DVD-CD Similia en Concert / Live

Absolutely charming! For the first time, Similia is sharing with you more than its music. On this DVD, you can follow every movements, look, passion and complicity these two twins musicians have together. Once you start watching it, you get absorbed and hypnotise until the end.

 In this DVD you will learn from one of America's foremost classic guitar teachers. Ben Bolt demonstrates his principles for judging distance, point of reference, right and left hand positions, and the correct sitting position. He also tells how to keep a positive mental attitude.

As a college professor, Bolt takes guitar students from beginning level to performance level in one semester. At the end of each semester, Bolt's students perform at least three guitar pieces from memory in front of a jury.

Bolt's principles are based on logic, common sense, and 30 years of study and experimentation. He has performed throughout Europe, Central and South America, and the United States. He believes anyone can play the classic guitar. Running time 45 minutes.

  In this instructional DVD Denis Azabagic offers technical and interpretive tips on performing two of the most famous pieces in the classical guitar repertoire: La Catedral by Agustín Barrios Mangore and Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Opus 9 by Fernando Sor.

On a master-class level, Azabagic presents insightful technical advice, fingering suggestions and problem-solving exercises as well as a musical overview of each piece by movement or variation.

While this DVD is specifically designed for those who wish to improve their performance of these two masterpieces, Azabagic's insights on musicianship and interpretation can be applied to virtually any composition.

In this remarkable video/solo guitar recital, Serbian musician, composer, pedagogue and publisher, Uros Dojcinovic, takes the listener on a musical journey through Russia, Ukraine, Spain, South American, the Far East (Japan and China), and the Balkan countries of his native former Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia).

Each piece includes a wealth of photo documentation (paintings, landscape photographs, portraits of famous composers, and authors of the works) featuring the Yugoslav Guitar Society collection.

Also, this recital displays Dojcinovic's exceptional and refined technique and supreme interpretation. Most of the pieces include a variety of special new sound effects created by the master-himself to enrich the ethnic colors of the pieces inspired by traditional folk sounds. 53 minutes.

This two-hour DVD is a presentation of the 19-year project by Charles Postlewate on extending right hand technique for guitar to include the little finger.

PART I presents this technique in actual repertoire, including standard guitar repertoire (by Barrios, Sor, Torroba and Villa-Lobos), new arrangements & transcriptions and original compositions. It features complete performances of twelve pieces recorded on Postlewate's Homage to Villa-Lobos CD.

Each performance is introduced by Postlewate with explanations and demonstrations of how and where the little finger is used in the execution of scales, chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, with close-up shots of the right hand.

Two books in one - 88-page method book covering all basic classical guitar techniques including free stroke, rest stroke, arpeggios, slurs and much more; and 60-page repertoire section featuring over 50 pieces in all styles from Renaissance to Romantic! (Also includes repertoire index and appendixes of helpful terms.)

The entire book is presented in the clear, easy-to-read format typical of Music Sales' method books (and atypical of many older classical guitar methods.) The Complete Classical Guitarist is designed for the absolute beginner and begins with the basics of note-reading. (No tablature in this book - for a tablature method for classical guitar, please see Absolute Beginners - Classical Guitar.)

This visual guide to playing six classical guitar pieces includes tablature on-screen for every piece. 1 hour 45 minutes.

Songs include: Bouree in E Minor, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Leyenda, Malaguena, Minuet in G, Romance.

Celino Romero's "The Art of Spanish Guitar" embodies more than two hundred years of playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and through many years of playing together.

This DVD explores the complexity and subtlety of Spanish guitar while explaining it in a way that makes learning both accessible and highly enjoyable. See and hear how to apply the emmaculate Romero technique to your playing. Right-hand and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and split-screen to make learning easy. 70 Minutes. Also includes an 8 page booklet of examples and exercises.