Francisco Chaves

The hardest skill for any musician to learn – How to find your next guitar piece?

While it’s certainly easier slapping a tuner on your headstock and obeying the flashing series of lights, learning to tune your guitar by ear comes with an incredible amount of benefits. Here's how to get started!

Why is it Andrés Segovia never played Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez? Did it led to the creation of another brilliant concerto with a somewhat ironic title? Francisco Chaves explores the research that answers these questions!

We all know it’s important to practice scales. Yet convincing ourselves simply to pull out the metronome can often seem like a huge hurdle in itself! Here are a few ways to reframe scale practice to make it more fun and helpful long-term.

Francisco Chaves shares a helpful tip for making large challenges more manageable with an effective guitar method called “chunking.”

Francisco Chaves discusses the late Julian Bream’s revolutionary contributions to the classical guitar world.

Composer and classical guitarist Francisco Chaves shares his top 4 tips for musicians looking to get their feet wet in the world of composition!

While its intimacy is one of the reasons why we love the classical guitar, it can present a challenge when playing with other instruments. Francisco Chaves shares an affordable classical guitar amplifier that solves this issue.