SKU: A0.1155054

Taking inspiration in Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole’s Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World mashup, I offer an arrangement in polyrhythmic 4/4 time of What a Wonderful World for solo acoustic guitar. The arrangement has an afro-flamenco character with two tiers of rhythm. Tier one is the normal 4/4 rhythm with accents at 1 and 3. Tier two consists of accents falling on beats 2 and 2& and 3& of the 4 beat measures. Tier two can be highlighted by clapping or tapping with a table knife on a bottle at beats 2 and 2& and 3&, with the strongest accent on 3& (an upbeat). The tune is really happy and up-lifting. If there are any little folks (kids two to four years old) around listening, they will have a hard time sitting still. My grandson (two and a half) really got going when I played it for him. I can hardly resist the urge to dance to the tune while playing myself! The arrangement is in the spirit of the Canarios by Gaspar Sanz for classical guitar and is meant to have the nature of a dance. The repetitive alternating thumb and index and middle finger cycle going through the broken chords with the melody woven in works to give the arrangement an almost hypnotic character. The fingering for the right hand is given in first section and is basically the same throughout the piece. The fingering for the left hand can, I believe, be easily figured out from the tablature. The arrangement is within the reach of intermediate students of the acoustic guitar; anyone who has mastered the basics of fingerstyle fingerpicking guitar, and can be played on both nylon and steel string acoustic guitars. The short and long glissandos and the arpeggios of natural harmonics resembling the kalimba (thumb harp) together with the drone effects of the enharmonic tones in the chords give an added dash of African spice to the piece.

SKU: A0.1042421

Zappa Quote: This is a 12-tone crab canon written when I was 18. There's actually another version for two guitars, so it's a double crab canon. I don't know where it is though. I'd been doing 12-tone music for quite some time before I did this, but it was the first time I'd tried to write something for the guitar. I couldn't play it, and I never got to hear it until I got the Synclavier. And because it's printed on the Synclavier, that also means I got to push the button and listen to it..

SKU: A0.1156456

IMPORTANT NOTE: You get both tablature version and sheet music version in one 5 page PDF! Hopefully this makes these arrangements all-inclusive for different purposes and skill levels. Just be careful with your printer settings if you don't want two versions!

1. Arranged for guitar
2. Tablature added
3. Measures and times signature removed reflecting the original composer's ethos.
4. Form simplified so that the piece fits on three pages. D.S. in retrograde is a strange navigation indication, but it seems the most elegant way to save a lot of paper and ink. 
5. Slurs added.
6. Some left hand fingerings added. I didn't want to add too many to the point where it becomes cumbersome or confusing.

SKU: A0.905203

This beautiful Prelude is the first piece from Scribin's Op. 9 where it is followed by a Nocturno. Prelude is originally composed for piano (left hand). In transcription the original tonality C sharp minor has been changed to D minor, which is more suitable for guitar.
Arranger's own recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09GaI75bjMc
Other guitar transcriptions by Aleksander Wilgos: https://www.youtube.com/user/aleksanderwilgos.

SKU: A0.1135186

Http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/il-satiro-danzante-digital-sheet-music/20229001?ac=1&_requestid=2340691 The first movement - INTRODUZIONE - begins in a neo-Italian Baroque style , with ancient undertones, in homage to the statue's current home where it has received great care and attention. The music then proceeds in a more modern and programmatic vein conjuring the disastrous sinking of the ship carrying this masterpiece in ancient times and its loss to the inky depths below. The second movement - DANZA - is much lighter in mood celebrating its recovery and conveying the joyous expression of the 'Dancing Satyr' with its arched back and head thrown back in ecstatic abandonment, brilliantly portrayed by its original sculptor. Here the musical language is more influenced by the rhythms of Greek folk music while incorporating modern guitar idioms and harmonic concepts as in the first movement.

SKU: M0.WBM75MEB

ISBN 9781513478005. 8.75X11.75 inches.

This is a collection of 86 guitar solos in notation only from William Bay’s books, Solo Guitar in Worship, Communion, Psalms, Timeless Gospel Melodies and Spirituals. The solos work well as preludes, offertories, communion hymns, recessionals or they can be played for enjoyment.  All 86 solos have been recorded and are available as online downloads with this book.