Prelude in D minor, BWV 999

Johann Sebastian Bach · Level 5 (Advanced) · Baroque · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

The “little prelude” for lute, transcribed in D minor: an unbroken sixteenth-note arpeggio above the open-D bass.

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Each bar is one chord: read the harmony before the notes. Thumb bass and fingers i-m-a must stay even, with no stray accents.

More pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach

• 14 Canons - 1 (BWV 1087)
• 14 Canons - 2 (BWV 1087)
• 14 Canons - 3 (BWV 1087)
• 14 Canons - 4 (BWV 1087)
• Menuet in G (BWV Anh. 114)
• Lute Suite BWV 997: 1. Prelude
• Lute Suite BWV 997: 2. Fuga
• Lute Suite BWV 997: 3. Sarabande

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