House of the Rising Sun is my favorite song. I have always loved the version by The Animals:
I have made two arrangements of this over the years. This is the harder arrangement I have made. You can learn the full version in my guitar school.
Category Archives: Arrangements
The Godfather
The Godfather theme is so beautiful. This movie was the first date for my mom and dad. My dad loved it. My mom hated it. You can learn this at my guitar school.
Nothing Else Matters with TAB
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica is a great piece and it uses some classical guitar techniques in it. In this video I show you how to play it. You can see the entire video at my guitar school found on my website.
Amazing Grace with TAB
Amazing Grace is my favorite hymn and one of my favorite songs of all-time. This is a teaching video of me going through my easy arrangement of this song. You can watch the full video at my guitar school.
Manhã de Carnaval (Black Orpheus)
Manhã de Carnaval, by Luis Bonfa is a favorite of mine. I first heard it played by the guitarist, Baden Powell:
I run a jazz band at Lake Michigan College and this past year we played a version of it for jazz band which was a lot of fun. This is not my jazz band but is a fun performance:
In this recording I am reading from a lead sheet.
-Rob
Bourree in E Minor (Bach) with Tab
Here is the famous Bourree in E minor by J.S. Bach. You can learn this note-for-note at my website. Just check out my guitar school by clicking here.
Dee by Randy Rhoads
Dee is a piece written by Randy Rhoads and was included on the album, Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne. Beautiful piece of music that was written for his mother.
Eyşan Unutamıyorum, Abana in Heaven, Godfather and More…
This is a practicing video. I turned the camera on and just started playing. No edits and I crashed and burned at the end of the Godfather theme. Here is the order:
Eyşan Unutamıyorum (0:07) This is a piece I started playing a few years ago when an Instagram friend suggested I make a guitar arrangement of it. It is now one of my favorite pieces to play.
Funky Soul Butter (1:42) This is a piece I composed a couple of years ago. I wrote a bass line to a dance track I wrote. I wondered if it would work on the guitar (it did) and the piece was written in a couple of days.
Abana in Heaven (4:43) This is a piece I arranged a two years ago. It was played a lot in the church that I go to and I love love love this melody.
A Beautiful Flower (6:56) I composed this piece two years ago. It started out as a musical cryptogram I composed out of the letters of a friends name. I will often compose pieces for friends birthdays based on the letters of their name. I loved this one so much that I gave it a different title.
The Godfather Theme (8:18) I remember watching these movies back in high school and was really struck by the music. I have been playing this theme since then. I also love that Slash (my favorite guitarist) plays this in his live shows.
-Rob
A Soup of Beethoven for Erhu and Guitar
A Soup of Beethoven for Erhu and Guitar. Includes Für Elise, 5th Symphony, Sonata Pathétique, Violin Concerto, and the 9th Symphony. This has been a lot of fun collaborating with Onion. She lives in Hawaii and I live in Michigan. I would record my part and then send it to her. She would record her part and then send that back to me and I would then put the video together.
Scarborough Fair
Here is my arrangement of Scarborough Fair. Score/tab is available here. I’ve always loved this melody. It’s an old English folk song that uses the dorian mode.
To create the dorian mode, you first begin with the natural minor…
and then raise the 6th note in the scale (C becomes C-sharp)….
Like many people, I first heard this song from the Simon and Garfunkel version….
