Paul RefvikMP3: https://soundcloud.com/paulr-46748799...
Here is my cover of probably the first new song most of us heard as members! Going through those gates north of Falador for the first time was a magical experience!! I logged onto RS3 around a week ago just to check things out (I only play Old School at the moment), and this song started playing. I absolutely love the orchestrated RS3 music and this song was no exception. Even though the RS3 version of the song is a different arrangement than the original, it brought back so many memories! I thought this song would be a perfect song for me to cover at this time because I had to take my electric guitar and bass in to get their intonation fixed. I just went purely acoustic/classical with this one so hopefully it came out alright!
Note: Some sync issues still occur after I upload to Youtube, still not sure how to fix it. Also, My "bass" is tuned Eb A D G B E just because I was too lazy to down tune all the strings.
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Composed by Ian Taylor Arranged by Paul Refvik
All credit for composition and distribution of music goes to Ian Taylor and Jagex Ltd.
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor Classical Guitar: Godin Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro Webcam
Here is my cover of probably the first new song most of us heard as members! Going through those gates north of Falador for the first time was a magical experience!! I logged onto RS3 around a week ago just to check things out (I only play Old School at the moment), and this song started playing. I absolutely love the orchestrated RS3 music and this song was no exception. Even though the RS3 version of the song is a different arrangement than the original, it brought back so many memories! I thought this song would be a perfect song for me to cover at this time because I had to take my electric guitar and bass in to get their intonation fixed. I just went purely acoustic/classical with this one so hopefully it came out alright!
Note: Some sync issues still occur after I upload to Youtube, still not sure how to fix it. Also, My "bass" is tuned Eb A D G B E just because I was too lazy to down tune all the strings.
Add me on RuneScape and join my clan chat!! :D Username: Knight Owl
Composed by Ian Taylor Arranged by Paul Refvik
All credit for composition and distribution of music goes to Ian Taylor and Jagex Ltd.
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor Classical Guitar: Godin Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamRuneScape Main Theme - Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2020-05-29 | Download link: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/runescape-main-theme
I'm so happy to have finally done this one! Covering this song has been on my mind since I first started making RS covers, but I never knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I finally sat down and just let the ideas flow, which led to me taking a lot of creative liberty with the arrangement. This song is pretty repetitive so I aimed to make each section unique from one another while building towards the heavy conclusion.
The recording is a bit quieter than normal due to some issues with my Garageband plugins. Crank it up a little more than usual. :)
I've been itching to put together another RS cover for a while and I finally had some time to work on one during the holidays. Here are a couple nostalgic rune tunes that I wanted to do for a while but couldn't think of a good arrangement for either one so I decided to combine them. Hope you enjoy!
Heard this song when it was first released and hated it. I thought the verses and pre chorus had a strong build up and then were completely destroyed by the cringey talking chorus. I wanted to make a cover that replaced all the talking parts with melody and that had a strong chorus to build up to. Hope you like the result. Thanks to Kam for recording some rad vocal tracks after a few months of me harassing her about it. :)
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270Gnome Village (Gnome Stronghold) - RuneScape Guitar Cover Feat. Aaron NitroPaul Refvik2017-09-02 | Our cover of Adventure: youtube.com/watch?v=5603CmejXOE&t=10s
Hyped to have finally gotten the opportunity to collab with my buddy Aaron! We've been wanting to collab for probably over a year now and the last couple months we finally stopped procrastinating and got to work on some covers. This video was more of my creation with Aaron laying down some deadly tracks on it. We're planning on doing another RuneScape cover in the near future that's going to be Aaron's creation with some of my tracks on it. Hope you enjoy.
After about 7 years we finally got around to doing this cover together. There's super old garageband recordings of us jamming to this song so I figured since I now have a small idea of how to record covers I'd invite Levi to lay down some tracks on this one. This is one of the most legendary Nintendo song imo so I'm hyped to have gotten this cover done. Hope you enjoy.
If you want to hear more of Levi then check out his band Kates Outlaw: katesoutlaw.com
Composer: David Wise Arrangement: Paul Refvik, Levi Winters
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270IT Teaser Trailer Music (Believe) - Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2017-07-31 | Download: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/it-teaser-trailer-music-believe
Well this is random. I was re-watching the first IT teaser trailer and I started playing along a bit to the first song. I then found the full length version and quickly arranged this. IT is my favourite book and the TV mini series scarred me as a kid so I'm way too hyped for the new movie. Hope you enjoy!
