Bach Inventions for Guitar Duet Book/Online Audio

by Jerry Willard (Arranger)

(Guitar). Since their introduction, Bach's Two-Part Inventions have been an essential resource for developing hand independence and ornamentation technique. Keyboard players have enjoyed these etudes for centuries and now this body of work is available to guitarists in this collection of fifteen pieces. They have been transcribed and arranged for the classical guitar duet by Jerry Willard, and are presented in notation and tab. The title is accompanied by online audio that includes demonstration recordings of all the inventions as well as single guitar recordings so you can play along.

63 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Jerry Willard is an accomplished player of all types of fretted instruments including the archlute, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, nineteenth century guitar, and modern guitar.

Well known as an ensemble player, Mr. Willard has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, The New York City Opera Company, The New York Consort of Viols, and The Queen’s Chamber Band.

Reviews

[Serge Pierro · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of pieces for two guitarist to work on for learning to play tightly as a duo. For the adventurous bass player, they can transpose the second part and play it on the bass. I used to like to work on these with bass players (though it was usually easier to just use a piano book of these pieces - the bass part already written in bass clef).