Musical Introductions: What to Say About Your Pieces

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Are you learning classical guitar or would like to learn classical guitar? ClassicalGuitarShed.com can help you on the journey. If you want to rise to new levels in your playing, it just takes time and strategic work.

To play classical guitar well, you need to know:

how to hold and touch the guitar - form and positioning

how to move your fingers and hands - efficient, clean, and fluid

how to learn pieces - reading music, understanding what you see, ingraining, polishing

how to craft the music so it is beautiful - swells and fades, rhythm, touch

how to practice so all these skills improve over time and don't go away


At the root of beautiful playing is a solid technique (aka “the way your hands move”). You may have beautiful music in your head, but if your hands can't play it, it won't come out of the guitar.

But bad technique puts a limit on your playing. Speed, tone quality, and control can suffer.

Good technique gets stronger and more instinctive with every practice. It forms the bedrock foundation for your music.

And you may want to understand music so you learn it more easily and it makes more sense. This can help you avoid the excess frustration and dismay that comes with shoddy practice and prolonged confusion.

But playing the notes is not enough. Like an actor bring words to life, we breathe life into our pieces.

And we can do this in an organized way, day in and day out, reliably. Great musicians can play wonderfully in any mood. They do not rely on emotions. Instead, they create music that affects our emotions. This is a trained skill, not an inborn talent.

Playing classical guitar is a long-term study. It's something we do in our homes as part of our days. We play for ourselves, for the quality it adds to life. We may enjoy playing guitar for others, but most of the time we are alone with our work.

There are methods and formulas for great practice. We can use our time well so that see more progress.

We can fix the problems and erase the mistakes. And we can enjoy conquering the plentiful challenges that classical guitar music offers.

If you plan to play classical guitar for any length of time, it is worth it to get help. It's not something we can do on our own, like folk music.

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