Recommended Guitar Websites
Classical Guitar Midi Files - an inexpensive way to explore the repertoire.
Dr Koh’s Guitar Sarang - this site (from Korea) contains links to hundreds of video clips of guitar performances. The titles on the navigation buttons are (I think) in Korean, but if you let your mouse hover over them, English translations appear as if by magic.
John Williams - possibly the most famous classical guitarist in the world
Gaelle Solal - young French guitarist - featuring a few impressive video performances
A History of the Classical Guitar
European Guitar Teachers Association (EGTA)
Spanish Guitar Centre - the fastest way to buy guitar music online e.g. The Guitarist’s Way series
Tony McManus - Scotland’s own
Andy Mckee - see also Recommended YouTube Videos
Brazilian Guitar Quartet - veterans of Dundee Guitar Festival featuring Scotland’s Paul Galbraith - a former winner of Young Musician of The Year. Check out sound samples from CDs.
Tetra (a guitar quartet)
Gareth Pearson (young finger-style guitarist from Wales - blues etc.)
Delcamp Guitar Forum - source of music, mp3s alongwith a very useful question/answer area.
Hi Alan,
hope all’s well!
the gig at the Meadow Bar this week is my new trio featuring Johhny Copland and Tom Gordon from the BBC radio big band - should be fun, there’s more info on the website and even a wee bit of footage on youtube…
all the best,
Malcolm
Comment by Malcolm MacFarlane — March 12, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
Have you ever come across the Delcamp website? I’ve been visiting it since February and it’s really good. It’s so rigorously moderated I’m sure you could safely recommend it to any pupil, but probably the older (S.) ones would benefit most. Lots of free music (as long as you submit a fairly modest amount of times) and lots of MP3s of the pieces as well. (Jean-Francois Delcamp is a prof of guitar at Ecole National de Musique Brest)
http://www.delcamp.net/forum/en/index.php
(I can’t remember how I found it but just realised it wasn’t one of yours)
Comment by Luisa McMinn — June 2, 2007 @ 10:19 pm
Thanks Luisa,
I signed up for that a while ago but, to be honest forgot about it. Thanks for the prompt - I’ll add a link.
Comment by Alan Coady — June 5, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
Hello, here is a good site for classical guitar; http://guitar.ah.to/ Many videos there, and some are sourced at youtube also.
http://www.karinschaupp.com is another, a great player is Karin.
For buying; http://www.classicalguitar.co.uk/ and http://www.staffordguitar.com/
Best wishes, Mark.
Comment by Mark Antony — October 26, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
This is an excellent website - maybe you already know it? It is run by a jazz trumpeter and has a very good eartraining tool and [not surprisingly] improvisation training help: iwasdoingalright.com
Comment by Luisa McMinn — April 22, 2008 @ 12:42 pm