Ennio Morricone - For a Few Dollars More - Guitar Tab

For a Few Dollars More (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Remastered

1965 3:50

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About For a Few Dollars More

Few film themes translate as well to solo guitar as this one from Ennio Morricone, and the combination of a stark A minor key and a steady 120 BPM makes it very approachable for intermediate players. The signature melody is built on a narrow range of notes, so the real challenge is not hitting the right pitches but shaping each one with the right amount of sustain and dynamics. On guitar, that means controlling your pick attack carefully, letting notes ring or cutting them short in exactly the right places to keep that sparse, cinematic tension alive. The Soundtrack genre lives and dies on feel, and here even a slightly rushed phrase will flatten the drama. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the opening melody at a reduced speed and focus on your tone and note length before you worry about tempo. Once the phrasing feels natural, bringing it back up to 120 BPM is straightforward.

• The melody sits comfortably in A minor and stays in a narrow pitch range, making accurate left-hand fretting less of a hurdle than right-hand dynamics and tone control.
• At 120 BPM the pulse is steady and march-like, so practicing with a metronome from the start will help you lock in the rhythmic precision the feel demands.
• A clean or lightly reverbed guitar tone suits this piece well, as heavy distortion will obscure the subtle note decay that carries the cinematic atmosphere.