How To Practice Classical Guitar

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OK, this is the big one! This is a short tutorial that should benefit most classical guitarists watching, ten tips on more efficient practice.
I remember being a final year student at the Guildhall School of Music, London and I heard a guitarist a couple of years below me say, "I don't know what to practice... how should I practice?" This shows that even advanced players are not always sure of the best ways to learn pieces and new techniques. (He was a fine player by the way!)
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@knd1986 4 жыл бұрын

5:23 #2 shifts 8:01 #3 hands separate 11:28 #4 three in a row 12:08 #5 slow practice 13:12 #6 watch each finger 16:16 #7 time management 17:18 #8 listen and record 18:26 #9 smaller sections 19:06 #10 be realistic with your short term goals :)

@UlyssesAlexandreAlves 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@onesandzeros 2 ай бұрын

Thank you David, excellent suggestions and points here. In the Hauser video you say something to the effect of "some guitars are just difficult to tune" which unfortunately is one of the truest statements on the internet. But this guitar seems extremely in tune, excellent intonation, and playing!

@davidjaggs 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, 🙂

@i6g7f 3 жыл бұрын

A joy to follow your creative play

@davidjaggs 3 жыл бұрын

👍

@cathschofield674 5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for these tips, really useful 👍👍

@carolannkaiser2741 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Really helpful.

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

I'm pleased!

@johncampbell3940 5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for these ideas.

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Hope some of them help you!

@zhengxie3944 2 жыл бұрын

very useful tips! thank you David!

@davidjaggs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@zedernylon 5 жыл бұрын

The art of practising! Thank you for this brilliant and very instructive video!

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@oliverguitarsnap6603 4 жыл бұрын

LOVE THIS VIDEO! It would be nice if you could make a video about Relaxation.

@edwardsupha1 5 жыл бұрын

Very practical tips and useful advice. I'll be sure to incorporate much of this in my daily practice. Thank you!

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Hope it helps Ed!

@user-ov5by1fl2x 3 ай бұрын

Excellent advice, David. More of this approach, especially for players with very limited practice time, would be helpful. Thank you

@davidjaggs 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@andreguitarist Жыл бұрын

Great advice, David!

@davidjaggs Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍😊

@geoff3725 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@davidjaggs 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Geoff!

@geoff3725 5 жыл бұрын

A number of very useful guides/tips.I will endeavour to take these on board.Thank you for your time spent in preparing these videos.

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Geoff

@ozelot92k 5 жыл бұрын

I love you David

@SchlimmShadySmash 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most important videos on this subject. And Ive seen many videos.

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Your comment means a lot to me ☺

@doublezero5925 2 жыл бұрын

your advice helped my practice immensely...thank you again :)

@davidjaggs 2 жыл бұрын

That's nice to know ☺️

@oceanjaws Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@davidjaggs Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Brian 🙂

@vincedove8975 5 жыл бұрын

Play an easy piece well, Great advice.Loved the 10 tips.

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vince

@phuocle7326 4 жыл бұрын

So helpful....

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

Good to hear 👍

@uj8719 4 жыл бұрын

Great video David. I will be employing these tips in my future practise sessions. Learning classical guitar can sometimes seem disheartening, as you really have to work hard for every little bit of progress. But patience, and small progress everyday leads to big improvements over time. Thanks again. Will you be doing more of such tutorials? I really look forward to them!

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks UJ. I will be doing more!

@Citizen110 5 жыл бұрын

You give excellent advice throughout this tutorial. Learning how to learn more effectively, and applying those techniques while practicing, is something no musician should ignore. Sincere thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience here on youtube.

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. . I'll keep it coming!

@macleod41069 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent advice from a great virtuoso

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Ah! Thank you kind sir!

@ClevedonGuitarMan 5 жыл бұрын

Loads of great advice here David. Thanks for doing these tutorials. Looking forward to your advice on harmonics and tremolo. If there's anything to practice slowly it's tremolo, but mine still sounds like a 3 legged horse 😂

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@drbikashbaran108 11 ай бұрын

Great lesson. Thank you so much.

@davidjaggs 11 ай бұрын

Hope it helps! 👍

@drbikashbaran108 11 ай бұрын

@@davidjaggs certainly !!! I learn a lot from your videos. I am now watching your video on lagrima. Thank you so much. I learn from your videos. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@davidjaggs 11 ай бұрын

Good to hear that!

