This challenging piece from Heitor Villa Lobos features a series of ascending and descending arpeggios, each repeated twice. Though written for classical guitar and meant to be played finger style, we can of course play this piece pick style.
We will digest the piece several bars at a time. In the end, you will likely find that your arpeggio skills are far beyond where they were when you began. It will just take some patience!
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In part 1 of this guitar lesson, we looked at the opening 4 measures of Etude 2. Those measures featured some arpeggios that involved rapid position shifts up and down the neck as well as more localized arpeggios. In these next 4 measures, it is all about rapid position shifting.
Above is the tab for this guitar lesson. Measure 5 starts with the same A Major arpeggio that starts the piece off. From there it goes to an A Minor arpeggio. The next 2 measures involve a similar switch from a Major to Minor arpeggio, this time going from E Major to E Minor.
As you can see, these measures feature a great deal of position shifting. Indeed it is this shifting that poses the greatest challenge of the piece.
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