Scordatura – beyond standard tuning explore by the composers. In this Scordatura series I will share the different tunings of guitar music to you.
French composer/guitarist Roland Dyens use drop D tuning in his composition “Saudade No.3”. While he arranged the famous chanson Française “L’Hymne à l’amour” employed the drop E flat tuning, which is tune the 6th string from E to E flat to fit the key of the song E flat.
There’s a saying that Japanese reserve the best for their people. The most popular version of Sakura Variations by Japanese composer/guitarist Yuquijiro Yocoh which is published by GSP.
Back in 1980s’ a friend bought me a book from Japan by the same composer which included the Sakura Variations is so different than the GSP version. There including 6 variations with an extent introduction and slightly different arrangement of the theme compare to the GSP edition. So this Japanese version is more substantial than the GSP version, including the coda there’s 9 sections at all. And I find that some of the variations are interesting indeed.
Here’s the Japanese edition of Sakura Variations I play on 9 different guitars, hope you enjoy it.
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