Recently I bought a Altamira Flamenco Guitar, Modell N700f. Also this guitar is not so very expensive, I am feeling very comfortable to play it – and not only for Flamenco Style! Altamira is a Chinese brand, but now available in other countries, too. Here a video where I use my new Altamira guitar to [...]
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FIVE SHORT STUDIES by Giuseppe Torrisi(This is a Guest Post by Dario Bitetti)
A music that was in danger of never to be heard and of remain locked in a drawer. The Sicilian musician, Giuseppe Torrisi, twenty years ago conceived his project Five Short Studies for guitar, first he wrote the first, third and part of the second. Recently, the great guitarist Giulio Tampalini got hold these scores [...]
Take Five for guitar: comparison: George Benson, Chet Atkins, Igor Presnyakov and Julia Scheuffele
George Benson: http://youtu.be/r0KOzrMUt10 – the embed version is not available for the video….- Jazzguitar plus Band (Drums, Sax, Keyboard, Bass) George Benson played that piece in e minor and during his improvisation he played – as usual – the blues scale in e minor, but with all extensions. He played a lot of sequenced riffs [...]
Giuseppe Torrisi: Mazurka Triste
This beautiful mazurka is a composition of the italian guitarist and composer Giuseppe Torrisi. You can find a lot of his compositions und arrangements on his website http://www.guitarfreescores.com Giuseppe Torrisi is a self taught classical guitarist from Catania, Italia. He made his diplom as a guitar teacher at the conservatory “Tita Schipa” in Leece. He [...]
South American Guitarmusic: Venezuela
These days in Shanghai is the music fair. A lot of guitar companies from the whole world are here to sell their guitars and other music instruments. But instead of going to the music fair, I want to introduce Antonio Lauro to you: Antonio Lauro was born on the 3th of August 1917 in Ciudad [...]
Hallo to my students!
Because of some unexspected problems i have to delay my flight back to Shanghai and will arrive some days later. I am very sorry for all of you who are waiting for me! Probably we can start with the classes after the 24th of September. As i didn’t bring my computer to Germany there is [...]
The Importance of Playing by Heart
As I was a student my guitar teacher always forced me to play every piece by heart. If I didn`t memorize a piece, I was not allowed to learn a new one till I could play the old one by heart and without any mistakes. I continued to do so my whole lifetime. But working [...]
To Play The Guitar Is Like Making Poesie
To play the guitar is more than practice an instrument. To play the guitar means to express the life. To show your “life – feeling” what means to make poesie. But in my eyes that doesn`t mean that you completely need to play “ad libitum”. I ve uploaded two different pieces. One is from the [...]
Most Important Of All: Phantasy!
Practicing with my students sometimes lets me be a little disapointed. What often happens: the younger children are learning with high motivation and big progress, but some years later if they starting with puberty, they lose their love to classical guitar and most pitty: they lose their phantasy. May be it`s because they become too [...]
The Guitar Shops of Jiang Da Min
If my students need a guitar, i am always going to Jingling Road 318. There is one of Jiang Da Mins Guitar Shops. He is the owner of around six shops in Shanghai, the shop in the Jingling Road is one of them. There you can find all kinds of guitars and most important for [...]
