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Jarabi (Passion)

Jarabi (Passion)

Here's my performance-ready version of this amazing endless melody of a piece.  I've been enjoying Derek Grippers arrangements of Kora music for classical guitar for years, and finally got a chance to try some of them out. Someone once said (I forgot who) that it's...

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Learning Repertoire: Jarabi Runthrough

Learning Repertoire: Jarabi Runthrough

This is a follow-up to last week's video on "finishing" learning a challenging piece of music. In this video I run through Jarabi, the arrangement by South African guitarist and composer Derek Gripper of Toumani Diabate's amazing Kora version. I have the piece...

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How Do You “Finish” Learning a Piece of Music?

How Do You “Finish” Learning a Piece of Music?

Once you can play something well enough that it's fun to run through, the temptation is to stop practicing it and just play it over and over. Here is one method I use to keep myself focused on mastering repertoire up until the time it's actually ready to perform....

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Announcing a New Online Course

Announcing a New Online Course

This 6-part interactive pilot course is designed to help you break through limitations and master the best, fastest, and most musical ways to learn the pieces you most want to play. By joining the course and doing the work seriously, you will be getting two-plus months of carefully designed coursework on the most powerful ways I’ve found to transform your playing…

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Archipelago for Solo Guitar

Archipelago is an adventure told mostly through music. There’s light narration in between movements while I retune the guitar for the unique musical ecosystem of each new island. As an experiment, I’m creating a series of drawings and paintings to illustrate the progress of our hero on his guitar-powered boat. It’s a work in progress. Stay tuned for further documentation of this journey! For more music, go here.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for Solo Guitar

I have arranged all four movements of  Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for guitar. To hear more movements, and to get all of the scores and tabs, click here.

Purchase Classical Guitar Arrangements and Compositions

Click here for the full Catalogue of Scores

  Title Price Further Info
  Five Preludes $6.50
Instant Download of 7-page Pdf Score
  Archipelago For Solo Guitar coming soon
  Island One: Milonga $2.75
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(Archipelago, Movement 1)
Instant Download of 3-page Pdf
  Title Price Further Info
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Full) 21
Zip File Containing all 4 Movements:
1. Allegro (2015 Revision),
2. Romanze,
3. Menuetto
4. Rondo.
3 fully fingered Pdf versions of each movement:  Score (13 Pages)
TAB only (20 Pages)
Score + TAB. (37 Pages)
(Bonus Folder: 2013 Version of the Allegro with TAB)
           Allegro $7
Revised 2015
Zip File with 3 Pdfs:
4-Page Fully Fingered Score
10-Page Fully Fingered Score with TAB
6-Page Fully Fingered TAB
(Plus Bonus 2013 Version Score and TAB)
          Romanze $7
Zip File with 3 Pdfs:
4-Page Fully Fingered Score
12-Page Fully Fingered Score with TAB
6-Page Fully Fingered TAB
         Menuetto $2
Zip File with 3 Pdfs:
1-Page Fully Fingered Score
3-Page Fully Fingered Score with TAB
2-Page Fully Fingered TAB
          Rondo $7
Zip File with 3 Pdfs:
4-Page Fully Fingered Score
12-Page Fully Fingered Score with TAB
6-Page Fully Fingered TAB
  Gioachino Rossini
  William Tell Overture (Finale) $7
Zip file with 3 pdfs (5 pages each):
1. Urtext Score
2. Fully Fingered Score
3. TAB Only Version

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I am diving back into painting and illustrating after a long hiatus. Getting these new pieces finished has been slow going because of all the other stuff I’m doing, but I’m working at it!

 Click here for a sampling of my drawings and paintings. You can click on any picture to see a more detailed version. If it’s for sale as a print, there will be a link to the print store where you can see the purchase options.

Or you can click here to go directly to the print store, 

Jay Kauffman

Classical Guitarist

Composer
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