Piece for Guitar

[Kevin]

Overlooking Salisbury Plain - Acoustic Guitar.pdf (53.74 KB)

Is this playable Adrian?

[Joseph]

I was able to make all the fingerings anyway . . . so I expect it is playable (I know you didn't ask me, just thought I'd comment). J

[adrianallan]

Nov 12, 2013 13:14:02 GMT Kevin said:

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Is this playable Adrian?

Yes it all is

But bar 17 and its return a few bars later is very unidiomatic.

I think you want the melody with an e minor arpeggio style pattern below it. It can be done a lot more simply and effectively if that is so and you want a suggestion.

[adrianallan]

Nov 12, 2013 13:14:02 GMT Kevin said:

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Is this playable Adrian?

Ok I took the liberty of having a go at bars 17 and 18

As far as I can see you have a bar in E minor and then a bar in B minor.

The arpeggios below the melody in those tow bars are very awkward.

A lot of people think that a guitar arpeggio is like a piano arpeggio where you can sweep up and down 1 3 5 8 5 3 1 etc

Unfortunately you just cant.. the accompaniment has to fit around the guitar chord that are being held down for the bar.

So there are two meanings of arpeggio in the guitar world

1.the 1 3 5 8 things we have to learn for music exams
(yes, guitarists have to learn these too, but they are little used! I for one would advocate guitar chords being a test on music exams instead, as they are far more important and the 1358 arpeggios are often not at all like guitar chords, an altogther different beast.

2, the style of plucking based on a chord, eg the piece romanza is in the arpeggio style of guitar playing, but listen to it on youtube, the accompaniment is never 1 3 5 8, but is based on guitar chord shapes that are hard for non guitarists to second guess.

So unless you are precious about the counterpoint made by your arpeggio accompaniment in those two bars, my version works better. guitar example.sib (29.63 KB)

[Kevin]

Thanks. I will look at that tomorrow.