Open Tuning Guitar – Beautiful Guitar Recording
Although technology can sometimes get in our way and make some very simple things complex, example you make a phone call and end up speaking to a robot that doesn’t recognise your dialect when you answer a simple ‘yes/no’ question, it can at times surprise you when you least expect it. And I don’t mean the money machine in the wall that supplies money when you put that little plastic card into it suddenly makes an error in your favour with lots of zeros on the end.
I’ve had a habit of every now and then recording pieces of music and then forgetting about them. As I work with computers a lot, like every single day of my life, I’ve got this habit of backing up data. Now data comes in all shapes and sizes. And when I back up, I find things.
Late last year I had an emergency situation where I needed to get a newacoustic guitar with a reasonable pickup system to record direct to a recorder instead of using microphones. Of course I had to test it out, whilst testing the guitar out I recorded a solo guitar piece of music with the guitar tuned to C G C G C F, pretty mad tuning really but I studied Indian music and it’s similar to what I used to use with a great Sarod player Ashok Roy.
Well, I listened to it and it’s pretty beautiful, and beautiful things are to be shared. I haven’t edited it at all.
I named it after the poem by the great Persian poet Rumi, someone dear to me used to carry that poem with her always
“Come, Come, who ever your are
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving,
it doesn’t matter
Ours is not a caravan of despair
Even if you have broken your vows
A thousand times it doesn’t matter
Come, yet again, come”
To download it
click here acoustic guitar mp3 By Tony Hogan
Wow!
An quite astonishing piece.
At the risk of insulting you, I pictured the opening scenes to a film with the bars as accompanyment. Rolling shots of a different time. A small community in hidden-from-site early America.
Horse drawn carriages and bonnet wearing women folk, a dominant church and and impending sense of ‘something dark, this way comes’.
Wonderful.
Very good , if only I had the time to learn to play like that
A wonderful treat for my ears and spirit this Monday morning. Thank you!
Thanks FLOOG…I have done some music for some short local films where I live, I usually use synths as well. I never pictured it as western but if we can add some of the Shaker furniture in the background scenes, I’m in for it
Cheers
Chris. Ok if you make it out here you get one sun hat, a bottle of blockout and six months guitar lessons any style. If not, I keep the hat.
Tony
Fantastic
Tony, that was beautiful. Parts of it sound just like the music I play in the spa room, it was very soothing and such a great way to start my Monday morning.
Thank you.
Impressive. Very nice and clean. It’s nice to know some people aren’t stuck in standard tuning…like me. Nice work.
That was super relaxing. This reminded me of ambient music as I just closed my eyes and it was very soothing. Really very nice and beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Chelle
It’s even more relaxing to play this sort of thing.
ImANicePerson.
Thanks. I’ve been using open tunings for 25 years now, they are very useful for getting out of the standard musical patterns and habits we fall into.
TheMrs
That’s great, I’m glad you got something good out of it