Classical guitar Classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music. It is an acoustic wooden guitar with strings made of gut or nylon, rather than the metal strings used in acoustic and electric guitars. For a right-handed player, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is properly held on the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). The modern steel
Classical guitar pedagogy journals (e.g. via JSTOR, ProQuest) which simplifies the process of locating relevant data, studies and citations for their own research. Brad Conroy's lesson on simple right hand arppegios Bibliography at the end of the article Classical guitar pedagogy The classical guitar is today a standard instrument that can be studied at music universities and conservatories. Numerous education publications are available, from guitar-related books, to musical style, etc. There are also institutions that offer worldwide graded music exams. Examples include: Articles which consider graded exams in the context of the classical guitar have been written by the EGTA (European Guitar Teachers