# Single escape etude #1 in d minor - an etude that you didn't know you needed
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093
**Category:** Show and Tell
**Created:** [July 17, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093 "2022-07-17T13:18:20Z")
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### Author:  [@adamprzezdziecki](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/adamprzezdziecki)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/1 "2022-07-17T13:18:20Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMzXBA13q6k)
Hi. Recently I wrote a violin inspired etude that consists of even note per string groupings only. I believe that the guitar lacks decent learning material, especially compared to civilized instruments like the violin or piano, which have tons of etudes for every technique under the sun. It can be played by both pure USX, pure DSX (start on an upstroke) and of course DBX. My playing in the vid isn’t prefect, but I believe it’s good enough for everyone to grasp the idea.
TABs:
[etude d minor pdf.pdf](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/short-url/hZ2hw3zo3pTNTQgyvnhMiVvhyjC.pdf) (238.6 KB)
[etude d minor.gp5](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/short-url/AlYzeIuS0Ok6GuzGeLtl5KxZRXZ.gp5) (8.6 KB)
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### Author:  [@WhammyStarScream](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/WhammyStarScream)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/2 "2022-07-17T13:36:48Z")
This is great!
Though my guitar is insulted, it trys to be civilized sometimes.
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### Author:  [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/3 "2022-07-17T15:22:57Z")
So awesome! I’ll be giving this a solid go.
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/4 "2022-07-17T16:21:30Z")
This is fantastic! How did you go about writing this? Did it just “come out”, or did you apply specific ideas and compositional devices?
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### Author:  [@adamprzezdziecki](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/adamprzezdziecki)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/5 "2022-07-17T16:32:31Z")
Usually there’s some kind of initial idea that emerges from jamming and the rest is pure chaos. I have no idea how to explain my writing process, it’s a mix of doing stuff like using the nature of the guitar (open strings, etc.) hearing something in my head and trying to play it, maybe modifying it to fit the single escape approach, using motifs and moving them through chord progressions and a lot of stuff that I can’t even verbalise.
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### Author:  [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/6 "2022-07-17T18:21:31Z")
Well it’s really cool. I find a lot of even ‘good’ guitar music tends to be more mechanical than musical. Like you mentioned, ‘nature of guitar’ stuff. Convenient patterns etc. You’ve managed to take advantage of that while still sounding really musical and giving us some really sophisticated progressions and non chord tones. The fact that on top of that you leveraged the single escape phenomenon…just VERY nicely done 👍
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### Author:  [@NCASO](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/NCASO)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/7 "2022-07-17T18:22:01Z")
awesome job! well played. music like this is timeless.
what composers do you listen to/inspired by?
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### Author:  [@adamprzezdziecki](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/adamprzezdziecki)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/8 "2022-07-17T18:29:25Z")
I’ve always listened to a lot of Bach, Paganini and other violin stuff like Jakob Dont.
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### Author:  [@jzohrab](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/jzohrab)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/9 "2022-07-18T06:49:14Z")
Super! And extra well done with that constraint! Z
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### Author:  [@adamprzezdziecki](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/adamprzezdziecki)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/10 "2022-07-29T12:40:12Z")
Unfinished etude in A minor, also even NPS.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnCKflVxao)
[etude a minor.gp5](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/short-url/9pyIEnsKAAHqsgPm4TOzKzYtsfi.gp5) (4.8 KB)
[etude a minor.pdf](https://forum.troygrady.com/uploads/short-url/prZ2pQEXGlWTQLZVv6cS9lcIE2Q.pdf) (131.3 KB)
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### Author:  [@qwertygitarr](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/qwertygitarr)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/11 "2022-07-29T13:31:57Z")
Wonderful! I mostly love the sound of your attack och fullness of the tone you achieve. That and the rythmic stability makes for some of the best playing I’ve heard.
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### Author:  [@jptk](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/jptk)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/12 "2022-07-29T13:45:17Z")
Sounds great! Might have to give this a try. Picking a long stream of notes is something I have not been practicing, so something like this could really help out.
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### Author:  [@adamprzezdziecki](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/adamprzezdziecki)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/13 "2022-07-29T13:52:52Z")
@qwertygitarr
Thank you very much!
@jptk
Cool, that’s one of the reasons I’m writing these etudes, we lack moto perpetuo style pieces for picked guitar.
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### Author:  [@Ghoststrat](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Ghoststrat)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/14 "2022-07-29T16:50:03Z")
These are great, thank you!
It also feels great to know I can play these at tempo after I take the time to learn them. That feels good. Roughly four to six weeks ago I couldn’t even wiggle my parts quickly, now I’m making serious progress.
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### Author:  [@JakeEstner](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/JakeEstner)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/15 "2022-08-02T14:20:54Z")
Clever use of open strings!
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### Author:  [@Scottulus](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Scottulus)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/16 "2022-08-07T20:37:28Z")
Oh yeah, this is cool. Downloaded and assimilating! Thanks, man!
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### Author:  [@Ibanez\_RG](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Ibanez_RG)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2022, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/17 "2022-08-08T07:41:05Z")
Beautiful! The picking is clean as can be! I’m impressed.
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### Author:  [@lukasgraesslin](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/lukasgraesslin)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/18 "2022-08-14T18:53:41Z")
This is awesome, thanks for that! Besides the obvious etude aspect I love the sound of it.
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### Author:  [@SylvSylv](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/SylvSylv)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/19 "2022-08-17T17:27:02Z")
Thank you man ! I agree with you we do lack those kind of learning and practice material
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### Author:  [@david22](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/david22)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/single-escape-etude-1-in-d-minor-an-etude-that-you-didnt-know-you-needed/57093/20 "2022-10-11T10:02:39Z")
Awesome Man i go to learn
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