A first melody in C major for preparing your fingers without lifting them too far. This movement will help with Tárrega's bass and melody lines. Play each eight-bar section twice. The app's practice tempo is 60 quarter notes per minute.
Skills to prepare
- Fingers close to the strings
- Reading in first position
Before learning the piece
- App checkpoint: play eight open-string notes at an even volume, three times without tension. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: play frets 0–1–3 on string 2 five times without losing the pulse. 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 your index finger at fret 1 on string 2 for both beats of each long note.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
Prepare your little finger at fret 3 before leaving fret 1.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
Keep your fingers close to the strings when you return to the opening pattern.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
Prepare fret 2 on string 1 before the last beat of bar 7.
Phrase 5 · bars 9–10
Keep your little finger close to fret 3 while playing open string 3.
Phrase 6 · bars 11–12
Prepare fret 3 on string 4 before the last note of bar 12.
Phrase 7 · bars 13–14
Keep your middle finger close to fret 2 on string 4 during the string change.
Phrase 8 · bars 15–16
Place your ring finger at fret 3 on string 5 before the last bar.
Watch and listen
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Lesson · This is Classical Guitar
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Sources and transcription choices
- Sor Op. 60 No.1 — Verlag Gitarrefreund, 1915, Boije 1002, p. 14; public domain
- Musik- och teaterbiblioteket — Boije collection catalogue
The notes follow the credited sources. Fingerings, phrase divisions and practice tempos are editorial learning choices. How our transcriptions work.