Royal Conservatory Guitar Series

m78w · #1 01-21-2009, 06:20 PM

Hey All,
I just published a short overview of the Royal Conservatory's Guitar Series of books. If you're into that kind of thing or are curious about classical guitar check it out.

The Royal Conservatory of Music Guitar Series: An Overview | Guitar, Each, Pieces, Series, Book

MW

Sailor · #2 01-21-2009, 06:28 PM

Great article Matt, read it twice !

Sailor

m78w · #3 01-21-2009, 06:58 PM

I was thinking of you when I posted it here, I thought you'd get a kick out of it.

Thanks for checking it out!

MW

Sailor · #4 01-21-2009, 09:05 PM

One question; you don't mention the quality or nature of the repertiore pieces edition/transcription. Are they complete/abridged, fully fingered, etc...

I would love to own a great series to play and teach out of but I already own a lot of "classic" guitar sheet music and I hate it when the edition is lousy or incomplete.

I like Frederik Noads "period" books and anything by Gittaren Archiven. I don't
want anymore poorly fingered, partial classics, Jesu Joy, Pachelbels cannon, etc..........

Sailor

pierre richard · #5 01-21-2009, 09:33 PM

I have an old copy of something similar from them...

Interesting .......

Time on your instrument is wonderful...Pierre

m78w · #6 01-22-2009, 08:42 AM

Hey Sailor,
They only have "complete" versions, and are renowned for their fingerings. Most of the editing/fingerings were done by Norbert Kraft and Jeff McFadden(who won the GFA a few years back), you won't find any "cheesy" classical tunes in these books, only solid rep.

I don't think you'll ever go wrong buying or working out of these books. And they are really affordable, the technique book is 12$, and the others are never more than 17$

MW

MW

Sailor · #7 01-22-2009, 09:17 AM

I guess these books aren't available at local music stores here. I would love to own a great series though; I'll have to look into buying these on-line.

Sailor

m78w · #8 01-22-2009, 09:51 AM

Yeah, go to Frederick Harris Music, they are the only dealer for these books in the US. They are in every corner music store in Canada, but for some reason they don't have them here at all.

MW

CC323 · #9 05-29-2009, 10:32 AM

Hey Matt, sorry to revive a dead thread but...

This seems to be the most appropriate place to ask:

What are tremelando scales? My teacher has never used that terminology in the year I've been studying. Are the just a-m-i fingered scales, rather than positional 'box shape' scales?

Take care,
Chris

m78w · #10 05-29-2009, 10:35 AM

Hey Chris
Tremelando scales are ones where you play each note more than once. So if you played a C major scale in Tremelando you could do it in 8th, 16th, or triplets etc.

CC DD EE FF etc

CCC DDD EEE FFF etc

CCCC DDDD EEEE FFFF etc

hope that helps!
MW

CC323 · #11 05-29-2009, 09:49 PM

Oh dude! I got those exercises off of delcamp.net (the classical equivalent of this awesome site!), but they were named something like segovia scale permutations or something... using im, mi, am, ma, ia, ai, etc. bunch of rhythms as well as doubled and tripled notes.
Thanks Matt!

Take care,
Chris

rubendiaz · #12 06-01-2009, 04:22 AM

Hello respected players: I am Professor at the royal conservatoty of Toronto ,and I would like to share some of my lessons ,with you ,if you like the Idea,here is the link:Flamenco Guitar Royal Conservatory of Toronto Ruben Diaz Official Website thanks.Ruben Diaz. I also teach Flamenco Jazz. .......regards

m78w · #13 06-01-2009, 07:45 AM

Welcome aboard Ruben, glad to have you here!

MW

rubendiaz · #14 06-03-2009, 09:40 AM

Thanks Mr.Matt ,for your kind message ,best regards.Ruben Diaz.

DMatthewsBand07 · #15 06-07-2009, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by m78w

Yeah, go to Frederick Harris Music, they are the only dealer for these books in the US. They are in every corner music store in Canada, but for some reason they don't have them here at all.

MW

God only knows why. Some U.S. anti-Canada bias or something because they're better and more complete than just about anything else.

fast1 · #16 06-07-2009, 06:26 PM

maybe they have some kind of tax benefits doing in canada only?

m78w · #17 06-07-2009, 08:39 PM

I just found out that Strings By Mail also carries them

Strings By Mail - Sheet Music and Books

MW

DMatthewsBand07 · #18 06-17-2009, 02:03 PM

Mr. Warnock, sir...

I'm thinking about checking out some of the repertoire books. Can you maybe give me examples of some pieces in each of the first couple grades. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't be 1. But beyond that I have no idea what level I'm on. Any way you can help would be great.

m78w · #19 06-17-2009, 02:06 PM

Hey,
I checked out the tunes on your Myspace, very cool by the way! I would say start with grade 5 or 6. If you start lower you'll race through stuff. There are some tunes you'll find easy in 5 and 6 but others you'll find hard. There are works by Pagannini, Sor, Carcassi etc all the greats.

Hope that helps! If you want specific piece names let me know and I can dig those up..

MW

DMatthewsBand07 · #20 06-17-2009, 06:31 PM

Awesome, thank you. It's a shame how impossible it is to find those books without ordering them online. Sounds like good stuff though. Pagannini sort of makes me want to jump out a window though. I remember stumbling through a piece my teacher gave me to sight read. Nothing but spidery sixteenth note runs and when I finally finished it he told me that it was normally played as an Allegro. Cool stuff...

Yeah... I need to post some new stuff on the myspace page, it's been a while. Thanks for the compliments though. Much appreciated.

m78w · #21 06-17-2009, 07:17 PM

Cool, let me know what you think when you check it out. I have been working on some tunes from the grades 5, 6 and 8 books this spring, there are always easier and harder tunes in each book. The Pagannini tune in the grade 5 book isn't that hard, it's actually very melodic, the one "Romance" in the grade 8 book is a killer.

MW