Category: Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey: Salvatore | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Salvatore Salvatore is from Lana Del Rey’s 2015 album, Honeymoon. The melancholy pop ballad has a very “Italian” quality to it. The song worked out beautifully for guitar, and was a recommendation from one of my YouTube Listeners. It is Lana’s Del Rey’s usual crooning […]

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Lana Del Rey: Video Games | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Video Games I’ve always loved the song, Video Games by Lana Del Rey. With her usual deft lyricism and poetry — Lana sings about the relationship she has versus the relationship she fantasizes. It’s all stylized with her signature ‘longing in California’ vibe. Composer Ramin […]

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Lana Del Rey: Young and Beautiful | fingerstyle guitar

Lana Del Rey: Young and Beautiful | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Young and Beautiful The Great Gatsby is a film based on the 1925 novel of the same name. The film follows the life and times of millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his neighbor, Nick Carraway. A decade later, a classic image from the film […]

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Lana Del Rey: Heroin | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Heroin Having listened all the way through Lana Del Rey’s new record, I’m continually amazed at her originality, and ability to endlessly create content in her space. I guess, like anything, it’s mastery. If you’re obsessed, and relentlessly create, it becomes easier and easier. My […]

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Lana Del Rey: Love | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Lana Del Rey’s Love for classical guitar took me a week to record. Her songs are always around 5 minutes long. I intended to do an abbreviated version —  but I side-effect of my YouTube channel, is that people like to use the audio from […]

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Brooklyn Baby

Lana Del Rey: Brooklyn Baby | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Brooklyn Baby Lana Del Rey’s “Brooklyn Baby” is a song from her third studio album, Ultraviolence (2014). It is a satirical ode to the hipster subculture of Brooklyn, New York, and it is one of her most popular and critically acclaimed songs. With Brooklyn Baby, […]

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Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Ultraviolence Lana Del Rey’s song “Ultraviolence” is a dark and atmospheric ballad that explores the themes of toxic love, violence, and addiction. If you listen to this song with the right frame of mind, Ultraviolence is the perfect James Bond theme. Lyrically and musically. The […]

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Lana Del Rey: Once Upon a Dream | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Once Upon a Dream The 2014 film Maleficent is a dark retelling of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the evil fairy who curses Princess Aurora to fall into a deep sleep on her sixteenth birthday. The film’s […]

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Lana Del Rey: West Coast | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

West Coast Lana Del Rey’s song “West Coast” is a beautiful and haunting ballad about love, loss, and longing in California. As a musician, I am continually stunned by Lana Del Rey. Her sound is unmistakable. With her lazy croon and spring-reverb guitars, Lana Del […]

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Summertime Sadness for Classical Guitar

Lana Del Rey: Summertime Sadness | fingerstyle guitar

Summertime Sadness Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” is like 99% of her songs; a haunting and atmospheric ballad. The song captures the bittersweet feeling of the end of summer. The song’s lyrics speak to the nostalgia and melancholy that comes with the passing of time […]

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