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This month's music is a Prelude by Anton Diabelli. Diabelli played both guitar and piano and died one of the richest musicians of his time due to an interest, then ownership of a publishing house...

This particular classical guitar piece is great for practicing arpeggio chords. The other name for an arpeggio chord is a "broken chord". That just means you are playing one note after another in a quick sequence rather than all the notes together in a strummed chord.

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You can see the pattern of p i m a m i repeats throughout the entire piece except for bars 8 and 24. This makes it more predictable and less likely you'll make a mistake as you play through each arpeggio chord. Additionally, the piece is in twelve-eight time. This just means that there are 12 x 8th notes in each bar, or 4 dotted quarter notes per bar.

If you're playing slowly through this free guitar lesson you would count: 1 2 3, 2 2 3, 3 2 3, 4 2 3 in each bar to get the feeling of the "pulses" within the music. It also means it easy to follow the beats within each bar.

To add further interest and musicality to the piece Diabelli has included a very interesting sequence of chord changes that make the ear "sit up and take notice", as it were. This includes diminished chords and 7th chords which differ from your run of the mill everyday chord changes.

Another point of interest is that the key is in G major, which means all F notes are played sharp unless otherwise indicated throughout the piece. You can see in bars 9 and 15 that the F# has a natural sign on them which highlights my point. This effect makes the piece both melodically and harmonically more interesting and exciting, especially in Diabelli's time where they weren't exposed to the degree of dissonance and chord variance.

There is also a small amount of barre practice, namely: a half barre in bar 6 and a full barre in bar 15. As a "heads-up" you need to be careful to prepare BEFORE you move to those positions because there's every chance you'll "fluff" the notes if you don't.

In bars 8 and 24 I've used the left hand fingering of the second finger on the G note on the bass E string and the 3rd finger on the G note on the E 1st string. This is so you can "slide" from the previous position from the D chord with as much ease as possible. You are actually using guide fingers to do this.

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