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65,143 Views • Premiered Feb 19, 2024 • Click to toggle off description
He’s probably the most trusted classical guitar content creator on YouTube with over 500K subs. Brandon and his wife created Arpeggiato, an online music school for plucked instrument enthusiasts. Additionally, Brandon's classical guitar online course, has attracted over 1100 students globally, showcasing his dedication to musical education and performance.
In this episode we're talking about:
- the challenges of social media and YouTube as a musician
- online vs in person music lessons and online courses
- the goal of technique
- the fundamental problems of classical guitar
Connect with Brandon: @brandonacker
His online school: www.arpeggiato.com/
His online courses: classicalguitar-pro.com/
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0:00 Intro
1:26 The start of Brandon's channel
14:07 The place of educational content
24:55 Brandon's channel's future
29:06 discussion of beginner lessons and cheesy pieces
37:47 are good guitarists good musicians?
52:36 how to start improvising
1:03:03 discussion on online lessons, courses and live lessons
1:15:13 Brandon's
Views : 65,143
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Feb 19, 2024 ^^
Rating : 4.916 (47/2,202 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-13T07:41:23.519734Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Thanks for having me on your channel, Beatrix! It was a great conversation😊
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I received two degrees in classical guitar. I fell in love with the music at a young age but the toxic competition culture and the overall lack of creative appetite drove me away from the classical guitar scene. 7 years later, I’ve never been more satisfied as a musician: composing, collaborating and improvising. I am eternally grateful for my training, mentors and peers but there are too many out there that need to open their hearts and minds and get their heads out of their asses.
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The problem with classical musicians is the way they learn everything: by putting a sheet of music in front of them. They should transpose and learn pieces by ear and practice contrapuntal improvisation in major and minor keys. If you want to get better at improvisation, practice it! Learn how to analyze harmony from the masters.
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For Brandon's 1 millionth YouTube subscriber bonus, I look forward to the video of him playing Lagrima as he makes a sandwich while doing somersaults on rollerblades. But seriously, it was Brandon's videos that got me started in classical guitar, and I'm a student of one of his Arpeggiato instructors, and my life has been enriched a hundredfold. <3.Thanks, Beatrix, for this discussion. Really well done!
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Thank you both for your sincerity, and obvious passion. At 65, just now learning classical, I love it and watching channels like yours is inspirational as well as motivational and informative. God bless you both, thanks
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On the topic of people looking down on "easier" repertoire, I know someone who won literally dozens of guitar competitions in his youth, and then during his masters was told by his teacher (who i will not name but is a very influential figure in classical guitar) that the music he proposed for his masters recital was not virtuosic enough. What makes me sad about this story is that this was a player who had already more than proved his virtuosity, but was putting together a masters recital based on musical themes and ideas relating to building his own ARTISTIC identity, and then he is just told to play something like the Jose sonata, which probably like 3 other people will do on their exams that same year.
Its clear from this example that in academia we are often being pushed to think of ourselves as athletes rather than artists, and the great irony is that mindset isnt even helpful advice for the very difficult task of being successful after school as a freelance artist from a financial or professional perspective.
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Thank you both so much for this discussion; spot on with your observations and nice to know I'm not alone! I have long despaired that all the work of Segovia, Bream, Williams and others to expand the audience had gone for nothing and the scene had turned in on itself - guitarists playing for other guitarists. I studied the instrument to an advanced level (Conservatory) in the early 1980s - I was frustrated by the limited repertoire and wanted to play baroque lute but as it was still early days for the period instrument scene and lived on the other side of the world from its epicenter, I changed career and stopped playing. While remaining an avid classical music buff, I completely disengaged from the guitar scene in disgust at its obsession with empty technical perfection. Three months ago I attended a guitar recital by a young talented player, my first in 30 years! Something clicked and I have picked up the guitar again at the age of 60 - some twenty years since I last played. Thanks to discerning Youtubers like yourselves, I have found a community of like minded musicians, a great educational resource and thanks to Maestro Edson Lopes, I have discovered the wonderful music of Brazil. I regret that, with the inevitable physical decline, I might not be able to play Bach as fluently as I once did , but I'm so happy playing less demanding repertoire - with all the expression and color I can summon.
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I picked up nylon guitar during the pandemic and have absolutely loved it. I say nylon because I like exploring flamenco, classical, Brazilian, and modern indie/singer songwriter music on nylon string guitar. I think one of the reasons people don’t consider classical music is because it seems stuck in time. There’s certainly value to it and a lot of it is beautiful but it seems unable to evolve and there are almost no new compositions. Other genres, even flamenco have evolved to meet the modern moment (much to the chagrin of many traditionalists). I’d love if either of you discussed this topic. As much as I love the sound of classical guitar I couldn’t possibly focus on only “classical” repertoire. Maybe that’s just me but I think it’s a common sentiment. Thanks for the discussion!
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This was really a great interview with Brandon. One thing that I have found is that many musicians do not know anything about the musician, the composer of the music they're playing. For instance, many do not know the faith journey that JS Bach went on. If you look at the lyrics of his cantatas and his other pieces of music, they're deeply spiritual. It behooves us to know more about the history of the composer. The reason the piece was written, the mood and background of the piece. To me this really is the key to better musicality.
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Such a great interview! Greetings!
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thank you to the both of you for your insights!
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thank you for this guitar content beatrix!! I love brandon's stuff and it's great to see a collab!!
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For me, listening to heavy metal bands in the 80's like Randy Rhoades from Ozzy, and Yngwie Malmsteem got me listening to classical. They had small classical pieces on the albums.
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Wonderful conversation !
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Love both yours and Brandons Channel Beatrix. Great inspiring content.
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This was great, both of my fav classical guitar tubers in a conversation is always nice
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Great collaboration! There were several nuggets of wisdom in this one.
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Wow, there is a whole book's worth of useful information in this interview. Thank you!
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very interesting conversation. Thank you !
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