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Solo Guitar Arrangements

I love arranging solo guitar music! These arrangements range from late beginner to advanced. Most arrangements are written in both standard and TAB notation. Scroll down or click here for holiday music.

Solo Guitar Arrangements

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All the Things You Are

To make this more accessible to those interested in getting in solo jazz guitar, this arrangement mostly uses 3-note chord voicings.

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Amazing Grace

Easy guitar solo in chord-melody style.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Ancient Mother

Theme and variations based on a beautiful Navajo chant. Intermediate fingerstyle.

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Ash Grove, The

A charming old Welsh tune. Intermediate fingerstyle.

Free video demo

Video tutorial

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Aura Lee

An easy fingerstyle arrangement that can be adapted to pick playing if you play full chords in the second half instead of the partial chords that are written.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Brahms Lullaby

For the early intermediate fingerstyle guitarist.

Free video demo

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Can't Help Falling in Love

A simple chord/melody fingerstyle arrangement for the early intermediate player.

Video demo with TAB and standard notation.

Video tutorial.

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Crazy

Captures the timeless Patsy Cline feel with a few jazzed up chords for extra harmonic color. For the advancing guitarist.

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Deep Purple

A beautiful jazz ballad for the more advanced student.

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Dona Nobis Pacem

An easy fingerstyle arrangement for the late beginner or early intermediate player.


Don't Know Why

Written by Jesse Harris and made famous by Norah Jones. For the advancing guitarist.​

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Every Night When the Sun Goes In

A traditional Appalachian melody played with a gentle swing feel. Intermediate fingerstyle guitar.

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Fly Me to the Moon

To make this more accessible to those interested in getting in solo jazz guitar, this arrangement mostly uses 3-note chord voicings.

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Greensleeves/What Child Is This

Early intermediate fingerstyle guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Happy Birthday

Free arrangement.

Free video demo and lesson.

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House of the Rising Sun

Free easy solo guitar arrangement.

Free video demo and lesson.


Hyfrydol

This Welsh hymn is often known as Blue Boat Hymn to Unitarian Universalists. For the advancing fingerstyle guitarist.

Free video demo

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I Walk the Line

Easy pick style guitar. Late beginner or early intermediate.

Free video demo

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Isn't It Romantic?

Often performed as a ballad, this arrangement is more upbeat and swinging. For the advanced guitarist.

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Kumbaya

This arrangement is written for the guitarist who is just getting into fingerstyle playing, although you can also adapt it to pick playing.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Listen Before I Go

A haunting Billie Eilish song set for fingerstyle guitar. Early intermediate guitar.

Free video demo.

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Little Minka

This arrangement of a popular Beethoven piano piece is for the late beginner/early intermediate fingerstyle or classical guitarist.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Loch Lomond

A Scottish classic for intermediate fingerstyle guitarists.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Lonesome Valley

Free easy solo guitar arrangement.

Free video demo and lesson.

 

Love You Madly

A delightful, swinging Duke Ellington song. For the advanced guitarist.

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Molly Malone
An Irish classic. For the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Mona Lisa

A fingerstyle chord/melody arrangement inspired by Nat King Cole. For the advancing guitarist.

Free video demo and lesson.

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New World Symphony Theme

From the 2nd Movement of DvoÅ™ák's New World Symphony (Symphony #9)

Easy fingerstyle guitar

Video demo

Video tutorial

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Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

An easy arrangement for the early intermediate fingerstyle player.

Free video demo

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Ode to Joy

Three versions. For the late beginner/early intermediate fingerstyle player.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Oh, Freedom

A powerful African-American spiritual. Late intermediate to early advanced.

Free video demo

Video tutorial

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Over the Rainbow

A fingerstyle chord/melody arrangement that includes some easy moveable jazz chords. Intermediate guitar.

Free video demo with mini chord lesson.

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The Parting Glass

A fingerstyle arrangement of a beautiful Scottish parting song that is popular in Scotland and Ireland. For the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist.

Free video demo

Free video tutorial

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Sakura Sakura

Free easy solo guitar arrangement.

Free video demo

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Shady Grove

This standard Bluegrass tune can be played either with a pick or fingerstyle. Late beginner or early intermediate guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Skye Boat Song

Also known as the theme song from "Outlander." An easy chord-melody style arrangement.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Skylark

A fingerstyle chord/melody arrangement for the more advanced player.

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Star Spangled Banner

For the early intermediate fingerstyle player.

Free video demo

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

An easy fingerstyle guitar solo in call and response style.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Wonderful Tonight

Gives this Eric Clapton song the acoustic treatment. For the advancing guitarist.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Dune

For the intermediate fingerstyle guitar player.

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You Took Advantage of Me

This arrangement takes its inspiration from a duo recording of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass. For the advanced guitarist.

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Christmas and Holiday

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All Through the Night

Easy fingerstyle guitar solo.

Free video demo

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The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came

Early intermediate fingerstyle guitar solo.

Free video demo

Free tutorial

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Angels We Have Heard on High

Intermediate fingerstyle guitar solo.

Free video demo

Free tutorial

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Away in a Manger

Two arrangements in one for easy fingerstyle guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella

This charming French carol can be played with a pick or fingerstyle. Easy guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Deck the Halls

An easy chord-melody style arrangement that only requires you to know the C and chords.

Free video demo and lesson.

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First Noel, The

A reflective treatment of this classic English carol. For the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist.

Free video demo

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Good King Wenceslas

This bouncy holiday classic is for easy fingerstyle guitar. Late beginner or early intermediate.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Jingle Bells

This easy solo guitar arrangement can be played with a pick or fingerstyle.

Free video demo and lesson.

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O Christmas Tree

This Christmas classic can be played fingerstyle or with a pick. Late beginner or early intermediate.

Free video demo and lesson.

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O Come, O Come Emmanuel

A hauntingly beautiful melody arranged for fingerstyle guitar. Intermediate guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

For easy fingerstyle guitar.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Silent Night

An easy chord-melody style arrangement that only requires you to know the C, G, and G7 chords.

Free video demo and lesson.

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Still, Still Still

An easy fingerstyle arrangement of an Austrian carol.

Free video demo

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Three English Carols

Medley: In the Bleak Midwinter, Coventry Carol, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Late beginner to early intermediate fingerstyle guitar

Free video demo

Free tutorial

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We Three Kings (of Orient Are)

An easy fingerstyle arrangement that includes chord/melody style as well as harmonized melody over held bass notes.

Free video demo and lesson.
 

Holiday Arrangements
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