Songs · Guitar · Beginner
Andantino in C
Fernando Sor (1778–1839) · Andantino, one of Sor’s short lessons for beginners, as printed in A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole (19th century)
Guitar · classicalfingerpickingC major4/4 time32 barsstandard tuning
Arranged: Teddy Rook Book: Sor’s notes as written. In bars 17–23 the inner G (a third voice in the edition) is written into the tune’s part with ties, so it sounds as printed. Fingerings and accents left out.
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About this piece
A calm two-part piece: a tune in quarter and half notes on the top three strings, over slow bass notes played by the thumb. Let the bass notes ring for their full length while the fingers walk on above them. In the middle section the open G string sounds between the tune and the bass, like a soft bell; in the last part the opening tune comes back with a new ending.
What it practices
- a tune over a held bass
- rest strokes with i and m
- first position
- the open 3rd string as an inner voice
Chords in this song
C · C/E · F · G · G7 · G/B · Am · G7/D · G/D · C/G
Each link opens the chord finder with more ways to play that chord.
Where the notes come from
Mutopia Project edition (from A. Eggers’s Guitar-Skole, The Royal Library, Copenhagen; CC BY-SA 3.0 typesetting, the music public domain). All three voices read twice and compared with this file note by note.
How to practice with it
- Listen first. Press Play and follow along. The note being played lights up in the tab, in the notation and on the fretboard, and the chord being played lights up in the row of chord diagrams.
- Learn the chords. Press each diagram to hear it, then practice changing between them slowly.
- Slow it down. Use − and + to set the tempo. 60% is a good place to start; the notes keep their pitch.
- Loop the hard part. Under More…, turn on Loop, pick the bars, and play them a few times in a row. Count-in gives you a bar of clicks before it starts.
Click a bar in the music to start from there. Space plays and pauses. Left-handed? Turn on the left-handed view: the chord diagrams and the fretboard are mirrored to match your instrument. Tab reads the same either way: the top line is always the first (highest) string.