Hungarian Dance No. 5 comes from a set of 21 pieces that Brahms finished in 1879. Originally these were composed for piano duet. This particular piece was based on a piece by the Hungarian composer, Bela Keler.
The original was composed in G minor and I have transposed this arrangement to the key of A minor in an effort to make it as easy as possible to play.
Score/tab is available at http://robertlunn.com
In this guitar lesson I teach you the classic song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, from the movie, Wizard of Oz. Not gonna lie, when I was a child, I was in love with Judy Garland.
This song, composed by Harold Arlen, contains a beautiful melody and is a good example of the AABA song form. Overall, I tried to make this arrangement as easy as possible so that the performer can really focus on making the melody sing.
The SpongBob SquarePants Theme song was composed by Mark Harrison, Blaise Smith, Steve Hillenburg and Derek Drymon. I have always loved this show and if I walk into a room and somebody is watching it, I will sit down and watch it. The show premiered in 1999 and ran for 13 seasons.
This is an arrangement for classical/fingerstyle guitar of the Lux Aeterna from the movie, Requiem for a Dream. The movie came out in 2000 and it starred Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly.
This is one of my favorite movie themes of all-time. Enjoy!
Score/tab is available at Musicnotes (Click on the Picture)
Handel’s Water Music consists of three orchestral suites he composed that was first played in 1717. For this arrangement I am using a theme from one of them. Handel was a contemporary of Bach. In fact, they were born in the same year. Unlike Bach, Handel, during his lifetime, was a very well-known and financially successful composer.
Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tarrega is a beautiful piece of music that has been performed by the top guitarists from the last 100 years. The original uses the technique, tremolo, which can be a difficult technique to play. In this arrangement I have stripped away the tremolo in an effort to try and make it as easy as possible to play. I also tried to limit large stretches as well as limited my use of barre chords. Still not super easy to play but certainly easier than the original.
Here is my arrangement of Ludovico Einaudi’s Nuvole Bianche. Beautiful piece of music originally composed for the piano. Einaudi is an Italian composer and pianist who has composed music that incorporates a lot of different styles fused into his personal style. Such as pop, rock, classical, folk and world music.
You can see more teaching videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.
Summertime comes from George Gershwin’s opera, Porgy and Bess. Summertime was composed in 1934 and was written in the style of a spiritual.
I’ve always loved Gershwin’s music and I look forward to arranging more of it in the future!
You can see more teaching videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.
New arrangement! Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi. Einaudi is an Italian pianist and composer who has composed music for movies like The Intouchables and I’m Still Here.
Score/tab available at Musicnotes (click on the picture)
This theme comes from the second movement of Smetana’s beautiful orchestral work called My Vlast. The second movement is called Vltava or The Moldau. In this movement he is trying to evoke the sound of rivers.
