[no spoilers]

The Bone Temple

Hildur Guðnadóttir is a cellist and composer who has become a leading figure in post-classical and film music. She represents a bit of a funny paradox: she is a beautiful, cheerful Icelandic woman who is best known for creating unrelenting, dark, and atmospheric soundscapes.

Guðnadóttir gained massive international recognition for Joker (2019), where she made history as the first solo female composer to win the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA for Best Original Score in a single season. Her score for the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019) is equally stunning—it is absolutely hopeless and dread-filled in the best way possible.

My personal favorite of her works so far is her collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson on the film Mary Magdalene. The track “Mustard Seed,” in particular, is absolutely beautiful.

For the theme of “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” she uses a simple classical string progression that translated very easily to the guitar. There are two or three variations of it on the soundtrack; my arrangement is based on the opening track, “Bare Bones.”

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The Mustard Seed | fingerstyle guitar + TAB

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How to play The Bone Temple | fingerstyle guitar

This piece is beautifully written across a single page. I recommend it for beginner guitar players up. Enjoy! The guitar tab is available below:

Be sure to repeat the section within the ||: repeat brackets :|| 2x.

[guitar tab] **28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | fingerstyle guitar

This arrangement is played in standard tuning.