Wayfaring Stranger is one of my favorite American folk songs. I’ve always loved the simplicity of the melody. Many popular artists have recorded this song including: Burl Ives, Jack White, and Emmylou Harris. This arrangement comes from my first volume of easy arrangements.
Score/tab is available at my website: https://robertlunn.com/easy-arrangements-vol-1/wayfaring-stranger-easy
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Nothing Else Matters by Metallica is a great song by a great band. It comes from their Black Album released in 1991.
At that time I was in high school and a huge rock/metal fan. I started playing guitar a few years before that in late-middle school. Inspired by Guns n’ Roses, Metallica, Van Halen, etc. I remember getting the tabs at this time and trying to play it and it didn’t go well! At that time I had very limited fingerpicking abilities.
Making an arrangement of a song like this can be challenging. How do distill a four piece band, with overdubs, into a single guitar arrangement? How do you play the guitar solo while also having a strong foundation with 5 fingers and 6 strings? It’s certainly a challenge. I hope you enjoy the performance!
The score/tab is available from Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
My top 5 favorite arrangement include:
Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement) by Beethoven
Malagueña (Easy Arrangement)
Adagio in G Minor (A min transposed)
Greensleeves
House of the Rising Sun
Moonlight Sonata is just a classic piece of music by one of the greatest composers of all time. I didn’t know if it would work on guitar but I did listen to other versions so I figured it was possible. I get requests all of the time to arrange the fast third movement but I don’t know about that.
The Malagueña is a CLASSIC. I actually have two arrangements of this piece. The other is a harder arrangement which you can find here:
The next three arrangements are all “easy arrangements.” I realize “easy” is in the eye of the beholder. My goal was to simplify them as much as possible while still allowing the “essence” to come through.
All of these are available through my membership. With that you get ALL of my sheet music and tabs as well as ALL of my video lessons. You can learn more here: https://robertlunn.com/become-a-member
Air on the G String was composed by J.S. Bach. It comes from the second movement of his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major BWV 1068
The score/tab is available at my website (click on the picture)
No Time To Die was composed by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for the James Bond movie. I have always loved this song and finally got a chance to make this arrangement. I hope you enjoy!
Score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
River Flows in You was composed by the South Korean pianist and composer, Yiruma. This song was originally composed for the piano. I have always loved this song so decided to make this arrangement for guitar.
Score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
Nearer, My God, to Thee was composed by Sarah Flower Adams sometime in the 19th-century. It tells the story of Jacob’s Ladder. It is also alleged to have been played on the Titanic as the ship sank, sadly.
The score/tab is available at my website (Click on the Picture)
Enya is an Irish singer and songwriter. This song comes from her Day Without Rain album and is one of my favorite albums.
Score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
What a Wonderful World is a beautiful song composed by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss and sung by the great jazz trumpeter/singer, Louis Armstrong.
I first heard this song from the movie, Good Morning, Vietnam. This is one of those perfect songs. Perfect melody, perfect words and perfect singer for this song.
Score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
This is one of my favorite songs and works well as solo guitar piece, song with vocals and in a big band setting. The music was composed by the Brazilian composer, Luiz Bonfá. One interesting factoid is that the song is known by different names depending on where you live in the world including, Black Orpheus, Theme from Black Orpheus, Manhã de Carnaval, La Chanson d’Orphée, A Day in the Life of a Fool, and Carnival.
The score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
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