My first classical guitar tutorial...

I play Classical Guitar professionally.

What I liked about this video lesson:

- you explain why you're tuning 3=F#, and how to replicate the sound of the Renaissance Lute

- I can see your left hand clearly all the way through and there's good thinking around your left-hand positions.

- the slow play through after the demo

- there's consideration giving to tone colours

- there's a buzz at 3:54 btw

But

- you said that beats per minute wasn't important, and then played it to a fairly strict tempo a little slower than the speed it's routinely played now. Maybe you meant that tempo wasn't important.

As a general rule, we don't load up Renaissance music with vibrato (do more trills) - 6:40 onwards - but I like the way the lesson was presented and particularly liked the fact that it had been thought through in some detail before putting it in front of a camera.

Alan, you have no idea how important your feedback is to me. I am a little bit embarrased, to be honest - I can only imagine how amateur-ish I must come across to somebody who plays classical guitar professionally.

- The buzz at 3:54 KILLS me. I noticed it before but I thought I would just leave as is. However, now that we talked about it, I think I will have to correct that.
- Tempo vs. BPM: total agreement, my lack of articulation. I will have to find away to correct that in the video. Maybe I can dub that part. I know exactly what you mean.
- I can feel that the way I play this piece is very "mechanical" (that's the best way I can describe it). The fact is that at this point, I am not good enough to give this piece the necessary accents it needs. I am too focused on not messing up. It's new terrain for me and definitely different than playing early Black Sabbath tunes.

Anyway, thank you very much again for your constructive feedback. This helps me a lot. I will see how I can make the suggested corrections.

Thanks Alan.

Tempo vs. BPM: totally agreement,

What I should have referred to there was absolute speed rather than just tempo and it occurred to me after I'd posted it and whilst I'm running through the order for tomorrow's gig.

Tempo vs. BPM: total agreement,

What I should have referred to there was absolute speed rather than just tempo and it occurred to me after I'd posted it and whilst I'm running through the order for tomorrow's gig.

Ah, this is interesting. I think I know what you mean, but I will have to do some research on 'absolute speed' vs. 'tempo' to better understand it conceptually in this context. Thanks again.

Also, I will have to educate myself around 'trills'. I'm embarrassed to say that this is the first time I heard that expression. I think I know what it is, but I want to be on the safe side.Your tips are super helpful, because I'd like to do a few more of these 'beginner' level tutorials. The next one I will be doing is Robert de Visee (Sarabande in d-minor).

Thanks again, Alan. And good luck with tomorrow's gig!