Ashokan Farewell Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement
About this eBook
In this fingerstyle guitar arrangement, the bass line enters as an ascending response to the melody, which is then harmonized in sixths and thirds the second time through. The arrangement is a good study in position shifting up and down the fingerboard, and provides a great showcase for dynamic and tonal nuance in the phrasing of the melody. It is an excellent concert selection and will be a popular addition to the repertoire of any fingerstyle player, on either steel- or nylon-string guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature.
About the author
John Lehmann-Haupt, a New York-based guitarist, has been playing since he was five years old. Known equally for his arrangements of popular and traditional songs and for his classical interpretations, he has released two acclaimed CDs, Songs of the Guitar and Songs of the Guitar II. He has performed in concert throughout the Northeast, and his 12- year engagement at Windows on the World (atop the former World Trade Center) was cited for musical excellence by The New York Times. John's writings on music have appeared in The New York Times, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar World, and several other publications. He was a staff instructor at New York's American Institute of Guitar from 1982 until its 2008 closing, and since 2006, he has served on the Board of Directors of the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
