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Preludio from the Suite in E major

Johann Sebastian Bach · guitar tab

The first lines of Preludio from the Suite in E major as guitar tab in TabCraft
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Bach's brilliant moto perpetuo, from his own lute version of the violin Partita No. 3 (BWV 1006a): a bright, non-stop stream of sixteenth notes over a bass that rings on open strings, in E major. It's 138 bars of fast, clean playing, and one of the great showpieces of the Baroque guitar repertoire. Slow it down to learn it.

  • Standard tuning
  • 3/4
  • 112 BPM
  • 138 bars
  • Running sixteenths

Open Preludio from the Suite in E major in TabCraft

Arranged for guitar by Hajo Dezelski, from the Mutopia Project, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; this arrangement is shared under the same license.

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