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Spanish Guitar

Information and resources about the beautiful Spanish Guitar and its music.

Esteban Duende Acoustic Electric Classical Guitar Package w/ Bonus Amplifier , 10 DVDs and Accessories This is an Esteban Duende Limited Edition Classical Acoustic Electric Guitar Package. It functions perfectly but may have a minor imperfection on the guitar, amp or case. It is new, unused and tested prior to shipment. This is a full size acoustic electric guitar with built-in pre-amp and EQ. It has a beautiful finish around the sound hole and a multicolor Duende decoration on the front and back. It comes with 10 instructional DVDs and a full accessory package with nylon guitar case. strap, cord, polishing cloth, extra strings, picks and more. Includes a 10 watt amplifier with overdrive. Not covered by the manufacturer's warranty but comes with a full 30 day money back guarantee. You will love this outfit!

Cordoba C3M Guitar - The Cordoba C3M is a basic nylon string acoustic guitar with all the needed features to make it a great value. Featuring a solid top made of Cedar and Mahogany back and sides, the C3M has a warm and punchy sound that carries and resonates. Like all Cordoba guitars, it features a 100% natural wood rosette that is hand inlaid, and a fan bracing pattern that ensures a nice lightweight build and feel. Other features include gold tuning machines and a rosewood fingerboard, headstock overlay, and bridge. The natural satin (matte) finish is lightweight and allows the woods and tone to breathe and resonate. Overall, this is a great guitar for the money.

Espana Classical Solid Top Guitar Mahogany The Espana Classical Acoustics from Dean are a new tradition in innovative yet refined classical guitar construction. The CS Espana Classical Acoustic Guitar from Dean boasts a solid cedar top. Beautiful full body tone with high gloss finish, it looks as great as it sounds! CS ~Solid Cedar Top ~Mahogany Body ~650mm Scale ~Rosewood Fingerboard ~High Grade Classical Tuners ~Mahogany Neck ~7 Layer Wood Binding ~Inlaid Mosaic Rosette ~Gloss Natural

Cordoba Fusion Guitar 12 - Cordoba Fusion 14 "Jet" nylon string crossover guitar. Solid Canadian Cedar top with Mahogany back/sides, jet black high gloss finish. Nylon/steel string hybrid with (2.75 inch) body depth, soft cutaway, 12 frets to body, raduised fingerboard and thin steel string style neck. Bband A3T electronics. 650 mm scale length, 50 mm nut (1.96 inches). Includes Cordoba gig bag.

Cordoba Cadete Guitar, 3/4 size - Cordoba Cadete 3/4 size nylon string acoustic guitar. Solid Canadian Cedar top with Mahogany back/sides. Features a Rosewood binding and fingerboard with quick and easy string action. All wood inlaid rosette. 615mm (24.21 inches) scale length, 48mm (1.88 inches) nut width

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Want to learn how to play a Spanish Guitar Scale? I have an easy tutorial with a picture of what strings to play and an MP3 so you can hear what it sounds like. Spanish Scale

Here are some Spanish Guitar pieces for you to listen to. If you want to hear more classical guitar pieces go to the Listen section of this website.

Spanish Romance - Added Aug 16 (mp3: 1.26meg and 1min 32 secs). - Evocative and haunting piece. Challenging in that it is played all over the fretboard but played andante so reasonably easy to master. the sheet music: Spanish romance
Adelita by Francisco Tarrega - (mp3 711k - 45 seconds) This is a wonderfully haunting piece and one of my favorites. It has some nice sliding around on the fretboard. If you are a beginner classical/spanish guitarist you might want to add this to your repertoire. It is not too hard to play and sounds great. Purchase the sheet music: Adelita
Leyenda - (mp3 500k - 30 seconds) This is the first 30 seconds from this awesome Spanish piece. This piece simply rocks. The spanish guitar just blows me away! The sheet music: Leyenda

Looking for some Easy Spanish Guitar Sheet Music? Here are some nice pieces you can purchase individually at Musicnotes.com - and they are digital downloads so you can listen to the midi version and download them and start playing. :

