New Recording – The Hatch!

I rediscovered an older song of mine that I still really like. In my mind I heard it in a particular sound I couldn’t achieve from the old recordings. Instead of remixing it I decided to record everything new from scratch and I’m very satisfied with the result.

Composed, performed & mixed by Benjamin Schippritt
(Dynamic Range 12)


The Hatch

Bram Bokken: rhythm & lead guitars (on the right), backing vocals
Benjamin Schippritt: rhythm & lead guitars (on the left), lead vocals, bass guitar and everything else.

All music, lyrics, audio recording, engineering, mixing and mastering, video recording & editing by Benjamin Schippritt.

(Dynamic Range 12)

New String Theory: Bram and me have first met each other some 20 years ago. Every now and then our paths accidentally crossed. Some years ago when it happened again we thought it was time to meet for some guitar-shredding-session. Somehow it actually took another 2 1/2 years to make it happen. We had so much fun then and we both immediately knew, we should take it more seriously and create some great guitar driven music together.

Check out our first output, a re-recording, new arrangement and videoclip of my song Smile!

Watch it also on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQU4ZJYFXQI

Visit our website: http://www.newstringtheory.com

Smile! by New String Theory

Benjamin Schippritt:
guitars on the left, vocals, bass guitar and other stuff

Bram Bokken:
guitars on the right

Music and words, mixing and mastering by
Benjamin Schippritt
www.newstringtheory.com

I've Made Up My Mind - by New String Theory

Opening track of my third instrumental solo album Criminal Record.
A full album stream is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO6qJnAqf78

Some of you may be able to relate to the problem of having a bad hair day now and then. Before I let my hair grow long (the summer of 1992 was the last time I had it cut) I had a bad hairdo and on top of that a bad hair day almost every day – as my sister and most other people who saw me frequently liked to point out to me. 
Growing my hair long solved that problem to some extent. But often enough my hairdo still seems to be out of whack, looking somewhat like a bird. This song is dedicated to Bird Hair Day. The main themes were conceived on a track I recorded during  an online competition in 2014. Towards the end of the writing process for this record I rearranged it considerably.

Unbekanntes Album (14.07.2016 20:25:24)

Bird Hair Day

Benjamin Schippritt: left & mid guitars, bass, vocals, first guitar solo, all music, words, recording, mixing & mastering

Bram Bokken: right & clean guitars, second guitar solo

Lost In Yesterdays / by New String Theory

Finally! After producing tons of guitar tutorials I'm very happy to announce the presentation of this new song and video I've been working on for quite a while. An intense progressive rock tune, loaded with intense guitar work and lyrics. From the song-writing, singing and all instrument performances to audio and video recordings, as well as mixing, mastering and editing, Symphony of Fear is completely self produced by me. I'm very happy with the result and hope you'll like it too!

Benjamin Schippritt

Symphony of Fear

OCTOBER by Benjamin Schippritt,
melodic guitar rock instrumental 🎸 REMIX 2021

OCTOBER is a very personal and emotional instrumental song I wrote and recorded in 2007. Autumn 2007 was one of those troubling periods I'd rather like to forget, or write a song about, just like this. Still now, 14 years later I'm somewhat proud of it and consider it to be one of my best compositions. A few years back I remixed OCTOBER for the first time. Recently my thoughts again turned back on that song and first I got the idea to do a complete new recording. But I soon realized, that these original recordings were just perfect, because they originated during this dark period back then. It's not easy to reproduce this and there is a great chance, that it doesn't make sense at all.

I then decided to do another even better sounding remix. I'm satisfied with the result and hope you'll enjoy listening to OCTOBER!

Cheers, Benjamin


released February 24, 2021
Music written, all instruments performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by
Benjamin Schippritt ( www.benjaminschippritt.com )

Watch me performing the song on my YOUTUBE channel:
youtu.be/iX4yTcsHtIA

Single

October (Remix 2021)

Benjamin Schippritt, guitarist, singer, songwriter, guitar teacher

BENJAMIN SCHIPPRITT is an enthusiastic and passionate musician since 1983. His main instruments and base of musical thinking are the electric and western acoustic guitar, but he also enjoys singing and playing electric bass guitar, as well as producing, recording and mixing music in his studio. Spending a whole lifetime around his guitar, developing a virtuos playing style and completing a full-time jazz guitar study at the Institute for the Arts in The Netherlands, he always got a strong beating heart for rock music. His creative song-writing and contributions cover many different styles of music and manage to perfectly fit that rocking attitude. Besides being a live- and studio-musician, he's utterly passionate about guitar teaching.

The Hatch

Benjamin Schippritt

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