Untitled work for classical guitar

This piece is for a concert later this year.

Just started on it tonight, and it's the first time I've written for guitar. So I'm sure it's probably unplayable!

N.B. I decided to use two staffs to make it more readable. Think it would look very cluttered on a single staff.

The two staffs is a neat thought, but try out a single staff. There's a few moments where the higher or lower bits are on the staff that isn't higher/lower (Mostly thinking about measure 25 but it happens a few other times that aren't as easily solvable) and it just feels off. It would also solve a lot of issues of notes that are on both staves, which I would have no idea what to do with if I were to have to play it. 

As for if it's playable, I am no expert. But I can say that a lot of it looks suspiciously like you just threw in the 6 notes you needed and didn't think too much about fingering. Which, to be fair, is also how I would do a sketch. If you can, you really want to find someone who plays guitar and run it by them. Eveen having them just take a quick look is incredibly helpful (I know from experience). I've linked a pdf or two from when I was assigned to write a guitar piece so that you can also hopefully use them. (They are attached and are very helpful as someone who has never touched a guitar)

As a piece itself, I like it! I am frankly not a great critic on pitch collection or form, but overall it sounds nice!

11 hours ago, Chikotora said:

it looks suspiciously like you just threw in the 6 notes you needed and didn't think too much about fingering.

Many thanks for your review, and the very helpful info sheets!

Tbh, I didn't think about fingering at all. I'm hoping to get advice from a guitarist on that question. 
The natural harmonics are probably the most dubious part of my score: so will definitely have to revise those.

I've combined this piece into one staff now, and created a tab score. 
MuseScore does this automatically, which is really helpful!
I was able to modify the score where it showed red highlight warnings on the tab score: so I think it's mostly playable now (touch wood!)

The natural harmonics might still be problematic? Though if they're not achievable as natural harmonics, perhaps they could be played as artificial ones?

Edit: and looking at the fret numbers, I guess I'll have to thin out some of those big chords!

Hi @Alex Weidmann!

I am no expert in guitar writing so I can't tell whether it's playable or not, but I would say the whole music would sound like something written in Chinese instrument Zhongruan (my fav. Chinese instrument due to its cute look lol!). It's also a plucked string instrument like guitar:

Thx for sharing!

Henry

Kia Ora Alex,

Nice piece. A few suggestions:

1. Although tabs are quite common for notating guitar parts in pop styles, classical guitar pieces are generally only notated using standard musical notation. While you can still include a staff of tab in your score, it might be more conventional to remove it.
2.  If you do choose to include tab, please, PLEASE get an actual guitarist to write it out for you. The tabs generated by notation software are almost always shite and the one that Musescore generated for you is no exception. It has suggested some ridiculous unplayable shite (like in bar two, who the hell has hands large enough to press both the second and seventeenth frets at the same time?!) which render it's inclusion in your score quite pointless. 

All in all, this is a good start. I'm excited to see where this piece goes next!

Ngā mihi,

Archie