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Welcome to my world of fingerstyle guitar

Here are my own guitar records of the tunes I consider as treasure (recorded in mp3 format):

Important note: If you have problem in downloading my mp3 records and got this message "Not Available For Download", please right click on the link and select "Save Target As...". That will do the trick :-]

Man in the mirror - sang by Michael Jackson. Guitar arrangement by Tuck Andress. For me Tuck is the greatest fingerstyle jazz player. He played like three instruments playing at the same time. There's a melody, bass and rythym. Want to try to play this tune? You can check out the tab here and here. It's the coolest guitar piece to play.

Somewhere over the rainbow/if I only had a brain - by Harold Arlen. Again guitar arrangement by Tuck Andress. This tune was a soundtrack of "Wizard of Oz". Its my favorite song when I was a child. The intro is a good practice for harp harmonic technique. The piece gets more challenging when you reached the "if I had only a brain" part. Try play this tune, the tab is available here.

Can I help you sir? Yes, please play the blues - yup that was the title = ) Another cool guitar piece. It's a fingerstyle blues. You can download the tab here.

Root - Unusual solo guitar by Gordon Giltrap. The first string tuned down to C and the bass E down to D the effect is almost sitar-like. The tab was published in Total Guitar magazine February 1997 issue. I created a tab for this song in plain text here.

Tango en skai - A tango-flamenco guitar piece by Roland Dyen. It has many techniques involved: palm muting, tremolo, harp harmonics. Its a challenging piece. Once you mastered this piece, its enjoyable to play. The tab is available here.

Malagueña - Chet Atkins was a very good folk guitar player but he's still good playing flamenco. I always play this tune, its a good warm up. If you're a flamenco player try this one, I'm sure you'll love this song. Click here for the tab.

Misionera - by Fernando Bustamante and arranged by Jorge Morel. This guy (Jorge Morel) is really incredible. He played this song extremely clean and fast. Its another flamenco song that has a struggling sound. Hard to play as clean and as fast as Jorge Morel. But its fun to play. Follow this link here for the tab.

Somewhere in time - Very romantic piece by John Barry. It was a soundtrack of the movie "Somewhere in Time" starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.Most version of this tune was played on piano. I think you'll hear this song from me for the first time in guitar version. You can see the tab here.

Misty - Music by Errol Garner. You'll hear this song from soundtrack of the movie "Play misty for me" starring Klint Eastwood. Its a relaxing piece to play. Download the tab here.

Love story - Another romantic song by Francis Lai. Most of us heard this tune played as an orchestra. The guitar version also sounds well. It got bass, rythym and melody. The tab is here.

Dying young - You can hear this song in many version. The popular version was played by Kenny G on his saxophone. This was a soundtrack of the movie of Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott "Dying young". It's a sentimental piece and also sounds good on guitar. The tab can be found here.

Do you remember? - My band's composition. Vocals/drums: Bong, Guitar: Roland, Guitar: Joed, Bass: Vladimir, Keyboard: JC.

 

 

Links:

Tuck Andress Tabs Transcriptions for Guitar - here you'll find Dylan Hoey's transcriptions of Tuck Andress great songs.

Fingerstyle Guitar Resource Center - an educational source for fingerstyle guitarists, with high quality tablature (in tef), lessons and links.

- another great source guitar fingerstyle tablatures (in tef and pdf) and midi files.

Classical Guitar Tablature - more than 600 classical guitar tabs in plain text format.

The Classical Guitar Page of Nikita Boldyrev - you can find here scores, tablatures, MIDI and MP3/WMA/RA files of popular classical guitar pieces.

Le Site à Mario - a site dedicated to flamenco guitar playing. You can find here tablatures (in tef) and midi files of popular flamenco songs.

Free Tablature Archive - has a huge collection of TablEdit tablatures.

- another site that has a large collection of TablEdit tablatures.

- search engine for tablatures.

- another search engine for tablatures. Over 40, 000 chords and tab files.

 

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2002 Roland Michael A. dela Peña. Last updated 07-07-02.