Welcome, everybody, to Volume 2. On the classical guitar instruction video by Esteban, and that's me, and I welcome you, we're going to begin, and we want to cover as much material as possible. So remember, follow along, rewind, whenever you need to, and we're going to teach you a lot of wonderful things to learn on this beautiful guitar during this hour. We're going to start with a mulligania. We're going to do variations on mulligania. You have the basic variation, which you played. And what we want to do now is expand that to include a beautiful melody with a tremolo. Now, the melody can be played with a tremolo, which is this, or it can be played with a single string vibrating back and forth like this. Here is the melody. The melody is the same melody you began with, but we're going to expand it to include the full mulligania melody from the gypsy camps of the 1800s. I'm going to play it very slowly for you. You already know this part. All I'm doing is I'm plucking the note with my thumb, and I'm countering that note with my index finger on the first string. Note with the thumb, index. Thumb, index. Thumb, index. Okay, very simple. Here's the melody you know. You should be able to play it like this. Now, the second part of the melody follows what you just played, and then that part of the melody goes like this. I'm going to show you the melody notes right now. Follow along closely. Watch my fingers. I'm going to explain each string and each fret that it's on. Now, we're only going to use the counter melody index finger with the accompaniment on this one. Melody, index. Melody, index. There's the other technique that you can use after you perfect this, where you include the tremolo in place of the single index finger, and that sounds like this. And all that is, I briefly went over it before, is you're playing the first string with your ring finger, your middle finger, and your first finger. You're going to do this. After every bass note with your thumb, you do the accompaniment. Okay, and the accompaniment is bass with the thumb, ring, middle, index. Bass with the thumb, ring, middle, index. That's the tremolo. Listen to how it sounds on what you already know. Now, when you speed that up, it sounds like this. Now, what we're going to do now is teach you the notes of the variation to the mulliganian melody you know. You can use the accompaniment one of just the index playing the first string after every bass note, or accompaniment two, ring, middle, index, after each bass note with the thumb. You can choose, and I want you to perfect both of these techniques. They're important for later performances. Okay, here we go. The melody for mulligania, B section, or variation one. You play what you did before, and then you start, you play the fourth string second fret. Remember this. You do it twice. Good. Then you play. You have to learn to use your pinky. Learn to use the small finger of your left hand and stretch. Keep your hand in position, thumb in the back of the neck, right under the middle finger or both of these fingers. It's directly under the middle finger usually, sometimes the index finger. It's like this. Remember, don't be going like this. You don't want to do that. Keep your thumb under here. This will make sure that you learn the proper way. So here's the notes again. Fourth string second fret two times. Then you reach to the fourth string fourth fret. Make that arch. Look at the arch under my finger. You see that arch right there? You do that. And you play the fourth string fourth fret with your little finger, your pinky. And then you play the third string first fret with your already held down E chord. Good. Next note, third string second fret with the ring finger of your left hand. All right, now you got that. I'm going over this slowly. Rewind when you have to. Beginning, bass, bass, fourth, again. Then we take the finger off, open it up, second string open, and second string first fret by replacing it. Here's how it sounds up till now. That's it. So you hold your E chord down. There you go. That's the first part of it. Fourth string second fret twice, fourth string fourth fret once, third string first fret once, third string second fret once, second string open once, second string first fret once. And now, of course, you're in your A minor chord. So here we go again. We're playing this. All right, now we're continuing. You have it up to there. I'm playing this much first. Just move your fingers along. Watch that again. Watch it again. Now we're going to continue. From there, you play the third string second fret again. And so it sounds like this. Follow me now. Then the second string open again, then the second string first fret again. So we're kind of going back and forth here. So watch the notes. I'm going to play it completely up to where you are now. And of course, you're in your A minor chord now, as I said before. We're going to do that again. Now we're going to get tricky. We're going to drop the chord. We're going to have to go up the neck a little bit. Watch what I do. This is not difficult. You can do this. Third string, second fret, second string open, second string first fret, second string third fret. Now we go. See what I just did there? Follow me to there. Now we go up to the slide, the pinky up to the second string fifth fret. And I'm