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Aprende a tocar blues desde cero aquí:… More…
Ilya Shatrov served as a bandmaster in the Russo-Japanese War. Its final land battle in 1905 was among the largest ever to that date. Shatrov's regiment fought for 11 days, but running low on ammo got… More…
Another transcription request from my daughter. Ukulele rhythm and voicing made picking out guitar tricky but I feel I've captured Joseph's part accurately. More…
Here is my transcription of Wes Montgomery theme of Canadian Sunset.… More…
Back when I was a teen trying to teach myself guitar, the first bit of actual sheet music that I got as a present was a thin little book of Russian romances. Maybe a dozen in total. A few quite famous… More…
Here's a chordal arrangement of Joy to the World! Just harmonizing the original melody with a few liberties and embellishments here and there. The main goal for me was to construct some inner voice movements… More…
This tasteful guitar interlude comes from Jo Stafford’s 1945 recording with Paul Weston And His Orchestra. I needed to do some Internet sleuthing to confirm who the guitarist was...the great George Van… More…
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Ted Greene's arrangement of the Christmas carol "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" More…
Tchaikovsky must've been a violin player at heart. Even when he wrote for the piano, he really had the violin in mind. Time and again both my teacher and I find ourselves astounded at the fact, whenever… More…
Ernest Ranglin's interpretation of The Beatles' "You Won't See Me." Ranglin's phrasing is super slippery on this one so I might have taken a few liberties in the notation to make certain passages a bit… More…
Third and last episode of the D minor lick with contrary motion.… More…
Here is my transcription of Charlie Parker solo on Relaxin' at Camarillo (take C).… More…
This is such a good song. Too bad there's never been a single decent version of it out there. Maybe one day Ryan Adams will cover it or something. I dunno.… More…
Vol. 2 of my Instagram etudes comes out Tuesday December 18th. It features 15 new transcriptions for tenor and bari. There's a nice collection of blues, funk and standards to get into!… More…
Here's a fun little solo from another band that I wish was still around. This one's all in E major the whole way through. More…
Here is the opening phrase of one of my absolute favorite Django Reinhardt solos. Tonally, he's going between G major and Eb minor - what a badass.… More…
A classic little riff that's super simple. This one's in G major and uses the CAGED system's C shape (Pattern #3). It basically just drones on the root note while playing down the scale. In this case,… More…
Here is 'free lick friday 3', it's a lick that is based around position 1 and 2 of the A natural minor scale in the style of Gary more and Rory Gallagher More…
Jamaican guitar pioneer Ernest Ranglin's take on "What Now My Love" from his 1966 release A Mod A Mod Ranglin, a must listen for any guitarist. Both guitar parts are transcribed to study the intricate… More…
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My first attempt at transcribing a solo on the site. I feel reasonably good about the tabs/notes, but not at all on timing and bars (now think the third beat of every bar should really be the 1). … More…
The Bill Wurtz ear worm goes on and on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZr6P1csiY More…
Marc Ribot's solo on St. James Infirmary from Allen Toussaint's "The Bright Mississippi" record. Simple and sparse use of the blues scale with a hint of the natural minor scale and a perfectly placed chromatic… More…
This is episode 2 for the contrary motion lick slices series I've started last week.… More…
A piano quintet I wrote for the StackExchange contest that's currently running. You can tell I'm bored. … More…
