It will keep you busy for a loooong time! I hope you can find at least one of those books. Right hand combinations, notes on just two strings, trills, slurs.everything! They're all laid out for you, so all you need to do is find the ones that are the most difficult for YOU and just work on those! The wonderful thing about this, is that you don't have to do all of them.

He has taken the trouble to write out every permutation and computation:Įtc. He tackles just about every aspect of playing and really analyzes each one.įor example, notes on one string in one position. My teacher used all four of Pujol's Escuela Razonada books. It was a thrilling experience as well as my first trip to Europe! (I was 22). My teacher at the Conservatory would take his family and a few students every year. I had the great fortune of attending one of his famous Master Classes in Cervera in the summer of 1975. I don't know if it's still in print, but his books are such an important contribution to classical guitar technique that it's hard to imagine them not being printed anymore. I have the Spanish/French version of Volume IV copyrighted 1971, Recordi BA12838. do you guys have any experiences with Emilio Pujol vol 1-3? Are they really good books? I read somewhere on the net around, and it says that these books is highly recommended. Just pace yourself and really work through each lesson slowly and carefully. The bottom line is that I highly recommend Pujol. You can only go so far on your own reading through a method book-at some point it really helps to have a competent teacher observe from the outside and provide feedback specific to your needs.

I don't know if this is a big issue, and I imagine it's true with just about any book. Some of the text in the method can be difficult to interpret, but since my teacher had worked with Pujol he could explain things to me that weren't always obvious in the book. I must say, though, that I think a lot of the benefit came from having a teacher who understood the method well. I credit that book with much of my progress over the years. My second teacher (a prior teacher of the first) actually studied with Pujol, so he was also a big proponent of the method. By working through the exercises in this book slowly and methodically, I noticed significant improvement. I already had some classical guitar experience, but my technique was weak. When I met my first teacher, he started me on this. Thanks a lot for replying me back! So there is absolutely no idea when the book publisher might translate vol.

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