Description

These short Preludes for guitar are intended to illustrate a particular technical point or points. It may be either technical or compositional or both and I would have to say that I have been influenced by Tarrega’s Preludes which he wrote mostly for his students and so have called them Preludes rather than Studies. I learnt Tarrega’s pieces such as Adelita and Lagrima early in my study of the guitar and always enjoyed their nature as both technical exercises but also performance pieces. I have tried to emulate that with these pieces. They are not easy to play but equally not insurmountable with a good basic technique. If in doubt you will find all the techniques you need in my three volume publication The Art Of Accompaniment On The Guitar. I have given considerable technical guidance both in fingering and the use of different strings as these pieces are intended to be instructional.

These Preludes and their companion volume of Six Studies offer a number of ways to approach arranging for guitar so should be useful to composers and arrangers and not just guitarists.