Classical Guitar Lessons in Bergen County NJ + Online
Serving Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Ridgewood & more for 15+ years!
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Looking for a classical guitar teacher in Bergen County NJ?
Welcome, and thank you for visiting! We offer private classical guitar lessons for beginners, intermediate, and advanced guitarists of all ages. We teach both in-home guitar classes, as well as online classical guitar lessons.
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Classical guitar teacher, Leon Muhudinov, has helped guitarists of all ages and skill levels including those just getting started, competition winners, crossover players, experienced musicians, and a mix of wonderful people interested in classical guitar and fingerstyle guitar playing. Discover the joy of classical guitar and get in touch today.
The classical guitar is such a wonderful instrument and is used to play a wide range of the most beautiful music including Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and Contemporary pieces. These include works by guitar composers, transcriptions from piano pieces, arrangements of Beatles songs, and more…
Classical guitar technique is also helpful with a wide range of fingerstyle playing in pop, rock, jazz, and folk.
Learn to play your favorite classical guitar pieces by composers including: Albeniz, Bach, Barrios, Carulli, Lauro, Sor, Tarrega, Villa-Lobos and more... Sharpen your listening skills and learn about interpretations by your favorite guitarists such as Bream, Williams, Segovia, Boyd, Vidovic, and more.
- Strengthen your technique - warmups, scales, arpeggios, tremolo, and more.
- Develop a consistent and organized practice routine.
- Improve your sight reading, chord vocabulary, and understanding of the pieces.
- Standard notation, TAB, chords charts, music theory. Moreover, develop your ear and sharpen your listening skills.
- Learn about contrasting elements, play more expressively, and sound beautiful.
- Expand your repertoire - learn to create full and beautiful sounding solo guitar & chord-melody arrangements of your favorite Beatles songs, folk, ballads and more.
- Also great for guitarists from jazz, rock, and other backgrounds interested in playing solo guitar pieces. Strengthen right hand finger independence, and explore the world of fingerstyle and classical. We also offer lessons for acoustic steel string.
(In person and virtual guitar lessons are available.) - Learn more about our guitar instruction
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What Will We Learn?
Whether you are interested in Baroque music, Romantic Spanish guitar, or assembling your own finger style classical guitar arrangements, we can we can work together to address your unique goals and discover joy in the process.
We use a variety of books, methods, and online resources including: Shearer, Pumping Nylon, Noad, Suzuki, Guitar Shed, The Guitar School Iceland, Musescore, and more…
More importantly, you will learn pieces with a classical guitar approach including detail oriented warmups, practice tips, assigning roles to polyphonic music, and concepts for expressive interpretation.
General Subjects for Classical Guitar
- Posture
- Effective Practice Tips
- Right Hand Techniques (free stroke & rest stroke, arpeggios, tremolo…)
- Left Hand Technique
- Planting/preparation
- Scales & Exercises
- Sight Reading (Standard Notation or Tablature)
- Theory, Chord Vocabulary, Composition Analysis
- Ear Training
Whether you are just getting started or working on advanced classical guitar repertoire, there are a variety of pieces and composers to choose from including those originally composed for the guitar or transcriptions from other instruments. Here is a small list of some popular classical guitar favorites:
Popular Classical Guitar Pieces
Greensleeves
Lesson for Two Lutes
Canarios
Minuet in G
Bourree - BWV 996
Bach Cello Prelude - BWV 1007
Prelude in Dm - BWV 999
Aguado Estudio in Am
Carcassi Etude no. 1, op. 60
Carcassi Etude no. 3, op. 60
Carulli Prelude in C
Sor Etude in Bm
Lagrima
Adelita
Capricho Arabe
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Tango
El Testament d’Amelia
Romance Anonimo
Asturias (Leyenda)
Cavatina
Natalia Vals Venezolano no. 3
Barrios Vals no. 4
La Catedral
Villa Lobos Prelude no. 1
Villa Lobos Etude no. 1
Brouwer Etude 6
Tuition and Schedule
Tuition Rates
We have a number of flexible payment options depending on experience and lesson duration. (For lesson info and pricing options, simply give us a call or reach out through our contact form.)
Tuition schedule
Fees may be paid either weekly, monthly, or per semester, at discounted rate.
Lessons are held at least once per week.