Outer Banks: Midsummers (guitar theme)
This piece is very obscure — and I had a bunch of folks request this all at once on YouTube and Instagram. Although it’s a great guitar riff, it might only appeal to fans of the Netflix series, Outer Banks. I refer to this as the Midsummers (guitar theme). The song is from season 1, episode 5. To this date, my recording of this song has a mind-blowing 1,265,000 plays on Spotify.
While there is no official musical score for the first 2 seasons, Fil Eisler is listed as the official composer. I can only assume this untitled motif is by him. Though, there’s a BIG chance that it’s random temp music from a database, which is often used in television pilots. That would be crazy — that a beloved piece of music from Outer Banks is just random music from a totally unknown composer.
Midsummers comes off as a nice étude (a French word meaning “study”) for guitar. This is a musical composition, typically short and challenging, designed to improve a specific technical skill of the instrumentalist.
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How to play Outer Banks: Midsummers (guitar theme)
The guitar tab for Midsummers is beautifully written across two pages. Rather than write the interval over and over again, I wrote the interval once (and indicated the number of times played) with dots trailing the interval. You’ll see 6 dots trailing the first interval (. . . . . .) That means you’ll play the interval 6 times. The tab is much easier to read like this.
The interval itself will be played with your right-hand thumb, 1st and 2nd fingers. It’s relentless and fast — so start slow, and build speed over time. You’ll play the passage between the ||: repeat signs :|| twice.
Enjoy, the tab is available below:
[guitar tab] **Outer Banks: Midsummers (guitar theme)
This piece is played in standard tuning.