PLAYING TIPS

[Bar 39] At bars 39 and 40 use the first finger as a ‘hinge’ barre – where the tip of the finger remains on the bass note Bb throughout but the rest of the first finger lifts off and on the string for the Bbm chord. Remember to apply a 3rd fret barre on the first beat of bar 41. As well as using exotic harmony and scales, Satie also used colourful language to express musical instructions in this piece. I have added them to the score with translations in brackets.