Yiruma - Kiss The Rain - Acoustic Guitar Lesson

From The Yellow Room (The Original & the Very First Recording)

2003 4:21

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About Kiss The Rain

Few piano pieces get requested on guitar as often as Yiruma's "Kiss the Rain," and for good reason: the flowing, arpeggiated melody translates beautifully to fingerstyle guitar. The core challenge is keeping the melody singing clearly on the higher strings while the bass notes and inner voices move underneath, all with a smooth, connected feel. Your right-hand fingerpicking pattern needs to be relaxed and even, because any tension here will chop up what should feel like rain falling continuously. The left hand asks for clean chord shapes held fully while the arpeggio rolls through them, which demands a bit of finger independence. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop difficult chord transitions slowed down so your fretting hand can find each shape without rushing. Once the mechanics feel settled, the real work is in the dynamics: gentle swells and tapers are what give this piece its mood, so practice with that shaping in mind from the start.

• This piece is a fingerstyle arrangement challenge, requiring the melody to project clearly above a continuous, rolling arpeggio pattern in the right hand.
• Clean sustain on held chord shapes in the left hand is essential, as cutting notes short will break the flowing, legato character of the piece.
• Practicing with the Practice Toolbar at reduced speed helps build the right-hand evenness and left-hand chord transitions that this arrangement depends on.