Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Medley - A Dream in the Forest & The Minute March



The first half of this medley was written by the Paraguayan guitarist Agustin Barrios and in English is called A Dream in the Forest. The second part was written by myself and is called The Minute March, and if you can play it cleanly in under a minute, I'd say you're a pretty fair guitarist.

I struggled over whether to play this on steel string or nylon. It sounds fine to me either way. The tuning high to low is:

D# (1st String)

A#

F#

C#

F#

C# (6th String)

If you tune your guitar down a half step, and then tune the 5th and 6th string down another whole step lower yet, you'll be there.

2 comments:

  1. Pretty good there! Why aren't you playing around town or at festivals?

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  2. Not much call for a soloist, and I don't like playing in bands. I guess I could start busking down in the loop if I didn't care about getting everything I own stolen.

    Bit by bit I'm knocking off enough tunes to put out a solo acoustic record on CDBaby. I've got around 400 hundred subscribers between my two YouTube channels, so maybe I'll get some sales through them.

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