Classical guitar teacher
Joaquim Ferreira
I’m Joaquim. I teach classical guitar to adults: first pieces, steady technique and reading music at your own speed. I sell printable sheet music and two video courses, and a free lesson comes out every Tuesday.
Track list
Side A
1Tuning by ear in five minutesFreeTuning one string to the next, listening for the beats and when they slow and stop.- 2Sitting with a footstool, without strainFreeWhere the guitar rests, how the back stays straight and why the footstool matters.
- 3Plucking with rest strokes and free strokesFreeTwo ways to pluck a string, how each sounds and when to use which, filmed close up.
- 4Reading a first line of musicFreeNotes on the staff, rests and the beat, one bar at a time.
- 5A first piece in three slow passesFreeOne short piece learned in three passes, each with one thing to listen for.
Side B
1Ten Easy Studies for Beginners$9Ten short studies for the first months, each with one idea and a note on how to practise it.- 2Slow Pieces for Evening Practice$12Eight calm pieces for guitar, written to be played slowly and listened to.
- 3Twelve Folk Tunes Arranged for Guitar$19Twelve old tunes arranged for a player with a year or two behind them, with fingering.
- 4Your First Year of Classical Guitar$89The whole first year of lessons, from holding the guitar to your first full piece, in ten lessons you can take at your own pace.
- 5Right Hand Technique, Slowly$49A slow, careful course on plucking: nails, strokes, patterns and a steady sound.
Downloads and courses
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Newsletter
Slow Practice
A short letter every other Tuesday from the lesson room: one piece, one tip and one thing to try.
About me
I have played the classical guitar for more than fifty years and taught it for almost forty. Most of my students are adults who always wanted to play, or who stopped as teenagers and want to come back. I teach in a bright room with a footstool, a music stand and a metronome, and I have never found a way to hurry a student that did not cost them later.
Everything I sell comes from the lesson room: the studies and pieces I write for my students, the workbooks I use to teach reading, and two video courses that follow a first year of lessons. I do not sell lessons here. What I offer is the music and the teaching, in a form you can use at your own speed, with a free lesson every week to start on.