Category: Best of Intellimusica

Gustavo Santaolalla: Brokeback Mountain Suite | fingerstyle guitar

Gustavo Santaolalla: Brokeback Mountain Suite | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Brokeback Mountain Suite About 10 years ago, Gustavo Santaolalla performed the Brokeback Mountain Suite for the Latin program, Encuentro en el Estudio. To date, it’s his best performance of the Brokeback Mountain score (and I’ve watched them all). The guitar tone is gorgeous. You’ll notice […]

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Hurt | fingerstyle guitar

Johnny Cash: Hurt | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Hurt Hurt was originally written and performed by Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor). It was actually a pivotal NIN song long before the seminal Johnny Cash cover. [The dissonant note in my intro is an ode to the NIN original.] In a similar but reverse […]

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Chris Isaak's Wicked Game | fingerstyle guitar

Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Wicked Game For my money, the two greatest unrequited love songs are: U2’s With or Without You, and Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game. The former can prompt one to hold a lighter in the air and bellow “…and you give yourself a-way-a”. The latter makes (me) […]

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The Last of Us Volume 2: All Gone (Seasons) Medley | fingerstyle guitar

The Last of Us Volume 2: All Gone (Seasons) Medley | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

All Gone (Seasons) The Last of Us Volume 2, is the supplemental soundtrack for ‘The Last of Us: Left Behind’ – downloadable expansion content that would be later bundled into ‘The Last of Us Remastered’. The music features compositions from the game, composed and produced […]

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Sia: Breathe Me | fingerstyle guitar

Sia: Breathe Me | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Breathe Me Sia’s Breathe Me, is from her 3rd album, Colour the Small One (2004). The song was used to great effect in the poignant finale of Six Feet Under — a landmark HBO drama that premiered 20 years ago last week. Created by screenwriter […]

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Max Richter: The Departure | fingerstyle guitar

Max Richter: The Departure | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

The Departure HBO’s The Leftovers begins three years after the “Sudden Departure” — where 2% of the world’s population suddenly vanished.  The series focuses on a police chief (played by Justin Theroux) and other grieving families as they struggle to adjust to life after The […]

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Wonderful Tonight | fingerstyle guitar

Eric Clapton: Wonderful Tonight | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Wonderful Tonight Wonderful Tonight is far and away Eric Clapton’s most famous song — and one of the most romantic songs ever written. I’ve had this arrangement in my back pocket for 20 years. I had been developing and playing it at wedding ceremonies for […]

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Hans Zimmer: Chevaliers De Sangreal | fingerstyle guitar

Hans Zimmer: The Da Vinci Code | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Chevaliers De Sangreal Chevaliers De Sangreal (The Da Vinci Code) is a glorious piece by Hans Zimmer. He has this knack for writing film music with a slight pop sensibility. If we think of Gladiator, Inception and Interstellar — the underpinning of the music is […]

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Schitt's Creek Theme | fingerstyle guitar

Schitt’s Creek Theme | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Schitt’s Creek I’m definitely late to the game with Schitt’s Creek, but I love it so far. My wife and I are on season 4. Interestingly, the quirkiness of the central theme is totally lost with my sober guitar style. Although it’s note-for-note, my arrangement […]

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Zack Snyder's Justice League: Song to the Siren | fingerstyle guitar

Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Song to the Siren | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Song to the Siren Zack Snyder’s Justice League was incredible. I watched it in two nights, but the 4 hours flew by. I highly recommend the 3 hour director’s cut of Batman v Superman as well — also on HBO Max. Song to the Siren […]

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Explosions In The Sky: Waking Up (a variation) | fingerstyle guitar

Lone Survivor: Waking Up | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Waking Up Waking Up is a piece of music from the film, Lone Survivor. This is an awesome movie about the lone survival of Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell — after his 4 man reconnaissance team was chased up and down a mountain side by scores […]

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The Cinematic Orchestra: Arrival of the Birds | fingerstyle guitar

The Cinematic Orchestra: Arrival of the Birds | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Arrival of the Birds I’ve always liked The Cinematic Orchestra, and their piece, Arrival of the Birds, was recommended to me by a reader. Such beautiful music. It instantly became on one of my favorites. This song is from Disney’s The Crimson Wing: Mystery of […]

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