Guitar Lesson: Can You Play Classical Guitar Without Nails?

Most classical guitarists use a lot of time polishing Topeka Capital Journal The Country Singer Heading Home grooming Guitar Lessons Fingerstyle right hand fingernails. In order to play with nails Practice Trax For Guitar Private Lessons Paperback Target Com have to have good nails and working with them a lot. Is it possible to play witout nails? Let's take a Business Wire Workshoplive Passes Midway Point To October Launch Recording 300 Guitar And Keyboard Lessons For Online Learn at no nail playing!

Angel Iglesias, a great spanish guitarist touring Denmark round 1953 played with nails in the same way as Segovia, Llobet and Guitar Lessons Online With Danny Poole Play Guitar Chords Reading Music Learn To Play The Guitar With did. Some guitarists at this time played with their fingertips.

Another great Spanish virtuoso who toured Denmark in periods, Francisco Alfonso, (whose father studied with Trrega) used only his fingertips. The differences of their tone quality was described by people who had heard them both:

Alfonsos tone was unusually beautiful, round and soft Guitar Iglesias was harder and somewhat sharp.

Personally I have played classical guitar with nails and without nails and I can see some advantages from playing without nails:

1. You Kids Learn To Play Guitar Book Nextag Com come nearer your guitar through the contact between your fingertips and the guitar string.

2. You can play with your fingers on electric guitars without the risk of damaging your nails.

3. Playing guitar without nails will force you to play with the highest degree of articulation and concentration.

4. You will be able to play piano Guitar Synth Reviews And Free Guitar Synth Downloads At Download Com without disturbing nails.

5. You will get a soft and beautiful tone on your guitar if you consistently work on it.

Pujol a guitarist who played without nails wrote, "the flesh best transmit the feeling of the soul...such an unresponsive medium as nails interferes, somehow with the direct contact of the artist's sensibility to the string."

The art of playing without nails must be developed. You have to work with your tone as Guitar Tablature Lessons Chords Scales without nail as with them. If you have used nails and start to play without nails you will feel uncomfortable before getting used to the different technique involved and before you develop callouses on you fingertips.

As times goes by you will improve your tone through your harder fingertips and your Learn To Play A Tune On A Guitar articulation. You cannot be sloppy in your playing with this technique.

Even if you will go back to playing with your nails again you will see an improvement in you playing due to a better technique.

Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and learn to play resources at http://www.capotastomusic.com