Harrison Birtwistle - Guitar and White Hand (for Silas) (2007)
see Notes and Legend below - 14 October 2024
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eMqT2pmFDQ - Gilson Antunes
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvyfJvwYUmQ - Forbes Henderson
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2sEMuDMYsI - Ericsson Castro

tuning: E A D G B E      key: -

0  Con poco libero (60 bpm)         F.     p   p m i     m     i m i
e|------|---------|--------------|--------------------|---------------|
B|------|---------|----3p2--6h8--|--5-----------------|---------------|
G|------|--3---1--|--------------|--------------------|----------7h9--|
D|------|--1---0--|----5---------|--7------3-----5----|--9-----8------|
A|--0---|---------|--------------|------2------4---3--|-----6---------|
E|--0---|---------|--------------|------0-------------|-----0---------|
    p     24   1      24 1  2 4    13      2   3 4 2    /4  1  3 2 4

5     cVI                                         arp.
e|---------0------|--------------|--------------|-------------|
B|--8---6------4--|--------------|---------7-4--|-------------|
G|----6-----------|-----------3--|--------------|-------------|
D|---------9------|--2-----0-----|-----3-5------|--5---9---8--|
A|----------------|------0-------|--2-----------|--3---7------|
E|----------------|--1-----------|--0-----------|-------------|
    3 1    4   4    12        3     1  2/2 4 1    13 /1/3  3

                                                poco piu   rall.
9                                                mosso     cVI ^
e|-------8---------|---------------|---------|-----------------0----|
B|-----0g---7------|---------------|---------|----------------------|
G|--7--------------|---------------|---------|--1--------2----------|
D|------------9----|---------------|--2---3--|-----1--0-----6-------|
A|--------------7--|--8-11---4--2--|--0------|--4-----------6-------|
E|-----------------|---------3--1--|---------|--------3-------------|
    2    4  2 4  1   /1 4   34 12     3   3     4     3  2 [1

13 a tempo c7                                                 i
e|----11-------0----|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|
B|----9--------11---|--0--------|----6------|--------|-----------|
G|---------7--------|-------0---|----5------|--------|----3------|
D|---------7--------|-------11--|--------6--|--------|----1---0--|
A|------------------|--8--------|-----------|----0---|-----------|
E|------------------|-----------|--------9--|----0---|-----------|
      24  [1   4       1    4       23  14

   poco piu
   mosso    rall.
18  m p   p m       a tempo
e|---------------|-------------|----------------|----------|
B|---------------|-------------|----------------|----------|
G|--3-------0----|-------------|----------------|----------|
D|--------4------|--4----------|----------------|----------|
A|----2-3--------|----4--3--2--|----------3-----|--1----0--|
E|------------4--|-------------|----4--3-----2--|--0-------|
    2 1/1 3   2     4 3  2  1       4  3  4  2     1

22                         poco rall.           F.
e|----------|------------|--9----13--|---------<7>----||
B|--4-------|-<12>-------|--7--------|----------------||
G|--1-------|---------0--|-----------|----<5>---------||
D|-------0--|------------|-----------|----------------||
A|----------|-<7>--------|-----------|----------------||
E|----------|------------|-----------|-<7>------------||
                            13    > > > > > >   pp


Notes and Legend
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Note: "Guitar and White Hand" is a 1927 painting by Pablo Picasso,
      (Guitare a la main blanche) - 
       https://classtab.org/guitar_and_white_hand_picasso_1927.jpg

left hand fingering (LHF)          right hand fingering (RHF)
1 - index finger                   p - thumb
2 - middle finger                  i - index finger (forefinger)
3 - ring finger                    m - middle finger
4 - little finger                  a - ring finger (annular)

cVI  - part barre on the 6th fret
cVII - part barre on the 7th fret

p      - piano - soft
pp     - pianissimo - very soft
> > >  - decrescendo - becoming softer

bpm             - beats per minute (quarter notes)
poco            - a little
libero          - in a free, unrestrained style
F.              - Fermata - pause, notes held for longer than their value
arp.            - arpeggiate
poco piu mosso  - a little faster
rall.           - rallentando - slowing down
^               - short pause
a tempo         - at normal speed

h   - hammer-on
p   - pull-off
/   - move the same finger up to play the next note
g   - grace note (ornament) - extra notes played just before the main note

<x> - natural (open) harmonic on the x fret

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tabbed by Vlad - checked by weed@wussu.com (15 October 2024)
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