Carcassi’s Progressive Pieces

Waltzes, marches, rondos and other pieces of increasing difficulty from the Third Part of Carcassi’s Method (Op. 59), with sheet music and tab to download.

These are the pieces of the Third Part (Troisième Partie) of Carcassi’s method, which the book titles “50 Exercises Progressing in Difficulty” in English and “Cinquante morceaux progressifs” in French: fifty short pieces of increasing difficulty. They are not the preludes (one per key, in the First and Second Parts): here are the waltzes, marches, rondos, the gallop, the siciliana and the other pieces that take the student from simple arpeggios to the upper positions, double notes and grace notes. Each keeps the number and name it has in the book. The waltzes also have their own page.

The source is M. Carcassi’s New and Improved Method for the Guitar, the bilingual edition by Oliver Ditson & Company (Boston), digitized by the Internet Archive. The notes and rhythms start from the MuseScore files that the YouTube channel Guitar Notes publishes for each piece. Each one is checked against the book before it appears here, and the PDF is generated again, with the tab calculated by the engine behind the site’s “Sheet music to tab” tool: they are not the channel’s PDFs. Pieces are added as they are checked.

The tab fingering is a suggestion: most notes can be played in more than one place on the neck. The book’s fingering numbers and the right-hand letters are not included.