Sagreras Book One Complete - Absolute Beginners!

[@arbeitandy]

Thanks!

[@davidjaggs]

So kind, thanks 👍

[@duanehouck2919]

I've been playing these for about 14 years and every time I go back, I find something else to focus on. Lesson 56 almost made me give up when I first started. I wish I would have had this for reference. Nicely done!

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks, hope your playing keeps going well!

[@dishburn4262]

That's funny because I powered through until lesson 56, couldn't get the first 3 notes and haven't picked up the instrument for over a month.

[@kalidasa269]

Thank You for these. I'm picking up the guitar late in life, and decided to go with the Sagreras books. These videos will be *tremendously* helpful. Thanks again!

[@davidjaggs]

Glad they're helping you ☺️

[@slegte1]

I go back to your video all the time when playing the lessons. It is a great help. Thanks!

[@davidjaggs]

Nice to know! 🙏

[@frankn73]

This is absolute outstanding work! Thank you very much Mr Jaggs! As an experienced amateur Player i discoververed sagreras in my late 40s. This music is so much more colourful than sor carcassi and the other old ones (which still have their own quality ). While the pujol school is sometimes a bit hard and borring ... sagreras is beautiful even in his finger exercises. And your recordings are fantastic ... clear and comprehensible for the listener ... but also elegant and rich of details. Im now in book 4 ... and my playing has improved by working on sagreras and listen to Jaggs.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for your kind words Frank.👍

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

Don't sleep on Sor or the old masters. I'm one of MANY people who found these pieces to be lacking something but I now have FULL appreciation.

[@davidjaggs]

Sor is excellent 👍

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

@@davidjaggs Do you have any theories on why people take a while to warm to him?

[@Ayo.Ajisafe]

@@davidjaggs Btw you play Sor beautifully. Op.29 No.17 I particularly love. Even among these etudes I have some favourite pieces that top level guitarists like yourself haven't recorded :(

[@dameCandice]

Thank you very much ! I’m working on this Sagreras book 1 and your video helps me a lot.

[@davidjaggs]

That's great to hear.👍👍

[@jls614]

I agree,Sagreras is fantastic. the exercises are very good for the hands but also to listen to them. and very well executed. thank you

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@GrzegorzKwiatkowski57]

Dziękujemy.

[@davidjaggs]

How kind, thanks so much. 🙏

[@WeiChuehWang]

I'am classic guitar begginer,and I use Sagreras Book for learning.I appreciate your video to help me understood it!

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for your message and thank you for watching ☺️☺️

[@marcosfalsarella9840]

Very good. I'm loving your videos. Excellent presentation. Thank you for your generosity. (Brazil)

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching Marcos, ☺️

[@renshimarek]

Super ! The movie is very useful. Thank you very much :)

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching 👍👍😊

[@K.e0102]

This the first lection!great work!gratulation

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching 👍😊

[@K.e0102]

@@davidjaggs welcome

[@tony89718]

There is more to Sagreras’ book one than I had initially given credit. Reading through the Delcamp edition shows a lot of thought into progression, chords, scales, arpeggios, and even rhythm. Using this book, along with a good quality grade 1 method book will get you started in the right direction. Highly recommended.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for your input, Robert.

[@tony89718]

@@davidjaggs You are welcome. 😄

[@tony89718]

@@davidjaggsThe more I look at the sheet music, the more I realize I should work my way through most of book 1 and all of book 2.

[@davidjaggs]

@@tony89718 go for it!

[@tony89718]

@@davidjaggsthe only trouble is the short pieces in book 1 range from grade 1 to grade 2

[@WansbeckBikecam]

Awesome job. Thank you. Just started my 8 year old daughter on this book!

[@davidjaggs]

Nice to know someone will get some use from it! Note the links to each study in the description to save time.

[@WansbeckBikecam]

@@davidjaggs yes I will definitely be referring to it a lot. Already noted the timestamps. Excellent stuff. Thanks again.

[@snowfiresunwind]

Excellent video - amazing how advanced the last exercise is compared to the first - and this is only the first book! These books sound like they would be a good revision for players of all levels?

[@davidjaggs]

Absolutely!

[@edisonhamilton]

Question about the ⌃ signs above notes. In the first pages of the book 1, it states that the ⌃ sign means "rest stroke" (apoyando). After watching several performances of these exercises it seams to not be consistently applied. I'm curious as to the modern thinking of Sagreras in this regard. If taken literally, Sagreras' books are an intense study of apoyando (rest strokes). Or is the current thinking to mostly use free strokes but accented. Realize this might seem a very nit picky issue but it changes how we play this entire method. Thanks in advance for your input.

[@davidjaggs]

It's a good question. I've said to viewers previously that over the years, particularly from the late 70s onwards with players like Russell and Barrueco free strokes became more used. Their idea was to be able to produce an equally (almost) strong tone in this way. Of course rest strokes are still used, one should practice both. There are advantages with both. Eg, a rest stroke has more power but would stop a string from ringing on on the string below. Explore every avenue, and good luck with your studies! 👍

[@edisonhamilton]

@@davidjaggs awesomely generous of you to immediately reply. Many thanks.

