classical guitar

I. Introduction: The Problem of the Fifth Finger Open any standard classical guitar method — Aguado’s Escuela of 1843, Pujol’s four-volume Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra of the early twentieth century, Scott Tennant’s Pumping Nylon of 1995 — and you will find a right-hand technique organized around four fingers: the thumb (pulgar, p), the index…