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This month we return to the classical guitar treasure trove that is ‘Tour de Force’ Matteo Carcassi’s 25 Études Melodiques Progressives Op.60. Over the last two years I have explored Etude No.1 (GT331) and No. 23 (GT342) which covered a myriad of core techniques including scale-based melodies, slurred and crossstring descending arpeggiation, as well as efficiency of fretting-hand finger placement. Etude No.7 is a bootcamp for tremolo and broken chord arpeggiation so with that in mind the accompanying exercises focus on the plucking hand, building up a smooth and stable tremolo technique.
“To learn a Carcassi etude is to tap into the origins of the classical guitar since this music was being written at the beginning of its rich history”
Carcassi wrote hundreds of pieces for guitar in his
