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Guitar Visualizations Covid Compilations

Posted by Mick Dennis on September 10, 2020 at 7:45 PM

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This is what I did during the Covid-19 lock down and stay-at-home time -

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4jqOZ73D6JqeHbAY-Ia7m06IcdWoOe6u

Am-Dm-E7 chords - improvising ideas

Posted by Mick Dennis on March 14, 2020 at 8:45 PM

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Am-Dm-E7 chords - improvising ideas on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHaPAZEibA

Beautiful Ghosts by Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber - guitar cover - Special Edition

Posted by Mick Dennis on March 12, 2020 at 9:25 PM

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Beautiful Ghosts by Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber - guitar cover - Special Edition on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGAPB3EtYww

One Note Samba - Chord Melody

Posted by Mick Dennis on March 12, 2020 at 1:55 PM

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One Note Samba - Chord Melody on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFc_v-StCgc

La Cumparsita - Chord Melody

Posted by Mick Dennis on February 15, 2020 at 1:20 PM

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La Cumparsita - Chord Melody on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwvqF_2j93I

When Sunny Gets Blue - Chord Melody

Posted by Mick Dennis on January 6, 2020 at 4:50 PM

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When Sunny Gets Blue - Chord Melody on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG96yqboEtI

CAGED Guitar Scales Expanded

Posted by Mick Dennis on July 22, 2019 at 4:10 AM

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CAGED Guitar Scales Expanded on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeP4-A9mavA

Guitar Player Magazine - Reader's Challenge Lick Revisited

Posted by Mick Dennis on July 22, 2019 at 4:10 AM

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Guitar Player Magazine - Reader's Challenge Lick Revisited on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLqsZ2dHb0

Mick's Cool Guitar Licks - Em Pentatonic - Hammer Ons-Pull Offs

Posted by Mick Dennis on July 22, 2019 at 4:05 AM

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Mick's Cool Guitar Licks - Em Pentatonic - Hammer Ons-Pull Offs on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogl-AZ67qyQ

Tangerine - Chord Melody

Posted by Mick Dennis on July 3, 2019 at 12:00 AM

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Hi!

Tangerine - Chord Melody on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gXUBpUk08

In this video I am playing a late 80's Ibanez Artist with a Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup (neck pick-up-series) through a Custom Billm Modified Fender Blues Junior in a custom designed cherry wood cabinet with a Jensen Special Design C15N speaker. I start off playing fingerstyle. I switch to a PICKBOY Exotic Pick ebony. I am using D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Strings 09-42 and a 10ft Pig Hog "Western Plaid" right angle cable.

The video was shot with an iPhone 6s Plus with the FiLMiC Pro app, Apple Lightning to 30-pin Adapter and a Rode iXY Stereo Microphone.

Lighting is a single Fancier Studio Fan 500A 3 LED Light Panel.

For audio mastering, I've added a compressor and limiter in GarageBand.

Video highlights:

0:00 - basic arrangement played fingerstyle

1:33 - arrangement with embellishments played fingerstyle

3:00 - basic arrangement played pickstyle

4:28 - arrangement with embellishments played pickstyle

Peace Out!~Mick

I consider myself an artist in the studio. As such, I always try to remember that just as a fine artist such as a Van Gogh never attempts to paint the precise reality of a scene or landscape (which he cannot do anyway), instead he captures the emotion of his interpretation on the canvas. I realized long ago that I couldn't paint the reality of a sonic image. We can't even define reality. The feeling of the music is what I am after. I want people to be able to listen to the music and to experience the sincerity of its emotion. It's when the technical covers the primitive that we lose the passion of music! - Bruce Swedien, Legendary Recording Engineer and Producer