New instrumental composition music video and a cover

PeachyDragon · 2013-12-26T10:43:24+00:00

Here is something new I composed, recorded and made a video for. ? cover song:

New instrumental composition music video and a cover

LooneyAtTheGate

Nice pretty tune! And very cool visuals ?

PeachyDragon

Thank you. ?

AlanRatcliffe

Very cool sound and video. I like the sound from your guitar. ?

PeachyDragon

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Very cool sound and video. I like the sound from your guitar. ?

Thank you Alan. It's the custom I had built. I still want to make a video of it in more detail.
For the lead stuff I am mostly using the neck and bridge single coils out of phase. It gives a biting yet melodic
sound. Sometimes I will just have all the pickups on and in phase, but for distortion sounds I love the balance that
out of phase sound gives. My pedal is a Vox LE with the vox AC30 sound and treble boost and my amp is a 1981 Vox AC30 not cranked much at all. Yes it is clear I have an obsession with Brian May but I am also not trying to get his exact tone.

PeachyDragon

I was concerned that I had made the video too corny and distracted from a composition I am REALLY proud of.

AlanRatcliffe

PeachyDragon wrote: It's the custom I had built. I still want to make a video of it in more detail.

I remember it well. Gorgeous and unusual. I gather you are pleased with the way it turned out (I would be ?)?

Yes it is clear I have an obsession with Brian May but I am also not trying to get his exact tone.

An excellent player to have an obsession with. ? You have a more edgy lead tone (doesn't he use neck and middle OOP a lot?), but it's still good. The clean sound is gorgeous.

PeachyDragon wrote: I was concerned that I had made the video too corny and distracted from a composition I am REALLY proud of.

No it's fine. Love the Peachy Dragon.com logo. If I had to complain about anything, it would be the standing on a peak with clouds going by thing, which is a bit overdone. What do you use for video editing, BTW?

As far as the composition goes the only things I was a bit leery of were the arpeggios (at about 0:48), which seemed a little forced and out of place and one note you held at 2:31.

PeachyDragon

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: I gather you are pleased with the way it turned out (I would be ?)?

I love the guitar!

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:You have a more edgy lead tone (doesn't he use neck and middle OOP a lot?), but it's still good. The clean sound is gorgeous.

No the tone from that setting would be shrill as hell. Brian uses the neck and bridge out of phase tons on solos like Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody as far as I recall and also uses the bridge and middle in phase. Those are the most common settings he uses. The out of phase setting is so common that his pickups have been adjusted to cancel hum out of phase on that setting.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: No it's fine. Love the Peachy Dragon.com logo. If I had to complain about anything, it would be the standing on a peak with clouds going by thing, which is a bit overdone. What do you use for video editing, BTW?

As far as the composition goes the only things I was a bit leery of were the arpeggios (at about 0:48), which seemed a little forced and out of place and one note you held at 2:31.

Oh dear. I was referring to the cloud and mountain thing. The logo is standard on all my videos. I use Adobe Premier and Adobe After Effects.

PeachyDragon

PeachyDragon wrote: No the tone from that setting would be shrill as hell. Brian uses the neck and bridge out of phase tons on solos like Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody as far as I recall and also uses the bridge and middle in phase. Those are the most common settings he uses. The out of phase setting is so common that his pickups have been adjusted to cancel hum out of phase on that setting.

I was wrong. ?
info here:
http://www.brianmaycentral.net/phasing.html

LooneyAtTheGate

And don't forget to use a small coin instead of a plectrum 8)

Stoffeltoo

My daughter currently studying Graphic art and design was a raving about the clip and cool tones indeed! Well done Mr Peachy Dragon!

PeachyDragon

Julian Emdon wrote: And don't forget to use a small coin instead of a plectrum 8)

Haha. I used to... first 50 cents, then 2 rands then larger coins filed into pick shapes.
Then stubbies and now more standard hard picks.
I am not trying to sound exactly like him. ?

PeachyDragon

Stoffeltoo wrote: My daughter currently studying Graphic art and design was a raving about the clip and cool tones indeed! Well done Mr Peachy Dragon!

Thank you Stoffeltoo! It warms my heart to hear that it is appreciated.
I was concerned about the video being overly corny, even though it conveyed what I felt.

aubs1

Really nice video.
I was always wandering what that guitar was gonna sound like. Well, now I know, pretty awesome.

PeachyDragon

Aubs1 wrote: Really nice video.
I was always wandering what that guitar was gonna sound like. Well, now I know, pretty awesome.

Thank you. ? I taught the guitar everything it knows. ?