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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 2/2/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.

Would you need right hand fingerings for most of this stuff? Left hand
wouldn't hurt, though. My guess is that it was/is easy to get the
transcriptions down with "normal" music software but the finger stuff
would then be kind of a pain.

>     "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.

Yeah. I remember like two years ago when my son was playing a cute
little cut-down version of "The Young Prince and the Young Princess"
by Rimsky-Korsakov that I thought would sound really cool on guitar.
And, I'm sure it would, but despite the fact that it was basically
block chords on the left hand and a melody on the right, it was
ludicrously hard to play solo.

> That said, I would love to see more nice arrangements like these.  They are
> really fun and sound great.

They are heroic to do, of course. I had a classical guitar teacher for
one year in college (they offered subsidized therefore cheap lessons
from music school students), and for his MFA recital he ended up doing
a lot of transcribed Bach, mostly violin solo stuff, and there were
catty comments from the piano students there about how guitar was
obviously not a great classical instrument...

jking


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