Kuffner Etude
Slur Practice for Classical Guitar
This Kuffner Etude is great for practicing slurs, a.k.a. hammer-ons and pull-offs. You also get to use the little finger of the left hand occasionally throughout the piece. A lot of students I've had in the past try to avoid using the little finger because it is obviously a "weaker" finger, but I maintain the more you use it the stronger it will become. Indeed, Joseph Kuffner wrote many of these little study pieces purposely to strengthen the fingers and secure guitar technique.
Also, this particular Kuffner etude is in A major so you have to be careful to place your fingers on the right notes because of the three sharps, namely: F, C & G. For instance, the very first note in the very first bar you play a C#, but with your first finger of the left hand. It means you are starting off in the "second position" on the guitar neck/frets and need to move your hand accordingly.
You also use a variety of right hand fingerings. I've taken some license with this arrangement to give you a mixture of right hand finger practice, especially with the two-note combinations. For example, in bar 4 you use a combination of "i & m, m, i & m, m" as opposed to bar 7 where the notes are the same but the right hand pattern is "i & m, a, i & m, a.
You can see what I mean when the camera changes to the right hand perspective in the repeat sections when you watch the video below...
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