Classical Gas (Tommy Style)

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Classical Gas (Tommy Style)

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Yes, this IS me playing. I've posted a version I did on a 12-string on Youtube, should anyone doubt me. This is also an arrangement I wrote, based on the Tommy Emmanuel cover of the Mason Williams classic.

This is a single guitar track, with a little reverb and that's it.

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lugoen

2015-03-23 11:18:34

Very nice playing, but may too similar to the Tommy's version. So the problem is : You can imitate Tommy, but you can't do better than Tommy. But your version stay a very nice performance, very clean playing and realy nice to listen. So, i rate 4.5 because it's very similar to the Tommy's version, but stay really good. (Sorry for my english, I'm french but i'm on Newsground in order to listen my favorits artist like Waterflame and DJ Nate)

Ceevro responds:

I know it's similar...I made a couple alterations, but yes, this particular version that I play was just to prove that I could do it. I've actually got a reggae version that's much more original that I may record and post later on, just for fun.

EctiBot

2014-07-30 22:00:30

I'm always surprised over what a single guitar can do by itself :D. It's one of tye reasons why it's my favourite instrument even though I play the piano as well :D. This is a great example of the superiority of guitars X3. I loved how you used dynamics and take the listener to another world while listening to your track :). Imagined myself being in the wild west while listening to this XD.
I'm not giving a full score because even though I liked it with the guitar alone I think it could have been more amazing with some western soundeffects and some piano notes.
Great work anyways :D
4.5 stars.
-Ectisity

Ceevro responds:

Thanks for the review! I gotta say that this is about the most difficult thing I've ever learned to play. I had to buy a new mic to do it, because every attempt at getting the dynamics with my old mic was just...well...the mic couldn't keep up with the range in the song.

Perhaps I'll do a version with some orchestration later, but that's a really tough order, because there are multiple key/time/tempo changes, which means I can't just patch in some loops - I gotta play the orchestral parts live! I'm a good guitarist, but not so good with a piano, ya know?