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!

In the previous parts of this guitar lesson we saw a variety of arpeggios each repeated twice. In this third guitar lesson of the series, we look at a transition section of the solo. This transition section features an ascending E Dom7 arpeggio followed by a descending scale run in A Maj. This scale run is a perfect segue to the next section of the solo, which returns to the A Maj arpeggio that we saw at the very beginning of the piece.

Above is the tab for this guitar lesson. Measure 9 features a B Dom7 arpeggio. From there we have an ascending E Dom7 arpeggio followed by some ascending scalar lines. In the middle of measure 11 there is a descending scale run in A Major.

This section is certainly difficult and you'll want to practice slowly and build up speed as you become comfortable. The piece doesn't get any easier. The next section features another series of repeated arpeggios, some of which require some tricky fingerings to execute smoothly. We will look at the next several measures in the very near future!

As usual, I recommend listening to other musicians' renditions of this piece. It might give you ideas you wouldn't have otherwise thought of. Rhapsody is a great way to explore music. Click here to get a free 14-day trial of Rhapsody

Later,

Brian