The Motorcycle Diaries: How to Play — Apertura (Gustavo Santaolalla)
Posted on 07. Aug, 2012 by Evan Handyside in Best of Intellimusica, Film Score, Gustavo Santaolalla, Premium Tabs
Comprised from a collection of instruments and guitars, Apertura serves as a powerful opening to The Motorcycle Diaries. This post is an all-in-one arrangement for solo guitar of Gustavo Santaolalla’s classic song.
I use my middle finger to “swipe” the high notes in the beginning (and middle parts) of the song. You could however, use two fingers to pluck the strings here — whatever is most comfortable for you.
Although there’s an exotic strumming technique underneath the electric guitar part, it was well beyond my abilities to get it, so I just used a pick!
I hope you enjoy this one. The strumming is a little weird at times so I indicated what I’m doing with D(own) and U(p) marks underneath the guitar tab.
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alan
09. Aug, 2012
just like to say how good this song and your website is.i have been very busy lately but cant wait to get my guitar out and learn your songs especially santaolalla.keep up the good work its much appreciated
Evan Handyside
10. Aug, 2012
Thanks Alan, I appreciate the comment!
Steve
05. Sep, 2012
Wow Evan – thanks very much. I’m making an amatuer album for friends and family and hoping to put this and Zambita on there. Thanks for your work here – your playing is fantastic
Evan Handyside
06. Sep, 2012
Thanks for commenting Steve. I’d love to hear more about your album too. That’s a great idea! Are you just performing your favorite songs?
Name
12. Sep, 2012
Hola podria por favor enviarmé la tab guitarpro de apertura?
Tocas muy bien this song!
Evan Handyside
13. Sep, 2012
Yo no uso pro guitarra, pero la ficha está disponible en formato pdf en la parte inferior del poste
Pali
14. Sep, 2012
REspect for this homepage! And thank you very much for the tab!
Keep it doing!
Name Yaëlle
28. Sep, 2012
That’s incredible. I’d like to play the guitar like that… Perfect cover. So, where’s the tab? Pleaaaase.
Evan Handyside
28. Sep, 2012
The tab is available right below the post in a PDF. Where it say’s Apertura (tab). Really?
Kushal Shah
02. Oct, 2012
Unbelievable … after long time this movie was in my pending list…and I watched to find that I want to learn the guitar tabs for the tune which is in the beginning of movie…and luckily you posted this last month itself!!! Thanks Evan!!
Evan Handyside
02. Oct, 2012
I hope you enjoy it, thanks for commenting!
Vladimir
02. Oct, 2012
Perfect! I should try to play this music. please, if you can, give me some advice where to start, how to do it. thanks in advance))
Evan Handyside
02. Oct, 2012
Other than what I wrote in the tab, I’m not sure how to help you?
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[…] Rather than the all encompassing interpretations I normally do — this can be considered an instrumental version of the original Django theme. I was eager to use my Dolce guitar to capture Luis Bacalov’s very deliberate sounding major and minor bar chords. This is also the first time I’ve used a guitar pick on this blog since Apertura! […]
angy
20. Jul, 2013
Incredible!
Still cant find the pdf, isn’t it free?
Evan Handyside
20. Jul, 2013
Sorry, that is for my premium subscribers only.
Ivan
09. Jan, 2015
Evan, I’m sorry, are these tabs complete? It seems like your play goes beyond the tabs, isn’t it? Thank you
Evan Handyside
11. Jan, 2015
Hi Ivan, thank you for the message. I looked at the tabs and they were unacceptable by my standards. My clarity in writing guitar tab is usually much better than that. I must have been tired or temporarily insane when I wrote the Apertura guitar tab.
Anyway, I appreciate your message alerting to me to this, and I completely rewrote the guitar tab as of 1/11/15. Have a look and let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Evan
slinkiin
08. Mar, 2015
there is a song that I would love you to put in your website is called pajaros by Gustavo Santaolalla
Evan Handyside
09. Mar, 2015
I’ll look into that one for sure! -Evan