SKU: A0.1276814

Key: A minor (harmonic)
Pages: 2

This is a medium difficulty finger style piece. It reminds me of the difficulty of Fernando Sor or Matteo Carcassi etudes, so it's great to use this to fine tune technical aspects of your playing. 

1. Arranged for guitar.
2. Guitar tablature added.
3. Slurs/slides/stacatto added.
4. Fingerings added.
5. Chord nomenclature added. (classical music doesn't normal have these. They tend to never summarize the notes perfectly, but it's clear to me that they aid in playing the music better in many aspects.)
6. Position markers added
7. Letter names on white note heads added

Tips:
1. I imagine E would be played louder.
2. Generally, minor chords are played quieter.
3. The form is ABA.
4. The key change is to the parallel major, A Major. This is a romantic key change (basically Beethoven and after).  
5. This piece is beautiful and easy to engrave since it symmetrical.  4 measure phrases. 32 measures fits perfectly on two pages. I say this somewhat jokingly, but the time signature is 32/16/8/4/2 (look into hypermeter).  I enjoy when pieces of music are 4 measure phrases, because then the staff lines themselves actually represent true musical phrases. The opposite of this is called upbeat phrasing, which is when a phrase starts in the middle of a measure.

SKU: A0.964301

The East is Red

Based on a traditional folk melody from Shaanxi province in northern China, this song’s lyrics were rewritten twice; firstly in 1944, to describe the Chinese struggle against Japanese occupation, and again in 1949, as a hymn to Chairman Mao. It later became the title song of a Chinese Communist film and served as the country’s unofficial national anthem during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

This technically straightforward and uncluttered arrangement allows the famous melody to be clearly heard, so ensure to articulate every note as clearly and expressively as possible. Aim for a steady build of emotion and volume throughout.

SKU: A0.1326219

Ode to Joy (German: An die Freude [an di� ˈf�ɔ�də], literally To [the] Joy) is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.

Ode to Joy is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824. Beethoven's text is not based entirely on Schiller's poem, and it introduces a few new sections.

Arranged for classical/fingerstyle guitar.

SKU: A0.1395463

Classical guitar arrangement of the Allemande from J.S. Bach's 4th French Suite Bwv 815. The original key of this work is E flat major. For this arrangement I changed the key to D major. To play this in the original key use a capo on the first fret.

SKU: A0.964303

My Motherland

Originally written for the film Battle on Shanggangling Mountain, this song’s popularity has since outgrown and outlived that of the movie. Although the film is about the Korean war, the lyrics of this song do not make any explicit reference to it, which allows the song to be relatable not only to soldiers, but to anyone who is far from home and missing their motherland.

There are two distinct sections in this piece, and the difference between them should be clearly expressed to give the music its full effect. When performed vocally, the gentle and mournful verse is sung by a solo singer, who is then joined by a large choir for the faster, more bombastic chorus. Carefully observe all of the expression markings to give this gorgeous melody its full character.

SKU: AX.00-PS-0013915

ISBN 9780739094563. UPC: 038081455587. Don Black.

In 1962, the staccato attack of Vic Flick's guitar shot out from the film Dr. No as if from the barrel of Bond's own Walther PPK, and it's been the signature sound of Bond ever since. This book features 12 classic James Bond themes in easy-to-play melody and guitar arrangements. The included DVD-ROM contains sound-alike and play-along MP3s with full orchestration, and our exclusive TNT 2 Custom Mix software, which allows you to alter the instrument mixes, loop sections, and change tempos and keys. Titles: Diamonds Are Forever * For Your Eyes Only * From Russia with Love * Goldfinger * James Bond Theme * Live and Let Die * Nobody Does It Better * On Her Majesty's Secret Service * Thunderball * Tomorrow Never Dies * A View to a Kill * You Only Live Twice.

SKU: AX.00-PS-0013920

ISBN 9780739094563. UPC: 038081455587.

In 1962, the staccato attack of Vic Flick's guitar shot out from the film Dr. No as if from the barrel of Bond's own Walther PPK, and it's been the signature sound of Bond ever since. This book features 12 classic James Bond themes in easy-to-play melody and guitar arrangements. The included DVD-ROM contains sound-alike and play-along MP3s with full orchestration, and our exclusive TNT 2 Custom Mix software, which allows you to alter the instrument mixes, loop sections, and change tempos and keys. Titles: Diamonds Are Forever * For Your Eyes Only * From Russia with Love * Goldfinger * James Bond Theme * Live and Let Die * Nobody Does It Better * On Her Majesty's Secret Service * Thunderball * Tomorrow Never Dies * A View to a Kill * You Only Live Twice.