In podcast episode 85, I talk with former classical guitar professor Keith Stevens. Greetings guitar engineers. to the guitar music theory podcast I am your host

Desi Cerna today I sit down and talk with Keith Stevens Keith used to teach

classical guitar at James Madison University in Harrisburg, Virginia.

And now he owns and operates Stephen School of Music in Troy, Virginia.

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enroll now at guitar music theory.com. You can click on the link and the podcast show notes. All right. Let's dive in. My guest today is Keith Stevens. He owns and operates Stephen School of Music and Troy, Virginia, check

out the website Stephen School of Music.com, and he's also a former classical guitar professor at James Madison University and Harrisburg, Virginia.

So it's Keith, welcome to the Guitar Music Theory podcast.

Thank you, Desi.

It's great to be here.

A long time, I've been listening to your podcast

using your books for a number of years now.

Awesome, well, so yeah, you had been listening to the podcast and I had been talking recently about my opinions about, you know, how we approach guitar technique and fingering and what types of rules we should follow if any and how

the technique that you use if you're playing,

you know, Jimmy Hendrik songs on a stratocaster is gonna be different than what you would use

if you're playing classical pieces on a nylon string guitar.

And so you actually sent me some emails in response to some of the things I'd been talking

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