I'm in line with the previous comments, but two things:Ĭlassical guitar might be technical, but it is all about musicality, feeling and finally your interpretation. If you need any sheet music, send me a pm, I can get you started with some pdfs of the things I mentioned Pumping nylon by Scott tennant is a very good technique book that can really take you places, but it's no substitute for playing pieces in my opinion. If it seems useless you can always play some folk or blues pieces to keep up your fingerpicking without to much trouble (Chet Atkins was a favorite of mine when starting out, Tommy Emmanuel might be good when you're a bit further along) If you're looking for a fun piece to start with, maybe the romance anonimo is a good start, it's also a real treat for the ears.ĭon't be discouraged when it seems overwhelming and hard to start playing classical. 60) or even pieces like dust in the wind by Kansas and blackbird by the Beatles, before moving on to the more rigorous classical stuff. I would suggest starting out with etudes by carcassi(op. Starting out with classical guitar can be overwhelming, since there's no real clear direction. Metronome at 50 or 60 is generally a good approach to ballad playing.Just start with whatever you like. That's exactly what Jim Hall's playing is all about. Singing your musical ideas and playing them is a great way to more melodic and musical approach. Are they inside the tune's mood? How they use silence, rhythmical ideas, chordal flourishes, and never get ahead of the beat, or rush things.This is a good advice. Listen and analyze what they do, not just the notes they play. Martin Taylor is a great ballad player, or someone like Jim Hall. Ballads are all about mood, so just doubling up to make up for lost sustain on a guitar isn't going to do the tune justice, unless you are Pat Martino. Both extremes present their own challenges, and some players specialize in one or the other. My rule is don't practice anything without a metronome, whether ballads or uptempo. Subdivide accurately and you'll havce no issue. I want to play ballads all the time as there are just some amazing Ballad players that I work with. Although once played a ballad in a jam session at 40 and it was extremely fun, just it's pretty hard to find guys to trust at that slow a tempo. 72 imo is the absolute fastest ballad tempo, anything faster just sort of feels too rushed to me (just my personal thing) and anything below 50 is too drawn out. Since then I worked methodically at ballad playing and did so with a Metronome set between 50 and 72 depending on how I felt. Meaning they couldn't count their subdivision and play a longer one to keep the tempo steady. I realized in my life that anytime I played a ballad that rhythm players would get double time happening for no reason other then it helped their own ability to feel the beat in a smaller subdivision and they were unable to pocket that for themselves. One of my favorite experiences was playing Ballads with this bass player once at a clinic and he started to walk, sort of hinting double time and the clinician went up to the bass player and demanded he not play double time and said. metronome and above all Ballads especially!
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