Classical guitar education

The classical guitar is today a standard instrument that can be studied at music universities and conservatories. Numerous education publications are available, from guitar-related books, to musical style, etc.

There are also institutions that offer worldwide graded music exams

Music examination

Music examinations are a method of formally assessing the accomplishments of pupils learning musical instruments.Although there are music examinations available to school and university students alongside other regular qualifications and assessments, there are also a number of independent bodies...

. Examples include:

• ABRSM
  Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
  ABRSM is an internationally recognised educational body and charity that provides examinations in music The organisation, based in London, UK, runs exams in centres all over the world...
  
  : graded music exams from Grade 1 to Grade 8, or advanced diplomas
• Trinity College London
  Trinity College London
  Trinity College London is an international examinations board based in London, England. TCL offers qualifications across a range of disciplines in the performing arts and arts education and English language learning and teaching...
  
  : graded music exams from Grade 1 to Grade 8, Music Certificate Exams , or advanced diplomas
• etc.

Articles which consider graded exams in the context of the classical guitar have been written by the EGTA (European Guitar Teachers Association).

Music Pedagogy

Classical guitar pedagogy also includes music pedagogy. Relevant publications from John Sloboda

John Sloboda

John Sloboda was Executive Director of the Oxford Research Group, an NGO that seeks to develop non-violent approaches to national and international security issues, from 2005-2009. He is currently Director of ORG's Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict programme...

 and others exist, which consider e.g.

• Psychology of Music
• Philosophy of Music
• Music Education
• etc.

Students studying music pedagogy usually receive access (via their learning institution e.g. university) to searchable online journals (e.g. via JSTOR

JSTOR

JSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

, ProQuest

ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...

) which simplifies to process of locating relevant data, studies and citations for their own research.