First Fragment - Pantheum | Guitar Cover

Here is the yearly video.

Video quality not that great, but I'm not going to try to get a better take with my iPhone camera. I'll get a better camera in the future. For this video I suggest not watching in full screen.

March 2023-2024:

Despite the fact that I started working on this song a year ago, it didn’t actually take a year to learn. I would estimate it took me somewhere between 3-4 weeks to get it to a point where I wanted to record. Originally I had it up to par around mid June, but by that time I had developed an injury in my left hand due to playing too much. I was not able to hold the instrument without extreme fatigue for over a month. By the time my hand had healed to the point where I could play through the whole song again, school was starting up and I had to shift my focus back to composition. From August to now, I would occasionally play through it, just so I wouldn't forget.

After June I had purchased guitar pro 8, which is actually really nice for transcribing, so I redid a lot of the solos and ended up having to learn a different iteration.

The Tab:

I found the tab online, which is what led me to actually do the cover. There were a lot of mistakes so I redid the entire tab. I feel pretty accurate when it comes to the riffs and Nick’s solos. Phil's solo’s, I feel that I transcribed decently, but it was really hard for me to discern pitch and rhythm through the big wall of sound.

Was going to put a tab up on the screen, but the software I used was making it lower the video quality. I’m not quite sure I liked it even if it kept the quality the same, it felt really distracting.

I will probably create my own website soon where I keep all of my transcriptions, so for now, I’ll give this rough draft, and update it later when I finish school.

You might notice that the tab is for 8 string, I was going to play it on my 8 string for the low Ab, but it just wasn't worth the extra struggle to play on a big neck for like two notes. Anything on the low E string, just play it on the 6th string. Or tune your guitar down.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/2co7uf...

Performance:

My performance is ok, definitely room for improvement. However, I get a sense that a song like this isn’t going to be played perfectly in a live setting. Still though, the fact that I technically have an unlimited number of tries, stresses me out so much and creates a bunch of unnecessary nerves.

Last Notes:

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