Tárrega's Capricho árabe, laid out by tonebase experts step by step. Practice demonstrations, detailed fingerings and exclusive lesson clips from Zoran Dukić walk you through every passage, from the harmonics of bar 1 to the final chord.
Track trailerWho this Track is for
This Track isn't for everyone — and that's the point. It's a focused path for one piece, one player.
You can already play — but you practice in circles, never finishing a piece
You want one real piece, learned properly, from first note to last
You're done piecing together random videos and guessing what's next
What you'll learn · the path
Each stop is one section of the piece. Open it at your instrument and everything you need is already there.
Learn to place the harmonics exactly over the fret and release them so they ring, shift through the slur passage with guide fingers.
Balance the melody in the right hand and set the left-hand shape down so the notes tie over. Grow the ascending scale toward bar 18 and learn to manage the stretch at the top.
Shift cleanly into the higher position, bring out the surprise dissonance, and secure the chain of slurs with a rest at every shift. Bars 23–24 then bring the same chords back under a new melody.
Join the passages you have built into one continuous theme, taking the fermatas and transitions at a tempo that leaves no rush. Then vary the repeat with ornaments and portamenti, and prepare the move into F major by reaching the index finger over the fretboard.
Our fingering keeps barre chords to a minimum, so you manage how much you press and use the wrist to increase your reach. A half barre lifted at the bar line catches the glissando, and the open G string simplifies bars 37–38 into a line in first position.
The F major theme returns and breaks out into a scale. Use the open strings exercices to shift the arpeggio between tenth, seventh and second position with the right hand planted, then keep the chromatic scale as one line, accenting every downbeat.
Learn the barre tricks that save your endurance in bars 45–48, shape the diminished arpeggio with its slurs, and land the slur chain with your eyes first. The theme then returns in pianissimo, played only with the nails for a glassy colour, before the arpeggio and glissando that close the section.
Play the final theme even softer than before. Then practice each seam between the sections until the joins stop feeling like joins, and play the whole piece from bar 1 to bar 73.
Who's guiding you
tonebase's Head of Guitar and a professional classical guitarist with 15+ years of teaching experience. He designed this Track and guides every step of it.
Professor at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, where he leads one of the most successful guitar classes in Europe, and a founding member of the European Guitar Quartet. He appears throughout the Track in exclusive lesson clips on Capricho árabe.
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