The volume ends with over thirty “Estudios Complementarios”. The fourth volume includes many effects, such as tambora, rasgueado, more advanced use of harmonics and tremolo, trills, etc, etc. The student who works through volumes one to three should have little fear of professional scores. There are thirty nine full studies and many short exercises. The third volume intensifies the study, using the full range of the fretboard.

The volume ends with twelve studies and a duet. The second volume gets down to playing the instrument, with many exercises for both hands, covering individual movements of the fingers and thumb, the Barre, chords, arpeggios, scales, independence of finger movements, slurs, harmonics, and tuning the 6th string to D. The first volume provides much useful information on the guitar – its physical make up, the thickness of the strings, the use of the turnavoz, the notes and intervals on the fretboard – and the techniques of both hands. English translation of first three volumes by Editions Orphee) is a four-volume treatise. The Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra (pub. Pascal Roche, in the third volume of his tutor (see Technique) provides an interesting insight into Pujol’s manner of playing: “the brilliant Miguel Llobet, the delicate Pujol”. So much so, he dedicated his life to forwarding, through his books and teaching, the principles of technique he learned from his master. Emilio Pujol was transfixed by Francisco Tárrega‘s playing.

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