This is one of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ famous classical guitar study. It says a arpeggio study in the subtitle of the manuscript. It sounds like a study for right hand. This confuses me for quite a long time. I find out that the notes in each measure landed at terrible places. It makes me very hard to execute right hand arpeggio and I even doubt it this is a arpeggio study. There is almost no fingering on the score. It makes the left hand fingering awfully hard to figure out. There are lots of possibilities to play one single measure.
This video was recorded in on January 24, 2010. (my 6th try)
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Guitar: ROMERIGO 01, 罗美里哥 01（2008试制版）
Strings: LaBella 2001 Classical MHT (very old strings, the winding metal of the 4th string is broken at the 4th fred)
Microphone: Sony ECM-MS907
I keep changing both my left hand and right hand fingering through out my learning process. The previous 5 videos are the prove. I can’t say my fingering is finalized in the video, but it’s workable so far. It depends on what I want to practice & improve. I may still keep changing over time.
My current focus is a-m-i-p and p-i-m-a coordination on different “string-groups”. That means, sometimes, more than 1 stock on the same string, but the right hand still keeps the arpeggio fingering. There are some unusual string-crossings when I keep doing this way. There should be ways to improve it. But I’m keeping this fingering for my current practicing purpose.
At the last note of the 4th measure, I play a D the 1st time(I think it should be a D, the same as the 2nd note of this measure), then an E the 2nd time(It says on VL’s manuscript), because I’m not sure if there is a human mistake on Heitor Villa-Lobos’ manuscript. As a practice, my fingering ensures that it can be easily performed in both ways. I hope someone can prove what note it suppose to be.
The following videos are the previous practicing recordings:
3rd
4th
5th
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Hello from Barcelona (Spain).
I like very much your play style.
So clean and precision! ;^)
Can you send me a emial with a “tab” of this “dangerous” piece from Villa-Lobos?!
And can you indicate left and rigth hand finger?
Thank You Very Much!
Hi Kiko,
Thanks for your comment.
I still made a lot of mistakes on this piece on this video due to technique problem. It will take me forever to practice. I believe there is plenty of room to improve.
Villa-Lobos’ music is still under copyright low protection. I can’t publish the “tab” with both hand fingerings. If you are practicing this piece and having any problem with fingering, please feel free to contact me. I’ll be glad to share my work.
This is a famous classical guitar study. It should not be hard to find it somewhere on the web or a guitar music store.
Good luck!
Joe
nice playing…
Hi !
nice to meet you
i have problem !
Could you send me your fingering
you are great …
Thanks for your comment.
I’ll try to find my copy and scan it to email you.
Joe
Thank you!you are great.What guitar do you use?
Dear Joe
see your guitar work via this site, appreciating your performance, would you kindly send me the fingering of the Villa Lobos No2? I have another copies but the fingering is not completed.
Really apprecaited your reply
Ben
Hi Ben,
Thanks for visiting my site.
I can’t publish the fingering with the score because the score is copyrighted. If you have question on certain measure, I think I can post my fingering here without the score. Just let me know which measure. I’ll check it out.
Joe
if you could email me your fingerings for both hands it would be awesome
you play really well
Hey ! Incredible playing !! You have a lot of talent !
Could you send mi the ” PIMA ” pattern please??
I have tried to break it down but i am a little confused though
Thank you
Thanks for your comment!
I haven’t touched my guitar for almost a year now. I know, I’ve lazy…
Please let me know which measure(s) you have problem with. I’ll try to explain.
Joe