Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1413684
By Taylor Swift. By Taylor Swift and William Bowery. Arranged by JJ Gaydon. Country,Folk,Pop,Singer/Songwriter. Individual part. 7 pages. JJ Gaydon #995000. Published by JJ Gaydon (A0.1413684).
This is an arrangement of Taylor Swiftâ??s and William Boweryâ??s â??bettyâ?? from the album Folklore, for solo fingerstyle guitar. It is best suited to players of an advanced-intermediate level and higher, though lower-intermediate players could make progress on it at slower tempos. The arrangement features syncopated melodic rhythms on top of straight basslines, as well as Travis-picking passages, meaning some familiarity with contemporary fingerpicking styles is beneficial. Recommended for performance on a steel-string or nylon-string acoustic guitar.
As far as I am aware this is the first comprehensive fingerstyle arrangement of â??bettyâ?? to be published, with a melodic line and structure authentic to the original song. Only the tempo has been slowed slightly, making some of the more challenging manoeuvres easier to perform and allowing for a more flowing sound on the guitar. Parts of the melody are adapted from subtle electric guitar phrases heard towards the ends of sections in the original recording. Rehearsal marks are used for song sections, while lyrics have been omitted for the sake of readability.
