Personal Favorites

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Content

1. Kiss From a Rose (Henry Samuel)
2. Time After Time (Cindy Lauper/Rob Hyman)
3. Right Here Waiting For You (Richard Marx)
4. One of Us (Eric Bazilian)
5. Hit the Road Jack (Percy Mayfield)
6. Mad World (Roland Orzabal)
7. Secret Story (Ulli Bögershausen)
8. Back Home to You (Allan Taylor)
9. Rush Hour (Ulli Bögershausen)
10. Bärchen (Ulli Bögershausen)
11. Waltz (Ulli Bögershausen)
12. Manha do Carnaval/La Chanson D‘Orphee/Black Orpheus
(Luiz Bonfa/Antonio Maria)

Scores & TABs

Not a single concert, workshop or music fair passes without me being asked several times about my guitar arrangements of pop tunes; not a single day goes by without an internet query.

Especially popular with fans of my work are songs like Right Here Waiting For You, Kiss From a Rose, One of Us and Time After Time—all pieces that I myself am especially fond of and that I have recorded on CDs and videos and played at my concerts. Until now, however, anyone looking for sheet music or tablatures came up empty-handed. So I published Personal Favorites, which comprises the scores of my favorite arrangements. The technical level of the pieces ranges from easy (Mad World) to medium (Hit the Road Jack) and just a little bit more diffi cult in the case of Kiss From a Rose …

The book has been expanded with some pieces from my own pen. I chose works that are often played, like Secret Story. At this point I would like to thank my publisher Gerd Kratzat, who spared neither expense nor eff ort to complete this project.

Technical suggestions: What is important with these pieces, and generally for all my compositions, is to outline the melody clearly. If several notes of the melody are played on a single string, I alternate the plucking in the right hand between i (index finger) and m (middle finger). In slow and particularly expressive ballads, I like to use apoyando (rest stroke: after the finger plays the note, the finger comes to rest on the next lower string). This generates louder, fuller and softer tones. I combine this technique with classic plucking technique, whereby the thumb covers the bass strings (E, A, D), the index/i plays notes on the G string, the middle finger/m on the B string and the ring finger/a on the high E string. These two strokes are to be used unless otherwise indicated. The pieces will be a lot easier to learn if you watch my videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/boegershausen

When I play these pieces, I always feel my heart opening up. I wish you just as much joy when playing and learning.

Ulli Boegershausen

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