A prelude in D major with a sustained melody above triplet arpeggios. Tune string 6 to D; leave the other five in standard tuning. Also published as No.15 in La Guitarra, 1925. Play the twelve bars without repeats. The app adds a practice tempo of 48 quarter notes per minute and an opening p.
Skills to prepare
- Sustained melody and triplet arpeggios
- Three independent voices
- Natural harmonic and slurs
Before learning the piece
- App checkpoint: hold one treble note through two softer inner notes, five times. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: prepare a small barre before a treble note, five times without tension. Practise this skill.
- App checkpoint: sound five hammer-ons with only one attack each. 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
Hold the treble notes through the two inner notes of each triplet.
Phrase 2 · bars 3–4
Prepare the position shift after the high A in bar 3.
Phrase 3 · bars 5–6
In bar 6, keep the slurred notes as present as the plucked notes.
Phrase 4 · bars 7–8
Make the treble notes sing without pressing the inner arpeggios.
Phrase 5 · bars 9–12
Hold the chord tied from bar 10 into 11 without a new attack before the resolution.
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
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