These are golden. Thanks.

Wow, a sane voice!

Thanks for this. Just yesterday I revisited an old, beginner level piece that I thought I knew inside out, and realised I was not playing legato enough - not holding down the current note long enough while moving into position for the next notes.

Synopsis: _You should learn thing so you can do thing faster._ Yeah... that's not a particularly convincing argument for learning to read Notation. It's like telling people the only way to live is to learn how to *drive* a boat, just incase they want to *ride* a boat... While yes, it CAN be used effectively, it also require "the interest for understanding the music" rather jan just "the ability to create and enjoy music". In other words, you hvae failed to understand the different approaches there are to music, and how standard Notation is not helpful for many who wants to get into leanring music, due to the heavy investment of learning to read a new language before getting to actually have fun. While learning to read Notation works for some, it is deffinetely not a universal key to music, especially outside the narrow specter of classical music etc. Wanting to learning _classical guitar,_ doesn't mean you want to learn _classical music._

Thank yiu so much sir. It helped me a lot😊

I love your way straight to the point awesome 👏 love love it 😍

Thank you so much for this video. I am a beginner using a classical guitar and this video helped me a lot.

Tablature turned the lutenists of the Renaissance and Baroque into 2nd class musicians. The single most important skill I learned as a professional guitarist was the ability to read staff notation.

Definitely reading music is important. The most important starting point is a good music teacher so the student can progress through the grades. I agree=Tab notation is very limiting

Thanks, this resonates so much with me, thank you!

The title of the video is misleading. This isn’t a course, this is an unabashed advertisement for this course. I may still enrol though, 40 usd doesn’t seem to be a lot for learning Ave Maria.

Thanks. Very useful

3:01. I'm cracking up.

master this little finger before anything else, or you will have to relearn everything down the track

Thank you sir!

I’ve been working on “tornado of souls” solo for 6 months now. And I’m fine with that. It’s a challenge

Honestly, this is how i felt about music theory and many of the Pieces i wanted to learn without it 😭I felt so lost and disconnected from my playing 😞 but im on the road of getting back on track😊

Alen is a very good teatcher. Advice is what you need to learn

I was able to learn the Bolero by Julián Arcas from the sheet you posted, but now my teacher asked me to choose and learn one of Bach's lute concerts and I chose the BWV 997. It would be a dream if I manage to master just the Fugue from that concert in 4 months. But I am down for the challenge :)

Always great information .. working on two pieces at the moment .. just taking it slow and making sure my positions are excellent before I start working on perfecting. time

Thank you! Literally just took a break from getting frustrated and saw this.

Thanks

I needed to hear this.

Three weeks???

Mindful practice=slow n steady wins every time. Do not make mistakes when learning a new piece otherwise you'll have to undo tho mistakes=frustration n a waste of time, slowing your progress. BTW=Great channel

Thank you Sir! I don’t suck, the timeline sucks lol

Thank you for this video. I watched several of your videos and I always learn something

Your thumb position is wrong

Thanks.

Thanks a bunch.

Looks like your doing one of the many varients of the spider exercise.

Very interesting, greetings.

Thanks for this video. I've feel like I'm an intermediate guitarist struggling to learn advanced pieces. Right now I'm working on Verano Porteno (arr. Baltazar Benitez) and Carora (Lauro). For both pieces, I'm struggling with various positions as well as the speed. I know to get where I need to go, I'm going to have to focus on playing relaxed.

Thanks for the tip. 👍🏾

I have so much more to learn in theory & finger placement & I absolutely love that about my guitar playing .. I remember my first few months , I wanted to play with others so badly and then I got asked to play an E note .. of course I couldn’t .. 25 years later , I treasure that moment , it helped me realise what I didn’t know and showed me a path of discovery that changed my life .

Thanks for this. One thing that I am struggling with is tying my phrasing to my breathing. Most of the best players do this effortlessly. You can even hear the breathing in some recordings. Do you have a video on this? Thanks again!

Zen and the Art of Advanced Guitar Playing....awsome!

Thank you Alan. You've been doing a great job for so many years. I get alot of otherwise unobtainable insights from you. Thank you

I don't even know if I'm intermediate....

Great video!! All these ideas are so well presented and make full sense. It all gives me lots of inspiration and things to focus on and think about in my guitar practice. Really helpful. Thank you so much, Allen. Rodrigo

Thanks for highlighting this! I´m very greatful!

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Thank you Alan. Much food for thought.

Thank you so much for your content. This video describes exactly where I feel I’m at. I came back to the classical guitar in my late 40s after stopping at the early-intermediate level in my late teens, I’ve now been playing for a few years, first getting back to the level I had and then progressing to more of a late-intermediate. I often feel the more I progress, the more frustrating it can get. I see the imperfections more clearly, mistakes get to me more and as much as I want to play pieces perfectly, different mistakes keep popping up. On some other days, I manage to get a sense of perspective and realize the progress I’ve accomplished. It’s a long journey and advices like yours are really helpful with the structuring of practice and with the motivation.

Thanks my friend. You are a godsend. I really appreciate the content you put out.

Always top notch content

It's the unknown unknowns that make a difference.

Bummed you don’t do private lessons. I’d drive up from Eugene if you did.

Practice burnout with this technique 👌 Na seriously, this is the best way to work. It's actually been proven and the former head of Mensa lectures about his version of the pomodoro technique