Excerpt: the first section's eight bars, up to the repeat, to prepare small barres and sustained voices in Tárrega. The full lesson continues beyond this excerpt. The ornaments are retained. The app's practice tempo is 48 quarter notes per minute.
Skills to prepare
- Small barres and sustained voices
- Slurs and ornaments
Before learning the piece
- App checkpoint: sound a small two-string barre five times without squeezing your thumb. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: play five even slurred pairs without plucking the second note. Practise this skill.
These checkpoints belong to our learning path. They do not set a deadline for your progress.
Tablature and fingerings
The six lines represent the strings, with high E at the top. Numbers show frets; 0 means an open string. The letters p, i, m and a indicate right-hand fingers.
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Your phrase-by-phrase plan
Work on a short passage. Aim for five clean attempts in a row, then connect two phrases. Bar numbers follow our transcription, including a separately numbered pickup where applicable.
Phrase 1 · bars 1–2
In bar 1, hold the open bass for the first two beats.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
In bar 3, keep the small barre at VI under the first slurred pair.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
In bar 6, keep the ornament as light as the melody.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
In bar 7, set the small barre at II for the last beat without tensing your thumb.
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Lesson · This is Classical Guitar
Before the excerpt, review how to place a barre; this general video does not teach lesson 31.
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