Evenif one makes the considerable effort required to work it out, the result is likely to be a very messy copy ofones music. The best fingering is not always obvious in these pieces.

Thematerial, while not particularly difficult, does range all over the guitar fingerboard in such a way as tomake it very challenging to play on sight. The reason that I did so, however, is that the Eschig editions, which probably camemore or less directly from the hand of Villa-Lobos himself, contain almost no fingering indications. By virtue of theirbeing copyrighted and also easily available from the publishers there seems little point in creating a newedition such as this. The Guitar Studies of Heitor Villa-Lobos These twelve studies are copied from Editions Max Eschig M.E. Heitor Villa-Lobos ~Doze Estudos para Violo edited by C.