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🗓️September update!

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New! SCUMM Bar theme from The Secret of Monkey Island

The Secret of Monkey Island and its first sequel are my favourite games of all time. It was only a matter of time before I covered them.

This song is heard at the beginning of the game when you enter the SCUMM bar; it’s available now here, as well as the score!

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Scumm bar from The Secret of Monkey Island

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New! Succession of Witches from Final Fantasy VIII!

This is in collaboration with the Collab Playground. I may only be present for 10 seconds but I look very dashing in my jazzy getup 😉.

Don’t forget to sign up for the reminder so you are made aware of when the video premieres, on Sunday 25th!

Next projects

Monkey Island 2: Campfire – You may remember this theme from the beginning of Monkey Island 2: Chuck’s Revenge! The SCUMM Bar arrangement was so well received that I decide to cover the campfire theme as well. This will be the next solo video. Watch this space!

Windfall Island from The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker (with The Collab Playground) – keep an eye out for this one! It’s arranged by my good buddy Kyle Throw and should come around October.

Wicked Child from Castlevania NES (with The Collab Playground) – I’ve arranged this one for Halloween 🎃.

Strange Flower from Corpse Factory – This cover is coming next. It’s a little too hard to do it justice on a single guitar, so it will be released as a duet. I may be looking for volunteers… 👀

Tank! from Cowboy Bebop – The audio has been recorded, now need to make the video. It involves green screens… 🤫

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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🗓 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.

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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).

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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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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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📅 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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