I received my copy of "Solo Guitar Playing, Book 1" by Frederick Noad and I cracked into it today. It'll be a long journey, I can tell already. The book contains 2 years worth of material (so it says), so it should be a good challenge.
The most difficult part of learning classical guitar, for me, will be finding the patience to basically re-learn guitar from the beginning, but living with the knowledge that I am not a beginner to guitar (in general). However, I am definitely not the first person to make the jump from electric guitar to classical. With the popularity of electric and steel string acoustics, it seems like a great opportunity to develop a passion for guitar with one of those types, before picking up classical. If I were to have started on classical, chances are, I would have dropped guitar. Why? Because guitar is already complex enough, adding classical training into the mix may be too overwhelming for a beginner. If you are in this situation, stick with it! You won't regret it.
So far, with the little surface-scratching that I have done with classical guitar, one name keeps popping up - this person is important! Let me introduce you to Andres Segovia!
I do not know much about him, yet, but Segovia seems to be the person to thank for the popularity of guitar in the modern age - all guitar. Now, I could be mistaken, but it sure sounds like he was quite the player and very influential. I look forward to learning more about him over the course of my classical studies.
Alongside Segovia, I plan on looking more into another legend. That is J.S. Bach! Bach is not an unknown to me, or anyone I'm guessing, but I am just recently discovering how important he is to anyone who studies music and music theory. Apparently, this guy knew his shit, very well. I hear he encoded messages within his music, that's pretty damn awesome.
Learning is fun; never stop experiencing new things.
Song of the day: "Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) - Roy Buchanan
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