{"id":598,"date":"2013-07-25T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-07-26T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:37:08","slug":"john-williams-the-guitarists-music-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"John Williams the guitarist&#8217;s music site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnwilliamsguitarnotes.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-600\" alt=\"JWGuitarist\" src=\"http:\/\/user20465.vs.easily.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JWGuitarist11-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JWGuitarist11-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JWGuitarist11-1024x512.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JWGuitarist11-500x250.jpg 500w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JWGuitarist11.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><strong>I have often been asked for the music of my transcriptions and original pieces and I have wondered how best to make them available.<\/strong><strong>My main concern has been that for many people in the world published music has become too expensive to buy, even if one can find it &#8211; <\/strong><em>John Williams<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<table id=\"partitions382745392\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>This has been around since 2009, but some guitarists probably don&#8217;t even know it exists. This is a refreshingly different approach to distributing sheet music and, wonder of wonders, the music is <strong>handwritten<\/strong>!<br \/>\nThe site has free downloads of classics such as <strong>From a Bird<\/strong>, <strong>Hello Francis<\/strong> and <strong>Song Without Words<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThere is also a link to John&#8217;s home made CD and some sound clips.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnwilliamsguitarnotes.com\/from-a-bird\/from-a-bird.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"From a Bird\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnwilliamsguitarnotes.com\/from-a-bird\/files\/stacks_image_13_1.png\" width=\"182\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>On<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granthamjournal.co.uk\/what-s-on\/arts-leisure\/classical-guitarist-john-williams-to-perform-at-lincoln-cathedral-before-retirement-1-5181988\">the eve of John&#8217;s retirement<\/a><\/strong>, I thought it would be appropriate to point you to this, his personal project and to read his own words regarding copyright, guitar notation and music publishing on the internet. It just seems a shame that the site hasn&#8217;t been updated in a while.<br \/>\n<em><strong>A wonderful chance to read a few words from one of the great guitarists of our time.<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often been asked for the music of my transcriptions and original pieces and I have wondered how best to make them available.My main concern has been that for many people in the world published music has become too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,77,24],"tags":[208,973,209,207,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}