Update…

Hi everyone… I’ve posted before that I haven’t made any tabs lately because I was busy recording a CD with my band, SITCOM… Well, finally the CD is ready!! You can listen to some of our music at our myspace page. I’ve also made a blog about the band (sorry, in spanish only for now…) that you can see here.

We’ve also just recorded our first video, of the single “Ambas”. It’s in post production right now, I’ll post it here when it’s ready!

TAB: Prelude in C minor (Preludio en Do menor)

By: Agustín Barrios Mangoré

New version:
This is a version with some corrections suggested by reader Ted

>I was listening to “Preludio en do menor (in C minor)” played by John Williams
>while going over your tablature for the piece and I noticed a few, small mistakes.
>I know you made this tab a long time ago and I don’t know if you’re still interested in it,
>but I took the liberty of correcting the mistakes if you are interested.
>I’ve attached it to this e-mail as a Notepad document.
>
>I also changed the fretting of the last chord in the song to make it more simple,
>but it is your tab and your site so of course you are free to keep it your original way.
>This is just how I play it and taking into consideration the chord that this piece starts with,
>it seems to make the most sense if it is ended in the same region.
>Anyway, that’s all. Take care.

His version is at the end of the file Thanks Ted!

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This is a beatiful prelude in C minor by the master Agustín Barrios Mangoré. The song may sound easy, but being in a somewhat uncomfortable key for the guitar makes it quite challenging. The trick is making it sound simple and accentuating the melody.

I’ve been prominsing to add left hand fingering to the tab since I made it 8 (!) years ago, so I’ll try to work on it this weekend.

Enjoy and comment! Do you like Barrios as much as I do? =o)

Prelude in C minor tab

Update

 Hi everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t made any classical tabs lately, this year I’ve been pretty occupied recording a CD with my band, it should be out very soon. The music is a mix of Rock, Jazz and Blues. I’ll post soon with some pictures of the artwork of the CD and hopefully a song or two. Thanks for visiting!

Aquiles Báez Documentary

I’ve commented before that as a thesis for my mass communications major at “Universidad Católica Andrés Bello”, I made a 22 minute documentary about the great guitarist Aquiles Báez (you can read the whole story on the “La Casa Azul” tab post)

I’ve finally uploaded it on YouTube, for everyone to see. One little thing, it’s in spanish. If you like it, please drop me a line!

Español:

Les había comentado antes que como tesis de grado para recibir el título de Comucación Social en la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, hice un documental de 22 minutos del gran guitarrista Aquiles Báez (pueden leer la historia completa en la página de la tablatura de “La Casa Azul”)

Por fin coloqué el documental en YouTube para que puedan verlo. Está en español. Si les gusta, ¡escribanme!

WELCOME!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Classical Guitar Home Page, now in a blog. Why a blog? It’s a lot easier to update than my old geocities page (located at www.geocities.com/giancian, it’s still there if you never visited it, it looks quite ugly now =o)

Since I don’t have a lot of time to update, I’m doing this experiment of keeping in touch through this blog. For now, I’ve posted the latest versions of all my tabs here. I hope to continue adding stuff, in the meantime, please leave your comments!

Last but not least, I want to thank the HUGE following the Classical Guitar Page has had over the last years. I took a peek at the hit counter and could not believe it (the main page has 170.000+ visits, and the whole site is nearing 700.000 visits!) Thanks for all your kind emails and posts,and keep them coming! I may take a little time to reply, but I try to reply to all of your messages. Please write to this new address: giancian+classicalguitarhp@gmail.com.

Thanks again, and enjoy!!!

TAB: La Casa Azul

By: Aquiles Báez

“Thanks for putting my music on the web” (Aquiles Báez)

There’s a great story about this tab. I made this in December 1997 and posted it to my page in Geocities. Aquiles visited my page and loved the tab, and wrote me an email, thanking me for it (Aquiles was born in Venezuela but lives in New York)

About a year later i saw him at a concert here in Venezuela, I approached him to say hi, and he instantly knew who I was. We then talked regularly through email and at his concerts.

Fast forward to 2004. I was looking for a subject for a documentary I wanted to make as a thesis for my Mass Media major. I contacted him, and he was very happy about it. I spent from December 2004 to July 2005 recording him at concerts, at home with his family, etc.

Aquiles and me playing “Preludio Criollo” at his house in Coro

I then edited a 23 minute documentary out of everything. The happy ending is that I got the highest grade on my thesis!

My thesis partner and the jury (Henrique Lazo and Carlos Caridad)

 

In December 2005, the documentary was nominated for the VIART awards, an award made especially for student films and that accepts submissions from all Latin America. Although I didn’t win in the “Best Documentary” category, I won the “People’s Choice Award”!!!!!

 

The “People’s Choice Award”

 

The documentary was picked up by a nationwide channel for transmission!!! (VALE TV) and was broadcast on May 2006 (on mother’s day, you should have seen my mom!)

It was a great experience… The best thing is that now Aquiles and I are great friends!

 

Aquiles and me at my house

So here it is, “La Casa Azul” from one of the greatests venezuelan guitarists, Aquiles Baez. It can be heard in his CD “La Casa Azul” along with other great pieces and arrangements of Venezuelan and international music.

La Casa Azul

UPDATE: Watch the whole documentary in YouTube by clicking here.

TAB: Vals op.8 no.4

By: Agustín Barrios Mangoré

A great and challenging waltz by the great Barrios.

Vals op.8 no.4

TAB: Usher’s Waltz

By: Nikita Koshkin

This waltz is written after the Edgar Allan Poe story “The Fall of the House of Usher” where a man becomes gradually crazy and only has a guitar to confort him. This waltz becomes gradually crazy just like the man in the story, I hope you enjoy it. It’s somewhat difficult, if you’re a beginner, I don’t recommend it. This transcription took me a lot of time, so i hope you like it.

Usher’s Waltz

TAB: Vincent’s Theme

By: Nobuo Uematsu

This is an arrangement for guitar of Vincent’s Theme, from Final Fantasy VII. It’s very strange but cool sounding.
Vincent’s Theme

TAB: Sunshine Rag

By: Andrew York

Another great song by Andrew York. This one is a rag, and it’s very fast! It has some tricky parts but it can be learned easily.

Sunshine Rag

TAB: Romance

Anonymous piece

This is an excellent piece for begginers. It sounds great and its easy. Recommended for those starting in the classical guitar field. It was featured in the film “Jeaux interdits”.

Romance

TAB: Sor’s Study No.13

By: Fernando Sor

This is the 13th study from the “30 studies for guitar by Fernando Sor”. Please notice, it’s number 13 under Sainz de la Maza’s numbering, i don’t what’s its number under Segovia’s numbering.

Sor’s Study No,13

TAB: Tango en Skai

By: Roland Dyens

A great tango by the XX century composer Roland Dyens.

Tango en Skai

Tango en Skai (w/some corrections)

TAB: Choro da Saudade

By: Agustín Barrios Mangoré

This is a very technically demanding piece. There are several BIG stretches of the left hand throught the song that are very difficult to do without a lot of practice. These can easily be defined as one of the greatest choros ever composed.

Choro da Saudade

TAB: Romance

Anonymous piece

This is an excellent piece for begginers. It sounds great and its easy. Recommended for those starting in the classical guitar field. It was featured in the film “Jeaux interdits”.

Romance