Composer - Joe Bauer (HiFinesse Music) Arrangement - Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270Autumn Voyage - RuneScape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2017-07-26 | Sup fellas, been a while. I'm addicted to RS again so might as well do another cover. Had lots of ideas in mind for this one for a long time now and I finally got a chance to get them down. Hope you enjoy!
Composed by: Ian Taylor Arranged by: Paul Refvik
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Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass: Fender Squier J Bass Classical: Godin Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270Halloween Theme - Metal/Rock Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2016-11-01 | Happy Halloween peeps! Wanted to do another medley this year but I ran out of time.. So I managed to at least do one song I had planned for the medley. Hopefully I did some justice to this John Carpenter masterpiece.
Composed by: John Carpenter Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270Pop Medley - Rock Guitar StylePaul Refvik2016-08-01 | 0:00 California Girls - Katy Perry 1:20 Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars 3:07 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) - Katy Perry 3:46 I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift 5:03 Stolen Dance - Milky Chance
So this is kind of a random vid compared to what I usually do. The reason I made this medley was actually because one of my bands had a lot of dance gigs lined up and I thought it would be fun to play something like this as a band. I wanted to make a recording of the idea I had for the medley so that I could just show it to everyone in my band instead of me trying to explain every detail. I decided to make a video out of it since I ended up putting way more effort into the recording than was probably necessary haha. Hopefully some of you enjoy this random video!
Original Artists: Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift, Milky Chance Arranged By: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamStill Night (Journey to Varrock) - RuneScape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2016-04-01 | Here's another Rune Tune that brings you back to those bygone days of noob adventures with your friends. I remember always talking with my friends at school about meeting up in RuneScape and exploring the world. This song is part of the soundtrack of my earliest RuneScape adventures. It's a song that I hear when I think back to discovering new things in RuneScape. It also brings back memories of all the hours I put into mining southeast of Varrock haha.
This one took a little longer than I'd hoped but I'm happy I managed to get this it done, it seemed like every little thing was going wrong with this production haha. I changed this tune up a bit from the original, I attempted a key change in the middle of the song instead of going into the original middle section because I tend to get bored listening to that part haha. Hope it turned out okay and I hope you enjoy!!
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Composed by: Ian Taylor Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Acoustic Guitar: Taylor Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270Barbarianism (Barbarian Village) - RuneScape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2016-02-28 | Here's my cover of one of the most classic RuneScape songs in my opinion. Hearing this song just immediately shoots me back to my noob days. It's one of those songs that I'd always hear on my adventures from Varrock to Falador because I was too noobish to figure out how to teleport. It also brings me back to the days when I'd make tons of new accounts for no reason and the first thing I'd always do was the Stronghold of Security. Gotta have those rainbow boots!
Hope you enjoy my cover of Barbarianism!!
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Composed by: Ian Taylor Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: Logitech c270 WebcamChilly Waters (Mario Party 3) - Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-12-24 | Here's a festive cover from one of my favourite game series of all time! I love the Mario party series (especially the first 3), Mario Party 2 was the very first game I got for my N64. There has been many many many many hours spent playing Mario Party games between my family and me. Definitely some amazing memories made from this great series. Merry Christmas!
Composed by: Ichiro Shimakura Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass: Fender Squier J Bass Acoustic Guitar: Taylor Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamGod Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Rock Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-11-28 | Download link: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen
Here's a cover of one of my favourite Christmas songs! I had a lot of fun arranging this pretty simple and short cover, it wasn't until I got to the mixing and mastering where I stressed myself out haha. I ended up just having to accept what I had cause I was getting nowhere. I hope it turned out all right!
Merry Christmas!!
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamHalloween Guitar Medley 2015Paul Refvik2015-11-03 | Here's my Halloween medley for this year! I really tried to finish it on time for Halloween but it just wasn't meant to be. :( Oh well, here it is anyway haha. This was an interesting experience because I really had no idea how to make a real medley going into this, hopefully it turned out okay! :D Thanks for watching!!
