{"id":57,"date":"2021-04-12T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:17:07","slug":"arranging-solo-fingerstyle-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/arranging-solo-fingerstyle-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Arranging Solo Fingerstyle Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/guitareo.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/yesterday.pdf\" class=\"download-button\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things you can do on the guitar that sets it apart from many other instruments is that you can play multiple rhythms and melodies at the same time. This allows us to create some pretty awesome arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>So in this video, we\u2019re going to take you behind-the-scenes and show you how Nate goes about transforming \u201cYesterday\u201d by The Beatles into a solo fingerstyle piece. To start, we\u2019ll listen through the song and find the chords.<\/p>\n<p>Once we\u2019re certain that we know the chords, we\u2019ll plug everything into Guitar Pro and create a bass line following the chords. To do this, we just need to take the root note and the 5th (in most cases) of each chord and alternate them back and forth using eighth notes.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have a bass line, we\u2019ll write out the melody on the higher strings. We need to make sure that the notes are in the best locations so we can reach them with our fretting hand while still fretting our bass notes.<\/p>\n<p>From here, it\u2019s all about meshing them together and practicing. And then more practicing. It\u2019ll take some time to really get all this coordination down and play the song at full speed. You can learn this song and get the tabs for this arrangement right here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/guitareo.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/yesterday.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cYesterday\u201d Tabs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"resources\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/guitareo.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/yesterday-sm.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download PDF One of the things you can do on the guitar that sets it apart from many other instruments is that you can play multiple rhythms and melodies at the same time. This allows us to create some pretty awesome arrangements. So in this video, we\u2019re going to take you behind-the-scenes and show you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}