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SHREDDED METAL

MOZART’S ‘RONDO ALLA TURCA’

If you’re a heavy metal guitarist, it can be easy to fall into the trap of only listening to and learning metal music. A great source of new ideas and inspiration is to study ‘classical’ music composed for instruments other than guitar. For this issue, I’ve transcribed a short excerpt from the well-known Mozart piece ‘Rondo Alla Turca’ written for solo piano. I’ve arranged the main melody of right hand piano part for electric guitar (with distortion), making only a few slight variations to the original.

EXERCISE 1

There are a number of key practice and performance points to note about this excerpt. These include:

Hear Exercise 1

As always, you can hear my recording by heading to www.australianguitarmag.com.au. If you dig playing this excerpt, you may wish to keep learning the rest of the piece yourself (the sheet music is readily available online). Until next time, keep shredding!

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