Modern acoustic instrumentals -intermediate level

[EDS]

I have a student that recently played a guitar arrangement of "River Flows in You" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xFh7XFC_w)

I'm looking for suggestions of other modern "intermediate" level acoustic songs - my background is in classical and jazz so I'm not familiar with many acoustic instrumental artists (and most of their music that I've found so far is more challenging than what I'm looking for.)

Please no suggestions for pop song arrangements, classical, etc. Mostly looking for stuff in that modern "pop harmony" style similar to River Flow in You.

Thanks!

[Pitar]

Thanks for that video.

The chord melody playing of guitar music is all over the spectrum and available. If I had sources for you I'd list them here. Because I create them myself for my own fun I don't seek them out to listen to or learn. I should but I get caught up creating them and that's the better part of the fun for me. I think a person with a trained ear, fret board knowledge and a decent set of finger picking skills owes it to himself to make his own path.

[TBman]

Daria does covers of various artists that you may like:

Isato Nakagawa:


Masaaki Kishibe:




Tabs for Masaaki are here.

Gin:

[JonPR]

Originally Posted by EDS

I have a student that recently played a guitar arrangement of "River Flows in You" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xFh7XFC_w)

I'm looking for suggestions of other modern "intermediate" level acoustic songs - my background is in classical and jazz so I'm not familiar with many acoustic instrumental artists (and most of their music that I've found so far is more challenging than what I'm looking for.)

Please no suggestions for pop song arrangements, classical, etc. Mostly looking for stuff in that modern "pop harmony" style similar to River Flow in You.

Thanks!

I'm a little biased here - having worked on a book of his transcriptions! - but I'd point you to Bert Jansch. Many of his instrumental pieces would be of a suitable level. They vary in style from pseudo-baroque (much like the above piece) to more bluesy/folksy pieces.
Here's some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqdi6evOclY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAT5T1lj6WE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpRup9xI9QY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08M9-vg3N8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-BOxivT_po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAtiofihEu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5SfXbtzMM
They vary in difficulty, of course, and you might consider one or two of them "advanced". One or two are in alternative tunings (drop D or DADGAD)
The last one (DADGAD) is somewhat long, but the first section makes a nice solo piece on its own.