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First Love and the Falling Snow – Evan Handyside (minimalist, ambient guitar) + TAB

First Love and the Falling Snow I wrote “First Love and the Falling Snow” for my wife, Jennifer — as we approach our 23rd Wedding Anniversary in just a few days. Foremost in my memory is one of our early dates in 1998. (As a […]

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Gustavo Santaolalla: La Muerte de la Poderosa (The Motorcycle Diaries) + TAB

La Muerte De La Poderosa I revisit The Motorcycle Diaries soundtrack often. The whole thing is a masterpiece. I love everything Gustavo Santaolalla does, but for me, the big two are: The Motorcycle Diaries and Brokeback Mountain. Gustavo Santaolalla’s work on The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) embodies […]

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The Light of Hidden Flowers – Evan Handyside (ambient, World guitar) + TAB

The Light of Hidden Flowers My thematic inspiration for this piece was love sonnet XVII, by Pablo Neruda. Specifically this line: “I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you […]

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Gustavo Santaolalla: Her Life Was Over | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Her Life Was Over, by Gustavo Santaolalla, is a short fingerstyle motif from the soundtrack of Wild Life. This film is a documentary about life of Doug Tompkins (founder of North Face) and his wife, Kris. Although the documentary is not widely known, the guitar […]

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Outer Banks Season 3: Theme for a Father Lost at Sea | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Theme for a Father Lost at Sea This piece is from Netflix’s Outer Banks, Season 3. The composer is Fil Eisler. It’s a beautiful, cinematic guitar piece that found it’s way onto my Spotify recommendation’s. While the beginning of the passage is relatively simple, and […]

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The Star Spangled Banner | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

The Star Spangled Banner The Star Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from a poem written on September 14, 1814, by a then 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key. He wrote the piece after […]

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Grizzly Man: Glencoe (Richard Thompson) | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Grizzly Man Grizzly Man is a 2005 American documentary film by acclaimed German director, Werner Herzog. The film accounts the life (an eventual death) of bear enthusiast, Timothy Treadwell at Katmai National Park, Alaska. The park has the largest coastal grizzlies in the world, as […]

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Poor Things: Bella | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Bella Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. The movie is based on the 1992 novel (of the same name) by Alasdair Gray. The story follows Bella (Emma Stone), a young woman in Victorian London, who is brought back to life by […]

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Rebel Moon: A Child of War | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

A Child of War I thought Rebel Moon was GREAT — and I generally root for Zack Snyder on all of his films. The plot and character development are very fast (which I like). The movie is dazzling to look at, and the creatures/humanoids are […]

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Napoleon’s Piano | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Napoleon’s Piano Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is a look at the military commander’s ruthless climb to power through the prism of his obsessed and volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. I love that Ridley Scott (85) is still creating historical epics. The older he gets, he […]

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Jane Eyre (2011): A Game of Badminton | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

A Game of Badminton Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, is an 1847 novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. The book is considered a literary classic, as it’s filled with a dark mystery and the harrowing experience of a young woman. The 2011 film adaptation, directed […]

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Gustavo Santaolalla: Brand New Day (Dear Child) | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

Brand New Day ‘Dear Child’ is a German thriller series on Netflix. The plot revolves around a mysterious woman’s escape from her harrowing captivity — which points investigators towards the dark truth behind her unsolved disappearance 13 years earlier. The series has an astonishing 100% […]

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