Jimmy Wyble's Etude #5

Sid Jacobs shares his personal takeaways from exploring Jimmy Wyble's Etude #5 — his fingerings, how the voices move to address the harmony while creating strong contrapuntal melodic phrases, and how he stretches out on the piece using the lessons Wyble embedded in the composition.

"I think number five is my favorite because it best seems to exemplify the title - Classical/Country. It has a kind of funky country feeling for most of the piece, but one part - section B - gets a very classical sound." — Jimmy Wyble

What you'll develop

• Contrapuntal (two-part) guitar technique and technical facility for both hands
• Breaking chords into two-note pairs across non-adjacent strings — C7, diminished shapes, and shell voicings that "you can't strum" but sound beautiful fingerstyle
• Interesting ways to outline chord changes, including a neglected m7b5 voicing and an F7#11 move
• Solo guitar technique beyond standard chord melody, with right-hand patterns like P–M–I–P

Even if you don't sight read, the newly tabbed version of the etude will help you navigate your favorite sections. Includes 6 pages of PDF materials in Jimmy's original standard notation, 3 brand-new pages in notation & TAB, and a Soundslice-enhanced version. Full video is 10 minutes.