@knd1986 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy this particular tutorial. I have watched it the 3rd time, and every time, I find new angle and understand your tips better and better. All your tips are excellent. For example, I usually have specific difficulty with shifting between "nasty chords". When I try to apply tips no. 2 and 5, I see my shifting improved a lot. I also apply the tips of separating the left hand playing and right hand playing, and see improvement. Thousands thumbs up for this video. Thank you David! :x Please do more of this type of videos (practicing tips)! :)

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to do some soon... can't get out of the house at the moment. Any particular subject?

@knd1986 4 жыл бұрын

DPJFILMS this corona-virus time is dangerous, I hope you stay safe. Thank you for replying so fast. Maybe you could do more tips on shifting? Or piece memorization? Or maybe Chord balancing (play a chord of 3 notes but try to make one melody note standing out) Or maybe tremolo. :) I am just brainstorming in answering to your question. I am most interested in left hand chord shifting , or barred chord :)

@tasosdiaforetico7377 3 жыл бұрын

Super video, dotted practice is Imperative with Metronome, it's hard too keep motivated at times. Your tips help, be great too see you're way of learning a piece from scratch Again great lesson

@davidjaggs 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your kind comments, they are appreciated.

@rogeliomontenegroguerra4695 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video!! Guitar illumination!!

@davidjaggs Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@rogeliomontenegroguerra768 Жыл бұрын

@@davidjaggs thank you for your infinite devotion. The “mountain” analogy it’s game changer, everything on this video is helpful! (Sorry, I’ve been writing from 3 different profiles, but yes, I just tried your advice on changing the accents and rhythm on a new fingering that hadn’t even tried before on the climax of The Grand Sarabanda and it worked IMMEDIATELY!!! I can see you had the fortune to study with Barrueco, (I’m from Cuba too), listening to the Regondi Studies I started digging in cause noticed high musicality and the deepest technical approach, thank you for building such a magnificent website, I hope I take advantage of everything in it. Really inspiring!!

@davidjaggs Жыл бұрын

@@rogeliomontenegroguerra768 kind words, thanks 👍

@tony89718 4 ай бұрын

This is a great series, would like to see more definitely. This tutorial would be really helpful for the Sagreras studies and any of the études.

@davidjaggs 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, Tony!

@zlatkosljivic454 5 жыл бұрын

Holy moly I had no clue you were such an amazing player! It is rare to find a person who is a great teacher aswell as a player! Thanks for all the work

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks! Those clips are from Giuliani op48 which I will release in the next few weeks on youtube.

@zlatkosljivic454 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidjaggs oh please do, I would love to hear more of your playing!

@lindapalmer5303 4 жыл бұрын

Missing your live performances, but enjoying your playing on spotify. :-)

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Linda.. don't know when I'll be playing again!!

@lindapalmer5303 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidjaggs soon I hope. I have so enjoyed listening to you on spotify. I have come to appreciate the more gentle tracks. :-).

@brzonkalik Ай бұрын

Bardzo fajny materiał. Zawsze mówiłem moim uczniom, że nie ma trudnych utworów, ale są źle wyćwiczone. Pozdrawiam serdecznie :)

@davidjaggs Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, 🙏

@UlyssesAlexandreAlves 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David of this excellent lesson. You are one of the best players I know on KZfaq. I'm always delighted to listen to those gorgeous songs you've recorded here in your channel. I have a question about slow practice. Can you please help me on this? My question is: how slowly should I start practicing a piece? And by how much should I increase the speed after I am able to play the piece with no mistakes at a given slower speed? So far I've came up with my own solution to this problem, but I'd like it to be validated if possible, so that I keep using it or change it somehow if it does not work as I expect it should. My solution is based on the 85% Rule, which states that one will be able to play at 100% speed if he can play it at 85% speed. So, what I do is basically about applying this 85% Rule recursively on the piece speed to get a series of smaller speeds to practice in each of them. For example, I am starting to practice a song whose final speed is 72 bpm. To get its smaller speeds I apply 85% to 72 bpm, and get 61 bpm. Then I apply 85% to 61 bpm, and get 52 bpm. I keep doing this until I get around 20 bpm, because I think this is a very slow speed, where it starts to become cumbersome to practice in such a slow motion. To make it clearer, here is the list of smaller speeds I get to practice a song of 72 bpm: - 72 x 85% = 61bpm - 61 x 85% = 52bpm - 52 x 85% = 44bpm - 44 x 85% = 37bpm - 37 x 85% = 32bpm - 32 x 85% = 27bpm - 27 x 85% = 23bpm Then, with this list of smaller speeds in place, I start practicing the song in the reverse order of speeds, that is, from the slowest tempo (23bpm) to the final tempo (72 bpm), like this: 1º: 23bpm 2º: 27bpm 3º: 32bpm 4º: 37bpm 5º: 44bpm 6º: 52bpm 7º: 61bpm 8º: 72bpm In this particular example I get to practice the song at 8 different speeds, so of course it adds more time to my project of getting the song up to speed, but it also gives me some structure to my practice, so that I know how far I am from getting to the final speed, that is, to getting to the finished project. Is this a good approach to breaking down a song in smaller speeds?

