Balkan Nights Snippet

September 30, 2014

This is a simple draft of tablatures I wrote down inspired by the song Balkan Nights by Amir Beso on youtube (you find the youtube video at the bottom of this post). The first guitar plays a really simple pattern nearly the whole song and is therefore suitable for beginners. Maybe I will expand this part in future versions and make it a bit more challenging. The whole piece is still a draft and there is a lot missing. There is still some work to do, but I look forward to complete and optimize this tablature for two acoustic guitars.

Here are the tablatures as they are at the moment:

# balkan nights cover
#     original by Amir Beso
#     tablature-snippet (work in progress)
#     by Dorian Glagla
#     published on duochords.com

# not finally formatted, because it is just a snippet.

guitar 1 (easy to play. simply repeat this patten)

|---------0------0-------|----------0-------0-------|
|------10-----10---10----|-------11------11---11----|
|----9------9---------9--|----10------10---------10-|
|-11---------------------|-12-----------------------|
|------------------------|--------------------------|
|------------------------|--------------------------|

guitar 2 - part 1 (works already nice with guitar 1)

|------------------------------------|
|-------------6-------6--------------|
|-------6-7-9---9-7-9---9-7-6--------|
|---7-8-----------------------8-7----|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|
|---------------6-----6-9-6----------|
|---------6-7-9---9-7-------7-9-7-6--|
|--5/7-8-----------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|
|-------------6-------6--------------|
|-------6-7-9---9-7-9---9-7-6--------|
|---7-8-----------------------8-7----|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------|
|-------------------5-----5----------|
|-------------5-7-6---7-6---7--------|
|---(6)-5-7-8-----------------8-7----|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|

guitar 2 -part 2 (not matching guitar 1 yet... work in progress)

|------------------12-(10)13-10-10-----------|
|------------10-13------------------13-12-13-|
|---------10---------------------------------|
|-- (7)12------------------------------------|
|-5------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|

|------------------10-(10)-12----------------|
|------------11-13------------13-11-10----10-|
|---------12---------------------------12----|
|---(5)10------------------------------------|
|-3------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|

|-------------------(8)10--|
|-------------10-11--------|
|--------7-10--------------|
|---(3)8-------------------|
|-1------------------------|
|--------------------------|

And here you can see the youtube video i was inspired by:

Feel free to leave comments with your own additions and suggestions for completing this tablature.

About the author (Dorian Glagla)

I am studying Systems Engineering at the university of Essen-Germany. I've been playing guitar for about 16 years. I visited a classical music school in Düsseldorf-Germany the first eleven years. Since 2009 I focussed on practicing modern music by mylself but i still like to play classical pieces too (Tarrega, Albeniz et al).. See all posts by

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