ROMERO CELINO, THE ART OF SPANISH GUITAR A METHOD. CD
LEARN TO PLAY SPANISH GUITAR THROUGH THE UNIQUE "ROMERO METHOD"
A Method By Celino Romero
Celino Romero's The Art of Spanish Guitar embodies more than two hundred years of guitar playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and through the many years of playing together.
This book explores the complexity and subtlety of Spanish guitar while explaining it in a way that makes learning both accessible and highly enjoyable. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the correct technique to your playing, and perform pieces by some of the most famous composers for Spanish guitar, such as Carcassi, Sor, and Tarrega.
You will learn:
• How to hold the guitar correctly
• Proper placement of right and left hands
• Apoyando and Enganchando (rest and free strokes)
• Rasgueado and Flamenco
• Giuliani's 120 Right-Hand Studies
• Daily exercises
• Essential studies and repertoire
• Shaping of the fingernails
• How to adopt the unique "Romero Touch"
Celino Romero's journey on the guitar began at the young age of three, under the careful tulelage of his legendary grandfather, Celedonio, and his famous father, Celin. Celino has played to great acclaim before numerous international audiences as a solo artist, with major orchestras, and as a member of "The Romeros" guitar quartet. He has appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Concert Hall (Seoul), the Cultural Center Concert Hall (Hong Kong),and Musikverein (Vienna).
For guitar. Method book. 143 pages. Celino Romero's "The Art of Spanish Guitar" embodies more than two hundred years of guitar playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and thorugh the many years of playing together.
This book explores the complexity and subtlety of Spanish guitar while explaing it in a way that makes learning both accessible and highly enjoyable. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply the correct technique to your playing, and perform pieces by some of the most famous composers for Spanish guitar, such as Carcassi, Sor, and Tarrega.
THE ART OF SPANISH GUITAR: A Method by Celino Romero Book and CD pack. This priceless text embodies more than two hundred years of guitar playing experience accumulated by three generations of Romeros. Celino embraces the variety of styles and innovations that the Romeros have brought to this art form individually and through the many years of playing together.
Written by the grandson of Celedonio, nephew of Pepe and son of Celin Romero, this method represents the culmination of three generations of classical guitar playing. Covers all of the important aspects: position and posture, right-hand rest strokes and free strokes, chords, arpeggios, tremolo, ascending and descending slurs, more, plus how to achieve the Romero Touch. Celino's explanations of fundamental technique are clear and complete with many helpful photos. Includes sections on: ornaments, harmonics; Guitar Gymnastics to build velocity, strength and flexibility; 24 diatonic scales (with positions and fingering); shaping your fingernails (including close-up photos); and all of Giuliani's "120 Studies for Right Hand Development." Concepts are illustrated with studies by Carcassi, Sor, Aguado, Tarrega; with repertoire pieces from Schumann, Chopin and others. The 29-track CD features Celino demonstrating several exercises and studies. An indispensable resource for all classical guitarists beginner to advanced. 143 pp.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
It Would be impossible to approach writing a book on the Romero guitar technique without first giving the reverence due my grandfather Celedonio Romero, the creator of the “Romero Technique." The Romero family has given the lovers of the classical guitar a technique and a special approach to this instrument that is so remarkable. Growing up in the Romero family, I was fortunate to have not just one, but four master teachers: my grandfather Celedonio, my father Celin, and my uncles Pepe and Angel. If you can imagine a small boy reaching out to touch, handle, and embrace this instrument of exquisite beauty, then you can get an inkling of my world as a child and teenager. From that to becoming an actual practicing member of the family has been my entire life. Given this magnificent gift of membership, I decided I would like to write a book that would share with other lovers of the guitar the unique "Romero Technique." This would consist of simple melodies, perfect finger placements, and the remarkable use of integrating melody and nuance while creating passion, personality, and character in the art of playing the guitar. All of these parts collectively form the embodiment of the Romero Technique. These parts reflect the training and technique of my grandfather and my own adaptations of these remarkable fundamentals. The exercises, rudies, and repertoire included in this book are the fitst steps mat my grandfather taught his sons, which were then passed on to my cousin Lito and me.
