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Björnsson -

Landslög

Taught by renowned guitarist 

Gulli Björnsson

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag I: dark sand dunes with some moss. The piece features a repetitive triplet figure in the right hand while the left had moves through different chords, creating a single long phrase. The piece is great for working on both left and right hand positions that will enable you to get the most resonance out of your instrument. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

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    Category: 
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    Difficulty: 
    All-Levels
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    Duration: 
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    2
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Course Syllabus

Landslög - I

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag I: dark sand dunes with some moss. The piece features a repetitive triplet figure in the right hand while the left had moves through different chords, creating a single long phrase. The piece is great for working on both left and right hand positions that will enable you to get the most resonance out of your instrument. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - X

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag X: ice and snow covers a field. This delicate piece is entirely composed using open string harmonics, giving the piece a very icy quality. The piece presents an excellent opportunity to work on articulating harmonics clearly. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - XI

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag XI: streams and rivers race down canyons. This virtuosic piece makes extensive use of cross-string scales, a technique that places consecutive notes on adjacent strings, allowing the right hand to essentially play arpeggio patterns to perform a musical line. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - II

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag II: littoral mud in the bottom of a fjord. The piece is presented in two sections with the same chord progression, the first in block chords while the second time we get arpeggiated chords and a simple melody. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - III

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag III: rock covered plateau. The piece features a bass line melody that is great for working on your thumb strokes while maintaining lightly plucked accompinamental figures in the higher strings. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - IV

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag IV: river creeks in a green valley. This contrapuntal piece is composed using different rhythmic cells in each voice, creating rhythmic and harmonic variety. If you’ve never worked on polyrhythms this is a fun piece to get familiar with the concept. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - V

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag V: birch shrubs in a mountain slope. The piece provides a great opportunity to implement a variety of ornaments and techniques very organically. A single line opens up the piece and is developed in fugal fashion to present a simple, yet musically and technically gratifying piece of music. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - VI

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag VI: fallen rocks from a mountain. This gentle and lonely piece is written in the key of C minor, giving a rare opportunity for the guitarist to read in a flat key. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - VII

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag VII: turbulence where a stream meets a lake. This minimalist-inspired piece makes use of repeated arpeggios as the right hand moves through various positions to create gradual changes in color. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - VIII

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag VIII: vast lupine covered field. This piece is almost entirely composed of a two against three polyrhythm within alternating 4/4 to 3/4 time signatures. This energetic and driving piece is broken down into rhythmic and block chord exercises, making for an easy approach to a complex piece. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

Landslög - IX

Join Icelandic guitarist and composer Gulli Björnsson as he presents his composition Landslög, a set of eleven pieces for solo guitar inspired by Icelandic landscapes. In this lesson, Gulli gives an overview and breakdown of Landslag IX: eroded icy shoreline. The piece creates peaks meant to represent cliffs eroding into the shorelines. The main melody continuously climbs above the twelfth fret over a repeating chord progression. Landslög was commissioned by tonebase in 2020.

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Gulli Bjornsson (b.1991) is a guitarist and composer from Iceland whose music typically ties electronics, live instruments and visuals to experiences in nature.

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