Author: Alex Seewald

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🗓 August Update!

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Phantom Forest (new collab video)

I play the Viol and Kalimba on Phantom Forest (Final Fantasy VI), which was arranged by my good friend Truman Wilson for The Collab Playground. The video will be out on YouTube (below) this Sunday.

Don’t forget to like, subscribe and hit the little reminder icon so you don’t miss out on the Premiere!

Truman was kind enough to let me play some more unusual instruments on this occasion.

FF VI Phantom Forest

The (Bass) Viol is a renaissance instrument I picked up during the pandemic; it’s like a 6 or 7 string cello, with gut frets.

FF VI Phantom Forest

The Kalimba is an African instrument which consists or a wooden box and tins and it sounds a bit like a music box.

You should be able to play the video from below on Sunday!

Strange Flower from Corpse Factory

I have finished the arrangement for Strange Flower from Corpse Factory by Alex Shea; it’s not an easy piece to play and I’m still practicing it most days; I will record the video when I feel I have mastered the piece well enough — I expect the video to come out during the month of September.

If you can’t wait you can hear the arrangement on Soundcloud here.

Tank! from Cowboy Bebop

I have already recorded the audio for this (you can still find a preview here) and will record the video at some point next month ready to come out in October. The video edit is going to involve green screens and I fear rather involved! 😅

As always thank you for your support, you’re all amazing and don’t hesitate to reach out on the various socials.

Alex.

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Renders of Strange Flower

I have completed the classical guitar arrangement for Strange Flower from Corpse Factory, composed by Alec Shea. It was really hard to get right mostly because we humans only have 4 usable fingers for fretting on the left hand 😅.

I expect the video and tabs to be out in a month or so.

MIDI RENDERING

CHIPTUNE

In my usual fashion, and what I like to do occasionally is to provider a render of my arrangements in chip-tune format. I find that this particularly arrangement lends itself well to it.

If you can’t wait, you can grab the lead sheet and sing along on guitar or piano (or whatever else rocks your boat).

Strange Flower from Corpse Factory - Lead sheet

Strange Flower from Corpse Factory – Lead sheet

This is the lead sheet for Strange Flower, including lyrics. The guitar and viol version will be made available separately.

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Check Alec Shea’s Soundcloud here @alecshea and please show him your support at Bandcamp alecshea.bandcamp.com/, he’s really great, more people need to find out about him and he will appreciate it. And he’s a nice guy too.

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New: Lead sheet for Corpse Factory!

I absolutely love the title soundtrack of Corpse Factory, Strange Flower, composed by Alec Shea and with lyrics by Emi Evans; that name should sound familiar as Emi is of Nier and Drakengard fame, and you will definitely have heard her work before.

I am currently busy arranging it for fingerstyle classical guitar, as well as separately for viola da gamba; in the process I created this lead sheet which may be useful to anyone who wants to play and sing through the song on guitar or piano. Say hi and drop me a comment if you are going to use it for anything! And check out the rest of the soundtrack, Alec did a wonderful job with it!

You can download the sheet from here.

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Recording the Kalimba Part for Phantom Forest

FF VI Phantom Forest

I’ve just recorded my parts for the next Collab Playground video, which is for Final Fantasy 6’s Phantom Forest.

Check their YouTube channel out at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnW1z2V5qlBzZQ4ebOCuHWQ

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⭐Dracula’s Castle (new Collab Playground video)

My new arrangement, Dracula’s Castle from Castlevania – Symphony of the Night, that I recorded with The Collab Playground is out!

This is a music theme originally composed by Michiru Yamane. Appropriately, it is heard in the first section of Dracula’s Castle, the Entrance. It came to be considered to be Alucard’s theme.

Premiere this Sunday!

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📅 July’s update!

My new video is out! Super Bell Hill from Super Mario 3D World is on every social networks right now – head right to YouTube and please like, comment and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out on all the videos! I reply to all messages.

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I have started to arrange the next piece which is The Last Dungeon from Wonderboy: The Dragon’s Trap.

The original 8-bit tunes are some of the most memorable from my childhood, but I’m in love with the re-orchestrated acoustic soundtrack by Michael Geyre (which is absolutely amazing, check it out!)

I am also finishing my Cowboy Bebop Tank! cover on classical guitars; the video edits are going to be taking a while longer as I am essentially doing a collab with myself…

Talking about collabs, I am putting the finishing touches to Dracula’s Castle from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for The Collab Playground, which should be coming out next Saturday, and Tarrey Town from The Legend of Zelda; Breath of the Wild for Sam Griffin’s YouTube channel – which involves 20 people, most of them classical guitarists. Then I’m focusing on arranging Spagonia from Sonic Unleashed as a day and night medley.

Turns out I’ve been busy. 😅

Alex.

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⭐Super Bell Hill from Super Mario 3D world

THIS SONG MAKES ME HAPPY and I really enjoyed arranging it! It’s got that feel good, happy vibe, you know! Super Bell Hill, otherwise known as World 1-1, is the first course of Super Mario 3D World and was composed by Mahito Yokota.

Want to play it for yourself? You can grab the tabs for free from www.alexseewald.com (note this particular one is arranged in the DADGAD tuning). Send me a recording if you do learn it! I want to see what YOU do with it!

If you like what I do, remember to like and subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss my next arrangements. Tips sponsoring my coffee addiction would motivate me to do more 🙃.

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Super Bell Hill – Preview

Super Bell Hill (Super Mario 3D World)

I just finished to shoot Super Bell Hill, it allowed me to test the new Sigma 16mm Lens. This gives me the power of natural Bokeh (soft backgrounds) without using any special effects!

The video should be out in a few days. Thanks for your support!

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Super Bell Hill – Practice Progress

I just finished my arrangement of Super Bell Hill and practicing it! This is a very early work in progress. The video should be out mid-July 2022.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Super-Bell-Hill–Practice-Progress-B0B3DIHXB?justpublished=true&alias=Super-Bell-Hill–Practice-Progress-B0B3DIHXB

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Cowboy Bebop – Preview

Hey everyone, I have started the work on Cowboy Bebop. I’ve actually almost finished recording the audio – although I’m not entirely happy with the melodic line which could be cleaner, so I’ll redo it. The bass line really really 🤘🔥 though!

I just slapped this early draft onto the original Cowboy Bebop intro to get a feel for it because my intention is for the video to be like the original intro! Thought I’d share it here. The percussion is MIDI here, but I’ll record the final on-guitar percussion as part of the video shoot. 

https://ko-fi.com/post/Cowboy-Bebop–Draft-1-V7V8DDUP4?justpublished=true&alias=Cowboy-Bebop–Draft-1-V7V8DDUP4