This is my arrangement of the "Jeopardy" theme song. I'm playing a beautiful guitar made by my friend Dan Koentopp here in Chicago. Check out his guitars: http://www.dankguitars.com/

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This is my arrangement of "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel -- played on my new guitar, a 1993 Michael Dunn Mystery Pacific.

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This is my acoustic guitar instrumental arrangement of "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden. This song was released in 1994 on the album "Superunknown" and was one of my favorites back in high school.

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This is my attempt at playing the Chet Atkins arrangement of "Tenderly," the jazz standard.

The original recording is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =2FL9cw4Vb4E and YouTube user spencer1162 has done a nice electric guitar version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ltNLnaeNig0

I learned this directly from the recording; I have no tabs to share.

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This is my arrangement of "Hit The Road Jack," written by Percy Mayfield and recorded by Ray Charles.

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This song, composed by Edvard Grieg, was recorded a number of times by Django Reinhardt. Now, it's safe to say, it's a gypsy-jazz standard.

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This is my arrangement of the "Back To The Future" theme song. This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid.

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This is my arrangement of "Daydream Believer," as recorded by the Monkees in 1967. The ending is just something I improvised during the recording.

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"Nola" was composed as a ragtime piano piece in 1915 by Felix Arndt. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =amMz6AAKE4Q for a version of Liberace performing the piece on piano in 1969.

The arrangement I recorded here, though, is the one by Les Paul -- see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =Yzf7Ux9Q6iQ for the classic 1950s recording. Les Paul recorded the high-pitched lead guitar part by speeding up and slowing down the tape, so I used the same effect here. The lead guitar was recorded at half time and sped up 200% to give it that classic Les Paul sound. (The other guitar tracks were recorded in real-tempo, with no speeding.)

NOTE: For some reason the lead guitar video freezes toward the end of the clip. I believe this is due to a bug in Final Cut Express -- couldn't figure out why it was happening.

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This is my slow, pensive arrangement of "Please Please Me," from the Beatles' first album.

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This is my arrangement of "In My Life" by the Beatles, from the 1965 album "Rubber Soul."

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This is my slow-and-moody instrumental guitar arrangement of "All My Loving" by the Beatles. This has always been one of my favorite early Beatles tracks.

Musicians note: this arrangement plays the melody in two octaves, with the first two verses done low, then the final verse done an octave higher.

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