Here Comes The Sun

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An interesting musical experiment by musician Steve-san ‘Samurai Guitarist’ Onotera.

What he’s done here is perform an incredibly slow instrumental cover of Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles, taking a full half hour (appropriately, either side of dawn) to pick all the notes. He then speeds up the recording by a factor of 20, approximating the speed of the original.

The result is a strange, not unpleasing modulated violin effect.

Steve-san discusses it in more detail here.

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7 thoughts on “Here Comes The Sun

  1. Waddy Dilson

    I’m in work so can’t listen yet, but did he also transpose the notes of the original to compensate for the speeding up? ie so the result is a rough approximation of the actual notes of the song?

    Interested in hearing it.

    1. Mart

      Most decent digital recorders nowadays can speed things up or slow them down without altering the pitch. Makes learning guitar solo’s that much easier. I haven’t watched it either due to work but I’m guessing that’s what he did.

      1. arghonaut

        The only problem being that warping audio to that degree sounds gash. I’m not in work, so can say that having watched it.

    1. fmong

      there’s a 30 second advert at the end for his services and to sign up to this and follow that and like the other

      fair play though

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