Any classical guitar fans/players here?

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Was wondering if there are any fellow classical guitar lovers/players here.

I've been learning how to play classical guitar for 10 years straight. It isn't a short period at all but I'm still far from being a okay player. Currently I'm working on Carcassi's Etudes, Op.60. Hopefully this will help to improve my basic techniques a bit and get me prepared for a diploma exam. Still haven't made up my mind on whether to go for Trinity or ABRSM yet, though.

My favorite pieces are Cavatina and Granados' Valses Poeticos. I know the latter isn't even a guitar piece, but still it sounds so wonderful on a classical guitar. What is your favorite? Do you prefer the Baroque, Classical, Romance or Contemporary Period better?

I play classical music on my electric guitar with a plectrum. Paganini's music works pretty well for this.

I also started practising classical music on a bass guitar.

I don't see myself really getting into a classical guitar any time soon, though. It sounds good but it's just not my play style.

Sometimes I can't even produce satisfactory sound with my own flesh and fingernails, it's really impressive that you pull it off with a plectrum! Which of Paganini's works did you find work best with your instruments?

The playing style, technique and theoretical knowledge required classical guitar indeed is very different from playing an electric guitar. For example, we can't handle plectrums, can't sing while we play and most of all can't even play without a notated score. But that's definitely something I'd love to able to do one day.

I do own a classical guitar, but I haven't played it in a while. And I don't play it as often as my other guitars either way.

Well I use a fair amount of distortion and reverb so I guess it sounds pretty metal.

I have the books by German Schauss, and I was going through his Shredding Paganini. I wanted to play all of Paganini's 24 Caprices, but this book only looks at numbers 3, 5, 16, 19 and 24.

What I'm spending my time on now is: I'm looking at Paganini's original score for the Caprices and I'm trying to transcribe them to guitar myself, starting from number 1. So far it's working out pretty well, but it's going to take a long time..

As a guitar player it was probably natural that I would try my hand at classical. I did - for a little while. I'd bought a classical guitar at a yard sale for $40 and set about trying to teach myself to play Fernando Sor, Enrique Granados and several others.

I'd gotten the classical guitar bug after I saw Julian Bream when I was a student in Iowa State Univ. Around that time I was also an immense fan of Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia and John McLaughlin's "Friday Night in San Francisco."

Needless to say, I didn't become the classical player I'd set out to be. I guess it wasn't in the cards. I'm a pretty fair rock, ska, reggae and funk player, though, so I can't complain.

Not exactly classical, but I play modern acoustic fingerstyle, and acoustic jazz.

Like the poster above I'm a big fan of al di meola and paco.