Quite a few of The Beatles' songs are based on harmonically sophisticated guitar parts, so it's surprising how few treatments there are for classical guitar. Guitarist Milo? Karadaglic helps fill the lacuna with this collection, which has many straightforward treatments that work well. All the arrangements are by the Brazilian player Sergio Assad, although they are not specifically Brazilian in style. Karadaglic excels in the title track, and you could sample track 2, Come Together, for a novel but natural treatment in ...
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Quite a few of The Beatles' songs are based on harmonically sophisticated guitar parts, so it's surprising how few treatments there are for classical guitar. Guitarist Milo? Karadaglic helps fill the lacuna with this collection, which has many straightforward treatments that work well. All the arrangements are by the Brazilian player Sergio Assad, although they are not specifically Brazilian in style. Karadaglic excels in the title track, and you could sample track 2, Come Together, for a novel but natural treatment in which Karadaglic reproduces the blues percussion rhythms on the song on the body of the guitar. Several tracks are rethought more extensively, such as All My Loving (track 14); these are also effective. Guest stars of the celebrity of Tori Amos may help to sell albums, but the steps necessary to incorporate them detract from the overall quality; the arrangement of She's Leaving Home doesn't make any sense, and that of Let It Be, featuring Gregory Porter, indulges in a sentimentality...
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