ALBATROSS | FLEETWOOD MAC | Backing track | No lead guitar | Play along | TAB & Sheet music

Version for guitar players |
One of my favorite instrumentals of all time, written by Peter Green. In my rendition for one nylon string guitar there are no bends in the B-part, and the C-Part is played an octave lower (The original melody goes up to the 21.fret and is only playable on an electric guitar). The parts of the slide guitar are left out. I also added a strumming and a picking pattern.

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Original (Acoustic Peter Green version):    • Peter Green - Albatross (Splinter Gro...  

ALBATROSS is a guitar-based instrumental by Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in November 1968, later featuring on the compilation albums The Pious Bird of Good Omen (UK) and English Rose (US). The piece was composed by Peter Green.

Santo & Johnny's "Sleep Walk" (1959) reportedly inspired Peter Green for his 1968 instrumental "Albatross", although the composition also resembles Chuck Berry's 1957 instrumental "Deep Feeling", itself derivative of the 1939 recording "Floyd's Guitar Blues" by Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy, featuring guitarist Floyd Smith. In Green's biography [Celmins 1998], an early inspiration for "Albatross" was said to have been "a group of notes from an Eric Clapton solo, played slower."

The composition and its arrangement suggest a relaxing sea setting, with cymbals imitating the sound of waves (Mick Fleetwood played his drum kit using timpani mallets to give a muted sound) and a dreamy solo from Green's guitar. (Wikipedia)

Classical guitar: GODIN 'LA PATRIE' CONCERT
Bass: IBANEZ GROOVELINE G105
Drums: EZ DRUMMER 2
Music Notation: FINALE 14
Screen-Recorder: OBS
Microphone: RODE NT 3
DAW: STUDIO ONE 2
Audio Interface: FOCUSRITE SCARLETT SOLO 3rd Gen
Camcorder: PANASONIC HC-V777
Video-Edit: DAVINCI RESOLVE 17

0:00 Count in
0:06 A1
0:35 A2
1:05 B1 (no bends)
1:34 B2 (no bends)
2:03 C (One octave lower)
2:32 A3
3:12 Video suggestions