Tag: carulli

  • I haven’t practiced for a week 🙂

    When I’m not playing guitar or writing guitar books, I really enjoy playing computer games, especially flight simulators. I’ve been “flying” online with this one group for years now, and lots of us have become real friends. So much that we started meeting in real life a few years ago. We’ve met in Munich, in Amsterdam, and this year, we met in Vienna.

    So over the last extended weekend I had the pleasure of welcoming friends from all over Europe and the US to my home town. We visited all the must-see sights, ate and drank and talked and laughed a lot, and really had a great time. For me it was a bit weird, a typical city trip, but I slept at home. 😀 I really enjoyed it, and I’m already looking forward to meeting them again in a few months, in some other place.

    And all that time, I didn’t touch my guitar even once. I didn’t even think about it. And that’s fine. A few days off don’t matter at all. Especially if you’re spending them with friends. What matters are all the other days. So don’t be angry at yourself if you miss a day of practice. Or even a month. What really matters is starting again, and continuing.

    Here’s another great little piece from my new book Fernando Carulli’s famous guitar method, his Op.241, “École de Guitare.”​
    Download the PDF with the score in standard notation and tablature, along with the MIDI-generated audio files, here:
    ​    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RcjSPQ5oFzR1GYt9-hjHVuKMZIkwZgM-/view?usp=sharing​

    If you’re interested, check out Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 – In Standard Notation and Tablature on amazon!​
    Get it here: https://amzn.to/4gEQrUX​

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  • Fresh from the press: “Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 “

    Fresh from the press: “Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 “

    I’ve just published my new book “Ferdinando Carulli’s Guitar School: Ècole de Guitare, Op.241 – In Standard Notation and Tablature”.

    Ferdinando Carulli’s complete guitar method, now with tablature.

    First published around 1825, École de Guitare, Op. 241 is the final version of the method Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) had been developing since 1810. Carulli spent his career in Paris, where he was the most sought-after guitar teacher of his day and composed over 400 works for the instrument. The studies and short pieces from his method have never left circulation, individual numbers still appear in graded syllabi from the Royal Conservatory and other examination boards.

    This edition presents the complete method in standard notation and tablature, making Carulli’s original material accessible to players who read tab, notation, or both.

    Inside:

    • Basic Principles of Music
    • 56 Progressive Pieces
    • Scales and Exercises up to 9th Position
    • Slurs, Embellishments and Trills
    • Double Stops and Harmonics
    • 6 Etudes

    The method moves in small steps. The first part works through the first position key by key, introducing chords, arpeggios, and progressive pieces alongside each new key signature. The second part opens outward to slurs, embellishments, the higher positions, double stops, and harmonics, closing with six etudes.

    BONUS: Downloadable MIDI-generated audio files for all 140 exercises.

    Whether you’re returning to classical study after years away or diving into serious guitar literature for the first time, this edition makes Carulli’s iconic guitar method accessible without compromising its pedagogical integrity.

    Get your copy of “FERDINANDO CARULLI’S GUITAR SCHOOL” now from Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gEQrUX

    Enjoy!

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