Ah, Malagueña! It's one of the best loved guitar classics. If you mention you play classical or Spanish guitar to a group of non-guitarists, someone is bound to ask, "Can you play Malagueña?". And now you can say, "Why, of course." Like many of the most well-known guitar pieces, it was written originally for piano then later transcribed to guitar. It's been adapted by such diverse musicians as Stan Kenton, Jose Feliciano, Bill Haley and the Comets, Carlos Montoya (who brought it to flamenco guitar), Roy Clark (who brought it to Hee Haw), and many others. Malagueña has been arranged as big band jazz, flamenco, Iranian pop, and many other styles, often with lyrics. Ernesto Lecuona was a Cuban composer and musical director and conductor of the Havana Philharmonic. Malagueña, written in 1928, is by far his best known, but several of his works are mainstays of the latin classical guitar and piano repertoire.
In This Course, You’ll Discover:
- How to create excitement
- How to practice effectively
- How to roll chords beautifully
- How to dissect the music
- How to find solutions to obstacles
- How to adapt music for exercises
With This Course, You’ll:
- Learn the notes quickly
- Explore rolled chords
- Practice phrasing
- Focus on melodic line
- Understand multi-layered music
- Play with stretching time
- Share a great showpiece
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Course Level: EARLY INTERMEDIATE
This course is at the EARLY INTERMEDIATE level. This means that most of the notes will be in the lower positions, with occasional notes moving into higher positions (usually just on the 1st string). The rhythms are mostly simple. Chords are mostly common, open-position. TABs are included for an alternative to music notation. For more advanced players, pieces in this level can be used as a study to improve learning, memorization and phrasing techniques.
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