[rayvon87]

Hi all,

I've been learning/playing a lot of Chet Atkins tunes and I've realised that he's done a few fingerstyle arrangements of well known songs (eg, Imagine, Mr. Bojangles). I was wondering if anyone out there knows of any other artists who do this sort of thing or simply know of some arrangements out there.

Thanks

[noodle69]

a really difficult but brilliant fingerstyle tune by a guy Z. Confrey

dizzy fingers

http://www.cowboylyr...ngers-8241.html

[dadfad]

Quite few out there. Jerry Reed, Buster B. Jones, Martin Taylor, Pat Donohue, Duck Baker (who's probably one of my favorites). I once saw a guitarist named Guy Van Duser (not well-known, but very respected) do a solo-guitar arrangement of (get this!!!) John Phillips Sousa's march "Stars and Stripes Forever" complete with woodwind, brass, tuba and glochenspiel parts! Totally a sight to behold! Not my favorite tune by any means, but an absolute technical wonder to behold with multiple ascending/descending lines, lightning fast neck-location changes and chord-splits done as he played it. Re-arranging classic tunes to solo fingerstyle guitar is an art in itself.

[Cloodie]

A guitar magazine I buy once done a solo fingerstyle arrangement of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. I think I'd need to take the next 30 years off work to learn it.

[rayvon87]

Thanks for the replies.

I've heard Dizzy Fingers, a great piece of guitar music.

Jerry Reed I've heard of, but I haven't looked into his music, I will now. I think he's done some stuff with Chet...I think an arrangement of Bridge Over Troubled Water. I'll look into the other names you gave me.

I've found a few arrangements of Bohemian Rhapsody around. They all look so hard ... Lucky I've got PowerTab otherwise I'd never have know how they sounded, then trying to play them would've seemed even crazier...

[annoying_2001]

also check out leo kottke and a few eric johnson tunes.

[Soul Kitchen]

Try and get a hold of the magazine called 'Fingerstyle' I believe, has tons of challenging fingerstyle pieces, and a lot of arrangements, latest issue has a terrific version of "Georgia on My Mind" and even "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead."

[rayvon87]

Thanks for the help.

I'll try and get hold of the mag. Might be a little difficult, but I'll see what I can do...

[ibanez6]

A good site that has tabs and sound for fingure style tunes and artists is:

http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com

I had to do a short Christmas Concert last year and used some of the carols from this site. Also my current project tune is "the entertainer" which I downloaded from that site.


Plenty to keep you occupied for a while.

[rayvon87]

Hey, thanks for the site. There's heaps here.

[cichlid_dmb]

pete huttlinger and laurence juber do some excellent arrangements of pop tunes. laurence juber's got an album of beatles arrangements and pete's got an album out called naked pop, which has arrangements of steely dan, sting, stevie wonder, bunch of others.

www.acousticpower.com has Pete's arrangement of "josie" by steely dan, and a bunch of laurence's stuff, as well. not to mention tons of other good stuff, but since there's no rating system there, some of it is hit or miss.

[rayvon87]

Hey, nice site. Thanks.