Robert De Visée - Bourrée en Ré mineur - Guitar Cover

About Bourrée en Ré mineur

A Bourrée is a French Baroque dance form in a brisk two-beat feel, and this one in D minor gives you a compact but demanding workout in Renaissance and Baroque fingerstyle. Robert De Visée was a lutenist and theorbist at the court of Louis XIV, and his pieces translate beautifully to classical guitar while keeping strong ties to their lute origins. The tuning here is D Standard, which drops every string by a whole step, so double-check your open strings before you begin or your chord shapes will land in the wrong key entirely. In D minor the piece leans on melodic lines that interweave bass and treble voices simultaneously, which means your right-hand finger independence is constantly being tested. The ornamentation, trills and mordents in particular, is where most players stumble. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop those decorated passages slowed down until the ornament feels automatic and does not break your rhythmic flow. Pay close attention to keeping the bass voice steady while the upper voice moves freely above it.

• The piece is written in D minor with D Standard tuning, so retuning all six strings down a whole step before playing is essential.
• Baroque ornaments like mordents and trills appear throughout and are best drilled slowly in isolation before being played up to tempo.
• Right-hand finger independence is the core technical demand, as bass and melody lines must be voiced separately and simultaneously in <a href="/genre/classical/">Classical</a> fingerstyle.