April Kisses - Eddie Lang

Phildelphia guitarist Eddie Lang recorded several solo pieces. This is my version of one of them.

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Music

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• Eddie
• Lang
• April
• Kisses
• Joe
• Venuti
• Bing
• Crosby

[markymarketing]

This is awesome!! I've been dying to find the tab for this song but can't find it anywhere on the net. do you have it?

[snorkelbda03]

@markymarketing

I dont believe there is any tab for it anywhere. I figured it out myself a few years back-painstakingly :) - and then just as i figured everything out I found the original book published back in the 30s "Eddie LAng Guitar Technique" and it - along with others- is in there....not in tab, but in written notation, whiich is helpful if you read.

[jellycracker]

not smooth enough. But it's on the way and that's not a bad thing...

[snorkelbda03]

@jellycracker Not "smooth" enough? This isnt a James Taylor song, I played it with the same rhythmic timing as the original version.

[MrPino58]

hello',very good ,do you have a score?

[n64wilbert]

@snorkelbda03 Thank you for presenting your interpretation!!

[KnockelII]

Fine guitarplaying, thanx. Add some recording technique, whip up a rhytm guitar in the background, and it will be perfect. Best of luck.

[dashoos2006]

Great playing!!! Beautiful song and interpretation; thanks for working on it and posting it, it is an inspiring video. Loved the old time titles too & that lovely Gretsch :)

Congratulations!!!

[curzmg]

@snorkelbda03 I certainly admire your dedication! I couldn't find it anywhere about a year ago but I just searched it after I posted that and it turns out that someone has set him up a website on which they have uploaded scanned sheet music. Since then that same scan seems to have spread around a little bit so there you go! Great interpretation, hopefully now in the not too distant future I'll be able to upload my own. Perhaps the wizards at Youtube will eventually link us through related vids!

[snorkelbda03]

@curzmg ...when I learned it a fwe years ago I painstakingly went through it one phrase at a time for an entire Summer until I figured it out.

Then one day at a flea market I found a music book of Langs work published back in the 30s with this and several other songs printed. Someone has scanned that and posted it on the internet. I hate to braodcast this but all you have to do now adays is Google "eddie lang april kisses music" and there it is.

[curzmg]

@snorkelbda03 how did you learn this piece? Lang was a genius and I'd love to learn this but I can't find any tabs. I suppose I could attempt to watch you but I fear in some places that would be impossible and it would certainly be incredibly time consuming.

[mokeyjim]

Man. Looks like you mastered the guitar the right way. The hard way, that is. Great job.

[jazzayr1]

Realy nice playin mate

[callasexperience]

Eddy is back from the grave?