l'Arabesque (25 Etudes faciles, Op. 100, No. 2)

Learn this piece

Composer

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller

Level

Advanced

Key

A minor

Metre

2/4

Tempo

152 BPM

Length

33 bars, about 1 minute

Hands

both

Trains

Quick 16th-note turn figures answered by a light eighth-note tag, alternating with a lyrical dotted-quarter melody, over a steady broken-chord left hand in A minor - finger agility and voicing a short melodic cell cleanly at a scherzando tempo.

How to practise it

• Bars 3-6 climb with the same rhythm: four quick 16ths and a short eighth. Keep the 16ths light and even, lift off on the staccato eighth, and loop them at 100 BPM first.
• From bar 12 the quick figure moves to your left hand, forte, under a long right-hand tune. Practise the left hand alone in bars 12-17 so its 16ths are as clean as the right's.
• In bar 32 both hands run down together, an octave apart. Loop bars 31-33 slowly and listen that both hands land on A at the same moment.

Where this score came from

Licence: Public domain

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=203

Credit: Typeset by Bas Wassink for the Mutopia Project

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