Electric Violin – Cliffs of Dover – (CLEAN cover)
May 27, 2010 amazing violin solos
My name is Eddie Carlson, and this is the first violin cover of Eric Johnson’s epic “Cliffs of Dover.” I hope you enjoy my performance.
I am playing a Yamaha SV-200 through a Boss ME-50 effects pedal.
The audio/video sync is a little off…I think it just has something to do with being uploaded to youtube because there’s no similar latency when the actual video file plays on my computer. Oh well.
I don’t have the sheet music for this song, so I can’t send it to you – sorry. Check out the guitar tabs, they’re posted online everywhere, that’s how I learned it.
May 9 2010: I didn’t realize I could change the title after posting a video. When I first made the video, I jammed “guitar hero” in the title to score views. I definitely agree, Eric Johnson is amazing and it’s a cover of his song, not a cover form guitar hero. I give you…the new title, EJ fans rejoice! : )
The first violin cover of “Cliffs of Dover”
Duration : 0:4:23
Tags: Carlson, Cliffs, distortion, Dover, Duke, ed, Eddie, electric, eric, Facemelting, guitar, hero, Johnson, metal, of, rock, violin
Instrumental guitar – Rod DeGeorge Promo Clip for Cosmic Playground
Dec 23, 2009 guitar solos
http://www.degeorgemusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/roddegeorge
Promo for my Instrumental Guitar CD Cosmic Playground
There must be a lot of monkey bars and turbo-tube slides in DeGeorge’s playground. It’s fun to zoom through all the melodies, wah stabs, keyboard flurries, shred bits and harmony solos, and then collapse with giddy exhaustion.
Guitar Player magazine
“If there’s justice in the world, Rod DeGeorge will be one of the brightest stars amongst 21st century new guitar heroes…this is one of the hottest guitar instrumental records in the last few years. A must buy, no doubt about it!” – 10 out of 10 points.
HammerWorld Magazine, Hungary
“Check out this adventurous young fella: his playing is very exciting, and his technical proficiency is quite admirable.”
Elliott Randall (Steely Dan/Solo Artist)
“It almost frightens me about what we may see in the future from this incredibly talented musician. Cosmic Playground is more than a calling card…it’s a full-on statement of purpose that he has arrived and demands your attention”
Progscape.com
Rod DeGeorge is by far one of the most prolific talents I have come across in a long time. His international flavor is sure to become a heavy influence on future artists for years to come
Twisted Voice
“I would pity the Devil if he ever made his way from Georgia to Pennsylvania cause as bad a time as he had with Charlie, he would just be thrashed by Rod!”
Sea of Tranquility
“Rod DeGeorge has the potential to be a big guitar hero like Steve Vai or John Petrucci. Points: 15/10 (no, not 10…15!!!)”
Gitarren-Blog.de
“Solid, clean playing and great shredding skills abound, but unlike the modern prog-metal heads who are into shredding without making much of a musical statement, this guitarist speaks volumes in his writing, technique, and phrasing.”
Music Street Journal
“Then there was Rod DeGeorge’s legendary playing I’d heard so much about and finally got to see. And yes, he’s as good as the rumors and then some”. -Roving Reporter, Cindy Rutolo – Dietrich, PA Musician
“DeGeorge’s guitar work is nothing short of magnificent and his songs have interesting and inventive chord structure changes” – Jim Speese, Reading Eagle
Duration : 0:3:10
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Killswitch Engage – Reckoning (cover – dual guitar)
Dec 12, 2009 tapping
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It seems like people like our other Killswitch cover, so we had guitars and amps and stuff so what the here’s another one. This one’s alright. It uses Adam D’s infamous middle C string tapping/hammer/pulloff thing riff with a slightly different variation (slides and stuff).
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P.S.- Amps were mic’d and recorded into an M-Audio interface.
Duration : 0:2:54
Tags: Adam, alexstypes, awesome, cover, dual, engage, great, guitars, hero, Howard, job, killswitch, New, protest, reckoning, shredding, song, sweeping, tapping, The
Impulse – An Endless Sporadic – percussion cover – GH3 Guitar Hero III
Dec 5, 2009 guitar solos
This piece was recorded March 2008 at Denton High School in Denton, TX, while I was the percussion instructor there.
This song is just plain flat-out awesomeness. If anybody has known me for the past 2 years, they know I’m an obsessive Guitar Hero player, and that’s how I discovered this piece, Impulse, by two badass musicians who call themselves An Endless Sporadic. You can check them out on MySpace, but they haven’t been signed or released an official album yet. One of them works for Neversoft, the drummer Andy, and he got their song in the game Guitar Hero 3 as a bonus song. Once I heard it, I knew I had to arrange it someday.
It was a challenge to get the marimbas and vibes to work in the original key, since some of the guitar parts are so low, but I don’t like changing keys in my arrangements, so luckily we had two 5 octave marimbas and some mics to help on the low end. I gave my best shot at playing the crazy drumset part with a single bass drum pedal, but the real key was hiring the amazing Chris McQueen to play the guitar part. He plays with Oso Closo and Snarky Puppy (from Denton) and you should check them out too, they will rock your face off.
This piece was fun to do as a percussion ensemble because in the original they used ProTools and had already added all of the small percussion instruments you’ll hear, so I didn’t need to add anything. I did cut out an entire chunk of the piece in the middle, because it would have been impossible to recreate all the crazy distorted guitar effects with percussion in that section, and I also extended one part to allow Chris McQueen to take an improvised guitar solo.
Otherwise, like most of my arrangements, I tried to recreate the original piece as faithfully as possible in a percussion ensemble form, so I hope you like it! I think this is my best arrangement to date in terms of fun and excitement factor, because the source material was just so mind-blowing.
From Left to Right:
Joanna Ceja -(marimba)
Manuel Ortiz -(bells/percussion)
Charlie Tucker -(chimes/percussion)
Bobby Jacobs – (marimba)
Brandon Arthur -(electric bass)
Sean Redman -(me on drumset)
Chris McQueen -(guest artist on electric guitar)
Cody Goble -(marimba)
Christina Burch -(vibes)
Austin Ford -(vibes)
Charles Crouch -(vibes)
Ryan Klinck -(vibes)
Duration : 0:5:11
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This is a video from game tap on tour bus with mcr and gerard and ray playing guitar hero 2.
