My online technique course, Basic Classical Guitar Mastery, is going to be discounted for the rest of September. I’m bringing it down from $95 to $55. Over the next week I’ll be sharing a short series of these videos from the course with you for free. Video Number Five is on the dreaded topic of fingernails, [...]

My online technique course, Basic Classical Guitar Mastery, is going to be discounted for the rest of September. I’m bringing it down from $95 to $55. Over the next week I’ll be sharing a short series of these videos from the course with you for free. Video Number Four introduces to all of the most basic, important [...]

My online technique course, Basic Classical Guitar Mastery, is going to be discounted for the rest of September. I’m bringing it down from $95 to $55. Over the next week I’ll be sharing a short series of these videos from the course with you for free. Video Number Three introduces you to the obvious differences [...]

My online technique course, Basic Classical Guitar Mastery, is going to be discounted for the rest of September. I’m bringing it down from $95 to $55. Over the next week I’ll be sharing a short series of these videos from the course with you for free. Video Number Two gives you one of the hidden [...]

My online technique course, Basic Classical Guitar Mastery, is going to be discounted for the rest of September. I’m bringing it down from $95 to $55. Over the next week I’ll be sharing a short series of videos from the course with you for free. Here’s the first one: A bit about the Basic Classical Guitar Mastery [...]

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Arranged for Solo Classical Guitar (link will take you to JayKauffman.com)   This is it—the full Serenade No. 13 for Strings, K. 525. That’s a 20 minute-long piece of major concert rep: Allegro Romanze Menuetto Rondo It’s transcribed for the advanced classical guitar, from G Major into D Major. The Rondo in [...]

Click here to go to the course page The prelude from Bach’s first unaccompanied cello suite is one of my long time favorite pieces. Pablo Casals , the great cellist, discovered an edition of the suites in a thrift shop when he was 13 (they were considered to be “studies,” not concert pieces, at that [...]

The course contains all the information I’d provide to an intermediate student over the course of a few months of lessons in which they learn to play Capricho Arabe. Even though many of you probably have a copy of this justifiably famous staple of the classical guitar repertoire in an anthology or collection, the course [...]

A new Video Mini Course for the delightful piece “Toy,” by Francis Cutting. According to the Wikipedia entry, Francis Cutting is one of the earliest English Lute Composers whose name is known. About 40 works of his survive. This piece is featured in Frederick Noad’s wonderful anthology “The Renaissance Guitar,” which was one of the [...]