A line in the low register makes the thumb steady before you tackle Tárrega's bass lines. Repeat the first eight bars, then the following sixteen. Strings and fingers are adapted to first position. The app's practice tempo is 60 quarter notes per minute.
Skills to prepare
- An even thumb
- 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 the thumb's volume unchanged as it moves from string 5 to string 4.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
Play the last two eighth notes in bar 4 with a thumb as light as for the quarter notes.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
Keep the thumb steady as it reaches the treble strings in bar 6.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
Keep the bass soft before returning to the beginning after bar 8.
Phrase 5 · bars 9–10
Give each bass note the same weight with the thumb.
Phrase 6 · bars 11–12
Keep the thumb steady through the descent in bar 12.
Phrase 7 · bars 13–14
Keep the same volume when the bass moves down to string 6 in bar 13.
Phrase 8 · bars 15–16
Play the descending eighth notes in bar 15 without making the thumb heavier.
Phrase 9 · bars 17–18
Keep the thumb steady through the two eighth notes in bar 17.
Phrase 10 · bars 19–20
Keep the same volume on the altered bass notes in bar 19.
Phrase 11 · bars 21–22
Keep the last two eighth notes in bar 21 as even as the earlier ones.
Phrase 12 · bars 23–24
Let the thumb finish gently at fret 3 on string 5.
Watch and listen
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Lesson · This is Classical Guitar
Watch the lesson before practising the first phrases; the video includes a performance.
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Sources and transcription choices
- Sor Op. 60 No.3 — Verlag Gitarrefreund, 1915, Boije 1002, p. 15; 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.