Vladimir Cosma - Sirba (Le Grand Blond) - Guitar Tab

Les plus belles chansons de cinéma & télévision, vol. 1

2014 2:04

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About Sirba (Le Grand Blond)

At 120 BPM in D minor, "Sirba (Le Grand Blond)" has a brisk, dance-like momentum that keeps your picking hand honest. The sirba is a Romanian folk dance form, and that heritage gives the melody a bright, almost fiddle-like quality that translates into quick, articulate single-note runs on guitar. Getting each note to speak cleanly at tempo is the real challenge here, so use the Practice Toolbar to loop the busier melodic passages slowed down until your fretting hand can place every note without rushing. The key of D minor lends itself well to the second position and open-string voicings on the neck, so spend time finding fingerings that let the line breathe naturally rather than fighting it with awkward hand shifts. Vladimir Cosma wrote this for the classic French comedy film, and his orchestral thinking means the guitar part needs to carry the melody with a singing, legato tone rather than a percussive attack. If you play in the Soundtrack genre, this piece is a good exercise in melodic phrasing and rhythmic precision together.

• The piece is in D minor at 120 BPM, demanding clean, rhythmically precise single-note runs that can easily blur if your picking technique is sloppy.
• Because the melody has a Romanian folk character, focus on even articulation across string changes rather than relying on open-string shortcuts.
• Using the Practice Toolbar to slow the melody to 60 or 70 percent of tempo is the fastest way to build accuracy before pushing back to full speed.