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Deuxième Arabesque

Claude Debussy · guitar tab

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Debussy's playful second Arabesque in G major: quick triplet sixteenths tumbling over a light, bouncing bass, with a sparkling, scherzando mood. Both piano staves are combined for one guitar, so TabCraft moves some chord notes by an octave to keep each chord within reach. The triplets against eighth notes are kept exactly, so some beats are triplet values in the tab. About four minutes; slow it down.

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

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Arranged from the Mutopia Project's edition of the piano score (Durand et Schoenewerk, 1891), typeset by Knute Snortum, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; this arrangement is shared under the same license.

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