I have been playing it almost every day that I pick up the guitar, often more than once. It is a perfect warm up exercise. In the past, I used it for speed. Lately I play it more slowly, eliciting as nice a plucky tone as one can get from a 12-string.
Today I'd like to concentrate on one of the early difficulties in this piece, measure 15. As you can see below, it requires holding the lowest f while barring the top 3 courses of the 5th fret. This is difficult on a classical guitar, very difficult on a 12-string guitar, and now, for me with arthritis or something in my left hand, almost impossible.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-Y0HkIoecJ5AI744VXPScEf1bbSsIQpYU3dLRHI7uwvGnYcLR4hTPS9ACpUfk-r5ahjWAXyhX-2kcAqgIjpQijBADUSvtUcKcxP3i0rHTcEzTzKp88oVK8x9y4dy4RXfS5jpnhglZj4/s320/measure15.png)
One day a light went on behind my eyes - why not let the octave strings do the work?!
A little work, and I came up with this:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5EI3lrZikeawnpMumsgCL0p-CIMTPFwQnukP6Y-yPzoQemnAtCFwpJQw3LpJ83yB7RJKA65v5a3hfva1b56xSqPIJwEGbBrxRvg_qXPFgva6SDUySlnwS663xm-UAUOxH7wfifNpZP44/s320/measures15to17revised.png)
Much easier.
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