Randy Newman – Sail Away Guitar Lesson Info
Learn how to play Randy Newman – Sail Away note-for-note on guitar with our Randy Newman – Sail Away Guitar Lesson.
Randy Newman’s Sail Away is written for piano and small brass ensemble, but it adapts beautifully to guitar with the right approach. This arrangement combines the main piano part with the brass-band figures from the opening section, giving you a full and effective accompaniment on a single guitar.The lesson walks through how to capture the feel of Newman’s original harmony and voicings on guitar, using chord shapes and inner-voice movements that reflect the piano writing. The brass lines are included as integrated melodic figures, so the accompaniment has the same colour and lift as the record.
You’ll learn:
A complete playthrough of the full arrangement
-A detailed step-by-step lesson showing how the piano part translates to guitar.
-How to incorporate the brass-band part that plays the intro section in the original, into the guitar part.
-Fingering, chord movement, and phrasing to keep the accompaniment flowing and expressive.
This is an enjoyable and surprisingly natural piece to play on guitar, and a rewarding way to bring Randy Newman’s writing into a solo-guitar setting.
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Barre chords: Yes
- Thumb over chords: Yes
- Playing Style: Fingerpicked
- Tuning: Standard
- Separate Solo: No
- Separate Bass Part: No
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Randy Newman – Sail Away Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 6 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson – Intro
- Part 2: Guitar Video Lesson – Verse
- Part 3: Guitar Video Lesson – Chorus
- Part 4: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 5: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 6: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 320.9 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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