going to do it again from the beginning so you can follow slowly. Do it again. After that, you slide one more fret higher to the second string sixth fret. All right, up to there now. Good. Now that's the high point. Now we're going to go back down. Get to there before you proceed. Once you have done that, then you can continue and go back down. You go to the second string fifth fret. Up to there now. Then you go to the second string third fret, second string first fret. Up to there now. Back to the second string third fret. We're all doing this melody on the second string. Again, up to there now. One more time to there. Follow me slowly. There you hit the second string open. Did you see that? You were on the second string third fret. All right. Let's see where you can take it from there. Up to there from the very beginning of the variation. Now we're back to the third string second fret. You hit that. Then you go back to the second string open. You have this level right now. We've come to this point. Follow me slowly. Now we hit the third string open. Good. Then the fourth string third fret. Good. Then up to there we're going from the beginning of the variation. Now you go to the fourth string third fret up to there. That's your second to the last note. The last note you're going to end on is back to your E major chord fourth string second fret. So here's the entire variation. Go slow. Follow me closely. And it repeats. We'll do that again. One more time. Here we go. This is the complete variation now. Starting over. That was it. That was the one. The complete variation of the Malagueña. And there should be no problem whatsoever to play this. This will be a great amount of fun. And then ultimately you're going to repeat those same notes in the bass, but we're going to not do that in this lesson. I want you to perfect this Malagueña part until you can play this beautifully and sincerely and sweetly. And here we go. One last time. The complete Malagueña plus variation one. Here goes the variation. Back to the beginning. That's Malagueña plus variation. Enjoy. Okay. Now we're going to do this first variation on Duende, the Faruca, the Spanish flamenco dance. You already know how to play this. Okay. So now we want to play a variation. You do that maybe three different times like that. And then we play the first falseta. Now this falseta uses the apoyando stroke. The apoyando stroke is the index in the middle fingers of your right hand playing strings. And when they play the strings, they actually rest on the string below. I'm going to turn the guitar sideways so you can see. My fingernail is playing the first string and it's resting on the second string. It gives you much more power. So I want you to practice this. I want you to practice alternating your index finger and your middle fingers so that they are resting on the second string after each stroke. You don't need long nails like I have to do this. It would be helpful to have some nail, however. That's called the apoyando stroke. You can do the apoyando stroke. You can do it to any piece anytime on the guitar neck. You can be on the first string and all the way down the strings. And it's a beautiful thing to play. And what it does is it increases the volume of the notes. Example, if you just pluck it, apoyando stroke or rest stroke, much louder, probably twice as loud. Alright, so here's the first variation on duende, the foruca. You finish playing. Now the variation begins. And what it is, follow my notes. You know how to do this now. First string open. Three times. Easy enough. Use your index, middle and index on those notes using rest strokes to the second string. You want to alternate your fingers every time. Remember this. Don't follow into a bad habit by doing this. No, no, we don't want that. We want alternate your fingers every single time. Alright, so here's the actual notes in the falseta. This is called a falseta or a melody for the foruca. Three notes at the beginning. First string open. First string, first fret. First string open. Second string. Third fret. Second string, first fret. Second string open. Third string, second fret. I'm going to play that much. Get it memorized. Right there. Now when you land on the third string, second fret, you want to land with your A minor chord. So, even though you're not playing it, land with it. You're landing with your third finger on the A note, the third string, second fret. So here's the beginning of the falseta. Good. Do that and get that perfect. Do it slow. Alright, now what you want to do when you finish that is do a rascato. A rascato, the easiest way to explain this, take your third finger, second finger and first finger and just roll them over the strings. Like you're just doing this, splaying on your fingers. So here we go. We're playing the notes. I want you to do exactly that and you're capable of it. You just roll the fingers over the strings. Look what I'm doing with my fingers. Not upstrokes, downstrokes. Okay, so here we go. The first part of the falseta with the rascato or that strumming thing is... Again. It's beautiful. The second part of the falseta that you have to learn is this part. We go to the fifth fret on the first string. Now you want to put your fingers like I have mine. You put your third finger on the first string, fifth fret. Your