November 2009 \ Premier Clinic \ Rock \ Bach Partita No. 3

Bach Partita No. 3

Mike Campese arranges J.S. Bach's "Partita No. 3," a composition usually played on violin or classical guitar, for electric.
Premier Guitar November 2009
This lesson I will be showing you a composition by J.S. Bach called "Partita No. 3" that I've arranged for the electric guitar. It is usually played on the violin or on the classical guitar using the fingerstyle approach instead of a pick. This is a great piece to help develop and improve your picking technique and it will improve your coordination between both hands. I'm going to start by giving you a short excerpt to begin working on.

The nice thing about arranging a violin piece for the guitar is that you can work out your own positioning and fingerings and do it your own way. This piece is in the key of E major and it is in 3/4 time. The first section I gave you lays right inside the E major scale (E, F#, G#, A, B, C#, D#). There is some clever use of pedal point, and a little bit of string skipping. This can be found in in bar 3 between the D and B string, which can be challenging for your right hand at high speeds because you are skipping strings. Also, beginning at bar 9, there is some great pedal point and some string skipping. Be sure to play this whole piece using alternate picking and follow the fingerings supplied.

Download audio examples: Slow - Fast


That is it for this month! Be sure to practice this slowly to start, and then build up speed. Stop by mikecampese.com and say hi!

     

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Dan
on 11/14/2009 		Fun stuff, a nice little party for my fingers.
Dee-bluz
on 11/14/2009 		Now for a good reading exercise ,forget the tab and start using your own fingerings,try to incorporate open strings, try playing passages on 1 string,try playing the piece in the 7th position(less the low E) analyze it from the interval relation, and transpose to A or D(dropping the bass to D), for different feel swing the eighths as well as the sixteenths,do it as a jazz waltz, or 6/8 in other words don't just TAB this use it as a teaching tool, Bach was a genius and his cadences and extensions are all over music be it Pop,Rock,Jazz, or yes even Blues .
Robert Keeley
on 11/14/2009 		Yes, Yes PLEASE! More of this! Finish out the complete Partita kind editors and writers! Come-on Mike, more of this is would be so kind of you!!!
david
on 11/13/2009 		This is excellent!!!!! I hope you guys put much more content like this in you next issues!!



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