Dominic Frasca plays prepared guitar

This is Dominic Frasca, a classically-trained guitarist best known for his customized ten-string guitar performances.



Dominic is currently signed with Canataloupe Music and has released two albums entitled "Deviations" and "Forced Entry".

Click here to visit his website.

Sad Song for guitar

Here's a very short piece for guitar beginners. It might not be for absolute guitar beginners but it's quite close to that.

> First of all, download "Sad Song" for guitar.

To play this guitar composition the student should already be more or less comfortable with melodic playing in the first 3 strings of the guitar. The upper voice only uses 2 types of notes: the eight-note, and the half-note. And the lower voice also uses 2 types of notes: the dotted half-note, and the quarter-note. And all the bass notes are on the lower open strings of the guitar.


Snapshot of the guitar score
(the pdf version looks much better):




Now, 3 simple guitar practice tips:

• First, learn the melody without the bass notes' accompaniment.
• Then add the bass line but simplify it to a whole-note per measure so that you only focus on the simultaneous plucking of the upper and lower lines at the beginning of each measure.
• And last, after learning the melody plus simplified bass, shorten the bass whole-note to a dotted half-note and add the quarter-note at the end of the measure. This quarter-note will function as an upbeat for each next measure and will hence give this guitar piece a forward moving pulse.

And that's it for now. I hope guitar teachers can make use of this little guitar piece.

> Browse my complete FREE guitar sheet music

Bohemian Rhapsody on classical guitar

Watch Bohemian Rhapsody being played on a classical guitar.



The guitarist's name is Edgar Cruz. He's the one who arranged this Queen's hit for solo guitar.