Fiddlers' Ramble is currently unavailable

About this arrangement

Solo Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1315901 Composed by Karl Johan Karlström (1826-1917). Arranged by Richard Hirsch. Folk,Instructional,March,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 4 pages. Richard Hirsch #904679. Published by Richard Hirsch (A0.1315901). I offer an arrangement for acoustic guitar of the traditional Swedish fiddle melody Gånglåt från Äppelbo attributed to Karl Johan Karlström (1826-1917). The folk tune is usually played by a group of fiddlers walking or promenading (thereof the title) around an outdoors area where a traditional Swedish fiddlers’ rally (Spelmansstämma) is being held. The tune is also often played together with the Gärdebylåten that I published recently under the title of Fiddlers’ Rally. It is a beautiful folk melody and although arranged in C major I find it has a slightly bitter-sweet flavour, typical of many Swedish folk melodies.The arrangement uses lots of legato in the melody line together with right hand plucking. The combination of legato and plucking give the piece the proper folky feel that you find in the fiddle original. This might be a challenging technique for less experienced students of guitar, but once mastered it will add a new dimension of freedom to their guitar playing. The left and right hands have to be working more or less independently of each other, a bit like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time. I give extensive left and right hand fingerings for the arrangement as an instructional aid to less experienced students of fingerstyle guitar.The arrangement is fun to practice or perform as a duett following the chords provided in the notation. The chords may be plucked in a folk fingerpicking pattern over the chords (thumb-index, thumb-middle, repeat) in accompaniment to the fingerstyle melody. One way of approaching the piece, especially for less experienced players, is to play the chords following the fingerpicking pattern, while a more experienced player or instructor plays the melody. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).