Pat Metheny - Are You Going With Me

Tuesday, November 29, 2011



Pat Metheny's outstanding guitar performance of "Are You Going With Me" at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2003 with the Metropool Orchestra.

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Robert Conti plays Bluesette Smokin' In

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Watch this amazing performance of "Bluesette Smokin' In" by jazz guitarist Robert Conti.



Robert Conti is a self-taught musician although he got a dozen of jazz guitar lessons with the guitar virtuoso Joe Sgro.

He has recorded numerous albums for several music recording labels. Many respected jazz musicians have been featured in Robert Conti's guitar recordings and concerts. Amongst them was the great jazz guitarist Joe Pass.

In addition, Robert Conti has authored five jazz guitar methods and twenty jazz guitar instructional DVDs. More about his work can be found at his official website - RobertConti.com.

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Fly Me to the Moon in 2 guitars

Watch Zack Kim playing Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon" in his 2 electric guitars.



This song was written in 1954 under the title "In Other Words". A few years later the title was changed to "Fly Me to the Moon". Its most famous performance is a Frank Sinatra's studio recording. Sinatra recorded "Fly Me to the Moon" in 1964 on his album "It Might as Well Be Swing" accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra.

Here Zack Kim uses the guitar tapping technique. I cannot name it just left-hand tapping technique because he does it with both hands! Each hand tapes (the fingers stop the notes in a hammer-on slur manner) its own electric guitar.

Of course, I don't give him merit just for the show he makes on playing two electric guitars at the same time. The musical arrangements, here applied to electric guitar "duo", are nicely done as well.

> Watch Zack Kim playing the famous Canon in D here.

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Guitar playing and singing

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

In this video Salome Sandoval sings and plays classical guitar simultaneously.



The composition here performed is Aria (Cantilena), the 5th of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras. For those who don't know Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was a Brazilian composer. He's very famous amongst classical guitarist because of his indisputable contribution to the classical guitar literature.

Anyone who got serious into classical guitar learning must have tried some of Villa-Lobos 12 studies for classical guitar (published for the 1st time in 1929). If not, at least one of his 5 guitar preludes or a movement from his Suite popular brasileira for classical guitar.

Bachianas brasileiras aren't originally written for classical guitar and voice (they were conceived for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945) but arrangements have been made in which the guitar is included.

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