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Hi.

I’m a totally crappy guitar player who enjoys making pathetic attempts at playing difficult classical guitar pieces. Lately I’ve been toying with Koyunbaba by Carlo Domeniconi.

I found the tabs here: http://www.classtab.org/cdkoy1.txt

Now it’s really fantastic and some music lessons I had when I was a kid like 25 years ago help me understand 99% of it. However, I’m confused as to how to play the mordents. I do understand that a mordent is a classical term for something akin to a quick hammer-on-pulloff. But I’m not entirely sure how it meshes with the fingering.

For example, there’s a section here (sorry, Y!A isn’t exactly tab friendly – hence the link):
% %
|—-14-12-11-9—–9—-7-|-9—-7-9—-7-9——||—-14-12-14-16——-16-||
|——-0——–0—–0—|—-0——0———-||——-0———–0—–||
|—-0———————|———————*||—-0———–0——–||
|-0————————|———————*||-0———————–||
|————————–|———————-||————————-||
|————————–|———————-||————————-||

I am living overseas, so it’s not practical for me to get guitar lessons here. I am not a native speaker and most of the teachers that can teach this stuff are going to insist that I start with something easier anyhow. I had enough of that when I was 8.

I’m listening to the music as played by others, but I can’t quite catch it well enough to follow properly. Yeah, I know, I did say that I suck .

the 14-12(%)-11-9 is played how exactly?

Is it 14-12-h14p12-11-9?
Is it 14-12-p11-9?
Is it 14-12-h14-p11-9?

I can play most of the rest of the first 2 sections, but the mordents are giving me a real mental block because I have no confidence that I am doing them correctly and since I am also a pessimist, that basically means that I am definitely playing it wrong. I am trying to skip over the parts with mordents so I don’t learn them wrong, but I need to get them down so I can move to section 3 with all those beautiful arpeggios.

PS. for skill level, I can play about the first half of Recuerdos de la Alhambra, also self taught. It doesn’t sound great yet, but it’s coming along. That’s my 3rd classical piece.

Thanks for the explanation!