A COMPARISON OF SELECTED CLASSICAL GUITAR TEACHING METHODS AND A REVIEW OF THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR GUITAR EDUCATION

Year 2012, Volume: 41 Issue: 2, 43 - 53, 08.03.2014

Soner Uluocak

Abstract

The introductory stage of classical guitar education is critically important as students gain the fundamental playing techniques and motor skills at this level. It can be seen in the literature that various guitar teaching methods have different educational approaches to guitar education. The purpose of the present research is to maintain the similarities and differences of some widely used classical guitar teaching methods that were written in early nineteenth century and commonly accepted in guitar education literature. For this purpose documentary surveying method was used. In this context, the data of research was collected by surveying the methods and literature. At the end of the article, some implications and recommendations are also considered by the author.

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