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When I was a student we played Desperado by The Eagles almost non-stop. This version is in memory of my bestie at Uni – Jo Trott – who passed away a few years ago. She introduced me to the music of The Eagles and Desperado was my favourite track. I don’t think I’ve listened to … Read more
This is my arrangement of Howard Blake’s beautiful tune “Walking in the Air” from the film “The Snowman” on a classical guitar. No Christmas is complete without this song but I’ve tried to give it a completely new feel. The opening few bars are meant to conjure up visions of snowflakes gently falling! The Snowman is … Read more
A bit of history about the song “Feelings” In 1957, Louis “Loulou” Gaste composed a tune called “Por Toi” which featured in a little-known French film. Albert Morris wrote some new lyrics to it in 1974 and called it “Feelings”. The song was then covered by many big stars such as Shirley Bassey and Andy Williams. Some … Read more
“All of Me” by John Legend was one of the biggest hits of 2013. The song is normally played on the piano but I thought it might work quite nicely on guitar. It’s in standard tuning with a capo on the 6th fret. The original song key is much lower and could be played with … Read more
This is my arrangement of Jingle Bells played on a James Lister classical guitar in open G tuning. It was one of my first experiments using a green screen in the video recording and the colour didn’t work as well as I’d have liked. Oh well, perhaps I’ll stick with black backdrops in future! Alternate Tuning … Read more
When Eva Cassidy’s version of Over The Rainbow was released it received huge acclaim. It was made even more poignant by the fact that Eva had died at the age of 32 and her music was only widely recognised after her death. Although Eva performed covers of existing songs she brought them to life again with fresh guitar arrangements and … Read more