[@peachyjumpy]

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[@tony89718]

@peachyjumpy are these the pieces you thought the most important?

[@peachyjumpy]

@@tony89718 😄 not really, I just forget to complete the list

[@BRUNONUNESDEOLIVEIRA-ws5su]

i wish someone would make a video like this with the Kitharologus by Ricardo Iznaola complete. I can't find anywhere a lot of excercises :(

[@davidjaggs]

Maybe one day!

[@stevendunn7928]

Wow! This is a huge project. It sounds so clean and elegant. My playing is twangy and sloppy by comparison. I wonder if I will ever sound like this.

[@davidjaggs]

It was a huge project, all the way through covid lockdown! Hope it proves useful!

[@mikehoehn1475]

Mr jaggs, are you doing rest strokes when told ? Me, I just now figured out what apoyando means. Lesson 69 is much more difficult when using rest strokes. Lol...Lotta work !

[@davidjaggs]

Since these studies were written rest strokes have gone out of fashion. That's not to say they're never used, just used more carefully. If I can get a good strong free stroke sound at the top of an arpeggio for example, I probably will play it like this. It doesn't cut off the note below. There is no definite rule, just look at each example as it happens. In No 10 of book 6, released tomorrow, I play rapid scales with rest strokes. You'll get the hang of it!

[@heliopereira6655]

Parabéns pela iniciativa!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@barnabascee1889]

22:43

[@davidjaggs]

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[@jorgecarballo4051]

Muchas gracias y los felicito...desde Buenos Aires.

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching!

[@arminfreddie6150]

Many thanks for the excellent video. It has been very helpful. May I just ask if you play the melodies with rest strokes as advised in sagreras book as it is a bit difficult to see in the video? For instance lesson 84. Or is it free strokes right through? Many thanks again

[@davidjaggs]

I don't usually play the rest strokes when at the top of arpeggios etc. I think this was more the fashion at the time these were written and free strokes became more popular around the end of the 1970s. It's interesting how technique develops! Thanks for watching 👍

[@arminfreddie6150]

👍much appreciated.

[@hanhnguyennguyentran5649]

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[@estelabeatrizarellano5073]

Muy bueno maestro exelente!!!

[@davidjaggs]

☺️👍

[@tomaszkunicki8383]

Hey beautiful job! Do you ( or anyone in the comments ) know if there is a book with similiar quality to Sagreras but for learning piano? )

[@perrotactico6099]

I think there is not a version of Sagreras for piano.

[@javierrodriguez4218]

Maybe Bartok's mikrokosmos?

[@OANIENGLISHMETHOD]

thanks

[@davidjaggs]

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[@starflake47]

Hi. Is the guitar on your right leg or left leg? Thanks.

[@davidjaggs]

Left leg with the left leg raised with a footstool. This helps prevent twisting my spine. Improves posture. Thanks for watching.

[@Falaxuper]

When you're level 100, but decide to go back to level 1 for fun :D

[@santiagosanabria2369]

33:04

[@davidjaggs]

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[@skadborg]

very nice good job!!!

[@davidjaggs]

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[@zartankist]

Thank you very much for the videos. May I perhaps ask you a question about the didactic? I've been playing my guitar again for two weeks now. I've noticed that I always have a habit of picking pieces that I can get down with a lot of diligence and will, but that are just already for more advanced players. So I'm looking for ways to create some kind of progressive curriculum for myself. I came across Sagregas yesterday and am currently learning the beautiful No 86 from that book. It's a doable level, the challenges and requirement just right so it's not too easy and not too hard either. What I was wondering now, given all the exercises, and would like to ask you at this point. Does it make sense to work through Sagrera's pieces and books piece by piece? Does it get more and more challenging melodically, technically, theoretically and so on? I can't afford lessons right now, and won't be able to for the next 1 1/2 years. But I really want to keep learning and progressing. Thanks in advance

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for your message. The books definitely progress as they go on. I wouldn't suggest working through them all, I would identify weaknesses in your technique and find studies that use those techniques. There are so many good studies by Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi etc, it would be a shame not to try some of these also. I recommend Carcassi studies, they do stick to the point and are lovely musically too. You could certainly work your way through the first couple of Sagreras however. I hope this helps. One of the best ways of improving is to record yourself.

[@zartankist]

@@davidjaggs Giuliani, Terrega, Sor I also know and play some little things. But I must confess that I have never been so impressed by pieces like Sagreras'. Especially by the musicality. They are already small compositions in themselves. Perhaps I know too few of the even older gentlemen. It seems to me that things are more technical there.

[@davidjaggs]

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[@LeonMusicful]

Hi, I'm a beginner. Thank you so much for uploading these lessons! I have a question. In lesson 3, did you mute the D before playing the C in the end? Your playing sounds very clean but I can't see if you muted the D. When I play the last C, the D still resonates and that makes the C sound unclean.

