Mauro Giuliani was one of the giant guitar heroes of 18-19th Century from Italy. He was a contemporary with Beethoven. It is said that Giuliani played the cello in the orchestra when Beethoven premiered his 7th Symphony in Vienna.

The third variation of Master Giuliani's La Folia is a great exercise for arpeggio and bar chords. For the right hand, practice carefully the "planting" by placing the finger tips...

This is a left hand finger twister! It will be easier to play this on the electric guitar, clear pronunciation on the nylon string guitar is tricky!

The theme was written in two-part counterpoint. This variation is mostly single line, but it sounds like two parts are talking to each other like "question and answer".

In this part the theme gets one more voice, and is more difficult than the first part, but still an easy one. Also, it is a good exercise for right hand fingers.

This is first part of Mauro Giuliani's Sonatina OP 71, No. 1, Mov. 1. It is the easiest one.

Le Papillon (or La Farfalla) means a butterfly, I play this piece to evoke the feeling of butterflies, with soft touch and lively. Also, I play it in a way to sustain notes a bit at ends of phrases (sostenuto), and to let them to really end before I start the next phrase.

Theme from Mauro Giuliani's "Variations on a theme of Handel" on acoustic guitar.

Exercises for the right hand finger picking, grouped into similar rhythmical patterns.