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Lament I for Guitar – Includes Sheet Music/TAB

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I composed my Twelve Laments over a two-year period beginning in 2018. Each piece started as a short, one-minute sketch that I later developed into a full composition. Writing these works was a deeply personal and cathartic experience during a challenging time in my life.

From a musical standpoint, I wanted to explore keys I hadn’t written in before—such as E-flat minor—and push myself in new harmonic directions.

You can listen to all twelve Laments on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3IgFWX1H15IcUtZTWabXUa?si=jt-jEpMNR7GHWNPludwssA

The score and TAB for Lament I are available on my website (click the image below). The piece is also included with a membership—learn more here: Become a Member

Easy C Major Pattern for Guitar – Free Sheet Music/TAB

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Scales can be valuable for guitarists to practice for a number of reasons. They can help your overall technique as well as helps to synchronize the two hands. They can also help you learn the notes on the fingerboard. I recommend practicing them in a variety of patterns.

In the video above I played the notes using rest stroke alternating my index/middle fingers but you can also practice them: p-i, m-a, etc.

C major doesn’t contain any of the sharp/flat notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. This is one of the first scales you might learn on the piano because it doesn’t have the added difficulty of playing the black notes.

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Kazuhito Yamashita is My Favorite Guitarist

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Yamashita is my favorite guitarist and it isn’t even close. He is like Tiger Woods 15 years ago. There’s Yamashita and then there is everyone else way, way, far away. He plays with tremendous passion and his technique is amazing.

I’ve been listening to his arrangement of Dvořák’s New World Symphony a lot lately. Of course, you can argue whether or not it should be played on the guitar and if I had my choice I would certainly listen to the original BUT….it is so impressive what he has done. Just check out his performance of the second movement. Not to mention the third and fourth movements.

Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of high quality videos of his on Youtube. Here are a couple of my favorites:

https://youtu.be/OwmljH41B1Q

The last video is his complete performance of the “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Mussorgsky. Not really a fan of this piece in its original form but I can certainly appreciate his musicality and technique. The guitars greatest strength is the different colors it can produce (dolce, ponticello, etc) and he demonstrates that in the performance even on this awful video recording.

Here is a little excerpt from the score:

How are you supposed to play that trill and the higher chords at the same time??? Guess what? He does it. Watch the video.

Finally, here is nice interview about one of his concerts: