Current tunes?

[TBman]

I'm working on the following:

On steel string:
Ed Gerhard's Promised Land and The Water is Wide
El McMeen's arrangement of Carolan's Welcome

On nylon:
Fernando Sor's Andante OP 60, No 14, Andante OP 35, No 1
Mauro Giuliani's Andantino OP 50, No 1

I keep bouncing around between these and it seems nothing is going anywhere

Eventually I'll get something recorded,

[MThomson]

I'm trying to get my act together and trying to get a little repertoire together.

Working on:
Al Petteway - River
Stuart Ryan - Black is the Colour
Will Mcnicol - A Dozen Red Roses, Topsy, Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar

Can make my way through most of them now, but feeling like it's all a bit scrappy. Good fun though.

[rick-slo]

Considering creating an arrangement of Shenandoah.

[reeve21]

Hi Barry,

That is some nice music you are playing.

I'm working on the last 3 tunes in Richard Saslow's ragtime book--Coney Island Cakewalk, Bloozinay and Absquatulation Rag. I've got them all at about 90 per cent--they each have one or two slightly tricky parts that require more muscle memory work to flow. Then I'll try to record them.

I'm about to embark on trying to learn some instrumental versions of Beatles songs (heaven knows I can't sing those high parts!).

[tbeltrans]

Since I too, find myself bouncing around between too many things at once, I found this video to be worth watching:



The idea is to pick one thing and focus on that before going on to the next thing. Though the video involves taking on too many different pursuits, for me it also applies to focusing on the guitar, but taking on too many directions at once.

Tony

[iim7V7IM7]

I am working on some solo arrangements of some jazz standards.

Body and Soul (Db)
Darn that Dream (G)
Moon River (C)
Polka Dots and Moonbeams (F)
Stardust (C)
Stella by Starlight (C)

We are going to our beach cottage for about 6 weeks so having a tune a week to work through feels right.

[4mykey]

Originally Posted by iim7V7IM7

I am working on some solo arrangements of some jazz standards.

Body and Soul (Db)
Darn that Dream (G)
Moon River (C)
Polka Dots and Moonbeams (F)
Stardust (C)
Stella by Starlight (C)

We are going to our beach cottage for about 6 weeks so having a tune a week to work through feels right.

A solo fingerstyle arrangement of "Moon River" sounds nice!
I've got a plethora of unfinished tunes hanging around. Just keep getting distracted. I don't seem to have the mental discipline I used to.

Here's the list:
Clive Carroll: "And I Love Her," "At the Break of Day" and "Black Moon"
John Renbourn: "Sandwood Down to Kyle"
Martin Simpson: "Blues Run the Game"
And I just got a transcription for a solo fingerstyle version of the Police's "Every Breath You Take."
Sigh....

[macmanmatty]

I'm trying to make fingerstyle arrangements of the following

She Thinks I Still Care- George Jones

Back Home Again - John Denver

Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt

Vincent Black Lighting - Richard Thompson

I'm also relearning numerous songs I learned before I learned how to sing , trying to come up with a arrangement of "Nobody's Home" by Chris Smither that I can play with my short deformed pinky and as always write new songs.

[Ceabeceabe]

Currently working on:

the Hawaiian song Pua ‘Ahihi as played by Kahauanu Lake Trio

Transcribing the following Ryuichi Sakamoto pieces from piano sheet music to guitar -
Before Long
Perspective
Ballet Mecanique

[Dave Hicks]

Getting Bluebell Polka up to speed on guitar and mandolin
Big Scioty

D.H.

[islandguitar]

I tend to play less in the summer.....heat, humidity and a much busier schedule...but,
Working on a new original "Down Deep" (DADGAD) played on the McCollum and updating one of my old ones which I don't think has been posted on AGF: "Weekday Slumber" with the Flammang. Each recorded this coming fall.

Just uploaded "COVID Trilogy" to Spotify, Amazon, Itunes, etc. a 3 song instrumental depicting the various stages of the pandemic. Should be posted soon.

[tbeltrans]

As for tunes I am working on, my approach is to develop a musical vocabulary with which to just play tunes from a fakebook or that I have learned the melody and chords to by ear.

I don't have the patience to learn somebody else's arrangement, especially a decent fingerstyle arrangement. Far too many notes to memorize and then quickly lose if I don't play it every day. What happens is that I then spend my guitar time trying to hold on to a handful of tunes instead of exploring new tunes.

So instead, I am able to open a fakebook to any tune I feel like playing that day, and just play it, experimenting with different harmonic approaches and ways to add interest. For me, that is much more enjoyable and comparable to working out a Sudoku or crossword puzzle except that it is a tune instead.

Therefore, "current tunes" consists of whatever I feel like playing on any given day. Once I figured out that I could learn to do that, and constantly improve the more I do that, guitar playing became fun again.

Tony

[Riverwolf]

Originally Posted by islandguitar

I tend to play less in the summer...

Me too.
A lot less.
I turn 64 in two weeks.
Learning the Beatles "When I'm 64"

[iim7V7IM7]

Originally Posted by 4mykey

A solo fingerstyle arrangement of "Moon River" sounds nice!
I've got a plethora of unfinished tunes hanging around. Just keep getting distracted. I don't seem to have the mental discipline I used to.

Here's the list:
Clive Carroll: "And I Love Her," "At the Break of Day" and "Black Moon"
John Renbourn: "Sandwood Down to Kyle"
Martin Simpson: "Blues Run the Game"
And I just got a transcription for a solo fingerstyle version of the Police's "Every Breath You Take."
Sigh....

Moon River (Fairly Straightforward in C, played in 3/4)

A1
| Cmaj7 | Am11 Am7 | F9#11|
| Cmaj7 | F9#11 | Cmaj7 |
| Bdim | E7#5 | Am |
| C7 | Fmaj7 | Bb13 Bb7b5 |
| Am7 | F#dim B7#5 |
| Em7 A7#5 | Dm7 G7 ||

A2
| Cmaj7 Am11 Am7 | F9#11 |
| Bdim | E7#5 | Am |
| Am/G | F#dim | F9/13 F9 |
| Cmaj7 | F9 F9#11 | Cmaj7 |
| F9#11 | Em7 | A7 |
|Dm7 | G7 | C6 ||

[HOF dad]

Finishing November by Masaaki Kishibe
Close to finishing Smokey Mountain Lullaby - TE
trying to get my fingers around Drivetime - TE
plus a half dozen other I've needed to finish for quite a while.......
need to work on my discipline a little more