Four Counterpoint Exercises for Guitar + PDF of music / tab

[lhoyleo]

nice lesson hopefully i can take more patient for this tnx by the way sir.....

[obeythesound]

Thanks! This lesson in counterpoint was a BIG skill builder!!

[mychalsimonz]

excellent lesson thank you so much. :)

[Alejandro4891]

any tips for a jazz/metal guitarist that wants to grow his nails to start playing classical guitar?

[markusboyd3]

@Alejandro4891 First off, before you do anything, purchase a scale book for classical guiar - graded 1-5 - ABRSM provide these books. Secondly, purchase a book called time pieces for guitar - which is also sold by ABRSM. This book provides selected pieces for examination from grade 1-5. You must also buy a sight reading book, which is also sold by ABRSM... In fact, just go on Amazon and buy the lot - The books are not expensive. Lastly, practice 1 hour a day, and find a teacher.

[markusboyd3]

You must understand that there is no easy way around any instrument in the classical world. You can no longer rely upon your amplifier to provide the sound, you have to use dynamics to produce different tonalities within the music. And never, ever think you can use tab for classical guitar!

[ChrisGuitarbeast]

@Alejandro4891  yes, dont cut them.

[pepi666666]

i ask google what's a counterpoint and this video was one of the top link... and now i know what's a counterpoint. clear and simple, Good lesson. thank you

[takatakboy]

5:59 "Just keep your will strong" - best advice in playing this exercise, like it came from a star wars movie or something.

[axelkayang1]

the flight of the bumble bee

[axelkayang1]

i heard alien singing at background

[axelkayang1]

i heard alien voices

[AWSKAR]

This actually sounds something like what I heard in one of the Metroid games.

[AWSKAR]

Sounds similiar to something from Psycho or something. It sounds very powerful for something coming from an individual. I may be way off base here since I don't play, but all I wanted to really say is 'This is powerful stuff!'.

[heyhia]

This is a really good lesson for the fret board hand, but I really need to work on my strumming/double strumming speed. Anyone got a video for that?

[ersal30]

Wow.

That´s helpful for fingerpractice.

Great video!!!

[RandyBakkelund]

awesome lesson, I'm gonna practice this soon

[giggleblaggle]

counterpoint is confuzing for a beginur like me.

[petermlm]

This has a great lesson. I learned a lot. I am also looking forward to study the counterpoint in the future.

[birdraga]

these are not "based" on exercises from pumping nylon, they are taken directly from that book.

[themusicteacher45]

why don't you tell people to go buy pumping nylon where you stole this from?

[computerkid1212]

@themusicteacher45 he did

[wildwestpoint]

what is counterpoint? 

[rocky24724]

@wildwestpoint music. RTFM.

[riceboii101]

WONDERFUL LEGATO!!!!

[marty051892]

great lesson, ive always wanted to compose pieces that had this kind of melodic content, although i had no real way of practicing the style. thanks!!!

[spooner1957]

AWESOME LESSON!!! thank you so much!

[armino87]

6.00 is scary!

[ATtTheGates]

So much white noise...arrr... in this day and age!!! lol

[jsgtr444]

Great Lesson, Great teaching, Great video, great philosophy on practicing.

[MelasChupa]

Nice video. Abel Carlevaro made a lot patterns that worked on some of these things as well. His first two microstudies i think would be a nice add on to what you have just outlined here.

[DeSummerDust]

Great Lesson. Appreciate lots of your effort. I'm a beginner who could play songs and sing but I want to play classic, your lesson helps. Hope to see more. just that you look a bit stressed.:))

[clintdack]

Your hand looks like a spider when you play the 1st and 6th strings together. It's very frightening!

[couch63]

the website for the PDF is not available :(

[couch63]

nice. thank you

[moncmon]

Thanks so much man. i Added this to my daily practice Routine.

[poupoule22]

your nails are too long

[TheMarcos772]

Good, thanks!



[boobtuber06]

you have very nice tone, di you have any in-depth videos for mastering that?

[key2kingdom]

nice of you to post these exercises man. I used to use Miguel Abloniz's books in the 70's when I was learning. Now I find the pieces I learn are the exercises themselves. Especially Bach!

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[cpayne1757]

Excellent~!



[traverd]

Wow, I would absolutely love to take lessons with you. Thanks for the videos!

[joesimmons90]

you make it look easy

great lesson thanks

[maniacguitar]

thanks for your video :) truly inspiring and warm, thanks again!

