Robben Ford Discussion

[Ruedy]

Hey, Have any of you out there tried playing classical music
on electric guitar? I don't mean the stuff written for classical guitar but stuff like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc.

I got home from work the other day and my kid was playing "Fur Elise" by Beethoven on his 335 Dot. Man, did it sound neat!

[Daved]

Oh, yeah.

I love messing with that kinda stuff.

Some fun suggestions:
- The William Tell Overture / Rossini
- Bolero / Ravel
- Symphony No. 3 in E minor / Mendelssohn (My favorite version is conductor William Boughton's arrangement with the English String Orchestra)
- The Light Cavalry / Franz Von Suppe
- Just about ANY classical pieces derived from Hungarian folk songs such as Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies or Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances can be also be fun to fool around with.

Along those same lines, try some 'Big Band' or 'Swing' tunes, too:
- Holiday For Strings, Bonanza / David Rose
- In The Mood, American Patrol, String Of Pearls / Glen Miller
-Buglar's Holiday / Leroy Anderson
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[nineacres]

I would love to hear an arrangement of Ravel's Bolero played on a Les Paul
Also, I've recently started re-learning Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" - the first time I had a crack at this I was in my teens (and that was in the 60s ) See if you can get a hold of Tommy Emmanual's version of this. I hear it's a good cure for constipation.
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[fingerlakes]

Robert Fripp plays quitec a bit of Classical music on guitar (electric). I've always enjoyed this one titled " Chromatic Fantasy"


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