Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] amusing solo guitar trick: Bohemian Rhapsody

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ9jrBg4Lwc
>
> I just received the DVD.

So on the 2-hour DVD he shows how he plays four songs and he includes a 
PDF file with his transcriptions of those songs with both ordinary musical 
notation and tab.  It isn't classical guitar notation though - no left or 
right hand fingerings are given explicitly, but I guess the tab mostly 
takes care of that problem and the video also fills in the blanks.  The 
PDF looks really nice and clean.

I bought it from here...

http://www.elderly.com/videos/items/284-DVD9.htm

...added a couple of things and got free S/H.  Unfortunately, they added 
$2 to the price since I ordered mine.

I will be starting on these soon.

His bio on the DVD ends with a quotation:

   "There are more than 400 solo guitar arrangements in my repertoire
   which consist of popular requests and personal favorites.  My dream is
   to see the guitar literature grow to the proportions that piano music
   has and I would like to contribute personally to this expansion."

That is a great plan, but there are two problems: (1) it is *way* harder 
to write a good chord-melody arrangement for guitar than for piano, and 
(2) it is *way* harder to play the chord-melody on solo guitar than on 
piano.  Way, way, way harder.  So a beginning piano student can learn a 
piano arrangement that would challenge any professional guitarist.  That 
said, I would love to see more nice arrangements like these.  They are 
really fun and sound great.

Mike

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