FAMED UK GUITARIST ADRIAN LEGG OFFERS FANS AND STUDENTS TRANSCRIPTIONS OF OVER 20 OF HIS BEST KNOWN COMPOSITIONS FOR $2 EACH ON HIS WEBSITE

The Innovative Musician and Composer—Recipient of Numerous Accolades by Guitar Player Magazine—Is Touring in the U.S. In July In Support Of ‘Slow Guitar,” His First Album in Seven Years And First Self-Released Project 

Long revered as an influential acoustic guitarist of “astonishing virtuosity” (Q Magazine) and loved by critics and audiences around the globe for his “narrative melodies and nakedly emotive tones” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Adrian Legg is always finding new ways to connect with fans and make a musical difference in their lives.

In addition to the usual biographical and musical content on his website (www.adrianlegg.com), the technical visionary – who is known for his melding of acoustic and amplified guitar modes – includes a Tab/Notation section in which he sells transcriptions of over 20 of his best loved tunes from his three decade long recording career for $2.00 USD each.

Each transcription is written out in two staves. The top one is standard notation for guitar, which is two or three voices on one stave of the treble clef, octave transposed as usual. The lower stave is standard tablature, which tells the reader how to finger it in terms of fret numbers and strings, where to put the capo, etc.

“I wrote out a lot of material with some idea of perhaps making another book,” he says, “but then took up the offer of a teaching slot at a UK music college for a year.

I went back to how I’d started to learn to play with my right hand fingers, and found that the way I’d developed over time actually formed a viable course. My compositions also reflected that technical development, so it was quite a simple matter to tie them in to that.

I’ve since taught fingerstyle beginners privately one to one and found that the whole idea works beautifully.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s acoustic or electric, although ultimately the electric is much more flexible, and there are whole areas of what I do that are not feasible on an acoustic,” Legg adds. “Along the way people have asked me for transcriptions of my pieces, so I hope what I’ve written out so far meets some of their requests. Nothing makes me happier than hearing my students play these songs and understand them.”

The guitarist celebrates the release of his latest recording Slow Guitar – his first album since 2004′s critically acclaimed Inheritance and first ever self-released project – with a highly anticipated 17 city U.S. tour this July that hits cities on the  East Coast and in the Midwest.

The readers of Britain’s Guitarist magazine named him Acoustic Guitarist of the Decade (1984-94). He later won Best Acoustic Fingerstylist four years running,  Best Overall Guitar Album and Best Acoustic Album twice in the Guitar Player  readers’ poll.

Legg is a technical visionary known for his melding of acoustic and amplified guitar modes; a magazine writer and author; and at large commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” where millions hear his variations on the show’s theme music.