Tempo di valse (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 17)

Ferdinando Carulli · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Classical · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

A solo guitar piece by Ferdinando Carulli, in E major and 3/8 time: a melody accompanied by the bass. 32 bars. Repeats are marked as in the score. 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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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.
• 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 Ferdinando Carulli

• Waltz, Op. 241 No. 1 (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 1)
• Waltz, Op. 241 No. 4 (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 6)
• Andantino and Andante, Op. 241 No. 5 (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 8)
• Tempo di valse (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 11)
• Poco allegro (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 20)
• Andante grazioso (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 13)

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