Detached scales, thumb responses and arpeggios over sustained bass notes prepare you for changes of voice and position in Tárrega. The complete study has 43 bars without repeats. The app's practice tempo is 80 quarter notes per minute; the source says Allegro.
Skills to prepare
- Detached scales
- Thumb passages
- Arpeggios and position shifts
Before learning the piece
- App checkpoint: play eight even eighth notes with two string changes, three times without tension. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: hold a bass note through a three-note arpeggio five times without cutting it short. 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
Keep the detached eighth notes just as even on the way down.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
Let the sound fade without slowing the descent.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
Stop the bass before continuing the scale on the bass strings.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
Let the thumb follow the scale without pushing the last notes.
Phrase 5 · bars 9–10
Prepare position V before the high ascent in bar 9.
Phrase 6 · bars 11–12
Keep the thumb as light as the fingers in the bass response.
Phrase 7 · bars 13–14
Keep the pulse through the two scales moving in opposite directions.
Phrase 8 · bars 15–16
Keep the same tone when changing bass strings.
Phrase 9 · bars 17–18
Give each detached eighth note the same length.
Phrase 10 · bars 19–20
Keep the altered notes as even as the notes around them.
Phrase 11 · bars 21–22
Let the half-note basses ring under the eight eighth notes.
Phrase 12 · bars 23–24
Keep the melody gentle above the sustained bass notes.
Phrase 13 · bars 25–26
Keep the same pace when the line descends again in bar 26.
Phrase 14 · bars 27–28
Keep the thumb light in the bass response in bar 28.
Phrase 15 · bars 29–30
Prepare the barre at VIII in bar 30 with a relaxed arm.
Phrase 16 · bars 31–32
Hold the bass notes through the three notes of each arpeggio.
Phrase 17 · bars 33–34
Let the bass ring under the three treble notes in each group.
Phrase 18 · bars 35–36
In bar 36, hold the low F with your index finger and play the high C with your middle finger.
Phrase 19 · bars 37–38
Keep the eighth notes even through the ascent in bar 38.
Phrase 20 · bars 39–40
Lower the volume without slowing the descending passages.
Phrase 21 · bars 41–42
Count the rests in bars 41–42 with the same pulse.
Phrase 22 · bar 43
Let the final chord finish before the last rest.
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Lesson · This is Classical Guitar
Listen to the detached scales and the melody moving into the bass in this lesson on the study.
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Sources and transcription choices
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