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.
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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 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 I originally made this arrangement for a guitar student of mine.
In this video I decided to record a practice session for a 1/2 hour. The first half is the first movement from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 14) and the second half is the Lacrimosa movement from the Requiem by Mozart.
Both are fairly new arrangements that I have made. The moonlight sonata arrangement was made back in the fall and the Lacrimosa was made over the Christmas break. These are two of my favorite pieces.
I decided to keep the good, bad and ugly in this practice video. I hope you enjoy watching and listening!
Here is a full guitar lesson on an easy arrangement I made of the famous song, Malaguena. It’s a passionate song that I always imagine two passionate lovers dancing to it when I play it.
I have always loved this song and decided to finally make an arrangement of it. The arrangement is in two parts. There is an opening section, which is then repeated at the end. There is also a slower, song-like middle section.
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This guitar lesson is of an easy arrangement I made of Pachelbel’s Canon in D. I have made two arrangements of this over the years- this one, and a harder version. This is a popular song and I have played this so many times at weddings over the years.
Johann Pachelbel originally composed this for 3 violins and basso continuo. Most arrangements I hear aren’t an actual canon. Most are either passacaglia’s (repeated bass lines) or chaconne’s (repeated chord progressions). Somehow, Passacaglia in D doesn’t have the same ring to it! Haha.
Anyways, it’s a great piece of music. As a composer, I wish I had written this piece. I hope you enjoy the teaching video. The standard notation and tabs can be seen in the video. For more videos like this please visit my guitar school found at my website.
This lesson is on the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. “Moonlight Sonata” refers to Sonata No. 14. The original key is c-sharp minor but for this arrangement, I transposed it to the key of A minor.
This movement is composed in a quasi Sonata form, which I explain in the tutorial. One of my favorite movies is Immortal Beloved, a movie about the life/love life of Beethoven. Probably my favorite scene from the movie is when he lays his head on the piano and plays this movement.
You can see a clip of it here:
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Für Elise is a beautiful piece for piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. This teaching lesson is of the main theme found in the piece for arranged for fingerstyle guitar. I’ve tried to make this arrangement as easy as possible while still maintaining the integrity of the song.
I have always loved this melody and Beethoven is one of my favorite composers. In fact, he was the first classical composer that I really got into when I began studying classical music back in college. I hope you enjoy this arrangement.
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Ezel is a popular Turkish crime drama. I made this fingerstyle cover after an Instagram follower suggested I make this arrangement, so I did. It’s a beautiful piece of music composed by Toygar Işıklı. You can find more lessons like this at my guitar school found on my website.
Here is an arrangement for fingerstyle guitar of the popular classic, Autumn Leaves, originally composed by Joseph Kosma. This is a jazz standard that has been covered by so many people. My personal favorite versions would have to be Eric Clapton’s and Nat King Cole’s versions.
I remember growing up, my father used to play the Nat King Cole version of it. Love, love, love his version. I have played it in various jazz band settings since I was in college. I decided to make this recording after listening to Joe Pass’ brilliant rendition of the song.
The falling leaves
Drift by the window
The autumn leaves
Of red and gold….
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