With this sheet music, you can play "Vincent" by Don McLean on piano!

It's an accurate piano arrangement of the full song which is playable, and sounds beautiful.

The full melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect instrumental (piano solo) cover.

Of course, you can also use this piano arrangement to accompany a singer, or sing along yourself - this sheet music includes a system for the singer, as well as the song's full lyrics and chords.

"Vincent" (also known by its opening line "Starry Starry Night") was written by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, and included on his famous 1971 album "American Pie".
The song is a tribute to the Dutch 19th century painter Vincent van Gogh, with many references to his tragic life, his mental health issues, and his art (especially "The Starry Night", one of his most famous paintings).

"Vincent" became one of Don McLean's most famous songs.

It's a beautiful, melancholic ballad, and it makes for an amazing piano cover!

This Intermediate level arrangement provides ukulele tab, chords and notes as well as the lyrics for the song. It is written in a chord melody style so that a solo ukulele player can play the song's melody with an enhanced arrangement to provide more complexity and variety in playing this song. It is hoped that the player can connect their playing to the lyrics for a more meaningful musical expression of this beautiful song written by Don McLean. The chords and lyrics are also included if a solo ukulele player also wants to strum and sing this arrangement. Pop, rock, folk. 4 pages. This arrangement is dedicated to the memory of Vincent van Gogh and his awe- inspiring works of art.

I transcribed the original guitar part of this amazing song bij Don Mclean.
It's inspired by the famous painting of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

I'm Dutch too and i couldn't find a real good tab or guitar part of this song. So i made it by myself.

Have fun with it! Best Regards, William van de Groep .

This is a beautiful, tender and heartfelt, finger-style guitar solo (ballad), exactly as performed by The Candlelight Guitarist on the album "Sunflower Serenity." As with other Candlelight Guitarist pieces, it seamlessly blends romantic popular, folk, classical and jazz styles. Written in both standard notation and TAB, it's for a strong intermediate level finger-style player (budding-into-more advanced), comfortable playing up to 12th position, with capable finger-style abilities (either classical or strong folk technique). Hear Brad's original recording at https://youtu.be/5wIn_Z5iuQA

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ABOUT: Bradley Powell (aka The Candlelight Guitarist) began guitar at age ten, inspired by The Beatles. At 15, he became a protégé of jazz guitarist Joe Pass, and later studied classical guitar under Vincent Macaluso and at California State University, Northridge under Ronald Purcell, with a master class under Andrés Segovia. Brad was featured performing Gerald Wilson's Sonata for Guitar and Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, with the composer conducting. Brad was mentored in composition by David Rose (composer for "Little House on the Prairie"). Brad has composed music for TV, including Hill Street Blues and The 'A' Team, working with Mi

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Perhaps one of the most comprehensive books of its type on the market, this exhaustive and intelligent presentation of the myriad of scales and modes makes this a must have text for the guitarist who is interested in developing his skills of jazz improvisation. The highly acclaimed author/teacher and performer Vincent Bredice very carefully moves the student through all the common modes. Each mode is explored thoroughly by using chord and arpeggio studies in a variety of positions and/or inversions. This outstanding text is a wonderful resource for one's library as well as an excellent teaching and learning tool. Since a good musician must hear sounds quickly and accurately, in addition to enhancing one's technical and improvising ability, Jazz Guitar Scales and Modes, will help tremendously with ear training as well. The author emphasizes the importance of being able to play and understand modal scales in first position before moving them up the neck using pattern fingerings. Contains excellent studies lines.