Free sheetmusic for classical guitar

Free sheetmusic for classical guitar

Until now I haven't done any writing about playing classical guitar. At the moment I'm more into steelstring and electric guitar, but from time to time I still play my classical guitar, and yes, I play notes from sheetmusic!

Like lot's of classical guitar players I searched the internet for free, good quality sheetmusic, which can be hard to find. I would like to save you the time by presenting you the best source for classical guitar sheetmusic I found during my search.

One of the best sources for classical guitar sheetmusic is the Classical Guitar School from Iceland. 

This Classical Guitar School has been around on the internet for about 10 years now. The guitar school offers an impressive collection of sheetmusic for the classic guitar, covering almost the whole spectrum.
Everything can be found: studies, methods, solos, duos, collections, you name it, they have it. All major composers are listed here: Fernando Sor, Ferdinando Garulli, J.S. Bach, M. Carcassi, M. Giuliani, and all the other classical guitar heroes

The index on the website is easy to navigate, and all the sheetmusic is in the same perfect quality and layout. Downloads are in pdf, and absolutely for free.

For beginners, one of the greatest collections are the Guitar Moments, volumes 1 to 4. All the music is from different classical guitar composers, starting for absolute beginners, and ending with music for experienced players. You have to be able to read some notes though.

If you are looking for free classical guitar sheetmusic, visit the

Classical Guitar School!

Fingerpicking good! (guitar playing for beginners)

Fingerpicking techniques 1

Fingerpicking for guitar

One of the reasons I bought the Tanglewood TRF is that the guitar is perfectly shaped for fingerpicking. The TRF has no pickguard but as I'm still totally unexperienced with strumming techniques, for now it'a not a problem. At first I want to learn how to play folk and blues, and learn different styles of fingerpicking. Lots of methods and courses for learning fingerpicking can be found on the internet, but the good ones are hard to find. I did my search for guitar fingerpicking techniques. Here's were I started!

Fingerpicking techniques for the acoustic guitar

Fingerpicking techniques 2

About 30 years ago the Dutch / Indonesian writer
Alfred Birney wrote an introduction in fingerpicking techniques for the guitar, introducing a notation system which combined notes and tabs. His method is still used by many guitar teachers. The 2 books however can not be ordered anymore.

The method is an introduction on fingerpicking techniques for folk, blues and ragtime. It covers the basics as well as the English folk style and the American folk, ragtime and blues. Although the books are written in Dutch, I think they can be very useful for everybody who wants a tool to learn the basics of fingerpicking. An explanation on how to read tabs can easily be found on the net, and the chords used can be found on the last pages in the books.

Best of all, the author offers the fingerpicking techniques for the acoustic guitar in pdf on his website for free!   Just click on the covers on his site,
they will open in PDF. Check them out!