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Originally Posted by JonPR
Personally, I'd go for two solutions:
1. Leave out the instrumental section altogether!...
2. I'd go for something like a fingerstyle or chord-melody approach.
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I'm often confronted with this problem of the instrumental interlude and agree with these two approaches. When I can figure out an instrumental interlude I don't worry too much about whether it's just like the original. If it approaches the underlying chord structure or has a few elements of the original that's enough for me and I've never had a listener complain about it.
I recently learned Tears For Fears "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" and it has as very iconic. and long, instrumental interlude. I searched for acoustic covers of the piece and found that pretty much all left out the interlude, including two live solos of it by Tears For Fears member Curt Smith. Heck, in one performance he left out an entire vocal section. The audience still cheered. I ended up inserting an interlude that has a few similar phrases but is drastically shortened.