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Learn to play pieces on a professional level with the PLAY IT LIKE A PRO™ series. The tutorial packages contain annotated scores with detailed measure-by-measure instructions and technical advice on how to execute each measure successfully. The supporting videos are not "put your finger here and then put your finger there" type videos. Doug explains measure-by-measure all the technical and musical details required to play the piece on a professional level.
Isaac Albéniz
The most comprehensive tutorial on the planet for this beloved Spanish masterpiece. Even if you have played "Leyenda" for 50 years, Doug guarantees you will learn something new from Play It Like a Pro™: Leyenda.
Erik Satie
This Play It Like a Pro™ Package is the most comprehensive tutorial for "Gymnopédie No. 1" on the planet. Includes complete tutorial with 11 scores and detailed measure-by-measure instruction.
João Pernambuco
Ultimate tutorial for this beloved Brazilian classical guitar piece, including how to "trick out" your interpretation to give your performance a "vibe" of spontaneity and improvisatory flair.
Stanley Myers, Arranged by John Williams
The famous "Cavatina", by Stanley Myers as arranged by John Williams, is one of the most beautiful and beloved pieces in the classical guitar repertoire.
Francisco Tárrega
Without a doubt, "Recuerdos" is one of the most famous pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. "Someday I want to learn Recuerdos," are the words spoken by almost every guitarist at some point in his or her life. For you, that day has arrived!
Francisco Tárrega
The famous Capricho Árabe, by Francisco Tárrega is one of the most well-known and loved pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. It can be easily learned by the intermediate guitarist.
Paul Desmond, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
Learn to play Doug's outstanding classical guitar arrangement of the great jazz standard made famous by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Traditional, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
This arrangement by Douglas Niedt is in the style of Simon & Garfunkel. It is fairly easy to play, and sounds great.
Written guide with videos
This is the most complete guide available to mastering this essential technique. For guitarists of intermediate level and above.
Fernando Sor
This is Fernando Sor's "Estudio in C major, Op. 35, No. 13". It is better known as "Study No. 2," as Segovia titled it in his edition of the "20 Sor Studies". Many teachers consider it a required piece in the basic repertoire.
Fernando Sor
Learn to play Fernando Sor's delightful petite masterpiece with professional-level execution. This is the first Play It Like a Pro™ for the beginning/intermediate guitarist!
Harold Darke, Arranged for classical guitar by Douglas Niedt
This is Douglas Niedt's guitar arrangement of the beautiful Christmas carol. Doug recorded two versions of the carol on his Christmas CD, "In Heavenly Peace". This is the second version.
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Gaspar Sanz
Four superb arrangements of the song (Williams, Parkening, Bream, and Bonell), videos, a 28-minute video tutorial on adding rasgueados to the piece, the original manuscripts, and lots of fascinating information.
Antonio Vivali, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
In this standalone arrangement for solo guitar, Doug added bass notes from Vivaldi's bass part, plus filled in the harmony from the continuo accompaniment and violin parts. It is beautiful on its own without any accompaniment. However, should you need orchestral accompaniment, Doug provides ten REAL orchestra tracks at different tempos.
Traditional, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
Doug has TWO amazing arrangements of "Amazing Grace." The Gospel-Blues Version has adventurous harmonies and is for intermediate and advanced players. The Easier Traditional Version is meditative and gentle, but powerful.
Irish Traditional, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
"Be Thou My Vision" is a timeless hymn, cherished for its profound message and haunting melody. If hymns are not your thing, no worries! The song was originally a Celtic melody with no religious affiliations at all. In fact, Doug arranged one of the verses as an Irish Slip-Jig. The arrangement takes you on a musical journey, evoking the ancient Celtic origins of the melody while maintaining its spiritual beauty.
J.S. Bach, Transcribed by Douglas Niedt
32-page PDF includes performance notes about the fingerings, implied polyphony, voicings, tempo, rests, articulations, and slurs. All voices are color-coded and the subject entrances notated with square notes for easy visibility.
J.S. Bach, Arranged by Rick Foster, revised by Douglas Niedt
"Jesu" is one of J. S. Bach’s most beloved and recognizable works. This is the version made famous by classical guitarist Christopher Parkening. The arrangement presented here, revised by Douglas Niedt, is for advanced guitarists.
Sebastián Yradier, Arranged by Pepe Romero
"La Paloma" (The Dove) by Sebastián Yradier is the most recorded Spanish song in history. The 55-page sheet music package features the Pepe Romero arrangement, but also includes Francisco Tárrega's arrangement, Tárrega's handwritten manuscript, versions in the key of A major, and much more.
J.S. Bach, Transcribed by Douglas Niedt
The "Sonatina" is the instrumental prelude to Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata BWV 106 ("Actus Tragicus"). It is an absolutely soul-wrenching piece. Conductor and Bach specialist Sir John Eliot Gardiner calls it “Twenty of the most heart-stopping bars in all of Bach’s works.”
Loreena McKennitt, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
The beautiful Celtic song "Skellig," relates the dying words of a monk from a monastery that existed during the 6th-12th centuries on the island Skellig Michael (Great Skellig), just west of Ireland. This arrangement is for solo guitar and is playable by intermediate guitarists.
António Carlos Jobim, Arranged by Douglas Niedt
The famous song is a bossa nova classic—a gentle fusion of cool jazz and Brazilian samba. You must purchase this arrangement from the MusicNotes website.
Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Arranged by Douglas Niedt
The arrangement combines the vocal melody AND McCartney's guitar accompaniment. It preserves most of the notes and right-hand technique McCartney used for his iconic guitar part. You must purchase this arrangement from the MusicNotes website.
Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Arranged by Douglas Niedt
TWO beautiful arrangements of the Beatles classic—advanced and intermediate. The advanced version retains McCartney's bass lines, harmonies, and the guitar parts. You must purchase this arrangement from the MusicNotes website.
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Early studies with the world's foremost classical guitar masters, six decades of teaching excellence, university guitar professor for thirty years, and successful concert performer and recording artist.
Douglas Niedt is a seasoned, successful concert and recording artist and highly respected master classical guitar teacher with 60+ years of teaching experience. He is Associate Professor of Music (retired), at the Conservatory of Music and Dance, University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Fellow of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management—Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Doug studied with such diverse masters as Andrés Segovia, Pepe Romero, Christopher Parkening, Narciso Yepes, Oscar Ghiglia, and Jorge Morel. Therefore, Doug provides solutions for you from a variety of perspectives and schools of thought.
He gives accurate, reliable advice that has been tested in performance on the concert stage that will work for you at home.
With over 60 years of teaching experience and thousands of satisfied students worldwide, his proven methodologies consistently deliver measurable improvement in technique, musicality, and performance.
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