second finger on the first string, fourth fret. Your first finger on the first string, third fret. And you play these notes. Again. This time you do it four beats, four notes on the A or the first string, fifth fret. You do five notes on the A, first string, fifth fret. And then... Watch. I'll tell you how you do that in a moment, but I want you to get these notes down. Look what I'm doing. I'm holding my fingers on the first string, fifth fret, fourth fret, third fret. And you play always alternating. One, two, three, four, five. Move it off one time. Then move it down here. And then you drop your D minor chord, which you know from the first lesson. You drop your D minor chord and you play the second string, third fret with your third finger. That's part of the D minor chord. And that's where you end that second part of the falseta. So this part sounds like this, beginning to end. Then do your rascato again. Here we go. Beautiful. Okay, so the first part of the falseta followed by the second part. Practice it slow and diligently. Rewind the tape. Here we go. First part. Second part. First part. Second part. First part. Second part. Good. Now I want you to practice that until you get that down before moving to the third part. The third part is by far the most difficult part, and you shouldn't attempt it until you have this part down clearly. Alright, now we're going to the third part of the falseta. The third part of the falseta is a long series of notes, and it starts with the second string, third fret. Follow me closely now. Second string, second fret. Second string, third fret. First string open. First string, first fret. Here's how the falseta proceeds. This is the third part of the falseta. The individual notes are as follows. Now I'm going to play that again for you. Alright, now rather than me going over each one of those, I want you to listen, and you have to be able to listen and to play. If your guitar is not in tune, go back to the first video, tune up your guitar. Because this guitar is perfectly in tune, you should be playing these notes. I'm going to go over them slowly, just playing them, not saying them. I want you to listen and try to play them now. Do not attempt this until you have the other parts done. The entire falseta is played like this. Now learn that, and you play that along with... with the roscato in there at the end, then do the variations. And you have a beautiful intermediate duende or faruca. Enjoy. Now we begin a new song, Greensleeves. A beautiful song from the early 10th, 12th century, somewhere in there. It started as a wassail song and became this beautiful tune, Celtic in nature. Basically, you know the chords. We're just going to learn to play no chord right now, just so you have the melody. There are many variations to this, and I encourage you to make up your own. But I'm going to play the song for you right now, very simply, and I want you to follow along. And I'll explain. This is Greensleeves. It starts with an A minor. Now that's it. Very beautiful, very simple. Only utilizing A minor, G, and C. A little bit of altered G. You have to play the G chord, and I'll explain with the third finger on the second string, third fret to get the melody. Now, here we go. I'm going to show you this briefly. Pay close attention. Do it step by step. Rewind your tape. It starts out in A minor. You play the third string, second fret. And then you pluck the fifth, fourth, third, and second strings together. You roll them. So we have... And what you're doing, of course, is using your thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers. So here we go. That's the first part. Now you take your little finger, your pinky, put it on the second string, third fret. Play the note only. Now, we're going to play a chord again. We're going to roll. But this time we're going to roll the fifth, third, second, and first strings, rather than the fifth, fourth, third, and second strings. Now we roll the fifth, third, second, and first strings. Up till now we have this sound. See what I just did there? Very simple. Play with me. Good. Holding the A minor chord still, you just reach over and play first string, first fret. First string open. Up to there. We move to the G chord. You play the G chord. But instead of playing the G chord with your third finger on the first string, third fret, you move it to the second string, third fret. And you roll, thumb playing the sixth string, four, three, and two. Roll them. Just like that. So thus far from the beginning. Here we go. That's the sound you want. Altered G chord. The next note after that is you take your finger off of the second string, third fret, and play the second string, first fret by reaching down with your first finger. So it's like this. The next note after that is open. All you do then is you take your finger off of the second string, third fret, and you just play open, second string, and then you roll, still in the G chord, six, five, four, and three. And your next rolling chord is six, five, four, three. Up to there. We're halfway through already. Here we go. Follow me. Beautiful. Holding the G chord, you now do an altered G chord again by moving your first finger to the third string, second fret. Play the note, and then you play the second string open, just a note. Okay, up to there. Now you