Handel Rigaudon

Rigaudon and the movement that follows it, from Handel's Water Music Suite No.2, arranged for 4 guitars. I listened to Le Concert Spirituel perform it at the Proms this year and couldn't get it out of my head. I felt a definite need to arrange it. In the pdf file the score is followed by the parts. Scribd insists on calling it Rigaud On. Oh, well.

Bach Duets

Simple Bach arrangements for guitar duet:

aria - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: aria

minuet1 - Upload a Document to Scribd

Read this document on Scribd: minuet1

Christmas Carol Tabs

It'll soon be December again. The pdf document below includes the guitar tabs, chords and tunes for the following Christmas Carols:

Away in a Manger
Ding Dong Merrily on High
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
I Saw Three Ships
Jingle Bells
O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
O Come All Ye Faithful
Once in Royal David's City
Silent Night
The Holly and the Ivy
We Three Kings
While Shepherds Watched

The Sailor's Hornpipe

Harder than it looks, I think - especially if you want to play it fast. There are two versions here: the second includes tab and chords.

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Guitar Quartet

Published at the start of the 19th century, Peacock's Tunes is a collection of folk melodies for Northumbrian pipes. This suite of pieces is arranged from the book. Some of the parts are easier than others - none harder than Grade 2. It includes The Oyster Wife's Rant and O Say Bonny Lass. The downloadable pdf below includes both score and parts.

Michael Finnegan

Michael Finnegan arranged for guitar trio. All parts are elementary - the middle part very much so.

Battle Pavane

An arrangement of Susato's Pavane: La Bataille (The Battle Pavane)(1551) for guitar quartet. It's a great piece of early music to play. It's usually played on loud instruments - but it's no less effective on quiet ones! I've simplified it very slightly in one or two places but I don't think the simplifications detract from the overall effect. Works well with a drum playing an ostinato of one crotchet, two quavers. One performer on its first outing pointed out that there's a quote from the film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in it. I hadn't noticed.

The document below incudes the score plus parts for all four players.

Etude

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Or, if you prefer, the French tune Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman, first written down and printed in 1761. Mozart wrote variations on it. Combine it with Jane Taylor's famous short poem (first published in Rhymes for the Nursery in 1806) and you have the ubiquitous Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, as sent up by Lewis Carroll - and beloved of people learning instruments ever since.

Summer Study

Espana

A short piece in a Spanish style with a suggestion of flamenco - with a couple of scales thrown in to fill up the sheet!

Take Three, Take Four

A short piece in a mixture of 3/4 and 4/4. It's about Grade 1 standard.

Lord of the Dance

Bobby Shaftoe

A sheet of easy tunes: Bobby Shaftoe, When The Boat Comes In, Tallis' Canon and Sur le Pont d'Avignon.

Drunken Sailor

A tab version of the famous tune, What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?

A Carol Arrangement

One of my favourite carol tunes. Personent Hodie was first published in 1582, in the Finnish collection of songs, Piae Cantiones, along with Good King Wenceslas and Unto Us a Child is Born (well, those are the words we put to the tunes these days).

This arrangement is a simple one - it's about Trinity Initial Grade level.

If you're after a lot of carol tunes, click on "Christmas Tabs" link, above.

Two Little Pieces

Two pieces for classical guitar. I was going to call them studies but that sounds more boring. The first (all about spreading easy chords with the thumb) has a jazz feel, the second is lively and dramatic.

The first is about Grade 2 (Trinity), the second is harder - and harder to define Grade-wise, I think.

The Free Guitar Music Bumper Book of Christmas Tabs!

Includes the guitar tabs, chords and tunes for:

Away in a Manger
Ding Dong Merrily on High
God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
I Saw Three Ships
Jingle Bells
O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
O Come All Ye Faithful
Once in Royal David's City
Silent Night
The Holly and the Ivy
We Three Kings
While Shepherds Watched

Minuet

Another movement arranged from a Haydn Baryton Trio - this time a Minuet. The middle part has been rewritten: it's been made very simple, using only G, A, B and C.

Three Tunes

Amazing Grace, The Can Can and Joshua at the Battle of Jericho.

Elementary, but not as easy as those in the previous post.