Your attention to the nuances of this is helping me immensely. Thank you!

Just discovered this lesson and have subscribed. Have recently taken up classical and my teacher has given me this beautiful piece to play, so watching and repeating I find essential before playing. What a fabulous well explained lesson given so calmly. Thank you so much..!

Probably one of the best instructional videos I've seen on classical technique and thoughtful expression. Really nicely done, well done

What a wonderful teacher you are! Thank you!

Revisiting this piece after many years. Great help in this video for a new understanding of the piece.

Nice work. Excellent detailed explantions. I like how you showed the finger placements in each section. Do you have Maria Linnemann's Canzone D' Amore on your list to teach in the near future. I'm trying to learn that piece and your instruction would benefit tremendously. Thanks.

That is Great! Thank you for kindly transferring knowledge.

Beautiful! Thank you!

Excellent lesson. Thank you!

Thank you for the really good lesson.

Thank you, Simon, a great lesson and your teaching technique is superb! CGC has improved my playing and enjoyment 1000% and I recommend it unreservedly.

I'm only in Grade 3, but someone is talking about me playing it at a wedding, so I started to look at my sheet music. I noticed that measure 30 is played differently than I learned previously. I compared it to Noad, Parkening, CGC, and Werner books and all have a different way to play this measure.

..sooo happy and thankful for this🙏..after years waiting for a proper instruction for this (not that easy as it could look) piece...🤩

One of my favourite pieces to play when I was younger and I still love to play this one today. Beautiful. Even though I've been playing this one for years I still learned quite a lot during this lesson. It just goes to show, you never really fully know any piece.

Thank you. I've been able to play the first section for some time. I've always left the second part because of the stretch at the beginning. I think its time to try and conquer it. 😃

Not owning a classical guitar (yet), my steel string will have to do. Varying the dynamics and tempo make this simple melody really sing. Thanks!

Incredibly well done instructional video, Simon. The organization, delivery and production are ideal. Looking forward to learning Romanza one day.

Wonderful (as always!). Thank you

Thanks so much, brilliant lesson, off to practice what I have just learned

Excellent instruction! Cannot wait to join the academy.

Great tutorial. I find that I have more control when I use rest stroke with the thumb.

I've been playing Romanza for a couple of years, I started learning after only a year or so of playing the guitar. Let's just say I haven't been playing it too well! Picked up a few tips and will continue to work on it... Thank you for such a wonderful lesson.

Thanks for all those great tips Simon. I am the type of amteur classical guitarist that feels a real sense of accomplishment when I can play a piece without missing any notes, fingering all the right notes without buzzes or muffled tones while keeping a steady beat going. So I tend to leave all the different methods of coloring the piece as you have so ably illustrated as an afterthought that do not really get that much attention. You have inspired me to take your suggestions to heart and experiment when playing Romanza (and the other few pieces that I have under my belt) to pay much more attention now to these little tricks of the trade that can really enhance an audience's (and the musician's) experience of the music. By the way, a guitar teacher showed me a long, long time ago an excellent (I think) sort of jazzy way to end Romanza's final minor section with an ascending/descending arpeggio of an Em add 9 chord. I thought I would describe how it's done, in case any other of the commenters or lurkers would like to try it. At the very end of the piece, on the last bar of the final minor section form the Em add 9 chord with the left hand, middle finger holding down note "B" on the 5th sting 2nd fret while extending the left hand pinky to hold down F# on the 4th string 4th fret, while all other strings are open. Then start an ascending arpeggio with the right hand from 6th to 1st string, as in: p,p,p,i,m,a and then after the "a" finger sounds the 1st string, immediately drag the "a" finger back across the strings from 2nd string to 6th string sounding each string in turn as it descends.

I learnt this piece 1.5 year ago. I practiced it for 4 weeks and subsequently developed focal dystonia in my right hand and had given up guitar since. However I enjoyed watching the whole lesson! thanks Simon.

I wish everything i learned in school was taught this way...

Great lesson, Simon! Such beautiful music, I looked at the CGC repertoire book and saw that this is a grade 6 piece. I guess that at the rate that I am going, I won't get to grade 6 for another eight years or so :). I'm working on grade 3 material and it's hard enough (I already developed pain in the LH pinky due to the stretches needed in that grade level, I will be seeing a music-specialist doctor this month). I was inspired by your video to add this to my arpeggio technical routine; the opening measures are playable at grade 3 level, but I dare not approach anything beyond that yet. The person who got focal dystonia (a commenter), that kind of thing really scares me :)

Thanks, this was one of my first stretch pieces. It's so great to revisit and refresh it with some new insights and tricks. Do you have an opinion on using glissandi as you shift up the first string in the first section?

The course come also with tab ?

How much on average should you spend per day on practice to pass grade 6 if you are done with previous grades? Most music schools go parallel with a primary school. Bonus question why is there only one piece in grade 7 and there are 5 pieces in grade 6 on your website?

Excellent lesson. Thank you!