Rael's guitar doings

[Rael0505]

Three Mile Bikeride - Craig D'Andrea

I'm Not Funny - Craig D'Andrea (incomplete, but what's there is pretty good)

Craig D'Andrea - Standing Still

Antoine Dufour - Cold Day (on a classical guitar - plays and sounds a bit different, but this may be my best guitar cover ever)

Into your Heart - Antoine Dufour

Ashes in the Sea - Antoine Dufour

So tell me which ones you liked, didn't like, bothered watching, etc please

A little over a year ago I found out I live like 45 minutes away from Craig D'Andrea and actually took lessons with him for a few months (I immediately emailed him upon realizing how close we are hahaha). Taking lessons with one of your guitar idols is a pretty amazing experience, and I think I've improved a lot over the last year. As you could see if you compare, say, my new Three Mile Bikeride cover with my old one from April '09. I can't believe how awful I was just two and a half years ago

Anyway thanks for watching guys.

edit: also sfghq should totally support video embedding. if i had little thumbnails of what the videos looked like here it would be much more enticing for you all to watch all my links than having a list of links to click...

second edit: also, all these videos were recorded after my lessons with craig with the exception of Ashes in the Sea. that video was recorded a few days before my first lesson with him, to show him where I was at. It's a decent cover, but I could make an even better one and probably will eventually.

third edit: there we go, I replaced the links with thumbnails (that i got from copying the image location of the thumbnails off my youtube channel rofl) that you click on to take you to the videos. that's way more interesting.

[Ristar]

love the Cold Day cover; I've always been a big fan of Antoine's writing style.

You've improved shitloads over the past few months, really nice to see! I'm super impressed

So... reckon you'll be covering Aerial Boundaries anytime soon? I know you've at least tried, I was googling help on the left hand playing section and found a few posts by you on a guitar forum asking similar questions

[Blyde]

Dude, your playing is wonderful. I remember you tagged me on Facebook once for one of these videos and I completely forgot to respond to it. Just wanted to tell you how much you've improved over the years, I remember swapping geetar trials with you! The fact that you got Craig D'Andrea to teach you is kickass.

And holy fuck that is some beautiful music ;-;