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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…
Here Isaiah solos over a chorus of Bill Withers's ‘Lovely Day.’ There are so many creative and wonderful ideas throughout. … 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…
Approach note exercise using simple three string triads to achieve a Django Reinhardt Gypsy Jazz type of sound. We will approach each chord tone by one diatonic note above and one chromatic note below.… More…
Live from Arcada. I have taken bits from both guitar parts although its mostly Kenny's part. … More…
Slick gypsy blues ideas from Corsican Trio. There's something sneaky about this tune! Love the chord ideas over the minor ii - V in bar 6. Kind of looks like C#m7b5 going to F#13b9. However you get there. More…
This piano piece is but a day old and I don't even have a proper recording of it yet. Or the sheet music, for that matter. But the upper voice fits the violin so nicely, I figured I might as well do this… More…
All right so a little bit of an unconventional slice. A lot of people covered that "fingerpicking addition" thing I posted the other day, but had trouble nailing the last measure in 9/8. Some played it… More…
Tatyana and Sergey Nikitin both hold PhDs in physics, but it's not their research every Russian knows them for. It's their music. They've written countless songs, covered many more by others, and lent… More…
"Another day, another famous artist, another obscure song." I've typed words to that effect a few times too many by now, and my supply of synonyms is running dry. Might as well just make it this channel's… More…
A popular Russian children's song from the 1936 movie "The Children of Captain Grant". Transposed and arranged for two violins. Excellent practice for the third and fourth finger, and really great fun… More…
Aleksandra Pakhmutova is a living legend. Every Russian knows her name. Over the last 60 years she wrote hundreds of songs. Absolutely everyone can hum dozens of them off the top of their head. And this… More…
Reading through or, in this case transcribing Bach's music is always a learning experience. Everything is just always so perfectly balanced and yet never boring or redundant. I used the Arthur Grumiaux… More…
Here's some wonderful bluegrass picking from Molly Tuttle. There's something magical about triplets beamed to sixteenth notes! More…
3 selections from the newly available "Transcriptions and Tracks" from Kaspar Jalily. A set of 10 transcriptions ranging from rhythmic R&B playing to full-on rock and fusion solos.… More…
Allegedly Rolf Løvland wrote this as an instrumental piece for the funeral of his mother. In 2002 he then recorded it with his Irish-Norwegian band Secret Garden, as a song set to lyrics by the Irish novelist… More…
Actually transcribed this in my pre-soundslice days, but just realized I had it on guitar pro and was curious to upload and try to sync it up. Really weird rhythms, might later go through and see if there… More…
For two decades after the end of World War II, Russia didn't celebrate its victory. No parades, not even a day off. In 1965, twelve years after Stalin's death, the propaganda machine finally woke up and… More…
Originally an American Civil War song published in 1861, "Aura Lea" is now known to most people under a different name entirely. Set to all-new lyrics by Ken Darby (but credited to his wife Vera Matson)… More…
The Children's Album by Tchaikovsky is a staple of piano education pretty much anywhere you look in the world, and of course in Russian schools in particular. Every child taking up piano lessons gets to… More…
Valeri Leontyev sure had many hits in his day. This isn't one of them, I don't think. Quite an obscure song for all intents and purposes. I still listened to it lots as a kid, as we had the LP pictured… More…
Written for a 1974 Soviet stop-motion cartoon, this song is popular to this day with Russian children and adults alike. Bittersweet lyrics by E. Uspenski, the author of the children's book of which the… More…
Although I generally like to apply vibrato from the start, it can be effective to practice easing into it on a stationary note. This allows you to clearly hear the fundamental pitch, and then contrast… More…
This was from an instragram post and I believe Tosin said he was messing around with concepts from Daniele Gottardo, but the riff is Tosin's creation.… More…
What Pakhmutova/Dobronravov are to Russia, John/Taupin are to the world. In every particular. Classically educated, half a century of creative collaboration through all ages and styles, hundreds of songs,… More…
RiffHero was a big inspiration for me to start transcribing Mateus Asato pieces, and I originally learned this song exclusively with his transcription on YouTube - there's no real transcribing done on… More…
Transposed and arranged for two violins. Some nice rhythmic patterns there, that look much easier to pull off than they actually are. The pauses on the downbeat in particular are quite treacherous for… More…
I tabbed two versions here: the first one is a nice finger twister. The second one is a bit easier to play. … More…
Now here's a special treat. The absolute epitome of a music genre endemic to Russia (of which, in turn, there are quite a few).… More…