Guitar Lessons - Bolero Guitar Resources
Classical Guitar Curriculum
Based on Frederick Noad's Solo Guitar Playing 1 and 2.
This course is comprised of  four Modules which may be completed in four 15-week sessions.  
The course may also be completed at the student's own pace.
8. TECHNIQUE AND PRACTICE I
  • Review of Music Notation IV
  • Malaguena, Traditional

9. TECHNIQUE AND PRACTICE II
  • Test #2: Malaguena
  • Waltz and Andantino by Ferdinando
    Carulli

10. INTRODUCTION TO CHORDS
  • Test# 3 Waltz and Andantino

11. THE CONCEPT OF VOICES
  • Review of Chords
  • Counting Two Lines
  • Minimum Movement Principle

12. LIGADO TECHNIQUES AND DOTTED NOTES
  • Review of Voices
  • Ascending and Descending Ligado
  • Counting Dotted Notes
  • Test #4

13. STUDY #1
  • Review of Ligado and Dotted Notes
  • Greensleeves, traditional
  • Etude by Ferdinando Carulli

14. STUDY #2
  • Test #5 (Greensleeves and Etude)
  • Allegretto by Frederick M. Noad
  • Study in Ligados, anonymous
  • Saraband by Robert De Viseé

15. GENERAL REVIEW II
  • Test #6
  • Memorization
  • Daily Exercises
  • Coordination and Practice
  • Ascending Ligado (Slur)
  • Descending Ligado
  • Arpeggios
  • Scales
1. GUITAR BASICS
    a) Parts of the Guitar
    b) The Fingerboard
    c) Web: Introduction to Scales

2. BASIC TECHNIQUE
    a) Review of Guitar Basics
    b) Right Hand
    c) Left Hand
    d) Test #1

3. MUSIC NOTATION I
  • Clef Sign, Lines and Spaces
  • Time and Counting
  • Common Time and Incomplete
    Measures
  • Notes on Open Strings
  • Notes on the Frets
  • 1st String
  • 2nd String

4. MUSIC NOTATION II
  • Review of Music Notation I
  • Notes on the Frets
  • 3rd String
  • 4th String
  • Rests and Ties

5. MUSIC NOTATION III
  • Review of Music Notation II
  • Eighth Note, Sixteenth Note and Thirty-
    second note
  • Counting Eighth Notes
  • Notes on the Frets
  • 5th String
  • 6th String

6. GENERAL REVIEW I
  • Review Music Notation I, II, III
  • Technique and Position
  • Music Reading
  • Spanish Study

7. MUSIC NOTATION IV
  • Sharps and Flats
  • Natural Signs
  • Key Signatures
  • Notes on the First Position
Module I
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8. ORNAMENTATION
  • Test #5 (Etude in B Minor)
  • Review of Scales and Melody and
    Arpeggio
  • The Trill
  • The Reverse Mordente
  • The Appoggiatura
  • Pavane in A Minor by Gaspar Sanz

9. THE SEVENTH POSITION AND STUDY #5
  • Test #6 (Pavane in A Minor)
  • Review of Ornamentation
  • The Importance of Higher Positions
  • Etude in A by Matteo Carcassi

10. STUDY #6
  • Test #7 (Etude in A)
  • Minuet in C by Fernando Sor

11. STUDY #7
  • Test #8 (Etude in A)
  • Etude in C by Fernando Sor

12. HARMONICS, ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
  • Test #9 ( Etude in C)
  • Natural Harmonics
  • Octave Harmonics
  • Harmonics with Chords
  • The Tremolo
  • Pizzicato
  • Tambor

13. STUDY #8
  • Review of Harmonics and Advanced
    Techniques
  • Adelita by Francisco Tarrega

14. STUDY #9
  • Test #10 (Adelita)
  • Lagrima by Francisco Tarrega

15. STUDY #10
  • Test #11
  • Romance, Anonymous
1. THE SECOND POSITION AND MUSIC
NOTATION V
  • Sonatina by Thomas Attwood
  • Dynamic Markings
  • Tempo Indications
  • Counting Sixteenth Notes
  • Damping

2. THE THIRD POSITION AND MUSIC
NOTATION VI
  • Review of Second Position and Music
    Notation V
  • The Half Bar
  • Counting In Eighth Notes
  • Six-Eighth Time
  • Rondo by Ferdinando Carulli
  • Test #1

3. STUDY #1
  • Review of Third Position and Music
    Notation VI
  • Canary Jig (Canarios)
  • Minuet by Robert De Viseé

4. STUDY #2
  • Test #2 (Canary Jig and Minuet)
  • Bourée by Robert De Viseé
  • Bourée by J. S. Bach
  • Musicianship

5. FIFTH POSITION AND THE FULL BAR
  • Test #3 (Bourée-RDV and Bourée-
    JSB)
  • Notes on the Fifth Position
  • Rules for Forming the Full Bar
  • La Caňa

6. STUDY #4
  • Review of First Position and the Full
    Bar
  • Tone Production
  • Vibrato
  • Left Hand Techniques
  • Right Hand Techniques
  • Pavane by Luis Milan
  • Etude in D by Fernando Sor

7. SCALES, MELODY AND ARPEGGIO
  • Test #4 ( Pavane and Etude in D)
  • The Chromatic Scale
  • The Major Scale
  • Scales and Keys
  • The Minor Scales
  • Extended Scales
  • Scale Fingerings
  • Three String Scales
  • Recognition of Melody in Arpeggio
  • Techniques for Emphasis of Melody
  • Etude in B Minor by Fernando Sor
Module II
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