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I have taken note of the feedback regarding the easy version of Silent Night and I have done a new stripped back lesson, this time 'Auld Lang Syne' ... you can put the holiday time to good use and practice up in the days before New Years Eve and bring a tear to everyone's eye at midnight ... that's if they're all sober enough to shut up and listen!
It's in G, no surprises there ... as usual, it's the best key to keep it all compact on the fingerboard.
I've introduced a new visual aid in this lesson ... you'll see in the movie a real time tracking of all the note positions on the fretboard. This is the player's view of the fretboard, with the nut on the left; notes to the left of the nut indicate open string notes ... it's all pretty self explanatory.
There's nothing too demanding in this piece ... it's nice and slow; everything happens within the first four frets of fingerboard. I added the chord names only because it's good to know which chords underlie it all. Obviously, there are no chords actually being played in this version, but it's important to understand that they're there anyway ... the bass line and melody partially spell them out and if you were to add more notes to this arrangement, they'd be following the rules of those chords I indicate. If you have a friend who plays guitar, he or she could strum through the chords indicated while you play the finger style version. That would sound great ... or a piano player could plunk out those chords.
Other than that, I can't think of much more to say!
Here's a link to a movie of another version I did of this, the New Years Anthem, last year.
Auld Lang Syne 2007.
Happy New Year, fellow twanger!! May 2009 be your best yet.
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