Fado Menor de Reynaldo Varella -- transcribed by Ronald Fernandez

A webpage about Reynaldo Varella and the written transcription of this piece are at: www.fernandezmu...
Reynaldo Varella was an important player of the Portuguese guitarra a century ago. He published this Fado Menor in columns of numbers which few people could play in 1925. Ron Fernandez converted this fado into music notation and added a Spanish Guitar part. This revealed a charming instrumental fado which had been hidden for almost a century.

[@FernandezMusic]

Thank you for the recognition. It took years to put all of the steps together. After finding reference to Varella in university libraries in the 1990s I had to acquire a copy from a Portuguese library. I had to figure out Varella’s algorithms and before all of this I had to learn classical guitar, Portuguese guitar, Guitar Pro, Final Cut Pro

[@chopsddy3]

Wow!👍 The rhythm is most interesting.

[@scorreia]

Nice work!

[@orangeguitarmusik]

That looks like it took a while. Well done

[@FernandezMusic]

Have a look at my webpage about Reynaldo Varella and see the written transcription for this page. I have other transcriptions I am working on which I will post on-line.