Classical Guitarist Jason Vieaux on Playing More Musically, and His Gernot Wagner Guitar

Tone is really in the ears. I know that may sound funny, but if you don’t know the tone or sound you want aesthetically, what it should sound like, then it’s a lot harder for the hands and fingers to find it. The end part of the process is in the hands, certainly, but that connection between your hands and your heart is really your ears. A lot of experimentation mixed with, hopefully, a good teacher that plays well can be a path to finding your tone or sound. When I was practicing as a kid growing up in Buffalo, I was not afraid to improvise and compose and jump (briefly!) off my studies, simply because I loved the sound of the guitar for its intrinsic aesthetic qualities. I prepared my lesson assignments with absolute seriousness, but my excursions into pure guitar sound were brief—little commentaries on the piece I was playing for my own amusement, or some improv off of the material I was practicing, again, only for the joy of finding the sound I wanted to find at that particular time.

[guynoir]

I had some difficulty when I ordered my guitar from Spain, Spain to France to Memphis USA in two days then sat in import waiting for clearance for fourteen days .

[jmardinly]

Most of the guitar students I know don't know anything about classical music outside of guitar music. Jason is right on in that classical guitar students need to listen to chamber music, orchestra music and piano and string music!

[Aleph_Null_Audio]

...and, of course, CITES now includes Indian rosewood. 🙁

[da]

Why are the strings a half inch high at the fret 12 on a Cordoba c7 model 500 dollars for the guitar very hard to play.

[julianr]

Could someone kindly tell me the name of the piece that starts and ends on this video please. Thank you

[bream]

Unfortunately, a Wagner double top costs $30, 000!

[banacekchord]

FYI, everybody, the TH in luthier, is a thick 'T', as in Theresa, not a TH as in truth, [or Luthor] think, lute.

[gtrmusic]

Jason, please eat your every once in a while.

[jodyguilbeaux]

all that talk and no playing...useless.

[nebovas]

This video makes no sense. Is he a Wagner's agent or an artist? Looks like he doesn't  know himself.