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Creating Solo Guitar Arrangements for Liturgy

Category: Video
Tags: advanced, guitar, intermediate

Steve Petrunak offers practical tips for creating solo guitar arrangements. Follow along as Steve explains some of the thought process that goes into creating a solo guitar arrangement and how to make elements of the solo easier to play.

Steve uses Table of Plenty by Dan Schutte to demonstrate this topic. Consider grabbing a copy of the music before watching the video, if you have it available.

The song used in this video is:

Table of Plenty
by Dan Schutte
© 1991, OCP
All rights reserved. Used with permission.

Steve Petrunak is a founding board member of CLEF and recently retired as the director of music at St. Blase Catholic Church in Sterling Heights, Michigan. He has worked in music ministry for more than 40 years and is the co-author of “Managing Music Ministry: Beyond Notes and Chords.”

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