My attempt at Steve Hackett’s acoustic guitar piece Horizons from the 1972 Genesis album Foxtrot. I’m playing a Yamaha nylon-string electro-acoustic straight into Cubase, using the Roomworks reverb on a “Grand Hall” setting.
This is one of Steve Hackett’s signature acoustic pieces, which he still plays regularly when touring.
This video is also available on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=DUnIEHDlutA
Hmm, must update this blog more often. Anyway, here’s a video of me attempting to play Jimmy Page’s “Bron-Yr-Aur”, a beautiful acoustic piece originally recorded during the Led Zeppelin III sessions in 1970 and eventually released on their album Physical Graffiti in 1975.I’ve got the guitar going through a tempo-synced delay at 170bpm to give it that nice “echoey” sound. The tuning is unusual - CACGCE. I don’t know of any other pieces in this tuning.
This video is also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8OH_mXKfI
