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Fingerstyle Guitar: Nardis

The guitar tablature below is a fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the first 8 bars of Nardis, written by Miles Davis and arranged by yours truly.

Check out some jazz guitar players and their version of Nardis: Mike Stern, Mick Goodrick and Philip Catherine.

Here's the Sibelius file for those of you that want to hear how the score sounds. Don't expect a hot swinging piece of music, it's only midi. For those of you that don't know what Sibelius is: it's the software I make the scores for this website with. There's a professional edition (the expensive version) and a guitar edition, aka G7 (the cheap version).

Nardis Fingerstyle Guitar ArrangementSibelius File






Fingerstyle guitar tabs: Nardis

  • bar 1: the two notes on the 12th fret (with the 'h' on top) are harmonics
  • bar 1: I like to put second intervals in my chord voicings, like in this Em9 voicing. The b2 between f# and g creates a nice tension in this chord. Other examples are the Fmaj7#11 voicing in the 6th bar and again the Em9 chord at the end of the arrangement.
  • bar 4: the chord in bar 4 in the original composition is Cmaj7
  • bar 5: the melody here is harmonised in thirds. This technique works good in fingerstyle guitar arrangements because it makes the sound fuller on places where there are no bass notes played.
  • bar 6: the second voicing is an F6
  • bar 7: the E major chord opens up the sound before going back to E minor. The 3 in combination with the b2 creates a kind of oriental mood.