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beginning Dvorak standard tuning
Anthony Dvorak (1841-1904) was a classical composer
from Czechoslovakia. He had a love of traditional folk music, and it permeated his music. He lived
in New York City from 1892 through 1895 and spent at least one summer vacationing in Spillville, Iowa,
which was a Czech community. It is stated that he wrote a large number of etudes and "part songs" which
is where this piece might have come from. I learned this piece as a child and think it's a beautiful
piece of music that has a lot to offer to the student guitarist in the way of dynamics. It has a completely
different feel to it than any other piece in this book. The first and second measure of line two I find
particularly beautiful. It's a very simple motif going from C to a- and has a very regal resolution.
Little pieces like this can really open the mind to understanding the intimacies of the guitar.
There
are two sections "A" & "B" to this tune. In the second part, I think there's good practice to be had
with the F wrap-around chord. The wrap-around F chord is probably one of the hardest things for my students
to pick up. Keeping the thumb down on the first fret of the 6th string at the same time as covering
the 1st and 2nd string with the index is very difficult. In this piece you don't have to keep your index
down at all times. You can let the melody dictate the moves of the left hand, letting the index finger
go back and forth between the first and second string as needed, but make sure you keep the wrap-around
thumb in place. This is a delicate piece of music, and should be played light touch. There are highs
and lows in this piece. Let it bring you back in time to when things weren't quite as fast as today.
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TABULATURE
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MP3s....a fast and slow
version. Listen to the fast
version a few times to
get the feel of
the tune.
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