Moonlight Sonata (excerpt)


This is a segment from Moonlight Sonata, where you hit a series of arpeggios all over the fignerboard. Yes, it does go up to the 19th fret!

The original piano composition was in C#m, but this came from Francisco Tarrega's guitar version written in Dm. It was written in drop D tuning but here I wrote it out in standard tuning.

Meter is 12/8 or 4/4 with a triplet. Essentially there are four beats (as indicated by |) per measure and each beat has three notes. I don't know how you pick but down-up-down-up.... should do. It is a slow tune but I see this as a great exercise fro dimish arpeggio.

Here we go.....



   C#dim7                     Dm
   |     |     |     |        |     |     |      |
-------------0-0-3-0-6---9-|----------------10---13-10---|
---------2-------------8---|----3-------10----10------10-|
-----3-----3---------------|------2-10----10-------------|
---2---5-------------------|--3-------12-----------------|
--(0)----------------------|-(0)-------------------------|
---------------------------|-----------------------------|
   E BbG C#BbE E G E BbG C#   F D A F D A F D A  F  D A

   Ddim7                            C#dim7
   |     |      |        |          |     |     |       |
---------7---10----13-10-16----19-|-------0---3-0-------9----12-|
-----9-----9----12----------18----|---2-----2-----11------11----|
---7---10-------------------------|-0---3------------12---------|
----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
   D G#F B G#D  B  F  D  G# F  B    G C#BbE C#G E Bb G  C#Bb E

   C#dim7                      C#dim7
   |       |     |     |        |     |     |     |
---9-------0-3---0-----------|--------------------------|
--------11-----2-----2-------|--------------------------|
-----12------------3-----3---|--0-------------0-----0---|
-----------------------5---2-|------2-----------8-----8-|
-----------------------------|----4---1-4---7-----7-----|
-----------------------------|------------3-------------|
   C#G  Bb E G C#E BbC#G BbE    G C#E BbC#G E G BbE G Bb

   |     |     |.......
----------------------------
----------------------------
-----0-2-3-2-0--------------
---------------etc etc etc
---4-----------------------
----------------------------
   C#G A BbA G