Mel Bay Presents Classical Guitar Pedagogy: A Handbook for Teachers

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the "why" rather than the "how" the classical guitarist does things a certain way. In the author's words, "Classical Guitar Pedagogy is the study of how to teach guitarists to teach." This university-level text will be of enormous assistance to the teacher in explaining the musical, anatomical, technical, and psychological underpinning of guitar performance. It contains ideas and techniques to help organize your teaching more efficiently, plus tips on career development as a classical guitar teacher and performer. If you make your living as a classical guitar teacher/performer you owe it to yourself and your students to get this book. more

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Posted: May-22-2009

Filled With Interesting Insight and Perspectives

An absolutely amazing book (more akin to a manual) for a guitar educator. The book offers a great deal of insight into teaching CG technique, and perspectives on some idiosyncrasies of the instrument that I never had thought about very much before. Starts out with some important information about...

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Posted: May-07-2009

Good book for teaching classical guitar

Those who get this book will get much more out of it if they already have the basic notions of classical guitar playing and are familiar with technique and technical terms. As the title specifies, it really is a handbook for teachers, and it offers good sample lessons plus a good bibliography on...

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Posted: Sep-05-2008

Much about which to think

Teacher or not, this is a very informative and eye-opening book. There are many things here about which I have never particularly thought or even cared, for that matter. A serious student or teacher of the classic guitar would do well to read this book.

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Posted: Nov-03-2001

THE BIBLE OF GUITAR TEACHING!

This book is used in virtually every university and conservatory in the US, Europe, and S. America. Glise is the first to compile a "how to" for teachers. Has gotten brilliant reviews world-wide. As a professional guitarist/professor, this work is required for ALL my students.Glise is one of...

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Posted: Nov-10-2000

Classical Guitar Pedagogy

In the words of Les Cahiers de la Guitar (Paris), "...Glise is the first to propose many of these questions... this book is a goldmine of information and reflections and I strongly recommend it!" (Les Cahiers de la Guitare, Paris, no. 67, 1998).This book is currently in use as the primary...

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