Learn the classic Apache by the Shadows a video tab and notation guitar lesson transcription.

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The instrumental song "Apache" was written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon. Hank Marvin and the Shadows apparently recorded it soon after Bert. Apache seems to have been released around the same time in 1960 by both players. This transcription is based on the Shadows Hank Marvin version. View the scrolling guitar tab and notation and use the Youtube settings (gear icon at bottom right of screen) playback speed functions to practice playing along pausing as you go to perfect your own performance of Apache!

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Levels- This transcription of Hank Marvin’s version of Apache (similar to Geronimo) is for:
• Ambitious upper level beginners who have accumulated some experience. Otherwise it is more for:
• intermediate players who are comfortable with devices and techniques such as; sixteenth note (semi quaver) rhythms and a performance tempo of 135 beats per minute, bends, double stops and partial barre, range of fretboard up to the fifth position, syncopations (off beats)
Further to the above:
• Advanced players can perfect the general musicianship elements such as; use of quarter note triplets, vibrato technique, dynamics and phrasing, personalised fingerings, guitar and amp tone etc… It is fair to say that many of the phrasing nuances of slides and grace notes are unavailable within open string approach for beginners. I’m hoping this resource will still be of value as a general guide or at least a time saver for more advanced players wanting to perform Apache.

-Technique I have made the fingerings as friendly and as playable as possible for the beginner level players. I have where possible mostly kept to the open position with open strings used when available. There are some instances of pitch equivalences with ch...