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Bailongo (A Long Baile) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). A Baile is a traditional dance form from flamenco music. Pujol turns it into a South American piece. Difficult in this piece is counting with the syncopation while you still have to stay on the beat. The end result is a

Pasan y Pasan (They keep passing by) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The name says it all, the piece is made up of a number of repeated patterns. In this piece you need concentration on the right hand fingering in a finger-picking pattern. This becomes extra difficult in the variation

Eléctrico (Electric) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The 12/8 time already suggests it: This is a piece with a clearly swinging bluesy atmosphere that would not be out of place on a steel string guitar. The ornamentations -slides on two strings- require some practice and the chords require attention. In

La Juana is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The title looks like a woman’s name, but the dictionary gives me the translation marijuana or weed. This sheds a different light on the piece and therefore also makes the term “fleeting pieces” clearer. 😉 When you’re already high, heaven is closer. The

Cíclico (Regularly Recurring) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The title suggests a repetition of patterns. That’s right, a fairly simple chord pattern is developed into repeated fragments with different rhythms. It is important to maintain the pulse carefully despite these differences.

Buen Augurio (Good Omen) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The piece has a syncopated melody on a drone bass. For variety, there is a triplet-like rhythm variation in the middle section. Play with dynamics in the melody and let the basses sing well in bars 13 – 20. I noticed