go back to your A minor chord, and you play roll, five, four, three, and two. Roll. Putting your fingers inside the strings, you roll the chord. Okay, easy. So you roll that chord, and then you pluck this third string, second fret twice. But the second time, you roll it. Up to there we have this. This time you're only rolling three strings. You're rolling the fifth, fourth, and the third strings by using the thumb, index, and middle fingers, plucking them. Up to there again. Follow me closely. Take your time. Good. Up to there. We go to our last chord in this first A section of green sleeves. And all you do is you're holding the A minor chord. You take your finger off of the third string, second fret. You put your finger on the third string, first fret. You play the note, and then you play the third string, second fret again. Very simple. From the top now. That's where we are right now. I'm doing it again. Watch me. And follow slowly. Now the last part of this is an E major chord. You just move your fingers into E major. E major, I've shown it to you before. It's the first finger playing the third string, first fret. The second finger playing the fifth string, second fret. The third finger playing the fourth string, second fret. And so that's the chord you want to go to. Let's see how we go now from the beginning. Now on the E chord, when you go to the E chord, all you do is you roll six, four, three, and two. And you pluck the third string, first fret. And then you roll the sixth string, fifth string, and fourth string. So the E major chord is really easy. You just roll. See what I just did there? You roll six, four, three, and two. You pluck three. And then you roll with three fingers, six, five, and four. So here's how the E chord sounds. From the beginning of green sleeves to there. Beautiful. One more time. You know your chords well enough to follow me more quickly now. So follow me. If you have to rewind, do so. How pretty is that? One more time. Good. Now we go to the chorus of green sleeves. The chorus goes to a C major chord. You play the second string, first fret with your first finger. You play the fourth string, second fret with your second finger. And you play the fifth string, third fret with your third finger. Now we want to add the melody to green sleeves, so you have to take your pinky and put it down on the first string, third fret. And you roll fifth string, third string, second string, and first string. Five, three, two, one. And you get that sound. Remember to roll. Again, how do you roll? Hit the note with your thumb on the bass note. Five, three, two, one. And roll them like this. Talking them is okay, but rolling them is better for right now in green sleeves. The chorus to green sleeves you begin by putting the C chord down, adding the little finger on the first string, third fret. Here's the melody. You roll five, three, two, one on your strings. And then you play two notes. You take the finger off, you play the first string, first fret by flattening the first string right over your first finger. Right over the first string, first fret. And you play that, and then you play open E. Got it? Now we're going to change chords. We're going to change to a G chord with that D on top, the G with the third finger on top of the second string, third fret. So the chorus. Two more notes. Take the finger off, play the second string open, and roll. Six, five, four, three. Roll those. Six, five, four, three. Chorus to there. Just beautiful. Go slow, take your time. This is a beautiful song. You will not learn this overnight, but you can practice it, and you will have it in a couple days for sure. Remember, when you're playing the C, add that pinky, and then take it off and flatten the finger over the F note. First string, first fret. And then play the open E by taking that off. Move to your G altered. Take your G altered, take the finger off, and then play the second string open, and roll. Six, five, four, and three. Up to there. We're continuing now. Holding the G chord, you play the third string, second fret. Move your first finger over there. And then play the second string open. So we go like this. Back to the A minor chord now. Roll. Five, four, three, and two. Got it? And then pluck the third string, second fret, and roll. Five, four, and three. So up to there so far, we have... Beautiful. We're almost done. All we do now is we play... You take your third finger off of the A minor chord, replace it with the first finger on the third string, first fret. Play that note, and then play back again on the third string, second fret. We have it up to there so far. Last, go to your E major chord. But this time, it's not E major. You want to go to E major, but it's E minor. E minor is very easy. All you do is you take your second finger and you place it on the fifth string, second fret. You place your third finger on the fourth string, second fret. And all you do is you play... Roll. Six, four, three, two. Play three. Roll. Six, five, four. So up to there. Beautiful. Again. Again. How pretty is that? That's the chorus. Then you repeat that chorus again to that point. Now, instead of playing what you played just a moment ago, you just end it by playing A minor. Open. So there's A minor. Second string open. Take your finger off. Third string, second fret. And then you go to the E major chord. And here's the tough part. You roll. Six, five, four, three, and then you reach to the fourth string, fourth fret with your little finger. Pluck it. Pluck the third string, first fret. And then end in A minor. So the whole entirety of the chorus to Green Sleeves is this. All right, now the entirety of Green Sleeves from the beginning to the chorus. Then that repeats. Then you play A. And you end in A minor. I'm going to do that again. You have to learn this. Take your time. Go slow. Repeats, remember. A minor. E major. Reach. Now we go to the chorus. E minor. I showed you all the moves. What you have to do is take your time. It's very simple. What we're doing is playing individual notes and rolling and changing the chords. Practice this one a lot and you'll have a gorgeous song. And we'll do some beautiful variations on this and lessons to come. That's Green Sleeves. Okay, now we're going to try a little country Americana tune, a little country roots. And for the classical guitar you have to learn to do this with your fingers. And then in subsequent lessons I'll show you how to do this with a pick. But I really want you to learn how to play this with your fingers first so you have a much better facility with your fingers at the beginning. So let's learn Wildwood Flower. It's simply a very easy C major chord. Place your C major chord down there and you certainly know what that is by now. The second string first fret, the fourth string second fret, and the fifth string third fret. And we're going to alter these chords. Really watch these hands. We're going to play the following notes. Here's the melody to Wildwood Flower. It's very easy. You play the fifth string, fourth string, third string. How easy is that, huh? Okay. Then you go down, up with your index finger. Anywhere up here on the treble strings. Don't have to be exact, just play it. Got that? Okay, so then. Then you take your second finger on your C chord, you move it over to the third string second fret. So you take your second finger that you're normally playing on the fourth string second fret, move it over to the third string second fret. And what you do is you lift it off, play the third string, and hammer it on. This is a cool technique. All it is is you hit it open, lift it off first, hit it open, and then hammer it on. So here we go, so far. Good. After that, you take it back off, go back to your C chord, and play third string open, and the fourth string second fret with your thumb. And strum again. So up till now we have this. You hear that? You should be able to do this easily after playing some of the songs we just finished. Good. The next part is you're going to hammer on again. You're going to take your fourth finger and hammer on the fourth string third fret. But in order to do that, you have to pluck the fourth string second fret, let it ring for a second, and go, see that? So you hammer on, and then play the fourth string second fret. Up to there we go. Got it? Then we change chords. But before I change chords, I'm going to do that slowly one more time. One more time. Now we're going to change chords to G7. G7 is first string first fret, fifth string second fret, sixth string third fret. Play the fourth string. I know you're not playing, plucking the notes that you're holding down, but you want to hold the chord position anyway. That's for future reference. You want to hold this chord position so we can do some cool things later on. So you play the fourth string and strum. Up to there. Here we go. Got it? Again. And the last part is you hammer on the fourth string second fret by moving your finger from the fifth string second fret over to the fourth string second fret, but don't play it yet. Hammer it open and then hammer it on. Play it open, hammer it on, and then play it open. Up to there. Then all you do is play C, fifth string. That's the song. I want you to get this so it just rocks. So you play this thing and you think you're in the middle of the country. Here we go. Speed up. Don't worry about that. Just play the part we learned, okay? We'll get to that later. This is a pretty song and it gives you some sense of country roots and country roots music and learn to use this with your fingers and we'll use it with a pick later on, too. That's Wildwood Flower, lesson one. All right, now we're going to learn House of the Rising Sun. This was a great old folk song from the late 1800s, made into the rock, famous rock song in the 60s, and now you're going to learn it. It's a lot of fun. I've been playing this all over TV lately, and people love this song, and I hope you love it, too. The chords you have to learn to this song, you should already know. They're A minor, C, which you already know. Now D, you should know this one as well. You take your first finger for D major and you put it on the third string second fret. You take your second finger, you place it on the first string second fret. You take your third finger and place it on the second string third fret. That's D major. Keep that arch up. Keep this arch happening here like this. Don't play it like this. Bad habit. Put this under the neck, okay? So the three chords so far are A minor, C, D major. Now here's a chord you're going to have to learn. This is a chord that's not fun. You have to really practice