10 Popular Songs, arranged by Chris. Available from Lathkill Music Publishers.

As you can tell from the list below, many of my arrangements are of popular songs that are normally not played as solo guitar works. I started doing these when I began playing at functions twenty or so years ago. Not having enough of these modern arrangements in my repertoire I went to the nearest shop to buy several books and found, to my horror, that a lot of them were simply awful. They were either too simple, missed out all the good bits, or had many ludicrously hard parts in a vain effort to make them sound like the original work.

So I immediately began doing my own. I had them all in my head for a good number of years before I decided it was time to write them down. I had amassed 21 or so when my late friend Mike Bonwick suggested that I record them at his studio for posterity. This session resulted in my CD ‘Making Arrangements’ the details of which you can find elsewhere. Then I approached a publisher, Lathkill Music Publishers, who were willing to take on the onerous task of arranging to have some of them published.

As a result of copyright difficulties, it was 2-3 years before Ten Popular Songs (Review) was published, but it became, and remains, one of Lathkill's biggest sellers. My arrangements list has since expanded to the list you see below, and all of the songs are notated. Progress is good on Book 2, but, for the same reason, completion and publication could be another year or so away.

Chris Dumigan, February 2007

All arrangements are unpublished, with the exception of:

*10 pieces all published in one volume entitled 'Ten Popular Songs' by Lathkill Music Publishers
**A seven-movement suite, published by Lathkill Music Publishers