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Première Arabesque

Claude Debussy · guitar tab

The first lines of Première Arabesque as guitar tab in TabCraft
The opening bars, as TabCraft shows them. Open it to hear it played, follow along, slow it down or change it.

Debussy's flowing early piano piece in E major, famous for its rippling triplets weaving against steady eighth notes, here with all four of its piano voices combined for one guitar. The triplets against eighths are kept exactly, so some beats are triplet values in the tab. A piano reaches far more notes at once than a guitar can, so TabCraft moves some chord notes by an octave to keep each chord within reach. About four minutes; slow it down to learn it.

  • Standard tuning
  • 4/4
  • 100 BPM
  • Triplets against eighths
  • Chord labels

Open Première Arabesque in TabCraft

Arranged from the Mutopia Project's public-domain edition of the piano score (Durand et Fils, 1904), typeset by Keith OHara.

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