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Here is a post for guitarists, two free scores. The first one is the theme from the film “Bilitis”, written by Francis Lai, which I arranged for solo guitar myself, some while ago. Obscure film, but the music score  by Lai (of “Love Story” fame) was excellent. I thought it might suit guitar, so here it is. Guitarists please feel free to download it.

 The second one is quite an easy piece called Noches de Este (Nights of the East) composer anon, but arranged by Len Williams (guitarist John’s Father, and founder of the Spanish guitar centre)  Although technically very simple, full of exotic  eastern flavour. Mind you, here in the West some of us think of the Orient as “exotic”, perhaps they feel the same was about the West! Anyway, here is the score, quite battered, but readable. Incidently, the markings on the socre are not mine, but sometimes of interest how other people read the music!

I’ve noted  that, even with broadband of 4MB, many sites are slowing down to a crawl. Deloitte Consulting thinks that this year the interent is close to it’s capacity, and bottlenecks are likely to increase in the terabite-capable pipes exchanging traffic between continents. Have you tried to access youtube in the evenings, and had a seemingly interminable wait for pages to display? It only takes   upsurge in video usage to turn an inconvenience caused by a drop in access speeds into full-scale user  dissatisfaction.

Apparently, illegal video downloads contribute to over one third of internet traffic. Then add to that the legit downloads and user generated content. Little wonder why I find myself only able to access youtube in the am, before, for example, the kids come home from school in the neighbourhood and start downloading MP3’s, pictures and video.

Google though, are taking a benign view; “Many people have argued there’s an Internet bandwidth shortage, but it’s really a last-mile issue,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt, adding that there is so much fibre underground.

There is a problem though because of a general reluctence to invest at goverment level in the internet infrastructure because no one owns it. Many people think long term the issue will correct itself. But short term, frustrations may well be on the increase.

Here are some scenes near where I live

Tal-y-Llyn Lake, one of my favourite settings. If you stay here, the feeling of space and peace are noticable.

The odd shaped hill in the foreground is known as Bird Rock, home to many different kinds of rare Birds.

Dysynni river, near where it meets the sea.

Keyboard in my spare room, a little “trick” photo