Category Archives: Arrangements

MALAGUENA – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Malaguena performed by Robert Lunn

The word, Malagueña, means a few different things. It refers to folk music from Venezuela, it also refers to a type of traditional flamenco music from Andalusian. I first came across this melody when I heard somebody perform Francisco Tarrega’s arrangement of the song.

I have made two arrangements of the Malaguena: an easy version and a hard version. This arrangement is the harder version. This arrangement contains harmonics, rasgueados, and tremolo. It’s a great melody and I have always loved playing it.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can see more like this at my guitar school found on my website.

SONG FROM SECRET A GARDEN – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Song From a Secret Garden performed by Robert Lunn

Song from a Secret Garden is a beautiful piece of music. The music is by Rolf Løvland. In this guitar tutorial I teach you the arrangement that I made. Because there is so much repetition in the melody I have tried to set the melody differently throughout the arrangement. I use harmonics, tremolo, put the melody in the lower register, and so on.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. For more videos like this please visit my guitar school found at my website.

WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IS THIS – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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What Wondrous Love Is This performed by Robert Lunn

What Wondrous Love Is This has a beautiful melody that works well on the guitar. This is an old hymn that was first published back in 1811.

An interesting nugget about this piece is that it is in the Dorian mode. The dorian mode can be built by first writing out a natural minor scale (ex. A, B, C, D, E, F, G) and then raising the 6th note. So a dorian scale on A would go A, B, C, D, E, F-sharp, G, A. This particular melody is in D dorian so the scale goes: D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can see many more by visiting my guitar school found at my website.

AMAZING GRACE – Easy Arrangement- Full Tutorial with TABs – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Amazing Grace Performed by Robert Lunn

Amazing Grace is one of my favorite melodies of all-time. The words were written in 1772 by John Newton. It was common back then for words to be used with a variety of different melodies and it wasn’t until around 1847 that we first find a publication joining the words with the melody commonly used today called, New Britain.

This arrangement in this guitar lesson comes from my first volume of easy arrangements. As the title implies, I tried to make this as easy as possible to play while still keeping the integrity of the original tune.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can find more videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.

AVE MARIA – Franz Schubert – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Ave Maria Performed by Robert Lunn

Ave Maria is a beautiful piece of music composed by Franz Schubert. Schubert originally composed the music as part of a collection of seven songs titled, “Ellens dritter Gesang” and is part of his Op. 52. Eventually words from the Roman Catholic prayer, Ave Maria, were added adopting using Schubert’s original melody.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. For more videos like this please visit my guitar school found at my website.

SAKURA – Easy Arrangement – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Sakura performed by Robert Lunn

Sakura is a popular folk song found in Japan. The translation means “Cherry Blossoms.” I’ve always loved this melody. The first time I heard it performed on the classical guitar was by John Williams who was playing an arrangement by Yuquijiro Yocoh. That is a very virtuosic arrangement (and beautiful arrangement). For this arrangement I wanted to arrange it for the late-beginner, early intermediate level student.

I hope you enjoy this teaching video. You can see more teaching videos by visiting my guitar school found at my website.

THEME FROM LOVE STORY – Francis Lai – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Theme from Love Story performed by Robert Lunn

This is a fingerstyle / classical guitar arrangement of the beautiful theme composed by Francis Lai for the movie, Love Story. The theme was composed for the movie and then lyrics were added and it became a popular song, called Where Do I Begin?, in the early 1970s. The original singer was Andy Williams.

Sheet music/Tab available at Sheet Music Plus

SWAN LAKE (THEME) – Easy Arrangement – Tchaikovsky – Full Tutorial With TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Theme from Swan Lake performed by Robert Lunn

This theme comes from the music that the Russian composer, Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky, composed for the ballet, Swan Lake. This has always been one of my favorite pieces of music and a few years ago I finally decided to make an arrangement. I tried making this arrangement as easy as possible. You can find more guitar lessons at my guitar school found at my website.

HALLELUJAH – Leonard Cohen – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Hallelujah performed by Robert Lunn

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a beautiful song. It’s a song I’ve always wanted to arrange for guitar and finally did that a couple of years ago. The song was originally released in 1984 but became more popular through recordings by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. It became even more popular from the movie Shrek.

In this guitar lesson I teach you my arrangement of the piece. I tried to make this arrangement as easy as possible. You can find more teaching videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.

YESTERDAY – The Beatles – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Yesterday performed by Robert Lunn

Yesterday by the Beatles is a classic song originally recorded by Paul McCartney on vocals with acoustic guitar/strings in the background. The Beatles are one of my favorite bands and I plan on making more arrangements of their music.

Yesterday

All my troubles seemed so far away.

Now it looks as though they’re here to stay

Oh, I believe in Yesterday.

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