Thank You For The Music - 4 Guitars

This is a concert crowd-pleaser and it’s perfect as an encore - it has the sentiment and the catchy tune to keep your concert in your audience’s heads all the way home. It’s for intermediate (or advanced intermediate) guitarists.

One reason ABBA songs are so memorable isn’t the strong melody line, it’s all the other clever harmonies and textures that lurk just under the surface to make a crafted masterpiece.

My arrangement uses guitar-friendly shapes to capture the song and the countermelodies that make the original such a great listen. Arranging this piece in A rather than E means we can use the guitars’ range to full effect, and whether you have 4 guitars or 40, this will make a big, big sound. Some of the chord shifts look complex but quite often there are fingers that can remain on the neck, minimising the number of fingers to place.

Guitar 4 needs tuning down to D, but there’s an additional bass-clef version, identical except that it uses standard tuning. In a large ensemble you can use either or both versions.

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