Thank you! It's a really interesting feature of great pieces of music like this how the vertical (harmonic) and horizontal (melodic) aspects of the music are so integrated--just humbling to try to learn from them!

Thank you, I really appreciate that!

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Thanks! I've had a lot of guitar heroes over the years, but Metheny pretty much tops the list.

Many thanks, I'm still debating with myself whether to bring in the sampled sounds or just use the guitar synth pedal's capabilities...

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Cheers Mike! I haven't heard Yan but please do send a link if you can. Hope you're well!

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Thank you! In the videos I've made recently I haven't been using any MIDI-driven samples (like the accordion and string stuff in this one), but this reminds me that it can be pretty cool to incorporate those sounds.

Thank you! I'd love to try the GR-55 and GM800, though I have to say I already find the SY-1000 confusing enough as it is! Anyway, keep going!

Thank you, any remote comparison to Martin Taylor is a huge compliment! I don't have a tab for it unfortunately--I would suggest starting with the guitar part, and then adding the melody really does fall under the fingers quite well!

Many thanks! I must say, taking this away from the unique instrument and playing techniques of Michael Hedges still seems a bit strange (almost sacrilegious?) to me, but I was really drawn to the idea of treating the piece as a composition to transcribe into a different medium.

@@AlanThomasGuitar It’s a cool thing to try out and that’s one thing Hedges used to do was to experiment with new techniques and styles so think he’d approve!

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BTW, if you have a chance to respond-what model Godin is that? It has a more acoustic tone to it than some Godins I've heard.

Thank you Tom, I really appreciate that!

@@TLMuse It's a standard ACS nylon. I'm trying really hard with my EQ/effects to get as natural a sound as possible, but it's a challenge with the piezo pickups and nylon strings, and I'm still craving more a feel of resonance and dynamic to the sound. Not sure if that is quite possible with a solid-body guitar like this, but I kind of need the solid body to not have much actual sound coming from the guitar itself. There are a lot of trade-offs, but I do love the range of possibilities that the setup enables. Hopefully more soon!

@@AlanThomasGuitar Well, you're doing a pretty good job already with the Godin's tone. If you're not already doing so, you might try using an acoustic IR in your HX Stomp XL; they can add the kind of resonance you are speaking of. It's a bit like the effect that the Fishman Aura system adds (though I think they do it via complex filters rather than an IR), or IR-based systems like the LR Baggs Voiceprint DI. Some acoustic guitar IRs for HX are available online, though I don't recall seeing nylon-specific ones.

Quick follow-up: Some quick digging turned up a free acoustic guitar IR pack from Worship Tutorials. It was created with three steel-string acoustic guitars, but might be worth experimenting with. And here's a YT video from someone who created a nylon-based IR+EQ patch for Helix: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdd-rZacks24pas.html. He uses a Martin steel-string IR from 3 Sigma Audio. They now have some nylon-specific IRs available (perhaps later than his video).

Thanks! Hopefully another new video with the SY-1000 coming out this week...

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I wish I knew him to be able to send it to him!

@@AlanThomasGuitar Just send a mail with a link to this video. Send it to his manager in Boston (The Kurland Agency).

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Unfortunately no! I have made a lot of arrangements over the years (you can find some videos I've done on my channel of The Beatles and other things for solo guitar), and have looked into the possibility of publishing them. The problem is that no publisher I've ever contacted will let me publish my arrangements, even under their license or through their actual imprint! Sad that a lot of good arrangements by many musicians get lost to a wider audience because of that aspect of copyright...

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Thanks! That's a great story that McCartney told about the Bach Bouree.

Thanks, more videos coming soon...

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It is a bit different! The recording quality could be better, but I had to put it out since as far as I can tell there is no other recording of the piece in existence. If anyone knows otherwise please let me know!

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Thanks Mike!

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Thank you--I really appreciate such thoughtful and kind comments!

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Thank you! Yes, in fact I more or less concluded from this experiment of playing with the added MIDI synths that I wanted to try to use the guitar synth without them! I've got a couple of new videos out that are more "acoustic" in nature if you want to check them out!

Many thanks!

Thanks Diego!

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Thank you Jacques!

Thanks! It's been a real learning curve for me in the process of making this setup my main instrument, and a real pleasure to share it and see that there are a few fellow guitarists out there who are interested. I've got another performance video out soon, then will try to get on to one about patch programming!

Thank you! Yes that's a good idea to do a video like that--I'm just afraid that my lack of eloquence will be more confusing than helpful!

Many thanks!