jpfeifer
December 21st, 2008, 01:29 PM
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Hi Everyone,
In the spirit of Christmas, I've uploaded a couple of solo guitar arrangements for any other fretters who want to learn some classics.
The first one is "The Christmas Song". My first guitar teacher, Pat McCauley, taught me this arrangement and it has been one of my all time favorite songs to learn on guitar. He was a great teacher and a master of solo Jazz guitar. (he was friends with Johnny Smith and played in a similar style) I only added one small part to this arrangement, the Jingle Bells reference at the end of the tune. The rest of the arrangement was all his. (Have fun with this one. I've been working on it for years trying to understand all of the harmony that was used and perfect my technique on it.) You can find a recording of this arrangement on my soundclick.com page.
The second tune is a solo arrangement that I came up with for "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". The thing that I love about Christmas tunes is that there is really no wrong way to arrange a tune. So long as you keep the melody you can go whatever you want with the harmony to come up with new ways to make them sound fresh. Every year I try to make a new arrangement or two just for the practice of doing it.
I'll try to post a few more arrangements in the next few days if I can.
Merry Christmas everyone!
-- Jim
1697
Hi Everyone,
In the spirit of Christmas, I've uploaded a couple of solo guitar arrangements for any other fretters who want to learn some classics.
The first one is "The Christmas Song". My first guitar teacher, Pat McCauley, taught me this arrangement and it has been one of my all time favorite songs to learn on guitar. He was a great teacher and a master of solo Jazz guitar. (he was friends with Johnny Smith and played in a similar style) I only added one small part to this arrangement, the Jingle Bells reference at the end of the tune. The rest of the arrangement was all his. (Have fun with this one. I've been working on it for years trying to understand all of the harmony that was used and perfect my technique on it.) You can find a recording of this arrangement on my soundclick.com page.
The second tune is a solo arrangement that I came up with for "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". The thing that I love about Christmas tunes is that there is really no wrong way to arrange a tune. So long as you keep the melody you can go whatever you want with the harmony to come up with new ways to make them sound fresh. Every year I try to make a new arrangement or two just for the practice of doing it.
I'll try to post a few more arrangements in the next few days if I can.
Merry Christmas everyone!
-- Jim