PAUL MANSELL (AVCM)
Guitar & Ukulele Teacher
 Tel : 07910 216566    pauldcmansell@gmail.com

One of my classical guitar students from Northampton lent me this lovely Cordoba Mini II Travel Guitar last week. I posted a picture of it on Twitter and then had a load of people saying 'ooo that's nice can we hear it being played'. So here it is. I am playing a lovely piece called 'Sons De Carillhoes' which is in Drop D tuning (ie the lowest string, normally tuned to an E , is lowered to be tuned to a D). The title means 'Sounds of bells' which is lovely. I must say its

So I finally got round to doing some more video's and here is one of them. This is a beautiful piece called Mi Favorita - Marurka. A Mazurka is a Polish dance tune. Strangely this piece does not sound very Polish at all, it sounds a lot more Spanish I think. It is rewarding to play as it has a strong melody on the top E string, which means you can add quite a lot of vibrato. The melody is catchy but there are a few unexpected parts which add to the piece. I hope you enj