Happy New Year everybody

I've tried to catch my thoughts on yesterdays evening and transform them into a small piece of music. Here you go. Let me know your thoughts.

Only Time Will Tell

Since I've covered couple of fingerstyle guitar songs I thought i'ts about time to write my own. And here it is. Inspired by "Hope" I've composed my first song for fingerstyle guitar. The pictures in the video are taken in 2010 showing the landscape nearby where I live.

I hope you'll enjoy it.

Stephan

Moon River

Today, I've posted a new video to my YouTube channel. I'm playing an wonderful song which is well known from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's". The song is called Moon River and was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn. The version I'm playing was arranged by Shun Komatsubara. Hope you'll enjoy it! See more at http://youtube.com/stephanschwenk.

New videos on my YouTube channel

Some days are gone since my last blog - I was a little bit busy.

I've uploaded four new songs on my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/stephanschwenk

I must admit that all of them are not played well but I want to put the videos live on my channel without spending too much time on the recording of these songs.

Greensleeves
It's a wonderful small song and I'm playing the easy version of it.

Freight Train
If you're going to start travis picking then you should take this song first. It is excellent for beginners (like me :-)). I had some trouble with the picking because I used a thumb pick. I've started practise with this pick only two weeks ago. It is not as easy as it seems at first sight.

Godfather theme
This is another cover of this beautiful song. I've started playing two weeks ago and here is the result. I know, there are a lot of things to improve...

Weißt du noch
I love this song and especially the unconventional tuning of DADF#BD which gives you this special sound. Ulli Bögershausen has composed this song and you can even feel the magic of it while playing.

 


Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Stephan

Morgen ist alles wieder gut

Here is another example for fingerstyle guitar. I'm playing a song from Ulli Bögershausen, called "Morgen ist alles wieder gut".

Over And Out Rag

Here is a small example of a technique which is called "Travis Picking". I've played "Over And Out Rag" from Mark D. Hanson which is a good example for this kind of playing accoustic guitar.

Awesome guitar music from Tommy Emmanuel

Have you ever heard about Tommy Emmanuel? A really great artist and fingerstyle guitar player. Click here to find out more.