[@davidjaggs]

The D was muted in this case by the 3rd finger of the left hand. It's a good sign that your D is ringing on, you're going to find a lot of chords easier than most because your fingers are a good shape. Thanks for watching 👍

[@LeonMusicful]

@@davidjaggs Thank you. Do you feel muting is something a 100% beginner should practice? Also is the D the only muted note in lesson 3?

[@davidjaggs]

@@LeonMusicful I wouldn't worry too much about muting until book 2 or 3. It's most important in the bass parts, for example when the thumb plays a low E followed by a low A. If you come back and stop the E it sounds much cleaner. Of course this will be more difficult with other parts playing at the same time.

[@ChristianAMR]

Sorry , but is there are reason why the D-string is not being damped when going down to play C on the A-string ?

[@davidjaggs]

Which piece?

[@ChristianAMR]

@@davidjaggs THanks for responding ! Pieces 3 and 4 .

[@davidjaggs]

Hmmm. Maybe I was careless, maybe 6th was tuned to D and ringing! Whatever it was your perception is a good sign!

[@cristiangonzalessilva2669]

¿Y la afinación?

[@davidjaggs]

Most Sagreras are standard tuning.

[@aerospacewelding]

How long would you recommend to practice a lesson before moving to the next?

[@davidjaggs]

If you can play it fluently, without mistakes 85 percent of the time , move on!

[@aerospacewelding]

@@davidjaggs makes sense! thank you for sharing

[@mattbod]

Hi David I am about grade 4-5 standard and been playing two yesrs (so Carcassi studies / easier Sor Segovia studies). What level would i need to check in at with these? I have never heard of them before!

[@davidjaggs]

Probably the back end of book 2/ early book 3. These days they come in 2 volumes anyway, books 1-3 and books 4-6. You could check out which techniques you feel you need to improve and work through the earlier ones. Thanks for watching.

[@IgnacioDomínguez-v4r]

Sí es para mi.

[@davidjaggs]

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[@heliopereira6655]

What is the recommended tempo (beats per minute) for Lesson 42?

[@davidjaggs]

Only book 6 has metronome markings. (Which seem slower than I would expect). I think maintain control is the order of the day. I hope you do well with them.😊

[@heliopereira6655]

@@davidjaggs Thanks!

[@gianfrancobruno6811]

Bravo 👍👍❤️

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks 👍

[@bigadventure101]

Thanks you so much. I bought this book and it looked overwhelming. This motivates me to dive in and try it.

[@davidjaggs]

Great! I hope you do well 🙂

[@marcosfalsarella9840]

Muito bom!

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks Marcos. 👍

[@evistodo8745]

No comment!!!

[@Viktor.73]

Великолепно 🎶 👍

[@davidjaggs]

😊

[@dimitris_nektariospap2350]

I have been playing electric and acoustic guitar for many many years. I have developed skills like sweeping shredding arpeggio tapping etc and sometimes you think you are a god ot something . Until i realized someday that i couldnt find any picks. I was at a friends house and they all told hey this guy plays good guitar abd stuff there was a guitar there, but a pick nowhere to be found. Whats that meant. .. i had a good left hand but a right hand of an almost begginer guitar player . Well its not like someone made me feel embarrassed i felt bad for myself i was always thinking that i play guitar at a good level until i realized my fingers are as good as shit. Without a pick i had only a good left hand with some pull ofs or hammer ons . But I then realized step by step the prowess it takes to play right and clean with a right hand. I do not underestimate the eletric guitar the picking style and stuff but fingersyle its a lot different . Not better, just different , and if you wanna call yourself good guitarist yeah do yourself a favor and learn classical fingerstyle . I started with this book and to be honest i play almost as a beginner sometimes because I was mostly into tabs and of course all songs with pick. The lesson I have learnt.. STAY HUMBLE the journey of music never ends . Embrace it!!

[@davidjaggs]

Never ending journey for sure. I bet I would be envious of your electric guitar playing skills, so don't put yourself down either. Thanks for watching 👍

[@dimitris_nektariospap2350]

@@davidjaggs I am happy being a partaker of a good work like yours. Keep it up!!

[@davidjaggs]

👍👍

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

THIS ISN’T QUATTRO! I specifically s searched QUATTRO!!!! (Maybe I should have spelled it with aC) lol

[@davidjaggs]

Well, watch it anyway, I need the minutes

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

@@davidjaggs HA HA! Well okay then... I just got locked up leaving a comment anyway.... I’m actually trying to find “Estilo 3” also titled (de Justica Criolla) right note and can’t. lol

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

@@davidjaggs I’m just going through some of my archive today... hearing Carlos Perez really helped me with my interpretation of a couple of Sagreras’ etudes. I was about to throw them away after I played them and heard myself! lol

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

@@davidjaggs I’ll take my phone in the other room while this one plays it needs to charge anyways but I need to practice!

[@MrDizzyvonclutch]

@@davidjaggs okay now watch one of mine! I did Villa-Lobos Etude#8 sight read about a year ago... wasn’t too horrible. lol

[@santiagosanabria2369]

down voted due to the excessive ads

[@davidjaggs]

Thanks for watching anyway 😊