John McLaughlin's "Guardian Angels" arpeggio

[filtecuk]

I sat down with a cassette player back in 1980 and learnt this piece note by painful note...:-0

I play it regularly, partly because I love it and partly as a test to see whether I am "on form"...

Well played. I actually prefer it slower, as per the Electric Dreams version.

[cavuotoj]

Thx for offering this is a treasure of a tune one of John's finest IMO, will look for the tutorial for sure

[416234765]

Good job, right up to speed and precise as well

[Gibboplucker]

Superb playing, ghreat 'feel' more please.........

[fracarciofo]

@Gibboplucker Thank You, thank you'all!!! Yeah, you're right! I have to do some more vids, there is plenty of great guitar music out there I have to break down for the community! :)

[malkavianxx]

why does he make me want to stop playing guitar forever? the pain!!!

[tommyru]

All I have to say is that whoever the one idiot who clicked dislike for this video is, is a total effing loser who's just jealous.

[TheBass2themax]

when you're heading back up - the Emb6 chord (at 0:14) you can play in open position - you don't need to do that extra fingering and it sounds better. It's the same chord as the opening chord and same picking. Try it. Otherwise sounds good...

[constanzza123]

thanx man!

[MrBasilGanglia]

Nicely done.

[tonelogman]

well done, amigo

[fracarciofo]

To "coreyagraph": oh yeah, "you know you know" is also pretty easy to do ;)

[awesomewelles90]

Yeah it is pretty easy. Nice tune though. Love Jan Hammer's improvising on it.

[coreyagraph]

fantastic.......can you post 'you know you know'?

[bloggabash]

Verrryyy nice!

If there is one thing I would like to be able to play on my guitar before I die, that is it.

Good stuff :-)

[fracarciofo]

All right. I'll make a step by step vid on this one.

Thank you all. I appreciated a lot :)))

[fracarciofo]

Thanks a lot dear people. I never knew I had such interest in this little vid testing. All the "bravos" go to Maestro John, of course. But now I really want to post more on technique and creative/inspiration side of guitar/music. Baci :-))

[dorian411]

Great job! Now.... :)

[frankgrimes1234]

brill any chance you could teach the rest of us

[EGM210]

Great ! I've alway's loved that intro

[lens2optic]

nice 1 m8.

[Fretliner]

Great stuff, the nylon strings plus pick sound just perfect for this beautiful intro.

Thanks for posting

[g99se9]

Really well done buddy.

[matambale]

SWEET, nicely done! A personal favorite.

[jimmied01]

Just beautiful! Awesome! Very nice playing....

[filemike]

Superb! Perfect transcription and execution!!

[Goynes42]

An arpeggio is the technique of playing notes of a chord individually, rather than simultaneously. They are not always in "order," i.e., 1-3-5-7 etc. Even if you simply fingerpick an open G chord, it fits the definition of an arpeggio, and so does this segment of Guardian Angel.

[dortahor]

nice playing man

[fracarciofo]

I tried to give to anyone interested a web address where I've posted the TAB. But apparently YouTube have an automatic block to such words. An effective antispam filter, I suppose... So please tell me how I could share this to you, if I'm not breaking some kind of rules ;-)

[saboo480]

you could post the website address in the video description i believe hmm or perhaps you could type it in a really odd way that their filter wouldnt pick up on XD?

[fracarciofo]

Just did it! Please look in the video description. Hope this is allowed :-z

[BARNAPE]

You play this very well! Thankyou for posting. I would be very interested to see the TAB you made for this. Please let me know how I can get it.

[berrycccc]

Beautifull, you're really good ! Thank you fot sharing !

[fracarciofo]

Thank you aaaalll guys! I'd like to post more... I know a lot of McL. tunes, but I have to find a way to improve the audio quality ;-)

[ACmarcoDC]

greaat man

just like McLaughlin do it

[gggose]

great playing man, and this is a masterpiece, thanks John

[fracarciofo]

Hey, thanks :-))) and thank you all! For "hardstyle31": yes, I could make a video tutorial for this piece, let me see...

To anyone interested, I made a "tab" for this, just let me know ;-)

[hardstyle31]

hi there its possible to make a video with an exercise explaining the arpeggio notes by note if it is possible ? thanks

[solidaritynow]

The opening to "Guardian Angel" is among the most beautiful things ever written for music.

[Rasts]

Yes really good, I know a little different way of playing it, that was really good though. Electric would be cool on Guardian Angel it it has some effects.

[gennation]

Nice job! That's one of my favorite Mclaughlin tunes. Come hang out with a bunch of John's fans here: jmforumsDOTnet there's plenty of us.

[fracarciofo]

Thanks a lot ;-) I've been in the forum, very interesting! I'll post something else, maybe electric ;-)

Viva John, great guitarist and composer!!!

[CtpAids]

Did you use a tab for this or work it out by ear? Could you send me a tab if you used one, please. It would be most appreciated!

Very smooth playing, by the way.

[fracarciofo]

Hi, I worked it out by ears many years ago, because I couldn't resist to play it ASAP and didn't find the sheet music, or tab. I know it by heart now, but I could transcribe it for you in a tab form... if you're not in a rush...give me some time, please ;-)

[CtpAids]

Would you do that?? Thank you very, very much!