Earlier this month, I posted a link to a wonderful article on the Modern Guitars site about your basic bread-and-butter jazz players. Today, I discovered another similar article by Dr. Matthew Warnock on classical guitar.

Though many of us know the basic history of the nylon-string guitar, and may own one and play it from time to time, most of us are probably not aware of the impact that classical guitar and classical guitarists have had on modern music. We may take for granted that tablature is a fairly modern way of writing for guitar, but it might surprise you to know that tablature is an invention of classical guitar composers, one that dates back to the early fifteenth century. We can also thank classical guitarist Andrés Segovia for helping invent the modern synthetic guitar string, which was made from wound animal gut up until the early twentieth century. Some of this century’s finest popular musicians have drawn influences from classical guitarists, jazzers Johnny Smith and Lenny Breau, and shredders Yngwie Malmsteen and Randy Rhoads to name a few.

This classical guitar music primer explores six of the most influential classical guitarists from the past 100 years and guides the reader to resources for further study and listening.

Great stuff.