Preludio Saudade 12-8-09 (Barrios)
This is the discussion page for the live webcam lessons for Agustin Barrios’ La Catedral – Preludio Saudade. This is the first of three movements, look in the “Piece” and “Live webcam lessons” sections for the other movements. The first video is a recording of the whole piece, followed by the webcam lessons. The sheet music, tab document, and Powertab file for this piece can be found here, right click to save these files. When posting questions/comments, please mention which video your question is about. Enjoy!
preludio saudade sheet music/ tabs pdf document
preludio saudade powertab file
LA CATEDRAL
Lesson 1
La Catedral – Preludio Saudade lesson 1 from classicalguitarblogger on Vimeo.
Lesson 2
La Catedral – Preludio Saudade lesson 2 from classicalguitarblogger on Vimeo.
Lesson 3
La Catedral – Preludio Saudade lesson 3 from classicalguitarblogger on Vimeo.
Lesson 4
La Catedral – Preludio Saudade lesson 4 from classicalguitarblogger on Vimeo.
Hints on Preludio Saudade: This movement is pretty simple and attainable to intermediate players. There are a few tough fingerings in the left hand, as well as sections that require a lot of flexibility. In the right hand, for 90% of the piece you will pluck the strings in freestroke in this pattern:
Ring finger plays the first E string
Middle finger plays second B string
Index finger plays third G string
Thumb plays fourth D, fifth A, sixth E
This pattern is different in measures 29, 42, 43, but in all others stick to the pattern. There is a melody line on the first string from measures 1 – 37 and then the melody line jumps to other strings. The melody line is a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note. Try to highlight this melody line in your playing by making it nice and loud and make it ring continuously.
March 7th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Dear Jesus
You are doing great job teaching classical music to the masses. I really appreciate all your help and guidance with which I have managed to learn the Lagrima, Etude, Romace,etc.
Keep up the god job my friend and if you have time please put up some instructions for Recuerdos De La Alhambra. I am looking forward to the day when I am no longer a student and can donate to the good cause.
March 8th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Hello Ronak, I’m glad people are learning from my videos. I am doing Recuerdos next in my weekly Webcam lessons, so check it out real soon.
March 8th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Much obliged my good friend.
I hope you would include some instructions/tips/exercises for mastering the tremolo which is the at the heart of the piece.
Thanks once again.
July 19th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Hi Jesus,
I enjoyed your video lessons a lot, especially the instructional lessons of La Catedral I, II, III and Recuerdos de la Alhambra. Unfortunately, after a few weeks since I saw them on your website, they disappeared! Please doublecheck and let me know where I can find them again. Many thanks for your time and assistance. I wish you big success with your ongoing effort!
Luan
PS: Below is the website I’m using and no longer find the lessons:
http://classicalguitarblogger.com/blog3/2009/12/03/preludio-saudade-12-8-09-barrios/
July 19th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Hello Luan, I’m glad you are enjoying my lessons. Where are you from? I have checked this page and all the videos appear and play like normal. I have noticed in the past that people in foreign countries (outside USA) have some problems viewing my website, but this issue is temporary and fixes itself. Everything is working fine, and all the videos and tabs/files are working and viewable for free as always, so just keep checking and hopefully you will be able to see my website in a few hours/days. Thanks.
July 20th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Hi Jesus,
Many thanks for your propmt response. I live in Vietnam so what you said might be right in my situation. I hope, as you said, everything will be OK very soon and I can see again the lessons online. Currently, I’m watching your videos of “La catedral – Preludio saudade instructional lessons” on Youtube and unfortunately, there are only 3 lessons covering from measures 1 to 12!
I have also tried to find some good instructional lesson on “tremolo” but haven’t found anything comprehensive enough. I’ve also tried your “techniques” section and it looks like your lessons on tremolo are sort of “appetizers” and there might be more somewhere in the section that I couldn’t find (Please correct me if I’m wrong!). I really appreciate it if you could show me some more of the “tremolo techniques” on you website or recommend me something else online!
I think what you have done on your website is exceptional and I wish more and more people will find it a huge help for their interest in classical guitar and endeavors to improve their playing skills!
Regards,
Luan
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Hello luan, I hope that you are able to view my website again soon. You can contact me directly as well through my email at jman81@classicalguitarblogger.com
Regarding tremolo, I have a technique and exercise video to learn this technique, but you are right in that it doesnt go into too much detail. However, I believe that just by viewing these videos and reading the tips, that it should be enough to learn the proper way to play a tremolo. What I suggest is for you to watch these videos and also look on youtube for additional tremolo instructional videos and see what works best for you. I do not have any video recommendations of others, however. Good luck, and thanks for visiting my website.