I played Rhythm guitar, Bass guitar, lead and backup vocals professionally for 35 years. Trying to make a long story short, I always had a deep appreciation for music theory and classical music as a whole. Seemed to be the only music I could listen to high on acid when I was a young troubled youth, this inadvertently helping me with music formatting and voice/vocal arrangements. But what solidified classical music and classical guitar for me as a foundation for my musical journey came from the most surprising meeting with a certain person in Huntington Beach California in the middle 80's. I had come to LA from Denver Colorado to get my start in the business in Hollywood and was already booked and an accomplished Rocker so to speak. A bunch of us from other bands were on the Huntington Beach Pier in between gigs, just hanging out, playing guitar and watching the woman skating by ❤ I had a pretty nice Epiphone 12 string dreadnought and we were jamming out pretty good. Later in the afternoon a skinny guy, looking like a Rocker like the rest of us, came up to me and asked if he could play my 12 string. Sure Man I told him. Gave him a beer and smoke a bowl. Then my life musically was changed forever ♾️ This skinny, cool looking dude proceeds to play a classical Venezuelan Waltz on my 12 string, didn't miss a note, and it was one of the most wonderful pieces of music I've ever heard in my lifetime. He finished, we played some other stuff, hung out and had a great time until he had to go. I learned a lot about structure and got some great ideas for myself going forward. He said he was playing the Whiskey later that night and invited us to come see the show. Some of my friends went, some of us stayed at the beach chasing women and rocking out. 6 months later, I hear a new act and recognize the guitar I'm hearing. Eddy Van Halen hung out with us on the beach playing music with us, and was inviting us to come see Quiet Riot before he was to leave the band and start his destiny with Ozzy Osbourne. I didn't get lucky that night, drank too much beer and smoke too much weed probably. Every now and then I kick myself in the ass for that and it has made me work that much harder to be a good musician and a worthy performer. Classical music and the Black Man's Blues are what Rock and Roll are all about. I've enjoyed the journey and passing on the craft to those coming up now. I'm very glad to hear your gift and I'll be looking in on you from time to time.

Great video as always. I especially liked the part about maintaining the motion in the 1st study. My problem with Giuliani's studies have always been the chords used. In theory, it's about right hand technique, but to me, the left hand fingering is awkward. The G7 chord takes a lot of practice for me to nail fluidly, making it a left hand study. Not necessarily a bad thing, but seems to me to make these more difficult than it needs to be and takes my focus away from the right hand.