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"THE BEATLES RE-IMAGINED" samples and downloads
After 11 months, I have completed the process of my 27-song collection of my own arrangements, titled: "Yesterday: The Beatles Re-Imagined" - it sounds like my own "Guitarchestra"! All songs in the finished collection will be entirely performed by me (no keyboards, but some guest drummers and or simple percussion) and some tracks have over 15 guitars at once, making a very full sound, using the same triple-tracking techniques as the Beatles did to get their huge vocal sound. Mainly they are expanded versions of my solo guitar shows that you may have seen somewhere in the US pre-Covid. I did all the tracks myself with a little help from my friends: Jeff Richards, Jr. and John Jenkins on drums.
I invested over $2000.00 in new gear and many many hours recording, mastering, etc., (hear / download samples below.)
To hear samples, just scroll down to the next 2 sections.
Artwork by Pauly
MY TASCAM DP 24 RECORDER
Just For Your Information....Strawberry Fields Forever
- Yeah, just for fun, I thought that I would upload a pic of what I record with. The track tape (artist's acid-free) along the bottom of the faders shows what was recorded - either mono, mono-paired or stereo tracks of guitars, basses and some percussion, special effects - you name it! In this case:
- Tracks 1 and 2 ("Int Gtr") are a mono-paired, "stereo-ized" (originally mono, but altered to stereo so I could downshift the pitch of the original track by -0.6 to create "stereo") intro guitar that is the Mellotron Flute intro played by McCartney.
- Track 3: mono, main bass gtr
- Tracks 4: mono, 2nd bass gtr, low E tuned to D flat
- Tracks 5 and 6: "Backwards Shit" a stereo pair of effects like the backwards hi hat and an A9 chord fade
- Tracks 7 and 8: Stereo chorused Main fingerstyle guitar
- Tracks 9 and 10: harmonies to main guitar fingerstyle
- Tracks 11 and 12: Yes, "Fixes". Fingerstyle for 4 minutes is very difficult to capture in one take (which I have to do live, so I insist on perfection in a forever medium like recording) and little things go wrong that are necessarily fixable!
- Tracks 13-22: Added spice to the main guitar fingerstlye. This is where the term "GuitArchestra" applies.
- Tracks 22 and 23: stereo click of 88 Beats Per Minute. NEVER record without a click track - so helpful for editing, adding drummers or percussion in the future, etc.