Only Time Will Tell

Since I've covered couple of fingerstyle guitar songs I thought i'ts about time to write my own. And here it is. Inspired by "Hope" I've composed my first song for fingerstyle guitar. The pictures in the video are taken in 2010 showing the landscape nearby where I live.

I hope you'll enjoy it.

Stephan

My old Luxor

I've bought this guitar in 1979 from my good old friend Johannes. He used this
instrument with La Bella nylon strings and I was looking for a steel
string guitar. I told him to by a Hannabach or something like this and
he did it.
The guitar has a very crisp sound and is still my first choice for
strumming songs. Now, my old lady has got new Elixir strings - I still
love "her".

I've got played on "Is This Thing On?"

Couple of days ago, Nick Tann - a guy from the UK and the founder of "Is This Thing On?" podcast - asked me, if he could play my new YouTube cover song "Hope" in his weekly show. Well, I felt honored and I agreed. Listen to it here (it's around the 36th minute).
There is a lot of other very cool stuff and I recommend to subscribe to his podcast. Try it - you'll like it ;-)



Stephan

New song cover on YouTube (Hope by Jeroen Groot Beumer)

I've uploaded a new song cover called "Hope". This song has been composed by Jeroen Groot Beumer from the Netherlands. I like this song - so, I've started practise 3 weeks ago. It is a really, really wonderful piece of music. Take a look at it and let me know your thoughts. Stephan

First live stream using Ustream

Oops - long time no post. I was very busy with other stuff.

Today, I've found some time in order to test live video broadcasting using Ustream TV. It's really very simple. So, here you go with my first video. I'm performing "Mood For A Day" by Steve Howe. The performance is not the best and my guitar is really out of tune, because I was very busy with the new technique of Ustream. Steve, please forgive me ;-)

Korg Kaossilator double loop length

Since yesterday, I'm using a Korg Kaossilator for live looping purposes although I'm not a friend of using such stuff within handmade music.

However, lets give it a try...

There is one important thing (many thanks to @UKDad at twitter), because Korg has designed this tool in order to record 2 measure phrases (8 steps). But the developers put an "easter egg" into the Kaossilator which allows you to record up to 4 measure patterns (16 steps).

Here is, how to take advantage out of this feature. (Jump to the News section).

Moon River

Today, I've posted a new video to my YouTube channel. I'm playing an wonderful song which is well known from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's". The song is called Moon River and was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn. The version I'm playing was arranged by Shun Komatsubara. Hope you'll enjoy it! See more at http://youtube.com/stephanschwenk.