Espanoletta by Gaspar Sanz Very easy piece to learn and it sounds great. It has this great feeling of being spanish and also being from the early classical period - quite unique and kind of sounds like something Mozard would have written while on vacation in Spain!. Good addition to a repertoire.
Recuerdos De La Alhambra By Francisco Tarrega - This is a great Spanish/classical piece. It has a wonderful sound where the melody plays through a series of 32nd notes. It is in 3/4 time and the key of C major and is easy to play except for the right hand challenge of the repeated 32nd notes. So you are going to need to practice your tremolo picking with the right hand to master this piece. Solid intermediate piece.
Etude 4 from 12 Etudes for the guitar by Fernando Sor - This is a right hand challenge and a solid intermediate piece. It is easy to read but you have to practice the right hand picking a lot to get it to sound smooth. If you want something that will develop smooth right hand picking this is a good piece.
Adelita by Francisco Tarrega - Awesome piece and one of my favorites. This is the first piece I had mastered for my repertoire.
Spanish romance This is a great sounding piece and is very easy to play. It is a staple of every classical guitarist.

Want a bigger challenge? Here is a more complicated piece and definitely for the intermediate classical guitarist: Leyenda I have a sample of this piece here on this webpage you can listen to.

Spanish Guitar Snippets. Here are some spanish guitar snippets that I really like

Alorno - (MP3 436k and 30 seconds long) This is the first 30 seconds of this piece written by Carlos Montoya - It just has a great spanish flavor to it and it does some really beautiful running around on the bass strings and it really shows off how the Spanish Guitar can make good use of triplets.

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Spanish for Guitar: Easy to Intermediate Solos by the Spanish Masters (Masters in Tab)

	Spanish Guitar Music: Guitar Solo Contents: Contradanza (Torroba) * Farruca (Andalusian) * Intermezzo (Granados) * Jota Levantina (Torroba) * Petenera (Traditional) * Sandunga (Mexican) * Sonata in A Minor (Soler) * Song and Dance (Surinach) * Song of the Fig Orchard (Ansunes).

	Albeniz: Spanish Classics for Guitar in Tablature (Classical Guitar)

	Treasures of the Spanish Guitar This fine solo guitar text, written in notation and tablature, offers a brilliant array of music from many centuries. Composers represented (Aguado, Tarrega, Sanz, Angurea, and others) present a colorful spectrum of the melodies, styles, moods, and temperaments that have characterized guitar music of Spain. The instrumentation on the recording is the solo classical guitar. It is a stereo recording, and it does contain every selection in the book. None of the repeats suggested in the printed scores have been taken off or put on the recording. It is up to the discretion of the individual performer to add or delete these as necessary.

	Play Solos Flamenco Guitar with Juan Martin Book, CD, and DVD: Vol. 1 Designed as a comprehensive multimedia teaching set, this book, CD, and DVD present 42 solos, progressively graded in 6 levels from absolute beginners to more advanced, to suit players of all levels. It contains examples of eighteen different palos (rhythmic forms) of flamenco, with a wealth of melodic falsetas and rhythms. The music for all these is accurately written in notation and flamenco tab (cifra) in the book, and is also recorded on the companion CD. The DVD video contains over 57 minutes of solo music, and also includes introduction by Juan Martín and brief scenes of Andalucia today, which help to place this profoundly exciting and deeply felt music in the landscape of its origins. Juan Martín has succeeded here is showing how even music which is simple and very easy to start with can express the essential sound and emotion of flamenco, to build step by step the skills necessary for the performance of concert solos. Written in English and Spanish

	DVD-Learn To Play Flamenco Guitar Aaron Gilmartin's clear, concise instructions will get you started playing flamenco guitar right away. All you'll need is a basic knowledge of the fingerboard and a nylon string guitar to learn this exciting musical tradition. Whether you now play classical, folk, blues or contemporary fingerstyle guitar, these DVDs will open a whole new world of music to you.

If you Want to learn more about the Spanish Guitar the Wikipedia has a great article about it.