Acoustic Guitar Magazine | 6 years ago
Accordion music of the early 20th century might seem an odd source of inspiration for a fingerstyle guitarist, but not for the San Francisco Bay Area musician Craig Ventresco, with his vast musical knowledge of that bygone era. I have long admired Ventresco’s arrangement of “An Operatic Rag,” a 1910 recording by Pietro Frosini, one of the accordion’s first stars.
In this lesson, I’ve borrowed from Ventresco’s interpretation of “An Operatic Rag” (as heard on his 2000 album The Past Is Yet to Come), adding a few of my own ideas to produce a ragtime arrangement that’s all but guaranteed fun for the intermediate to advanced fingerpicker.
SEE THE FULL LESSON HERE (includes TAB and notation):
acousticguitar.com/an-operatic-rag-for-guitar