My hope is to give you the reader, you the guitatist, you the aficionado of the guitar all that my grandfather taught my family and me-the incredible art of the guitar. When we play an instrument, we must be very systematic in building our technique, since it will be one of the most vital tools for expressing our emotions through our instrument and its beautiful music. Without a solid technique, we will continuously struggle with our hands, fingers, maybe even with our entire body and our own mind. We should abandon the illusion that one can reach joy and satisfaction in the art of music making without having the proper working toolsour hands and fingers. Finding the correct technique will be an exciting process that will require your patience, sensitivity, and love. During this development, you have to enjoy playing a single note flavored with as much love as if playing a complete concerto. If you take pleasure and pride in playing a single beautiful note or chord, it will not be long before you play two beautiful notes, and then an entire composition. Playing the guitar might seem like entering a great labyrinth with so many possible paths and detailed instructions, but if you follow the instructions step-by-step, you will reach the desired goal.
Contents:
CD Track List
Forward
Author's Preface
Acknowledgements
Position and Posture
How to Hold and Hug the Guitar
Lines to Remember
Tension: Enemy No. 1
The Right Hand
Terminology for the Right Hand
Placement for the Right Hand
Your First Sounds
Rest Strokes and Free Strokes
(Apoyando & Enganchando)
Exercises for the Rest Stroke Thumb
Exercises for the Rest Stroke Fingers
The Romero Touch
The Left Hand
Terminology for the Left Hand
Positioning for the Left Hand and Fingers
Economy of Force and Finger Exercises
Shifting Positions
Chormatic Scales and Exercises
Chromatic Shifts
Chromatic Triplets
Synchronization
Tarrega Symchronization Exercises
Scale Synchronization
Aguado Synchronization Exercises
Ligados
Ascending Slurs (The Hammer-On)
Ascending Slur Exercises
Decending Slurs (The Pull-Off)
Decending Slur Exercises
Chords
Matters of the Right Hand
Matters of the Left Hand
Chord Exercises
Bar Chords
Tarrega Exercises for the Bar Finger
Andante Allegro (Aguado)
Study No. 2, Op. 6
Arpeggios
The Thumb
The Full Plant
Sequential Planting
Giuliani's Right Hand Studies
Right Hand Studies Nos. 2-20
Repertoire for Right Hand Development
Prelude in A Minor
Estudio
Study No. 10
Prelude in C
Prelude in E Minor
Caprice in G
Study No. 1 in A Minor
Essential Studies
Study No. 1, Op. 60
Study No. 2, Op. 60
Study No. 3, Op. 60
Study No. 10, Op. 60
Study No. 14, Op. 60
Study No. 19, Op. 60
Study No. 9 in B Minor
Study No. 10 in D Minor
Tremolo
Tremolo: Step by Step
Study No. 7, Op. 60
Another Training Method
Flowing Techniques
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Excerpt)
Rasgueado and Flamenco
Concierto de Aranjuez (Excerpt)
Sevillanas
Verdiales
Repertoire
Saltarello
Waltz in G
Vals in G
Romanze
Minuet
Prelude No. 7
Der Frohlicher LandMann, Op. 68, No. 10
Millitary March
Adelita
Romance Anonimo
Daily "Guitar Gymnastics"
Security
Walking
Velocity
Gymnastics No. 1
Variations on Gymnastics No. 1
Gymnastics No. 2
Flexibility
Crossing Exercises
"Spider" Exercises
Strength
Ascending Slurs
Descending Slurs
Bar Exercises
Ornaments
Vibrato
Grace Notes, Mordents, and Trills
Harmonics
Natural Harmonics
Artificial Harmonics
Appendix A: 24 Diatonic Scales
Appendix B: 120 Studies for Right-Hand Development
Appendix C: The Shaping of Fingernails
About the Author
Italiano
English
