An acoustic piece composed by Craig D'Andrea.  Played on my Taylor Grand Symphony.

Falling For Twelves

My attempt at creating a backing track for the studio version of 'Slow Gin' as done by Joe Bonamassa.  This is without the extended outro solo.

Sloe Gin Backing Track

Experimenting with Asian instruments in Logic.  This was a challenge to mix Japanese and Chinese instruments using different scales and different drum beat patterns to come up with this combination.

Lots if ideas discovered here that I can use in future compositions.

Forgotten Dreams

A backing track for Joe Bonamassa's version of the Sam Brown classic Stop!.  This is without the long solo outro at the end.

Stop! Backing Track (JB Version)

I recorded this on my new acoustic guitar that I built with my own two hands (with the wonderful assistance of Chris and Bill at Thomas Lloyd Guitars!).  I wouldn't be where I am or achieved half the things I have achieved today without the support of my dearly loved father, so I dedicate this song in his loving memory...

For My Father

A couple of days ago, Tommy Emmanuel posted some stems of his latest take on 'The Journey' on Facebook, and asked his fans to remix it.  As a long time fan of TE, 'The Journey' was one of the songs I heard many years ago that kept me hooked on the guitar, so I thought I would give it a go, using Logic X and a bunch of different software instruments.

NOTE: All guitar work by Tommy Emmanual, not me.  I just did the keyboards, bass, some percussion and synth work.

The Journey (Remix)

A chill Lo-Fi track for just sitting on the tiles and thinking about everything.

Chill On The Tiles (LoFi)

A relaxed, downbeat Lo-Fi track for driving around town.

Route 88 (LoFi)

My interpretation of the Yiruma classic piece.  Played on my Arturia KeyLab 88.

River Flows In You

My interpretation of yet another Yiruma classic piece.  Played on my Arturia KeyLab 88.

Kiss The Rain

An acoustic instrumental cover of Hana (Flower) by Masaaki Kishibe. 

Hana (Flower)

I decided to use ChatGPT to help me create a short Lo-Fi tune.

ChillGPT Lo - Fi

A comparison of driven sounds on 5 popular iPad guitar amp modellers.  Gibson SG into iPad 3 via Apogee JAM adapter.  Only some Slate Virtual Bus compression post processing to bring up the sound levels.

Driven IPad Modellers (Final)

Hi all - this is part of my quest to see if I can get close to Joe B's tone on 'So Many Roads' off his 'Live From Nowhere In Particular' album.  Playing my JB sig Les Paul via an Axe-FX Ultra using the Carol Ann OD2 amp preset.

Recorded direct to Garageband (no live mic).

JB Tone Quest Pt 1 (So Many Roads)

A second sound test for tweaked Axe-FX to try and achieve a tonal goal of being close to Joe Bonamassa's live tone on 'So Many Roads' off his album 'Live From Nowhere In Particular'.

JB Tone Quest Pt 2 (So Many Roads)

A soundtrack done using almost exclusively the plugins from Crow Hill Company (except two bass sounds which were using BassSynth from Wave Alchemy - Would love it if CH could add a growly bass to complement their Concussion Drums!! (Hint Hint)) :)

Had lots of fun using the Vaults instruments as well as the new Dot Allison Dulcet Voice.

The Sinister Showground

This is my goodbye to the Attic Piano plugin in the Crow Hill Vaults collection.  Track is all layered Attic Pianos with a little Valhalla reverb and tape delay plugin.

Goodbye Attic Piano

An acoustic guitar instrumental version of the Beatles' classic song 'Yesterday'.  I was inspired to learn, rehearse and practice this song in one day in order to push myself to polish my technique on the steel string acoustic guitar after I saw the tabs published in the latest 'Guitar Techniques' magazine.


Yesterday (Acoustic Instrumental)

This is my rendition of the intro soundtrack to the popular "Severance" TV series, using ONLY Crow Hill Company plugins for all the instruments (and effects).

Song written by Theodore Shapiro, arrangement by Katherine Cordova.

Severance Theme Remix

To celebrate the imminent arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto & Charon, a short composition. Also a salute to the ferryman of the river Styx...

Charon Rising

This is my cover of "Andata" by Ryuichi Sakamoto, as a tribute and a threnody for my beautiful black cat Desmond who gave me 14 wonderful years of joy, before he passed away last week.

Andata (Ode to Desmond)

A cover of a wonderful song by Simon Fox. Played on my Taylor Grand Symphony, using pure Bronze strings to evaluate the sound on a recording.

The Fisherman

My 11 year old son and I just went down to the beach with our acoustic guitars...I decided to record us playing one of my wife's favourite pieces 'Buddha Garden Flowering'.  A one take performance sitting on the edge of a cliff in the beautiful sunshine.  One of those special 'father & son' moments...

Beach Jam (Buddha Garden)

My version of this melancholy piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto, to give it an electronica twist.  Also my tribute to the late Mr. Bowie.

I found the sheet music online, and played all parts on a MIDI keyboard.  All sound samples are from IK Multimedia's SampleTank 3, and U-He's Zebra2 synth.

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Roboto Remix)

A cover of another beautiful track by Simon Fox. This track has a dreamy quality about it which I am guessing reflects the peace and reflective tranquility of casting a line in the water at night. Played on my Taylor BTO Grand Symphony.

Night Fishing

A cover of a soulful, yet uplifting piece by Masaaki Kishibe.  After I recorded this take, I was not 100% happy with some of the imperfections and timing hesitations, but I wanted to dedicate this song to some special friends of mine who are facing (and have faced) some difficult challenges in life, so I decided to leave the imperfections in there to celebrate that life is indeed not perfect, and to appreciate it nonetheless.

Recorded using my Lowden F12 acoustic, with a Royer ribbon mic replica, and processed in LogicX using Slate tools.

November

A short snippet of the famous AC/DC tune recorded using an S-Gear preset by Jon (flyingkiwi69) from the Scuffham Amps forum...

Using my Grosh Electrajet with the 327 pickup on the bridge - Vol on 8 and Tone wound back to 5.


Highway To Hell Snippet (S-Gear)

Experimenting to see if I could get the 'Shadows' sound with the Axe-FX II, setting up a preset from scratch.

Apache

A study and experimentation with Bach's famous Cello suites.  A deep dive into the harmonic structures by adding synthesised embellishments over the main melodic line.

Bach's Cello Suite 1 - Electronic Edition

My recording of this hauntingly beautiful piece by Owen Van Larkins.  I combined a Rode NT1-A mic along with the direct signal from my Maton ECW80C for this attempt.

Freyah's Song

My belated Valentine's gift to my wife.  This is Jimmy Wahlsteen's beautiful composition, which I have hardly done justice to.  I will keep practicing until I get the timing right, but wanted something to play to my beautiful wife, just because we are... hitched for life... :)

Hitched For Life

A jam session along to the 'Happier Times' backing track that was released as part of the Joe Bonamassa Blues competition.

Happier Times Jam

A quick sound test with the new Triptik amp model in the Axe-FX II compared to a tone match and cab match of my actual Triptik amp.

Triptik Test (Actual Amp & Axe-FX II)

A recording of this classic David Essig guitar piece using my new Taylor BTO Grand Symphony.  The arrangement is by Don Ross.

CyberFerret

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