Eight bars in D major for keeping a flexible melody above bass support. No.10 is the number on the Alier sheet; this piece also appeared as No.14 in La Guitarra, 1925. The triplets fill two beats per bar; the last bar ends with a quarter rest. The app adds a practice tempo of 48 quarter notes per minute and the dynamic p.
Skills to prepare
- Melody in triplets
- Barres and position shifts
- Slurs and bass voices
Before learning the piece
- App checkpoint: keep the melody prominent through two softer bass notes, five times. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: move a small barre between two positions without squeezing the thumb, five times. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: play five slurred pairs with one attack per pair and an even volume. 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
Count three equal notes on each beat, even during shifts.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
At the end of bar 4, slur A to C on string 3.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
Place the bass notes without making their accompanying chords harsh.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
In bar 7, connect A and G with two gentle attacks on their respective strings.
Watch and listen
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Lesson · This is Classical Guitar
General video: review a gentle attack and a clear melody; this lesson does not teach this prelude.
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Sources and transcription choices
The notes follow the credited sources. Fingerings, phrase divisions and practice tempos are editorial learning choices. How our transcriptions work.