i spent some time learning the tremolo and then tackling recuerdos, i think in theory
its a simple melody, and not to difficult to learn, but i dont often play it when practising cuz i find it quite demanding to keep up a tremolo for 5 mins,so without regular practise of it i tend to slip up cuz my hand tires, i prefer the shorter tremolo tunes anyway, personally i think the pain of big stretches and prelonged non-standard barring with the added difficulty of a complex melody or counter-point found in the segovia 20 studies (sor), the most `all-round` taxing songs to learn, but if u spend enough time on any tune u should crack it eventually, just be dedicated,
cheers.

this topic has to be put in context (or at least A context). `hard` can be relative, somone with short fingers will have dificulty with streches but might excel at tremolos, for example.

my idea, at least, of `hard` has to serve first the music then the technical aspects of achieving the expression you want to achieve when playing a peice.

A good example is taking peices written for guitar (not lute) by guitarists, basically peices that are idiomatic for the instrument, like anything by tarrega, guiliani, carulli, sor, and other guitar composers can be technically difficult at times but no where near the difficulties that you will see with music from albeniz or bach. not becasue albeniz was trying to write something `hard` but becasue he wrote for the piano (even though most of his works sound way better for the guitar). more so with bach`s lute suites. remember, they are lute suites not guitar suites, and the lute is a period instrument with a ton of open strings which made it `easy` to play the sustained notes that you see in almost all the pieces but nobody ever bothers sustaining them. So someone like john williams zooms through all the suites in record time, it sounds `good` but the music is totally lost, what he plays is not what bach wrote. im not taking anything away from this technicaly aptitude, im just trying to highlight that technical proficiency doesn`t always mean you can properly play all the `hard` pieces.

the most difficult piece ive seen a single guitar player, playing solo is Jason Becker playing his interpretation of Paganini`s 5th Caprice, thats in the terms of a classical piece. there are other guitarists like Shawn Lane that have some really complex stuff. i was wondering if anybody could recommend to me any piano pieces along the lines of Beethoven`s Moonlight sonata for listening please?

well, Tarrega and Albeniz I say is not that hard really. I don`t know the answere myself.

One must be aware of the distinction between Electric Guitar with a pick, and Classical guitar with your nails and fingers of course.

The most difficult aspect of classical guitar playing is tone production and right hand technique. Phrasing and dynamics while interpreting the best.

Electric guitar and Classical guitar just does not compare. Further, Flamenco like Paco de Lucia does not compare with Segovia, nor does it compare with Joe Pass. Each style does not compare unless you are playing fusion.

Of course, I love Segovia, Steve vai, Joe pass, and Paco de Lucia.

No style/ genre is better then another by no means.

Meanwhile, I wish I knew what the hardest peice was for Classical guitar with Classical guitar technique. Then I could start on it now and perhaps be able to play it ten (10) years from then. haha.

there was a classical guitarist back in the 70`s who wrote a piece for his daughter`s wedding that was considered the most difficult piece ever written but his name eludes me. sorry

anything with muscial notation. lol

If you think recuerdos is difficult then you need to study more! What about "changes" by Carter? or Invocation and Dance, by Rodrigo, or Regondi Etudes, or Anything by Castelnuovo Tedesco; what about cinco piecs by Piazzolla? or Anything by Rodrigo? try the Turina sonata- these are hard pieces.

Well, well, look who`s having a nice little debate. Bedroom experts! "Well I can easily play Albeniz AND Tarrega AND the Chaconne. Guitar isn`t difficult at all. All you need is the be perfect like me, blablabla... I am such a virtuoso that I spend my all time on the internet pretending I am a great guitarist, blablabla... "

Come on! Is that a big farce?
Even Segovia never achieved any tremolo properly.

i think that asturias is little hard and de arnajus 2 but receuordos de alhambra and caprico arab is 2 hard and there r a lot of tangos and traditional spanich
and not to forget gipsy kings they have a lot of hard pices

I believe the hardest piece of music is infact not heard by any of us i feel the hardest piece to play is one that only very few people throughout the world have played and been unable to mass produce it we would like to think there is a hardest piece for guitar but in reality...we can`t properly justify our opinions..
`I love all the music i have not yet heard, until perhaps i hear it`

anyone ever heard el colibri(humming bird) by segreras. That is a difficult peice

Concerto de Aranjuez is pretty tough. It is loooooong (don`t be a wuss by playing only the 2nd movement), and includes things like a forteForteFORTE barre on the 11th fret, combination rasguado interdigitation, and the like. It is at least 50x harder than Recuerdos de Alhambra (there is no difficulty at all in the left hand in this "tremolo study"), and 10x harder than Leyenda. If you can play Aranjuez, then you will have no difficulty at all with Leyenda, and Recuerdos will seem outright simple.

But the hardest song to play is Bonner`s arrangement of Handel`s Courante for one guitar in standard tuning (listen to it on John Williams` "Echoes of London" (two guitars), and imagine the whole thing being played on one guitar). Unless you have big hands and are left-handed, you can pretty much forget it...stretches from 2nd fret to 7th fret, etc.

>>Well I have to say the >>one and maybe the most >>difficult piece for >>classical guitar in my >>opinion is "Recuerdos >>de la Ahlambra" by >>Tarrega...
shoule be:
Well I have to say the one and maybe the most difficult piece for BEGINNERS of classical guitar in my opinion is "Recuerdos de la Ahlambra" by Tarrega...

"Gaaaaaaawly, Sergeant Carter, yah think these country hayseeds know squat about the guitar?"

"No, Pyle, only drooling idiots would ask such a question and post such ridiculous answers. Yah see, Pyle, only if you can play a substantial part of the professional repertory could you possibly answer this question, and if you could play a substantial part of the professional repertory you surely wouldn`t be on the internet conversing with a bunch of uncouth dweebs. Careful, Pyle, don`t step in the drool on the floor."

Frickin` morons.

for people like myself who have only been playing for a year or two, i find albeniz leyenda and sevilla to be quite challenging.
i think of these pieces as my personal everest, which also inspire me to keep practising.