Christmas Arrangements

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Merry Christmas!! Well, it’s not Christmas yet. I decided to make a video of me playing a ton of Christmas arrangements. All of these arrangements come either from my Silent Night album or from my Easy Arrangements Vol. 3. Scores/tabs are available. Just click the link above.

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Silent Night (1:32)

We Three Kings (4:45)

Good King Wenceslas (6:10)

O Come, O Come Emmanuel (7:26)

The First Noel (8:55)

Coventry Carol (10:43)

Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (12:54)

Of the Father’s Love Begotten (13:44)

The Holly and the Ivy (15:15)

In the Bleak Midwinter (16:06)

I Saw Three Ships (17:35)

El Noi de la Mare (18:19)

We Wish You a Merry Christmas (20:04)

Etude 8 (Improvisation)

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I am currently writing a set of 8 etudes for the guitar. Each of them includes some kind of an extended technique. This particular one uses a slide which isn’t used a lot in the classical guitar literature. I have always loved the sound. Check this video out…

And if haven’t already checked out the famous Messiahsez, by all means do…

There were a couple surprises that I found sounded interesting in my improv. The first was that when the slide is used with tremolo it produces a pretty cool sound. Also, artificial harmonics can slide around with a slide. Often before writing a piece I will improvise around on an idea or two. That is what I am doing in this video.

Lament I

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Over the last couple of years I composed 12 laments for guitar. I recorded them this past summer…

You can listen to them by clicking on the album cover above. The score/tab is available for free at my website.

Side note…last week we got 18 inches of snow where I live in Michigan. That alone makes me want to compose laments. There are still leaves on the trees!! To make matters worse, Facebook reminded me that I had played golf on this day two years ago. I am just hoping to play one more round of golf before 2019 is over. Chances are slim…