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Eleven

I Remeber You (slow)

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Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

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Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

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Marconi Union - Weightless

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based on The Witcher's main theme written by Adam Skorupa

Trial of Herbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzWyD2VU-Y

City Walls - soundtrack for game assets showreel

My arrangement of  "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum"
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Lately, I have been getting into some early 20th Century "Classical" music. I have always liked the music of Claude Debussy,  whose sense of harmony often has a close resemblance to jazz, and other "modern" music.

This song is the first movement of Debussy's "Children's Corner", a suite which is an evocation of early childhood, dedicated to Debussy's 3-year old daughter, Claude-Emma (known as "Chou-Chou". Sadly, she died of Diptheria at the age of 13 - not long after her father's death).

This piece is normally played on Piano, and is a moderately difficult piece to play on that instrument. 

On guitar, I found some of the passages to be murderously difficult, since passages which are natural to play on piano are not necessarily easy to play on guitar.
In fact, I hadn't really heard anyone play it on guitar until I heard Paul Galbraith play it on 8-string guitar, which inspired me to try it myself.

For this arrangement, I used two guitars - the melody and chords are played on my "jazz" guitar (7-string archtop) and the bass lines were played on my "death metal" guitar (7-string LTD baritone). (If I perform this live, I will either do a solo arrangement with a few compromises to make it playable on a single guitar, or I will do it as a duet with a bass player. I would love to play this on a 7- or 8-string classical guitar but, sadly, I don't own one of those !)

I spent a LOT of time practicing this, but I learned a lot from it. Thanks to my long-suffering wife and kids for putting up with me practicing the same passages over and over again !

I put a youtube version here, which displays the sheet music along with the piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmS-Oq3yNUw

PS - I recommend that you check out some other versions of this piece. Paul Galbraith plays it flawlessly on his CD. Bela Fleck also has a superb version for Banjo and Cello. And, of course, there are lots of different piano interpretations on Youtube - some outstanding, some not-so-good :-)


Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum

Antesard

Tosin is in town so I figured I would do a quick test with his guitar!
I am using an 8 string to it's complete capacity.
One string used on the TAM 100, except for the leads which are on one string as well and going through a Dunlop Carbon Copy which is oh so sweet!

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