NOTES ON SYMBOLS Left hand fingering is indicated by numbers beside notes, with © denoting open string and the fingers numbered 1 to 4, eg. licate string to be played: eg. G) Reman numerals above stave indicate fret position. C before Roman numeral denotes first finger Ringed numbers beneath notes i barré: e.g. CV Right hand fingering: p= thumb i = index finger m= middle finger a = ring finger = little finger (in rasgueos) CIFRA — The six-line stave represents the six strings of the guitar with the first string at the top. Numbers on’each le indicate the fret at which notes are played on that string. For the sake of clarity, timing of notes and details of fingering are indicated only in relation to the musical notation and have not been duplicated in the cifra. GOLPE The golpe, a tap on the golpeador made with the R. ring finger, is indicated by C) above the beat SLAPS (in Rumba) BJ indicates a slap on the golpeador with the pads of the R. hand fingers which are slapped flat across the strings in the normal playing position between soundhole and bridge. indicates a lap onto the face ofthe ptr, jut tothe neckade of the soundhole. In both Types of dapping movement the palmar surface of the figs brought down aright anges actos the stig, thereby stopping their ination, RASGUEADOS A down-stroke, from bass towards treble strings, is indicated { . An upstroke is | ‘The letter beneath each arrow indicates the R. hand finger which makes the stroke. The stroke of each finger is represented by a separate arrow. Thus in the first bar of the Cantifias, for example, two consecutive four-finger rasgueos occupy the duration of one beat, With the following beat commencing on the second stroke made by the index. The fist beat is therefore written as a septuplet Count Rhythm Adouble arrow, 1, indicates stroke made with two fingers (a and m) simultaneously. ant Where brackets enclose the letters indicating the fingers which make the stroke, the stroke is a light brush across the strings - hardly more than a suggestion of sound to maintain the continuity of the shythm., Rasgueo Apagado (Damping) To cut short the sound of a chord once struck, the L. hand little finger is brought down very lightly straight across the strings, thereby silencing them immediately after the chord has been sounded. This is indicated by a vertical bracket across the stave immediately following the chord, with a 4 above it to indicate the 4th finger of the L. hand. ce a 4 A wavy line before a chord indicates that it is played as 8 fast arpegzio from bass to treble. Where it precedes # twonote chord the note on the lower string is played slightly before that on the higher.MI RUMBA INTRODUCTION Aire libre - con tristeza JUAN MARTIN Cemlla at Sat frets py ae. a, tempo a a wel. "po, bmano \v> ace... = a (0. nn = 388 = Por Rumba 4-188 © Copyright 1975 United Music Publishers Ltd, Londonarr ——_—jacelerando hasta el final mp »pemp pomp> § 4. an an® p