I am a musician and author, I specialize in writing instructional books for guitar players. My latest book is called "TCHA-KA TCHA: Learn and Understand Rhythm on Guitar through Vocalizing." It’s a proven method that has helped hundreds of my students finally make rhythm easy. I'm sending emails every two weeks or so with new transcriptions, articles, news, resources, and promotions. I hope you'll enjoy them!
We’re already halfway through summer, let's play some Vivaldi
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It’s hard to believe that we’re already halfway through summer. I hope you’re finding time to enjoy these warm days while they last. After the launch of TCHA-KA TCHA things have settled down a bit, and I want to thank everyone for the fantastic feedback I've received so far! Now I'm enjoying the summer. Here in Vienna, July was unusually cool - actually, it was more like a typical July from the past :D. It's been really nice not to have to run the air conditioning at full blast all the time. And sitting outside in the evening with a light sweater on is actually kind of cozy. How's your summer so far? For my next project, I'm working with a friend and mentor to transcribe famous Baroque violin pieces for the guitar. Here, for example, is the 3rd movement, Allegro, from Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Strings in C minor, RV118. Happy practicing! Stefan Stevie's Guitar Studio |
Stefan Gruber
I am a musician and author, I specialize in writing instructional books for guitar players. My latest book is called "TCHA-KA TCHA: Learn and Understand Rhythm on Guitar through Vocalizing." It’s a proven method that has helped hundreds of my students finally make rhythm easy. I'm sending emails every two weeks or so with new transcriptions, articles, news, resources, and promotions. I hope you'll enjoy them!
Happy New Year! I hope you have enjoyed the holiday season and that you have had a good start to the new year. My holidays were full of family gatherings, presents, and LOTS of food. And as much as I enjoyed all of it, I'm quite happy that it's over now, and we're fresh into the new year. The start of a new year is the time for new plans, goals, and, of course, New Year's resolutions. And the things that always come up are: Lose weight Exercise more Practice guitar! I have quite some...
I hope you're having a good time. As we're rushing towards Christmas, here in Vienna the days are not only dull and gray and wet, these are also the darkest days of the year. But only for one more week. After the shortest day next Sunday, after the Winter solstice, the days will be getting longer again. To make things a bit festive for the holidays, as my little Christmas gift for you, here is a simple but beautiful fingerstyle arrangement of Silent Night. You can download the transcription...
Seems I only blinked twice, and suddenly December's here. And I have to confess, I'm a bit like this guy when it comes to Christmas and the holidays. On the bright side, I'll probably only have to blink again once or twice, and I'll be back in Spring :D In the meantime, let's play guitar! This week I have another great piece from my latest book, The Anthology of Baroque Violin for Guitar. This is the 1st movement Allegro of Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.1 (No.7), Bre6, by Guiseppe Antonio...