One day, 3-4 years before, a friend of mine gave me a piano exercise book, about 40 years old (Carl Czerny - 100 Piano Etudes), but back then I didn't know my notes, so I stacked it out back somewhere until I can read the notes well, and understand it.
Well, actually I almost lost the book, until I found it a year ago, and realized that thee is an enormous amount of material in it to study. And the most interesting thing is that the music in that book is very interesting for guitar, even though it's made for piano! Some of the compositions can be arranged very metal-ish for guitar and an alternate tuning Bass (Czerny uses a lot of the very low tones in the bass line), or arranged for a guitar to play the piano left hand. You can even have some great software to play the midi bass line for you, that's really great, I tried it. One very beneficial thing is that almost every guitar exercise out there is kinda all the same and follows a pattern...and by transcribing piano lines you have something new and different. In one Etude you have alternate picking, tapping, melody, speed licks, GREAT CHORDS AND POWERCHORDS that are more powerful! And the most important, you learn new stuff, new positions, harmonic lines, resolving tension tones...there are unlimited reasons to study classical piano music. One extra cool thins is that Czerny's Etudes I worked on until now, all have a range of tones in their left hand part playable by a 24 fret guitar, like my Ibanez.
For starters, I transcribed one of Carl Czerny Etudes form his "Op. 299 - School Of Velocity" that I find very attractive for playing, there is a tapping part and there are some really complicated chords in the second part. My guitar is tuned one step lower, so the backing track I made is that in D too. I also provided the Guitar Pro 5 file and the midi file. so you can try it out if you want.
Below are some instructions and links to files...hope someone likes this, I will have more soon, as I have finished one more Etude but I am working hard on the best fingering, since that Etude is very fast and alternate picking.
Instructions: 1. The backing track begins with two inserted notes, 1/4 value, just to give you the hint of the tempo, since there is no drum track.
2. There are no those extra notes in the midi...you will have to manage them yourself
3. I put a Viola to play guitar line, just to remind you what to play, and the bass line is Piano, software I used is Edirol Orchestral, which I strongly reccommend.
4. You have extra instructions in the GP file, since I did the fingering all by myself, but only for the guitar line. LoL, where the heck can I get a 6 String Bass and who would let me detune it to A1 (that's veery low )...
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