Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach - Tocata Electric Guitar guitar tab
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:16:04 -0800 (PST) From: Cristian "'S?crates'" Franco Subject: b/bach_johann_sebastian/tocata.tab TOCATA & FUGUE In D Minor (J.S. Bach) (1685 - 1750) Transcribed by S?crates. NOTE BY S?CRATES: *********************************************************************** This is a composition which I suppose that many of you know it, those that they don't know it I'm sorry for them, because it is a very difficult composition and it is indispensable know the theme well in order to could play it. In a beginning I was going to publish the score, but I don't have a score editor that is used for me this so complicated composition. I have the score for piano, to which I transcribed to guitar with somemodifications, but as I don't have a scores editor, I won't still publish the score for guitar, so if anyone has a good program to publish scores, I would be appreciated it enough, so I could publish the score, that I think that is very important for this play. This piece, such as its title indicate it, is separated in two parts which they is the tocata and the fugue, in this tablature I will only present the TOCATA, since it is the simplest part and more short, the fugue is a very long and complex part. The piece in total continues about 9 minutes, I think that the part of the TOCATA should be around 3 minutes, it is very short but is really complicated to playing. The piece is in 4/4, and each line of tablature represents a compass, except at the end. The tempos are varied, you begin with "Adagio with gravit?," this is very slow, then "Presto", "Allegro" and "Prestissimo", but in fact you could give an arbitrary tempo which you think its more comfortable. When I post the score, I will put on the correct tempos. In fact I just transcribed it for guitar, trying to use the known techniques so that it is a fewer complicated perform the composition, but it equally is complex. You will realize along the composition to the variety of techniques that I used for the transcription, such as tapping, ligatures, sweep picking, etc. Here it goes...have fun:) Legend: ~ = vibrato \/ = slide down-up = Artificial Harmonic ^ = legato t = tapping tr = trill TOCATA ~~~~~~~~ ~~ |-17-15-17-------\--3-1-0----------5-3-5-----------------| |-------------------------3--2-3-------------------------| |---------------------------------------------------2----| |---------------------------------------------2-3---0----| |-------------------------------------------------4------| |--------------------------------------------------------| ~~~~~~~~~ Let ring....... |--------------------------------------------------0-----| |-------------------------------------3---------2--2-----| |-2^0------------------------------2-------3----3-----| |-----------------5-3-2---------------0-----5------5-----| |------------------------5-4--5-----------4--------4-----| |--------------------------------------------------------| ...... 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