[unfailingpromise]

Excellent teacher

[porkyo123]

@unfailingpromise What a genuine person,teacher he is to help us peeps move along the classical guitar! We need more people like this in the world!

[tearinittoheaven]

Cguitar11: if your hand gets tired it is not a problem. Tire it out as much as possible and more. You are building strength, and you will be able to play them without tiring

[AaronGomori]

you have to know the difference of tired fingers and sore fingers!!! U CAN DAMAGE YOUR HANDS BADLY

[gentlerhino]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[asghary925]

thanx for the lessons it relly helps

[EnveBeats]

Stuff like this really helps your fingers get strong and responsive

[cguitar11]

Can't agree more!

However, my problem is that when I finish these stuff, my left hand is so tired that I can't play any other stuff...

[atgblue1]

hey, your the dude that posted the first noel guitar right?!ª?!?!? And Silent night?ª?ª??!?! lol. I am learning thos songs also, but am noticing my left hand is lagging behind my right hand. also with spanish picado technique, my left cant keep up. hopefully this will help. thanhks!! and merry christmas! ! (sorry, but to me, your the christmas guy) lol

[DhaGeNaDha]

How on earth do you manage to:

1. Play this piece at all, and

2. Speak so easily and fluently while playing it????

This is truly good!

[123pelerin]

Well, he is apparently a world-renowned classical guitarist--shouldn't be surprising :)

[0neManVVolfpack]

@DhaGeNaDha you practice. and you don't not practice sometimes. pretty easy

[mrlaa1]

really excellent lesson - there's not alot of intelligent guitar lessons on the internet...trust me. good stuff.

[Alfredguitare]

Très bonne initiative ces exercices de base , ils sont valables pour des guitaristes de tous les niveaux .

[Dimeist]

Thats some long ass nails

[Entropy56]

Better to scratch his balls with

[djfishbone]

this excercise is amazing!

[JMBELK]

Really Great...!!!

[StopTheMoti0n]

i can't find the pdf o.o

[gilbertgodlyddd]

go to the link in the box, look at the the videos until you find the one called four coutnerpoint exercises etc, near the bottom, look above it, that's the link.

[dewinmoonl]

C-C-C-C-CARPLE TUNNEL!!!

oww ow ow oww :D

[ZzOoTtZz]

aren't those originally pujol's excercises?

[matt0mattic]

This is great! Very helpful, thanks!

[Trinivalts]

Now I know That I have some counterpoint stuff going on on some of my own stuff.

[13aquarela]

although this are excersises this is kind of music for me.

[13aquarela]

Gracias!

[appighio]

Fantastico...grazie mille! :)

[Saulzar]

I've been playing these for about a month now, I think they're the most helpful exercise I've found yet.

I'm just able to do all 4 with the 6 string gap and finding I can fret chords are lot more easily by moving fingers rather than the whole hand position.

Thanks a lot!

[Claaavio]

KEVIN!! ur nails got long as hell from our last lesson

[spicbuddha]

one of the best things about Kevin, other than his infinite patience, is how he will take an exercise and add things to it, or have you play it other than it was written, so you have so many musical variations to practice from just one idea...

[krishnbimanagar]

amazing! Now I understand what a Counterpoint is...

[fabguitar1]

This is actually a great excersice (Mtr. Scott says "one of the assad´s favorites"), Pumpin Nylon is a strongly recomendable technique book. thanks for explaining this one!

[ZzOoTtZz]

looks like things i've seen in Pujol's methodology...

[thedoooood]

really helping, thank you :)

[zu0832]

Thank you so much!

[jaibhakti]

Hi! I was just messing around, creating string-skipping exercises within the E Natural Minor scale in the 12th position just to work on my alternate picking technique (obviously, I'm not a classical player). I was starting on the 3rd interval of the Em scale on the 1st string (15th fret) and then skipping down to the 3rd interval on the 3rd string (12th fret) and working my way up until the two notes passed each other. I had NO idea I was playing counterpoint, which I was! Thanks for this vid!

[neomas23]

Excellent exercise!!!! Great job!!!

[malcsegovia]

Thanks for a great lesson very well explained and demonstrated looking forward to more cheers malc

[sleazebee]

wow...i have to say i am very excited about this and the upcoming lessons on your site. gotta' love youtube! thanks for posting and very nice tips on practicing these.

cheers,

rahul

[moxinghbian]

NICE

I am a complete music illiterate (I don't sing in my life), this video explains "counterpoint" way better than wikipedia.

[bladzerok]

i agree, i wasnt understanding what was a counterpoint until i watched this video