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The Old White Owl - Daniel Oman

I'm sharing with you a short piece from the collection «Tales from The Guitar Garden» by Daniel Oman, I discovered his musical universe last fall... But I also wanted to try out a new pair of…

JimK 8882 Practice Diary 2025

Here are my goals for 2025, and how I will measure success. 1. Continue to develop the fundamental skills of tempo, accuracy, rhythm, sight reading, and the co-ordination of both hands.…

Taking it Slow: Week 3 Progress on Ponce's Prelude in E Major

I hope you enjoy my progress so far on this beautiful piece by Manuel Ponce! This piece was original written under the psuedonym of the baroque composer Sylvius Leopold Weiss.…

Practice diary 2024 - Andre Bernier

Starting a new practice diary for 2024 with few comments on what I have been working on in January. My practice routine has been at least one practice a day (sometime 2 and even 3 on some days).…

Practice plan

Hi everyone, I have dipped into classical guitar every now and then usually just to escape to the safety of my Les Paul. I decided at the beginning of the year to try and attempt to improve and take…

Practice Diary 2023 - Jim King

I am starting this practice diary so I may record videos of myself of various pieces that I am working on for others to view and comment. I look forward to receiving your comments for my improvement.…

With You - Roque Carbajo

In Memoriam - Roque Carbajo (1951-2024) It was a sad beginning of the month following the departure of my friend guitarist and composer Roque Carbajo, with whom I had a beautiful collaboration in the…

By Candlelight - Andrew York

Tonebuddies, I first learned this piece for the last «End Of The Year» concert and roughly played it then... This piece has recently taken on a different meaning for me...…

Solidao by Jobim

I decided to use this practise diary. This is my first video ever. My goal is learn to play this piece correctly and memorise it. Here I play from the score and it's awful.…

Ode to Joy Melody - 9 hours of self study

I stopped practicing for about a week because I decided to exchange my Cordoba C5 cutaway for the C7 which is so much better and it's so pretty!! I have been working on producing a decent sound that…

BWV 996 Bourree - Jack Stewart

I finally have this under my fingers, including trills - more or less. I still have a ways to go in phrasing and dynamics. Ultimately I would like to alter some of the trills as well,…

BWV 996 Allemande

I have been able to revive this to a fairly good level. The trills need to be smoothed out in places and I still have tone issues but overall I feel I am in a reasonably good place with this piece.…

MAURO GIULIANI OP. 48 N. 1

I played this piece longtime ago and I forgot it, recently I restarted play classical guitar (self-taught) and I came across this piece, I found here on tonebase a video with some suggests and I…

Appalachian Colours - Beauvais

Tonebuddies, here's «Gold» the first colour of the set I was supposed to play at the «Golden Leaves, Golden Tunes» Recital last year. I'll post the second one, Red, in a few days. Take care!

Romance - Scott Tennant video

I've been teaching this piece for years, Scott has brought up some new great ideas, that have improved my playing and to my teaching of the piece as well.…

Practice diary 2023 - Andre Bernier

Well this is a start. This diary is covering only the work I am doing on or with ToneBase. I also have a practice diary with TrueFire (acoustic guitar work) and one with MusicalU (general musical…

Sonatina 1 Giuliani op. 71

I am currently studying Giuliani's Sonatina Opus 71, No. 1 and find particular challenges in mastering its intricate fingerwork and dynamic balance. I have employed slow practice and isolation…

Capricho Árabe

I have practiced the piece for a week now and I really enjoy it. I look forward to learning from the tutorials here on Tonebase. Videos will be coming.

Today I Started My Classical Guitar Journey

I am still learning this platform, I guess sticking to the Beginner Course is the best course of action right now. I don't know anything about guitars, or music in general.…

5 hours of classical guitar

I started learning the classical last night and couldn't stop watching tutorials and doing exercises. I managed to play twinkle twinkle little star! Yay.

Sonatina 1 Giuliani

Estudio 3 Giuliani de 23 estudios escogidos

Here I am again. This is my last studio and before passing to the next one I would like to here your suggestions and corrections. Thank you in advance.

Ernesto García de León – Preludio Op 26

A few days ago, I found this beautiful little piece that I just wanted to share. The score is on page 40 of the attached document.

Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata BWV208) - Bach

While everyone is enjoying the Villa-Lobos challenge, I'm still finishing up my "unfinished business." This piece is quite difficult, and even after practicing it for a month and a half,…