Question: How do I not mute adjacent strings with the left hand when playing chords and arpeggios on classical guitar? More specifically, when practicing Giuliani Arpeggios, the 4th string D gets partially m...

Carlo Fierens plays Andante et allegro by Napoléon Coste (1805-1883) performed on a rare 1855 René-François Lacôte seven-string guitar (Coste’s own model), generously lent by Adopt a Musician (Accornero Collection). This comes via 

Question: How do I play through a simple mistake in music? For example, I have a habit of when I play a wrong note, I go back and correct it. It may not be a difficult passage, just a simple mistake. Am I just too much of a perfectionist?

Answer Summary: This is a very common issue for musicians and requires a restructuring of y...

Dowland’s Foundry with Sami Brown on lute perform It was a time when silly bees could speak, No. 18 from the Third Book of Songs by John Dowland (1563-1626)...

Canadian classical guitarist Marc-Etienne Leclerc performs Grand Caprice, Op.60 by Luigi Legnani (1790-1877). This comes via his YouTube channel (go subscribe). Wonderful performance by Leclerc of this large rhapsodic work that in...