Amazing Grace

[mchap]

Hola Amigos:
I have finally done it.
My arrangement for "Amazing Grace" is, at last, in print both as TAB/notation and/or just music notation.
Here is the video, for which I have received hundreds of requests for the printed arrangement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wuDelXAJ7M
What took so long?
Transcribing a performance that one basically improvised once and never played again is HARD. I knew it would take 40 hours.........It actually took 80.
But it's really good.

You can order it here:
http://www.michaelchapdelaine.com/arrangements.html

Happy Trails,
Mike C

[cotten]

Thanks for making this arrangement available, Mike. What tuning is called for? I always enjoy your music, but you certainly bring out the best in that McKnight Diamond you're playing in the Youtube clip.

cotten

[mchap]

Thanks very much Cotton!
It's almost standard except, all strings are down a whole step, then drop 5th another, and 6th down a major third. So you play as if your in C Major but Bb sounds. d-a-f-c-f-Bb. So, you have the tonic and the 4th of the key open on 6th and 5th.
Works great. And I think the guitar is pitched to high anyway. It makes the melodies almost always in a soprano range. This changes that significantly. Have to use big strings though. I use a .013-.056 set. That may not seem all that big, but with a lot of polyphony it adds up. And I'm not 28 anymore.

[Alex6strings]

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