Category: Easy to Play

Hans Zimmer: The Survivor | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo by Jean Carlo Emer | Unsplash The Survivor Free audio download on SoundCloud. The Survivor (HBO Max) is about Harry Haft, a real-life survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp; a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps, operated by Nazi […]

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1917: Wayfaring Stranger | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

WW1 Photo by Austrian National Library | Unsplash Wayfaring Stranger Free download on SoundCloud. The Wayfaring Stranger is a well-known American folk and gospel song that originating in the early 19th century. The song is about a plaintive soul on the journey of life. The […]

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A Star Wars Medley | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Casey Horner | Unsplash A Star Wars Medley This is a fingerstyle guitar medley of my favorite Star Wars motifs by John Williams. Luke’s theme is played all throughout Luke’s hero’s journey. Most notably on his home planet of Tatooine. Leia’s theme is […]

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Stephan Moccio: Fireflies | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Rajesh Rajput | Unsplash Fireflies Free audio download of this performance on SoundCloud. Fireflies is by pianist/composer Stephan Moccio, from his 2021 album, Lionheart. Stephan Moccio is one of my recent finds on Spotify. He’s an Italian/Canadian composer. I love his work. You’ll […]

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Catwoman (The Batman) fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Alexandru Zdrobău | Unsplash Catwoman Free audio download on SoundCloud. I love this (James Bond-esque) motif from The Batman composer Michael Giacchino. It’s sexy, slinky — and definitely conjures the image of Catwoman. You might also like to play… The Batman (2022) | […]

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The Motorcycle Diaries: Apertura (Gustavo Santaolalla) + TAB

Atacama. Photo by Diego Jimenez on Unsplash Apertura Free audio download on SoundCloud. Apertura is the opening song of Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries —  a 2004 biopic about a then 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would years later become internationally known as Che Guevara. The […]

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Finch: Ball Throw (Gustavo Santaolalla) | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Finch Free audio download on SoundCloud. Finch on Apple + was a beautiful and highly entertaining movie: In a post-apocalyptic world, Finch (Tom Hanks) knowing that his health is slowly failing, builds a robot to take of his dog after he passes. The robot was […]

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The Leftovers: Dona Nobis Pacem (Max Richter) | fingerstyle guitar

The Leftovers: Dona Nobis Pacem (Max Richter) | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Simon Wilkes | Unsplash Dona Nobis Pacem Free audio download on SoundCloud. Dona Nobis Pacem (grant us peace, latin) is a gorgeous piece of music by composer, Max Richter. This piece is from the hit HBO series, The Leftovers. That series would also […]

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The Phantom of the Opera: The Music of the Night | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Alessia Cocconi on Unsplash The Music of the Night Free audio download on SoundCloud. Although I grew up in a relatively conservative household, my Dad was a massive fan of the arts — specifically music and poetry. As an early adolescent (in the […]

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A Close Friend | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Allison Batley | Unsplash Fantastic Beasts Free download on SoundCloud. The Fantastic Beasts movies — as with the Harry Potter predecessors — seem to be set in winter more often then not. For that reason, I think of the films, and the music […]

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Johann Johannsson: Flight from the City | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Theodor Vasile on Unsplash Johann Johannsson Free audio download on SoundCloud. Jóhann Jóhannsson was an extraordinary Icelandic composer. For a period of time, he lead the modern post-classical movement — which is identified with experimental, minimalist, and electronic music. He passed away in […]

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Comptine d’un autre été, l’après midi | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Diogo Fagundes on Unsplash Free audio download on SoundCloud. Comptine d’un autre été, l’après midi Comptine d’un autre été, l’après midi (Nursery rhyme from another summer, the afternoon) is a piece of music by composer, Yann Tiersen. As the principle song from Amelie, […]

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