Landslög

This page is a guide to learning (some of) Gulli Björnsson's suite of solo guitar pieces Landslög on a tapping instrument such as the Chapman Stick or the acoustic Dragonfly DFA. There is a score/tablature & fretboard diagrams, to help you along the way.

There's a performance by Gulli of the suite that will give you some good guidance on how to approach playing it.

In addition, You can get a free PDF of the score for the suite for solo guitar from Tonebase, that also has some very useful commentary by the composer.

His album of the suite can be found on bandcamp.

A few words about the suite by the composer

Landslög (landscapes) is a set of 11 pieces for solo guitar drawing inspiration from Icelandic landscapes. The pieces aren’t really connected in any way, one advantage of that is that each one can stand on it’s own as a piece of music and the landscapes can also be played together in any fashion… [I] finally got around to recording it on an album! I did so in my parents cabin in Iceland in the dead of winter. So if you hear a crackle here and there in the recordings that’s the fire in the cabin keeping me from freezing.

The elements in the suite that i have transcribed (so far) can be found in the active links in the listing of the suite below

• Landslag I. – dökkar sandþúfur með smá mosa // dark sand dunes with some moss
• Landslag II. – leira í botni fjarðar // littoral mud in the bottom of a fjord
• Landslag III. – grjóti þakin háslétta // rock covered plateau
• Landslag IV. – lækjarsprænur í grænum dal // river creeks in a green valley
• Landslag V. – birkikjarr í fjallshlíð // birch shrubs in a mountain slope
• Landslag VI. – grjóthrun úr fjalli // fallen rocks from a mountain
• Landslag VII. – ólga við ós // turbulence where a stream meets a lake
• Landslag VIII. –víðfeðmur akur hulinn af lúpínu // vast lupine covered field
• Landslag IX. – veðruð ísilögð strandlengja // eroded icy shoreline
• Landslag X. – klaki og snjór hylur tún // ice and snow covers a field
• Landslag XI. – sprænur og ár í kapp niður gil // streams and rivers race down canyons