0:00 Luigi's Mansion Main Theme 1:11 Frantic Factory (Donkey Kong 64) 2:23 The Walking Dead Theme 3:05 K. Rool Returns/Diddy's Kong Quest Title Theme (Donkey Kong Country 2) 3:40 Castle Theme (Super Mario World)
Composers: Kazumi Totaka, Shinobu Tanaka, Grant Kirkhope, Bear McCreary, David Wise, Koji Kondo
Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Classical Guitar: Godin Acoustic Guitar: Taylor Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamDark (Wilderness) - RuneScape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-10-06 | MP3: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/darkwilderness-runescape-guitar-cover
Here is my cover of my favourite wilderness song, Dark! This song brings me back to the good old days of the mysterious wilderness that my friends and I would explore without any items equipped or in our inventories. It was always so much fun roaming around the wilderness just trying not to die. Nowadays doing that would be insanely boring, but back then it was epic! Haha. It also brings back memories of walking up to Clan Wars from Varrock when the wilderness was a safe area. My friend and I would spend so many long nights on the weekends just playing F2P Clan Wars. So many great memories during that time. :') Anyways, I hope you enjoy my cover of Dark!
Note: Still sync issues after uploading as per usual :(
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Composed by: Ian Taylor & Adam Bond Arranged by: Paul Refvik
All credit for composition and distribution of music goes to Ian Taylor, Adam Bond and Jagex Ltd.
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamDonkey Kong Country - Main Theme (Guitar Cover)Paul Refvik2015-08-29 | MP3: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/donkey-kong-country-main-theme-guitar-cover
Here is my cover of possibly THE most nostalgic song from my childhood. I love all three Donkey Kong Country games so much; they're probably my all time favourite games. I have countless memories of playing this game out at my cabin when all I would do at night or on a rainy day was conquer all of our good SNES games. There are definitely so many awesome memories associated with this game and this song so obviously I had to cover this one!
This was my first time mixing clean and distorted sounds together in one of my recordings so hopefully it turned out okay! I thought I would do a quick and simple version of this song but it ended up being my biggest project so far haha.
Thanks for watching!!
Composed by: David Wise, Eveline Fischer and Robin Beanland. Arranged by: Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Acoustic: Taylor Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamPokemon (Indigo League) Theme Song - Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-08-05 | MP3: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/pokemon-indigo-league-theme-song-guitar-cover
Here's my arrangement of the best Pokemon Theme! I don't think a theme song has ever pumped me up as much as this one. I wanted to make this cover about a year ago when I was re-watching Pokemon Indigo League after it came out on Netflix. At the time I had absolutely no understanding about how to make a recording sound decent, but now that I finally have a very basic understanding of how this stuff works I thought I'd give it a try. There may be some slight sync issues within this video because youtube seems to screw me over every time I upload a cover and makes parts of the video a bit out of sync. But I hope you enjoy my version of the Pokemon: Indigo League Theme!!
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamSong of Storms (Ocarina of Time) - Rock Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-07-04 | MP3: soundcloud.com/paulr-467487999/song-of-storms-video-version
I had this idea for a more upbeat version of Song of Storms for awhile now, so I decided to finally put it to use. Hopefully you enjoy!
I used to rent Ocarina of Time as a kid and i would always hope that there was a file that had already unlocked adult Link for me to play, because I had no idea what I was doing. I just wanted to run around and explore haha. It was a few more years before I experienced the game the way it was meant to played and it was amazing. Definitely a nostalgic experience for every Nintendo fan these days to play through OoT.
Song of Storms The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Composed by Koji Kondo Arranged by Paul Refvik
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro Webcam/iPhone 4sFanfare (Falador) - Runescape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-06-14 | MP3: https://soundcloud.com/paulr-46748799...
This song is the soundtrack to my F2p woodcutting career, when all I would to to make money in the game was cut the three yew trees outside of Falador.. haha. This is definitely one of those nostalgic songs that make me think back to the amazing early days of Runescape.
I'm sorry if the sound quality of this cover isn't the best, I've just started to attempt to learn the ropes of mixing and mastering, but I've still got millions of hours of learning and practicing to spend on it. This is my first time recording a song with these sounds so hopefully it didn't turn out too bad. I'm hoping to become less of a mixing and mastering noob with every cover I upload. Also, there is a a slight sync issue at the beginning of the video, but I'm not sure how to fix it since it only happens after uploading to youtube. If anyone has an idea of how to fix this in the future then please let me know. :)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy my cover of Fanfare. :D
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Arranged and performed by Paul Refvik
Composed by Ian Taylor and Adam Bond
All credit for composition and distribution of music goes to Ian Taylor, Adam Bond and Jagex Ltd.
