Category: Film Music

Gustavo Santaolalla: When the Surf Comes Up | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Wild Life When the Surf Comes Up is a motif by composer Gustavo Santaolalla. The piece is from, Wild Life, a documentary directed and produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo). The film follows conservationists Kris Tompkins (CEO Patagonia) and her husband […]

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Zlatan y Guillermo – Evan Handyside (ambient, fingerstyle guitar) + TAB

Zlatan y Guillermo “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.” ― Milan […]

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Game of Thrones: Light of the Seven | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Tom Barrett | Unsplash Light of the Seven Light of the Seven, by composer Ramin Djawadi, is the music at the very beginning of the Game of Thrones (season 6 finale) The Winds of Winter. Upon watching the episode in 2016, the music […]

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Eric Clapton: Theme From a Movie That Never Happened + TAB

Photo by Daniele D’Andreti | Unsplash Theme From a Movie That Never Happened Eric Clapton’s Theme From a Movie That Never Happened is a B-Side rarity that was first released in 1998. There’s not much info about this piece — so I believe that it’s […]

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Johann Johannsson: The Whirling Ways of Stars that Pass (The Theory of Everything) + TAB

Photo by Casey Horner | Unsplash The Whirling Ways of Stars that Pass The Whirling Ways of Stars that Pass is from Johann Johannsson’s 2014 Golden Globe winning score for, The Theory of Everything. It’s a beautiful piece of music that turned out to be […]

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Biutiful: Epilogue (Gustavo Santaolalla) fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Łukasz Rawa on Unsplash Epilogue It’s funny that an Epilogue is a conclusion because it was my very first blog post in 2011. Intellimusica was a weird idea then, and I’ve winged it ever since. This is a full redo of that initial […]

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: All Life Has Meaning | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

All Life Has Meaning Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was an excellent send off for the Guardians crew. The movie was actually pretty violent, both graphically and thematically. My son is 8 at the time of this writing, and Guardians 3 pressed his (and […]

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Unchained Melody | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Unchained Melody Unchained Melody is nearly 70 years old. It was initially written (by Alex North and Hy Zaret) as a theme for a prison film entitled, Unchained (1955).  The song was popularized by The Righteous Brothers a decade later in 1965. My favorite is […]

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Gustavo Santaolalla: Amor y Paz | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Amor y Paz On March 24th (2020), at the beginning of the pandemic, Gustavo Santaolalla posted this short piece to his Instagram and YouTube channel. So far as I can tell, he’s calling it Amor y Paz (Love & Peace). It was a musical offering […]

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The Ecstasy of Gold | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Original photo by Derek von Briesen. The Ecstasy of Gold The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the best of Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. The film is considered the definitive Spaghetti Western — with it’s use of long shots and close-up […]

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Indiana Jones: Marion’s Theme | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Intricate Explorer on Unsplash Marion’s Theme The score for Raiders of the Lost Ark (and the subsequent Indiana Jones movies) is one of my childhood favorites. The collaboration of John Williams and Steven Spielberg created truly everlasting music. ‘Marion’s Theme’ from Raiders of […]

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The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Photo by Vaishakh pillai on Unsplash Resurrection The Passion of the Christ is one of the greatest films of all time. If you’re a believer, it serves as a cinematic Stations of the Cross; an experiential work of pure art. In it’s wake, all faith-based […]

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