Alla Turca Part 1
Hello Friends! I know many of you really enjoy Paul Gilbert’s songs, lessons and videos. Well, I enjoy them too. So, I know that Paul use to play classical songs in his albums or teach classical exercises in his videos. In fact, he shows a lot of classical pieces in his DVD "Guitars for Mars". For that reason, I think it could be really cool to record a classical lesson.
I enjoy classical music like Bethoveen, Bach, Vivaldi, Paganini, Tchaikovski, and especially Mozart’s music. I don’t remember the first time I started to listen classical music, but I remember the first time I went crazy about the genius Mozart. It was when I saw the film "Amadeus", at the age of nine or ten, I’m not sure, and I think "Perfect!".
I have no words to explain what I feel when I heard his music, it’s really great, Mozart rules! I have my favourites masterpieces: "The Magic Flute", "Requiem", "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik", and the one I choose for the present lesson "Alla Turca".
For the lesson, I adapted the melody for a piano transcription to the guitar, I introduce a little variations and, in my opinion, obtained cool exercises for the left hand, because of the hard four finger’s work, and for the right hand, because of the alternative picking technique.
Well, I recorded the lesson in two parts. In this one, the first one, we can see two sections, the first one in the key of Am, and the second one, in A.
Tempo: 130 bpm
Hope you enjoy it. See you in the next one!
Pablo.-
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| This is the beginning. It’s simple. I played it all with alternate picking (up-down, up-down, etc. in all the strings).
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| It’s the same melody that in the first part, but I make a little change in the end to differ the first one from this one. |
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| Here we have another sweet melody. The difficult here is the "jump" in the third string to the fifth string. |
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| This one starts like the melody in the first and second part but the end is different. |
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| In this part we play the same melody than in the third part. Be carefully with the string jump. |
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| Well, here we play the same than in the Part 4. |
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| In this part the song changes the Am key to A. And here we are going to play the same melody in two different parts of the guitar. The first one in the first and second string combining alternate picking with a bit of hammer on and pull off and legato technique. The second one in the three first strings using only alternate picking.
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| We finish with the same melody than in the Part 7. There in only one difference in the last melody where I duplicated the picking on a couple of notes. |
Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments |
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Kristofer Dahl |
31st March 2008 |

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Superb Pablo - thanks! It's great to see that you are having a blast when recording as well!
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The Uncreator |
31st March 2008 |

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This is just the coolest Pablo!
Excellent job, Love this piece.
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seagull |
31st March 2008 |

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Hehe, we just analyzed this piece in school.
You just gotta love it.
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Martin la guitarra |
31st March 2008 |

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i love it, u gta do more classical lessons xD
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seagull |
31st March 2008 |

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In video 2 there is a little error in the tab.
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Where you're missing the the E on the 2. string, IE the 5th fret.
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superize |
31st March 2008 |

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Brillaint....I love this piece
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kaznie_NL |
31st March 2008 |

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Nice job man, I recognized it immediatly!
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seagull |
31st March 2008 |

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And in video 7 theres an error where the last note should be on the B-string as well instead of the G-string...
Tiny errors but just so that you know.
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Danilo Capezzuto |
31st March 2008 |

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Funny piece to learn Pablo, good for alternate picking too!
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Nobody |
31st March 2008 |

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Ah I love classical! Thanks, Pablo!! A really great choice for a piece :]
I'm starting this one right away :]
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Tuubsu |
31st March 2008 |

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Nothing like classical on electric! I already know this one though, I will learn your version, as its a little different in some places.
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at lights end |
31st March 2008 |

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cool
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DeepRoots |
31st March 2008 |

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Cool! My friend plays this on piano whenever im over- now ill bust out the guitar version..distortion to 11 !!
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Dejan Farkas |
31st March 2008 |

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Great tune, well done Pablo
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Marcus Siepen |
31st March 2008 |

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Great lesson Pablo, too bad that you were faster than me, I also thought about doing this one
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Pitch_Black |
31st March 2008 |

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Awesome lesson Pablo!
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Bogdan Radovic |
31st March 2008 |

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I love this piece , awesome job !
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Jon Lambo |
31st March 2008 |

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Brilliant Pablo, I'm so glad u posted this. U should do a series of this type of stuff for songs of all the legendary composers. Can't wait for part 2!
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Muris Varajic |
31st March 2008 |

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Great piece,great lesson!!
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Jerry Arcidiacono |
31st March 2008 |

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Great lesson Pablo. I love the piano on the backing track
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Nick325 |
31st March 2008 |

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awsome
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Nick Kellie |
31st March 2008 |

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very nice pablo! made me smile
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Juan M. Valero |
31st March 2008 |

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yeah, I love this song !!!! hehe, actually I know to play it, I don't know why I didn't think in record a lesson  hehe, well done mate
Excelente, le voy a echar un ojo a tu arreglo =)
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Hisham Al-Sanea |
31st March 2008 |

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nice piece ..Pablo ..good work man
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Trond Vold |
31st March 2008 |

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Nice
Seems like you had alot of fun doing this
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Ivan Milenkovic |
1st April 2008 |

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Great!
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PacmanProductions Reborn |
1st April 2008 |

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omg i had this tune stuck in my head all day!!!! so i was about to go to UG to find a tab for it and here it is!!
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Luciana Segovia |
1st April 2008 |

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Wow!... i want to play that on the piano!!!- lovely lesson Pablo!.... rock on classic music!!!!! jajajajaja!
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Nemanja Filipovic |
1st April 2008 |

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great lesson ...
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Joe Kataldo |
1st April 2008 |

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Ahhhh the mighty Mozart, Great Arrangement for lead guitar cool
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deWeLL |
1st April 2008 |

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I love it. It's the perfect difficulty to train the cooperation of my ring finger and my pinky.
In the 7th video seems to be the last note on the wrong string, isn't it?
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Pablo Vazquez |
1st April 2008 |

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Thanks guys!! Please, excuse me for the mistakes... With gabe had a lot of problems the day I recorded the lesson. I will work in it.
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Toni Suominen |
2nd April 2008 |

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Excellent work Pablo!
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Pablo Vazquez |
5th April 2008 |

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Thanks toni!
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Canis |
6th April 2008 |

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Great lesson! Learned me better control of my pinky =)
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Pablo Vazquez |
6th April 2008 |

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Hey! Thanks canis!!
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krudtaa |
9th April 2008 |

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Great lesson man. Mozart rules.
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Pablo Vazquez |
13th April 2008 |

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Yeah! Mozart Rules!! Thanks for the comment!!
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Carlos Carrillo |
19th April 2008 |

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very cool lesson Pablo!!!!!
great job!!!!!
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Pablo Vazquez |
23rd April 2008 |

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Thanks carlos!! Tus lecciones tambien lo son...!!
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