Forever Young - Fingerstyle guitar arrangement by Martin Tallstrom

Classic song by Alphaville arranged for fingerstyle guitar by one of Swedens finest guitarist, Martin Tallstrom.

I just realized that I missed out on one passage on the chorus. Maybe I'll get around to recording it again. No offense Martin!

Recorded with my fantastic Stonebridge GS23CR guitar with a Samson USB CO1U condenser microphone in Abobe Audition. Later mixed by adding some light compression, a small amplification (fingerstyle guitar is a quiet sound source) and some studio reverb.

Thank you Martin for this beautiful arrangement.
Its very inspiring.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Forever Young
• Alphaville
• Fingerstyle
• Guitar
• Acoustic
• Martin Tallstrom
• Stonebridge
• Samson
• Adobe Audition
• Arrangement

[myroyaldie2]

Wow, your play as good as him... How long did it take you to practice that good?) Sorry bad English.. I hope understand)

[nikandy]

@myroyaldie2 Thanks! But I'm no even near Martins ability ;-). I seem to recall that I worked on that song for about 30 hours (an hour more or less every day for a month). Give it a try! Go slow and take one part at a time.

[myroyaldie2]

@nikandy Oh, does it take like one hour to memorize a section for you, because I keep failing to memorize a single piece?) I'll start practicing a piece everyday, and ask if it take's more or less than one hour a day. ))

[nikandy]

@myroyaldie2 I started out with the tabs to figure out how to position my fingers. But about half way, when I more or less got the tabs down I just listened to the original over and over again (repeat in my MP3) until I could hum the whole piece by heart. What I did then was to play through the whole piece every time, even though I failed at some sections. Then I went back and repeated that section.

[PyewPyew]

Wow, this is amazing,

true to the tab, (except that passage on the chorus :P) This is really going to help me learn,

Any tips? learnt the first 2 pages already, and only struggling a small bit, trying to get into fingerstyle.

[nikandy]

@PyewPyew Thank's! Just stick with it. Take one part at a time and start slowly. Cheers

[infizzable]

haha very good job, but i just noticed as i was trying to play along, and you missed a little section before 1:10, where you are suppose to repeat the chorus one more time

[gabbs74]

Excellent!

[LillaMartin]

@myroyaldie2

I just saw you comment i dunno if its to late or if you allready find you answer but no.. You cant put steel strings on a nylon stringed guitar. A steel string guitar and nylon string guitar is built in so different ways. the string steels would break you nylon string very fast. If you want the beautiful tone of steel strings you will have to get a steel string guitar ;) best of luck this is awesome arrangement of Martin!

[Aarrmehearties]

@myroyaldie2 No, classical guitars cannot take the extra tension of steel strings, you will destroy your guitar.

[myroyaldie2]

I'm practicing now and my piece sounds like a piece of mosey. Kinda stuck at 0:21 is where I stopped. It doesn't sound too much similar but pretty close. Using classical guitar w/ nylon strings, seems that doesn't make it so lyrical doesn't it?) :S Is it possible to put elixir strings or some fancy steel strings on my classical Harmonia?)