Guitar Logic

13 Bonus (August 2021) Chet Atkins - Sabrosa

Added 2021-08-24 20:06:25 +0000 UTC

For this month’s bonus material we will check up on a rare piece by Chet Atkins. The song is called Sabrosa and it's very comparable in style to the song Tico Tico.

This is a standard flat-picking song and you should play it with ordinary alternate picking technique or classical apoyanto/tirando technique. I believe Chet Atkins was playing it with the thumb-pick and index finger which is another excellent way to perform it. In fact, from the technique perspective, the whole song can be perceived as an effective flat picking style exercise.

The song is in the key of G major and it consists of three parts, A B and C, which repeat with a few variations. And for the rhythm, you can easily play rhumba in 110bpm tempo.

Here is the Youtube link for the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wD7CwA4Tpc