El Noi de la Mare “The Child of the Mother,” arranged by Miguel Llobet (1878–1938), from Canciones populares Catalanas.PDF sheet music for classical guitar with free lesson and performance video. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate tab edition. Late Intermediate (Grade 7) level. This is a PDF Download.
El Noi de la Mare was popularized in the guitar world by Andrés Segovia who frequently performed Miguel Llobet's guitar transcription as an encore. The piece is from Llobet's collection of Catalan folk songs. It's all about melody in this one. It's playable for intermediates but beware of tricky chord shapes, stretches, and shifts despite the slow tempo. FYI, many performers play a G# on the 3rd beat of bar 4 despite the original G natural. Both work with the harmony as the G# effectively creates an E7 (V chord of the Am that follows) but G natural is well within the key too. You can also find the tab as a hardcopy in my Classical Guitar Tab book on Amazon.
Here’s the YouTube link if you’d like to watch it there.