it. It's F major, and you might as well start it now. This is your second video. You've got to learn to play this. You have to get that first finger hard. You place the whole first finger over the entire first fret. You press it together with the thumb. You can do some finger exercises like this or hold a little soft rubber ball and practice this to develop the muscle in here a little. So you can play these chords. Once you can play this first bar chord, you can do them all the way up the neck, and everything opens up to you. So you want to learn how to play F. Here's how you play F. Place the entire finger over the first fret, and then you play the E major position with the other fingers. So really what you're doing is you're putting this one down like that, then you're putting your second finger on the third string second fret. You're taking your third finger, you're putting it on the fifth string third fret, taking your fourth finger, putting it on the fourth string third fret. Play it. Beautiful. Once you can kind of jump to that chord, this is what you have to do. You have to practice these chords before you really learn this song. So practice these chords. I'm going to play them again for you. A minor. Just practice them like this. C, then E, then F. Then A minor again. Then C with the one finger. Then E. So you want to practice those chords like that in order to play this song. If you can't change those chords that fast, you need to practice them until you can, because it'll make learning this song so much easier. Okay? One more time on the chords. Play them with me. A minor. Two, three, four. C. D major. F major. A minor. C major. E major. A minor. C. D. F. A minor. C. E major. Good. Practice those chords until they're down pat. Then you begin to use your fingers and play this beautiful song. Here we go. A minor. You are going to be picking notes with your fingers. We're going to be picking the fourth string with your thumb and the fifth string. Do exactly that. And you place your first finger on the third string. You place your second finger on the second string. And you place your third finger on the first string. And so you're going to go like this. Pluck. So it's bass, bass with your thumb. Three, two, one, two. Got that? Bass, bass, three, two, one, two. Bass, bass, three, two, one, two. You're actually picking the notes with your fingers. This is the pattern throughout the song. It's very similar to this. Get this first one down in A minor. Bass, bass, three, two, one, two. Bass, bass, three, two, one, two. I'm talking about the strings now, not your fingers. When I say three, two, one, two, you're plucking three, two, one, two. You happen to be plucking the strings. Okay, the second part of this is... You put bass, bass, but these basses are different. You play now the fifth string open. Move to your C, fifth string, third fret. Three, two, one, two. So far... There we go. Again. Now two more basses. We're going to hit the fourth string second fret under the C chord. Then we're going to change to the D chord, hitting the fourth string open. And then three, two, one, two. Follow slowly. How pretty is that? And now we go to the hard chord, the F. You pluck the fourth string open. Move to your F, fourth string, third fret. Three, two, one, two. So you're in D. You play the fourth string open. Move to your F chord. Play fourth string third fret with your little pinky. Play your chords, your notes. So up to there, here we go. Good. Again. The next part now is you play the fourth string third fret in the F. We play the fourth string third fret plucking with your thumb. Go to your A minor chord. Play the fourth string second fret. And you pluck. Three, two, one, two. Up to there now, from the beginning. Good. One more time. Next, we play the fifth string open. Fifth string third fret into C. Okay, from the beginning. Your thumb under the neck. And you go to E major by playing two more bass notes from C. And you just play fifth string third fret to fifth string second fret in E major. And strum it. So the whole first part of House of the Rising Sun is this. Play a little faster. You're playing the last cadence, the last ending. The second time through, you just play A minor, E, A minor. You don't play the C. And that's kind of like, gives us a sense of finality. So here's the entirety. House of the Rising Sun with your fingers at the beginning. Here we go. Top to bottom. You should be able to play this no problem. Just E. That's the whole song. That's the beginning part of the song. There's many variations, beautiful variations you can play with this. And you can have some fun with this song. And we're going to learn these variations later on, but you need to get House of the Rising Sun, get these chords changed smoothly and beautifully so you can just relax and enjoy them. You have to get your calluses built up on your hands. You're in the second lesson now. You should be quite accomplished already. When you finish this lesson, you'll be ready to move on to some advanced things. So get ready. This is going to be a fun time. Let's enjoy playing the songs and playing the gift of guitar, the beautiful classical guitar. Hopefully it's a beautiful addition to your life. Let's get started. Let's get started. Let's get started. Let's get started. Let's get started.