Masterclass #2: Understanding the Guitar Harmonics

Description: Exhaustive exploration of all harmonic possibilities on guitar. Spoiler alert: you will discover possibilities you probably didn't even know existed!

What are you going to learn?

The basics:

What are harmonics and how do they work.

The types of Harmonics: natural, artificial and other special ones.

Understand how to find any harmonic on the fretboard.

Expand your knowledge with...

Types of harmonics found on repertoire + possible solutions.

Double harmonics, what's that?

Understand better what's on the sheet music:

History of the harmonic notation (Sor, Giuliani, Carulli)

Run down to different composer's systems.

How do non-guitarists composers notate harmonics?

Q&A

Got questions about harmonics in your pieces? Join in and we'll help you!

Duration: 1h30min aprox (including Q&A)

MFA Members: Students and MFA Learning Group members get a 100% discount on the ticket. Please log in when registering for the event so that the discount gets automatically applied during checkout.

Co-host: Carlo Marchione

Carlo Marchione, winner of seven major prizes at international competitions, has been part of the leading group of classical guitarists of the last 30 years. Carlo has performed as a solo guitarist, with orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Nowadays he is a professor and regularly leads master classes at various European Conservatoires as well as being a regular guest at Festivals throughout Europe. For his outstanding contribution to the development of the guitar, in 2017 he has been awarded with one of the most prestigious international prizes for the didactic, the Golden Guitar.

Besides that, he has inspired composers such as A. Carlevaro, C. Domeniconi, S.Iannarelli, K.Vassiliev, A. Ourkouzounov, G.Drozd and John Duarte to write pieces for him. Always looking for new ideas for his repertoire, he discovered almost forgotten compositions which come out like jewels through his genial transcriptions. Highly praised by the press of his editing Violin Fantasies 12 by Georg Philipp Telemann, which is released as a CD and music book.

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