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Happy Birthday
Over the years I have played HAPPY BIRTHDAY in all kinds of styles and whatever key was needed at the time. I always had a hankering to work it out finger style with a walking bass line. So here it is! It’s one time through so very short- 10 measures in all. HAPPY BIRTHDAY is…
Billy Joel’s Don’t Ask Me Why piano break
Don’t Ask Me Why is a tune I never paid that much attention to. A student requested this a while back just for the basic chords and the chordy intro. So while listening I could not help thinking how well the piano solo would work on the guitar. It uses a lot of double stops…
Tennessee Whiskey Guitar Solo (great 1st solo!)
If you are looking for a good easy-ish solo to get under your belt, this is a great one. Maybe you have been playing long enough to start noodling with riffs and some scales but still have not nailed an actual solo yet. It uses mostly a pentatonic scale with some double stops, bends and…
Peg guitar solo
I jam with some other “old dudes” one night a week just for haha’s and we decided to learn PEG by Steely Dan. It is usually my inclination to improvise a guitar solo. The solo in PEG, though, is one of those that are so unique that it is just really a part of the…
Jeopardy Theme -DADGAD tuning
This is a finger style arrangement of the Jeopardy theme song. The tune is actually called “Think” and was written by Merv Griffin. I worked it out in DADGAD tuning which is also called Celtic tuning. Arranging it in this tuning offers up chords with open strings and some unique voicings (like any altered tuning).…
Why Worry Intro
Why Worry is a Dire Straits tune released in 1985 on the Brothers In Arms album. A live version of this tune from “An Evening with Mark Knopfler” keeps popping up on my YouTube feed lately. What I have here is a fairly easy solo acoustic arrangement of the intro. The intro goes through the…
Chet Atkins inspired Mr. Sandman arrangement
This is an arrangement of Mr. Sandman that’s really close to the Chet Atkins version. It follows the same chord changes, key modulations and the boom chick finger style. This arrangement does not follow the Chet version note for note though. Chet Atkins veers away from the melody a bit and gets away from his…
New York State of Mind Intro arranged for solo guitar
Here is yet another piano intro arranged for guitar. This one was arranged on my Tele. The notes go high and low so I decided to take advantage the cutaway and higher frets. I set a mellow sound using the neck pickup with some reverb and delay. So I listened to the original, looked at…
Open String Riffs – 5 Keys
Combining open string and fretted notes can be a pretty slick way to come up with licks and phrases on your instrument. The first one I heard do this on electric guitar was Danny Gatton. He did it with a banjo roll-ish approach using pick and fingers. I believe it’s known as a Tele thing…
“Your Song” arranged for finger style guitar
This is a finger style arrangement of Your Song by Elton John. I used a dropped D tuning and worked it out in the key of D. I like to capo it at the 1st fret. A capo at the first fret changes the key to Eb which is the record key. The capo also…
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