100 Graded Classical Guitar Studies Gtr

Anything by Frederick Noad is very very high quality. What can I say? I love this book! I am using this book to improve my sight reading, and while these studies can develop technique, many are specifically designed to improve a musical aspect, like crescendo, or even the sight reading in a specific key. Highly recommended.

Much of what I learned about classical guitar playing came from Frederick Noad's early editions of Solo Guitar Playing and his marvelous collections by period. I use these books to this day, when I have resumed playing after a very long lapse.This graded collection is exactly what it claims to be, a collection of pieces in rough order of difficulty, providing material mostly along the intermediate spectrum (no virtuoso pieces). That's good for most players, as even advanced players will want to use these to fill out a repertoire. The pieces are arranged in Mr. Noad's typical manner, with a brief word about the piece, careful fingering and positioning, and notes for passages that may be a little more difficult or which require extra attention. In this respect I've never seen arrangements so well done.The book contains a lot of music for the money and a tremendous amount of enjoyment. I do wish it were spiral-bound and would stay open more readily, but there are ways around that. (If you're not particular about book preservation you can carefully cut off the glued spine, and three-hole punch the rest to put in a binder.)If there ever was a 5-star book in the classical guitar category, this, and Mr. Noad's other books, are it.

Can learn new pieces with it. Makes a change from the usual stuff I learnt .Nice to play something new each time .

These are very well known pieces readilly available in other places and probably for free download. However this book gather all of them in a book that makes sense. Some of the pieces are boring and simple, but some are rewarding when you play them. If you are an advanve or even intermidiate player, many of these pieces can be used as a warm up for a more challenging practice. And if you are a beginner, practicing and playing them (even the boring ones) is like a good and balance way to keep learning technique and form from a solid and a good base. Well worth the value.

This book is perfect for students and enthusiasts. It is systematically ordered by difficulty and even provides performance notes for each piece. Highly recommended.