Tempo di marcia (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 21)

Johann Kaspar Mertz · Level 4 (Intermediate) · Romantic · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

A solo guitar piece by Johann Kaspar Mertz, in F major and 4/4 time: a melody accompanied by the bass. 18 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. Settle all fingerings first (both hands), then raise the tempo step by step.

More pieces by Johann Kaspar Mertz

• Etude in A minor
• Andante (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 4)
• Andantino (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 5)
• Andante (Studies in Style No. 3) (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 7)
• Adagio (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 9)
• Cantabile (A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, No. 12)

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