Category Archives: Arrangements

ALLEGRO in A Minor – Mauro Giuliani – Full Tutorial with TABS – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Allegro Performed by Robert Lunn

In this guitar lesson I teach you this Allegro in A minor by Mauro Giuliani. This is a great right hand study for the right hand is perfect for the guitarist who has been playing for a while but is new to fingerstyle/ classical guitar.

Mauro Giuliani was an Italian virtuoso guitarist/composer who lived from 1781 to 1829. He composed a bunch of works for the guitar, everything from simple etudes all the way up to complex works for the professional guitarist.

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

FUNERAL MARCH (Main Theme) – Chopin – Easy Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Funeral March (Main Theme) performed by Robert Lunn

In this guitar lesson I teach you the opening theme of Frederic Chopin’s famous Funeral March (Marche Funebre). This melody comes from the third movement of Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35.

I’ve always loved the music of Chopin. I love his Nocturnes, Etudes, and especially his Ballad’s. As guitarists, about the closest we have to Chopin is Tarrega, who I have always thought, but don’t have any proof, was influenced by Chopin.

A few years ago I made a group of easy arrangements for my students. This is one of those. I just arranged the opening theme from this movement. I hope you enjoy it. You can see more videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.

LACRIMOSA (Requiem) – W.A. Mozart – Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar

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Lacrimosa performed by Robert Lunn

This arrangement is of the Lacrimosa movement from Mozart’s requiem. Mozart composed this during the last year of his life and was left incomplete. It was later completed by other composers based on fragments left by Mozart. For example, the Lacrimosa only contained the first eight measures of music.

For this arrangement I tried to keep the melody and harmonies the same as the orchestrated version but had to take certain liberties because of the limitations of the guitar.

I hope you enjoy this arrangement. Score/tab is available at my website.

RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES – Richard Wagner – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Ride of the Valkyries performed by Robert Lunn

This fingerstyle guitar lesson of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner is based on an arrangement I made for a guitar student of mine several years ago. I tried to make the arrangement as easy as possible while still keeping the integrity of the original.

This is a great piece of music that comes from the third act of his monumental opera, Der Ring des Nibelungen. The third act is called, Die Walkure.

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

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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What a Wonderful World performed by Robert Lunn

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.

I see trees so green,

red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies so blue and clouds so white.

The bright blessed day,

the dark sacred night.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world…

You can see more videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS – Metallica – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Nothing Else Matters performed by Robert Lunn

Nothing Else Matters is one of my favorite all-time songs. I remember when it first came out that I tried to play it but at that time, I was only playing electric and not fingerpicking. The song comes from their Black album which was released in 1991. Songwriting credits for this song are by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

This is a great song for the fingerstyle/classical guitar player. For this arrangement, I used variation for the verse sections. Guitar solos in guitar versions of songs I always find difficult to arrange for solo guitar. I could play the solo but then I would lack the extra fingers to play the bass and rhythm guitar parts or I could play the backing part but then wouldn’t have the solo. For the last solo I decided to play the backing part, put try and add rasgueados to make things louder.

I hope you enjoy the arrangement. I have a ton of these types of teaching videos at my guitar school found at my website.

IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING – Edvard Grieg – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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In the Hall of the Mountain King performed by Robert Lunn

In the Hall of the Mountain King comes from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1. I have always loved how this builds in the orchestral version.

I tried to make this arrangement as easy as possible while still keeping the integrity of the original. For this guitar lesson I am teaching the arrangement that comes from my second volume of easy arrangements.

You can see more teaching videos like this at my guitar school found at my website.

GYMNOPEDIE NO. 1 – Erik Satie – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Gymnopedie No. 1 performed by Robert Lunn

This guitar lesson is on the beautiful piece, Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie. A long, long, long time ago I used to play this on piano.

He originally composed three of these pieces and they are all very similar in sound and style. I hope you enjoy this video lesson.

More videos like this can be found at my guitar school found on my website.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (Theme) – Full Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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Pirates of the Caribbean performed by Robert Lunn

This theme comes from the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean and is the track called, He’s A Pirate. The soundtrack was composed by Hans Zimmer along with Klaus Badelt.

Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my favorite movies and I have always loved the music from this film. Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow was fantastic.

I hope you enjoy the lesson. There are more videos like this at my guitar school found on my website.

LA CAMPANELLA – Paganini – Easy Tutorial with TAB – Fingerstyle Guitar

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La Campanella performed by Robert Lunn

La Campanella is a melody that comes from Niccolo Paganini’s second Violin Concerto. Franz Liszt later used this melody in his famous piano piece.

I tried to simplify this arrangement as much as I could while still keeping the integrity of the melody. I originally made this arrangement for a guitar student of mine.

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