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Recuerdos de la Alhambra Guitar Tab

Composer
Francisco Tárrega
Year
1896
Key
Am
Time
3/4
Tempo
76 BPM
Difficulty
Difficult · ★★★★★
First note
E4

Recuerdos de la Alhambra on guitar

The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: E A D G B e (standard) · Strum: D - DU

eBGDAELament (A minor)Am003Am113Am000Am001C336C556eBGDAEC888C888Am887Am557E7544E7444eBGDAEDm665E7335Dm311Dm111Am003Am113eBGDAEE7100E7000Consolation (A major)A003A223A000A000eBGDAED777D101011A1100A000A101010E7998eBGDAEA700A000Dm777A660E7077E7067eBGDAECodaA555Dm607E7600A7

Francisco Tárrega (1896) — archival melody adapted for ukulele — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

Recuerdos de la Alhambra is in Am and the tab opens on E4 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.

Play it well under around 76 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 118 notes across 40 bars, from A3 up to D5 in 3/4 time.

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