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Sidney Pratten's Guitar School (c. 1859)

What you can find that's useful:
- Videos that take you through the method
- Exercises and pieces in different keys
- Groundbreaking information on performance style
- Exercises for various ornaments
- Exercises for playing in different positions

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Ferdinand Pelzer's Instructions for the Spanish Guitar (1833)

What you can find that's useful:
- Exercises for playing enharmonic scales
- Exercises for playing scales in 3rds, 6ths, 8ves and 10ths (tonal music's most common intervals)
- Exercises in ornamentation
- Lovely pieces by Sor, Carulli, Giuliani, etc. to study
- Videos that cover many of these things

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Ferdinand Pelzer's 150 Exercises (1836)

What you can find that's useful:
- Exercises for playing a harmonized scale
- Exercises for playing scales with different articulations
- Exercises for modulations
- Very unusual and fun arpeggios
- Exercises for ornamentation
- Videos of most of above

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Horetzky's Instructive Lessons for the Spanish Guitar
What you can find that's useful:
- Short studies that focus on specific things (mostly harmony and modulation)
- Very unusual scale exercises
- Cadence exercises in all keys

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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work (1802) by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
What you can find that's useful:
- Insights into Bach's personal life
- Insights into Bach as a composer
- Insights into Bach as a performer
- First hand eyewitness accounts from close friends and family

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Guitar Transcriptions of Chopin

What you can find that's useful:
- Free transcriptions of Chopin for guitar!

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A collection of gorgeous pieces by Henrik and Frederik Rung (1901)

What you can find that's useful:
- A beautiful collection of pieces that progressively advance in difficulty
- Great pieces for sight reading and studying
- Recordings of selected pieces

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The first edition of Bach's Lute Suites for Guitar, by Franz Dagobert Bruger (1921)

What you can find that's useful:
- A glance into what inspired all future transcriptions of Bach's Lute Suites
- Alternative harmonizations, ornamentations, fingerings, etc. that you can use

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12 Etudes (or L'indispensable) by Leonard Schulz (1840)

What you can find that's useful:
- Absolutely stunning etudes that are beautiful to play
- Progressively advance in difficulty
- Recordings of the Etudes

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The Last Compositions of Leonard Schulz (c. 1860)
What you can find that's useful:
- Short and charming pieces
- Musical indications that give us clues as to the performance style of the period
- Recordings of Vol. 1

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Mrs Joseph Kirkman's Improved Method For the Guitar (c. 1842)

What you can find that's useful:
- Very interesting and challenging arpeggio exercises
- Many exercises in harmony
- The Rule of the Octave in all keys
- Exercises in ornamentation
- Videos that take you through

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Ferdinando Carulli's Second Suite a la Methode

What you can find that's useful:
- Advanced studies that can push your technical limits
- Good for studying harmony and modulation
- A video that quickly gives you a glimpse at some studies

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The Interpretation of the Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries by Arnold Dolmetsch (1915)

What you can find that's useful:
- Information that can drastically change how you interpret the music of Bach, Scarlatti, Weiss, etc.

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The Guitar Taught By a Simple Method by Dionisio Aguado (c. 1836)

What you can find that's useful:
- Moveable fingerings that enable you to play intervals anywhere on the fretboard
- Lessons that thoroughly teach you about various concepts

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Reminiscences of Mme. Sidney Pratten by Frank Mott Harrison (1899)
What you can find that's useful:
- An illuminating short read about the life of a now obscure guitarist
- Charming anecdotes that contain peals of wisdom
- Information concerning Regondi, Sor, Panormo, Lacote, etc.

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Spanish Guitar Music: Two Volumes (1926)

What you can find that's useful:
- Over 30 pieces by composers Arcas, Vinas, Sor, Aguado and Broca
- Biographies of composers

- Recordings of selected pieces
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Schubert Lieder arranged for guitar by Diabelli (1819?)

What you can find that's useful:
- Simple but charming arrangements of Schubert songs for voice and guitar
- Makes great study material for phrasing and harmony
- Recordings of selected pieces

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6 Methods For Developing Speed by Daniel Nistico

Developing speed requires your technique to be regulated and in good working order. It’s not the result of stubborn will- power, but careful regulation of foundational aspects of your technique. Improve each individual aspect and you will find an increase in your ability to play fast. Improve multiple aspects and your speed will develop at an exponential rate.

1) Soft and Light
2) Accent
3) Tension and Relaxation
4) Economy of Movement
5) Chunks and Bursts
​6) Hands Separate
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Simple Methods To Make Your Playing More Dynamic

Use micro and macro dynamics in a systematic and methodical way to always imbue fantastic dynamic detail into your playing. Use scales as a way to practice specific dynamic shapes and learn some basic guidelines for applying these to pieces.
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A Performer's Guide to Carcassi's Etude 1, op. 60

What... a 14 page guide for a simple 1 page etude?! Yes, that's the kind of detail that can add a ton of polish and confidence to your playing. These guidelines can also be applied to many pieces, including the remaining etudes.
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Analysis of Prelude Saudade from 'La Catedral'
Analysis Score PDF
Video (past livestream)
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Rodrigo Arenas: School of Guitar (7 volumes)
A very in-depth and progressive series, that covers many aspects of harmony. 
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