Electric Guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio Bass; Fender Squier J Bass Drum Software: EzDrummer Interface: Line 6 UX1 Audio Software: GarageBand Video Software: iMovie 10.0.9 Video Camera: All-Powerful built in Macbook Pro WebcamNightfall - Runescape Guitar CoverPaul Refvik2015-05-28 | MP3: https://soundcloud.com/paulr-46748799...
Here is my arrangement of another rune tune that I love. I hope you enjoy my version of Nightfall :).
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When I grow up I want to live in The Shire. Here is my guitar arrangement of one of the most feel-good songs ever. Hopefully it does some justice to this amazing piece of music. Enjoy :D
The very first song you heard when you logged into Runescape for the first time. It is also the song you heard every time you decided to make a new deadly pure account... Which happened countless times, admit it. This is definitely one of my favourite and most nostalgic Runescape songs so I had to make my own version of it. I hope you enjoy! :D
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Here is my arrangement of one of the most nostalgic songs from my childhood, Harmony. This song always brings me back to the good old days of Runescape, when I was a noob and everything was so exciting. There was nothing better than coming home from school, logging on to Runescape and finding those green dots on the mini map. Good times, good times. If you've stumbled upon this video I hope you enjoy my acoustic version of Harmony :D.
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Here's some of my favourite creepy tunes mashed together in a little medley. This is my first time doing something like this, I hope to start doing more of these videos and improve my mixing/mastering and video editing. Hopefully you enjoy!
Songs:
Dexter (Blood Theme) - 0:00 (Based on Eddie van der Meer's arrangement) Saw Theme - 1:30 Dead Silence Theme - 3:11My Heart Will Go On - (Solo Acoustic)Paul Refvik2013-12-29 | Arrangement by southwind193812, made famous by Sungha Jung.
Thanks for watching!The Hobbit - Misty Mountains Cold (Solo Acoustic)Paul Refvik2013-11-18 | ...The Exorcist & Halloween Theme (Solo Acoustic)Paul Refvik2013-10-31 | Arrangement by Eddie van der MeerBig Bang Theory Theme (Solo Acoustic)Paul Refvik2013-10-25 | Arrangement by Eddie van der Meer. (youtube.com/channel/UCCRb9Zn03QoEb8cnfwTOFTg)Bloom Acoustic CoverPaul Refvik2013-04-04 | Paul, Sam, Jordan and Kamryn perform Bloom.Gotten - Acoustic CoverPaul Refvik2013-04-02 | Kamryn Hrominchuk and Paul Refvik perform an acoustic version of Slash's "Gotten".Refusion - Come My Way (Original)Paul Refvik2013-04-02 | Kamryn Hrominchuk - Lead Vocals Paul Refvik - Lead Guitar Levi Winters - Drums Joey Angus - Bass Guitar Dan Kristof - Rhythm GuitarRefusion - Long Way To The TopPaul Refvik2013-04-02 | Kamryn Hrominchuk - Lead Vocals Paul Refvik - Lead Guitar Levi Winters - Drums Joey Angus - Bass Guitar (Bagpipes for this song) Dan Kristof - Rhythm Guitar (Bass for this song)Little Talks Acoustic CoverPaul Refvik2013-02-25 | ...Pearl Jam - Alive Guitar Solo CoverPaul Refvik2012-07-18 | ...November Rain - First Guitar Solo CoverPaul Refvik2012-07-17 | gnr rulesLed Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven Guitar Solo CoverPaul Refvik2011-11-16 | Me playing the guitar solo from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven", off their 1971 album "Led Zeppelin lV"Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Outro Guitar Solo CoverPaul Refvik2011-10-11 | Me playing the outro guitar solo from Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, from their 1979 album, The Wall.The Legend Of Zelda: Dark World Theme (Guitar Cover)Paul Refvik2011-06-24 | My guitar rendition of the classic "Dark World Theme" from the 1991 SNES game "The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past".
Enjoy :D
Composed by: Koji Kondo
Recording Program: Audacity
Effects Pedal: Digitech RP 250
Guitar: Gibson Les Paul