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New Transcription & Fingering: "Cinema Paradiso", Ennio Morricone

New Transcription & Fingering: "Cinema Paradiso", Ennio Morricone

Cinema Paradiso, Video & Staff # 12

Cinema Paradiso, is a 1988 Italian film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. while the music score was composed by Ennio Morricone along with his son, Andrea.

I sincerely believe that Ennio Mrricone deserves a special and exclusive section on mangore.com such is the quality and quantity of work that enriches these pages. The Italian composer ranks among my universal favorites. Morricone possesses the gift of knowing how to reach the deepest places in a human being's heart and soul using his music.

The way his musical phrases develop is a trademark and he achieves it using very simple yet amazingly powerful harmonic formulas. Cinema Paradiso was one of those pieces I waned to develop for quite  a while and I am so glad it finally made it to mangore.com.

Follow this link to study the piece with me here →

Pat Matheny playing on a similar Hybrid

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Special Bellucci Custom Guitar, classical cutaway with neck dimensions taken from a Fender Acoustic inspired in Pat Matheny's guitar used in the video here. It is the type of guitar that those players that come from the Acoustic or Rock realm find very comfortable to play on. Every one of my 7 children, my wife and every luthier had a "WOW" comment reserved for this amazing Queen. The name Jupiter was a natural since you cannot but think of the King Planet of our Solar System when you admire the stunning figure of the Redwood Burl. It resembles the Jupiter Hurricane belt to perfection. The guitar was commissioned by my good friend and one of my best costumers Gary from Montana. It is a gift for her niece who is making the transition to the Classical Guitar from the acoustic world. The neck is made inspired by the neck on my Martin Acoustic and the body and scale are 630 which make her amazingly comfortable to play. See HD pictures and the video of this amazing guitar here 


Pat Matheny playing on a similar Hybrid

I heard many beautiful interpretations of the work played on all types of instruments. My favorite were Chris Botti & Yo Yo ma Trumpet and Cello duo Cesar Amaro guitar transcription but the one that really got under my skin is at Matheny interpretation accompanied by an upright bass. It has a marvelous flavor and definitely the spirit I wanted to convey.

I find Matheny's "pick sound" to be the perfect pick sound. He achieves an amazing roundness and penetration. The upright bass gives the work the right amount of harmonic sustain and that so familiar Bach Air atmosphere... perfect !

In the video you can see the classical guitar Matheny uses which has the neck dimensions of an acoustic. This inspired the construction of one of the latest Bellucci Custom guitars: This beauty here

To the right is the video that got it all started: