Good afternoon!
Today I want to perform for you
an arrangement I've made for guitar
over the Tarantella Napoletana
Tarantella is a dance in 6 by 8
I mean, it's a binary measure, of 2 times
but with a ternary subdivision
each time divided in 3
it's danced very fast
and it was danced around the South of Italy
believing that when you danced Tarantella,
you expelled the madness
you had when a tarantula bit you
It's also said that it can come from
Tarento region, in Apulia, Italy
There are other theories that defend
that the drawing which the tarantula has in its belly
seems a guitar
and that's why it's very common
to play it with a guitar
Although Tarantella comes from Italy,
my grandfather told me that
when he was a child, here in Alcalá de Guadaíra,
where I'm from, a city from Seville,
he could see how one of his neighbors
when he was bitten by a tarantula,
he passed dancing more than 24 hours
next to a guitarist
who played a very fast rhythm so that he
could dance
and expel through sweat
the poison of that bite
which was so dangerous
and in that time, as there weren't many medical advances,
they used this method
to expel that poison
This Tarantella Napoletana
will be very familiar to you because
apart from appearing in many ads,
it's also the melody
of the song Lucky, lucky, lucky me
which is a song made after this popular melody
by American people
based in this Italian popular melody
the Tarantella Napoletana
hope you love my arrangement,
it's in 6 by 8 too
in E minor
I added my own introduction
and many special passages
If you want to learn how to play it,
you can find the sheetmusic and tabs on my website
and I let you here the link to the sheetmusic and tabs
hope you love it
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Hugs from Seville!
