Allegretto (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 15)

Matteo Carcassi · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Classical · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

A solo guitar piece by Matteo Carcassi, in A major and 3/8 time: a melody accompanied by the bass. 35 bars. Complete transcription from the Mutopia Project edition (source: Guitar-Skole af A. Eggers, The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek), Copenhagen, Denmark).

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• 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.
• Practise the bass alone (thumb), then the melody alone (i-m, or a with rest strokes) before combining the two voices; the melody must sing on top. Practise the hard passages separately and slowly before linking them.

More pieces by Matteo Carcassi

• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 1
• Two Minor Preludes from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — Prelude 2 in A Minor
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 2
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 3
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 6
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 11
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 13
• Preludes in Progressive Keys from Méthode complète pour Guitare (Op. 59) — No. 14

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