Charles Postlewate: Five-Finger Technique For the Right Hand: Guitar:

This two-hour DVD is a presentation of the 19-year project by Charles Postlewate on extending right hand technique for Guitar to include the little finger. PART I presents this technique in actual repertoire includingstandard Guitar repertoire (by Barrios Sor Torroba and Villa-Lobos) new arrangements and transcriptions and original compositions. It features complete performances of twelve pieces recorded on Postlewate's Homage toVilla-Lobos CD (Prism 9904) and published by Mel Bay Publications in the book by the same name. Each performance is introduced by Postlewate with explanations and demonstrations of how and where the little finger is used in theexecution of scales chords arpeggios tremolos and harmonics with close-up shots of the right hand. PART II explains the training of the right hand in a five-finger technique with demonstrations of the above techniquesusing sample studies from the different chapters of his book Right-Hand Studies for Five Fingers. As in PART I close-up shots show the viewer precisely how to position the right hand and move the fingers for each study or set ofstudies. Each set of studies uses a special progression up and down the fingerboard and like the book this video demonstrates how to make chromatic variations of these progressions to increase the interest. At the end of PART IIPostlewate demonstrates how the guitarist can develop similar studies to fit specific right-hand problems not covered in this book and video. The video ends with an ENCORE interview of five questions and answers withCharles Postlewate to give some background information on this historic project.

The product of a 14 year research project this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four fingertechnique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords arpeggios tremolos and harmonics beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers.The studies are played over easy yet interesting left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your own right hand studies by including examples from standard classical guitarrepertoire pieces by Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba and Heitor Villa-Lobos at the end of the book. This book is a companion to MB 98711 - HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS and other compositions (music composed transcribed arrangedand edited by Charles Postlewate for the guitar using five fingers of the right hand) and its accompanying 60-minute CD HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS (MB 98711CD). Spanish Description [Este libro es el resultado de unproyecto de investigación de 14 años de duración. Este incluye más de 350 estudios para entrenar la mano derecha del guitarrista clásico a usar los cinco dedos-añadiendo el dedomeñique a la técnica actual de cuatro dedos. Estos estudios desarrollan una técnica de cinco dedos para tocar acordes arpegios trémolos y armónicos empezando con combinaciones del pulgar y undedo y aumentando en complexidad al uso del pulgar con los cuatro dedos. Los estudios se tocan sobre progresiones fáciles pero interesantes de la mano izquierda por el diapason. Postlewate le muestra cómodesarrollar sus propios estudios para la mano derecha a base de ejemplos del repertorio tradicional de la guitarra clásica por Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba y Heitor Villa-Lobos incluídos al final del libro.

This is the first compilation of guitar music specifically composed for right-hand technique that includes the little finger. The 57 compositions include original pieces in the Easy-Intermediate to Intermediate -Advanced levels byrenowned guitarist/composers from Europe North America South America and the Caribbean. Music by Ernesto Cordero Carlos Dorado Jim Ferguson David Flynn Gerald Garcia John Hall Ricardo Iznaola James Lentini John Oliver Charles Postlewate Mirko Schrader Burkhard ?Buck? Wolters and Luis Zea show the advantages of a five-finger technique in the playing of scales chords arpeggios tremolos and harmonics. They also show the advantages of usingthe little finger for speed accuracy strength and balance. All of these compositions are edited and fingered by Postlewate pioneer in the use of a five-finger technique. This book is a companion to Anthology of NineteenthCentury Guitar Studies for Five Fingers of the Right Hand (MB21153) compiled and fingered by Leonhard Beck and edited by Charles Postlewate. Standard notation only. In English and Spanish.