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A brief history of Tablature

In today's online guitar lessons classical guitarist Craig Winston gives a run down of various versions of guitar tablature throughout history.  Craig Winston is a classical guitarist and teacher in Denver, CO. He holds a Master of Music degree from

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A Simple Right-Hand Exercise for Control, Tone, and Relaxation

Classical Guitar Lessons: Practical Ways to fix Right Hand Tension

In today’s online classical guitar lesson, Craig Winston discusses simple, practical ways to overcome common difficulties related to right-hand tension and control. The exercise demonstrated in this lesson focuses on…

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Classical Guitar Nails: The Ping Pong Trick

In today's online classical guitar lessons, Craig Winston shares a pro tip on how to get a great thumb sound if you have a broken nail, or if your nails just don't grow in perfect classical guitar form. Enjoy this…

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Playing multiple voices on solo guitar

In today's online classical guitar lessons, Craig Winston gives advice on playing and differentiating multiple voices in a classical guitar arrangement.

As you advance in your classical guitar skills, your repertoire will inevitably be populated by more and more voices…

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Guitar Skills for the advancing player

Guitar skills By Level for Rock Guitarists

In today's online guitar lessons, Craig Winston, Classical Guitarist, provides a useful checklist for any guitarist to keep track of their progress.

A few notes on progressing with your guitar skills.

Firstly, while…

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Note Durations in the score

In today's online guitar lessons, we'll discuss the importance of note durations and how to interpret them as different voices in a classical guitar score. This lesson assumes you can read music and studying music arranged for finger style

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Reading Guitar Finger Indications

In today's online classical guitar lessons, we'll break down the oft overlooked finger indications in guitar scores. While these are suggestions, it's a good practice to explore what the editor has written and decide whether you agree or not. 

The

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Completing a piece

Completing a piece.

By Craig M Winston, classical guitarist and instructor in Denver, CO

In today's classical guitar lessons, we're going to dive into some steps to learn a piece from your first sight read to your recital performance. the…

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Quick tips for classical guitar nails

In today's guitar lesson, I'll cover my basic routine for getting great tone from my classical guitar. Enjoy this quick video lesson!

Craig Winston is a classical guitarist and teacher in Denver. He offers private guitar lessons in person and…

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Do Guitarists Really Need to Read Music?

In today's guitar lesson, we'll talk about why you should learn to read standard music notation to help you be the best guitarist you can be.

The old joke goes “How do you get the lead guitarist to stop playing…

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Some ways to manage all of this extra time

In today’s online guitar lessons, we’ll look at the best ways to stay motivated, practice, and improve your technique during these strange times we live in. 

I had a talk with some friends the other day in which I asked…

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3 Octave Moveable Shapes

 

 

This whole thing sounds intimidating, and I should say it’s not a simple thing to execute, but the concept, once divulged, will come across as exceedingly simple.  Today we’re going to talk about a 3-octave pentatonic scale using a couple…

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