@davidjaggs 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ulysses. Thank you for your interesting comment. I don't think I've ever heard of this 85 percent rule, or been as organised as you in my practice. It sounds like a very thorough way of building speed. I don't think I was ever as patient! I do know that it's essential to start by practicing a piece at a speed at which you are in total control. Not just getting the notes, but being in control and aware of every movement of both hands. Try to make all the changes smooth, even at these slow speeds. Once you've achieved this notch up the metronome a beat or two and so on. As long as you keep control I don't see a problem in what rate one increases the speed. Make a note of what speed you start to lose control, or naily tone begins, and stop. Day by day this speed should gradually increase. You'll keep discipline if you see how the speed increases daily. It's hard to resist trying pieces a tempo, and I don't see any harm once in a while, but yes, slow practice is VERY important. Thanks for watching, and thanks for your kind comments.

@UlyssesAlexandreAlves 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidjaggs got it. Thanks for the clarification.

@guilhermegranda3869 2 ай бұрын

4:26 suddenly Prokofiev 😅

@kirklandgavin6858 2 жыл бұрын

cool

@davidjaggs 2 жыл бұрын

😊👍

@nevsart5884 11 ай бұрын

Hey David, great video, any thoughts on differences of practicing new pieces, interim to performance , I know for some it maybe obvious but I’m interested if it’s better to practice in a different way at each stage and the ratios of each, also, any suggestions on preparing to play in public? Cheers

@davidjaggs 11 ай бұрын

I just think the better you know a piece the less nerves and memory lapses you'll have. Hands separate, visualization without the guitar, recording yourself, 3 in a row, slow practice, having a definite idea of what you're doing musically, starting the piece from unusual places, not ignoring things that are going wrong... All these things will help. Also put yourself in a different environment, try playing to friends in a different place, make a note of what went wrong and why..... Hope this helps.

@nevsart5884 11 ай бұрын

@@davidjaggs Thanks so much, David. I’m sure they will help, I’ve always worked on the five times perfect, idea. Two ideas I’ve had for playing in public were, when practicing each number, I try and play with a different emotion and secondly, I’ve started taking my guitar to a bench in the middle of a local park, to practice, with the idea of moving to busier places as I progress. I start with my easier tunes first, in a set pattern, moving towards the longer more challenging numbers. If I’m having a bad day, I stay on the easy pieces until I relax…….. Thanks again, every piece of advice always helps! 😁👍🏼

@davidjaggs 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and good luck with your playing.👍😊

@hericklenin 3 жыл бұрын

Can you know before hand what fingerings would work a tempo?

@davidjaggs 3 жыл бұрын

Good question Herick. As you gain more experience you begin to know what works and what doesn't. It takes time and experience though. I always write full fingering on the score, left and right hand, and I don't feel I can begin to learn the piece until I have. There will be a few occasions when you have to try a passage at speed with a couple of different fingerings to see what works, and over the next weeks some will get changed. So the answer to your question is yes, mostly.

@pogchamp7983 4 жыл бұрын

6:25 actually sounds pretty good lol sounds like a secondary dominant or something.

@davidjaggs 4 жыл бұрын

I guess it is, yes!

@pogchamp7983 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidjaggs hehe real nice tips btw helped me a lot thanks!

@siddyx 5 жыл бұрын

There was a time when classical is all I wanted to play but my nails keep breaking and I’m set adrift . Then they grow and break and repeat !!

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

Have you tried false nails?

@siddyx 5 жыл бұрын

Hi David, thanks for the reply , I wasn’t expecting one. I once tried some false nails and they ruined my natural nails. They looked almost bruised when I took the false ones off. Took about 6 months to start growing strong again. It’s a damn shame too because the sound and tones I got with the false nails was superb. Maybe there are better quality ones I could try

@davidjaggs 5 жыл бұрын

I know someone who uses them. . Maybe I'll get him on a short tutorial. ...

@siddyx 5 жыл бұрын

DPJFILMS that would be very helpful sir thank you . I did consider gel nails but the nail tech didn’t seem to put my mind at rest about the previous problem I had. Also David, I truly appreciate you giving your time to help . You CD is jammed into my car CD player and it’s never coming out.