truth XD

Sarabande from JS Bach's Lute Suite in E Minor BWV 996