Shredding over Legendavs cover of Sweatshop from Persona 5 @PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays So Legendav did this awesome cover of "Sweatshop" from Persona 5. I honestly think it's better than the original version from the OST. Thanks to him for creating an epic solo section and being kind enough to let me rip his music and play over it ;D

Watch Legendav's cover here: youtube.com/watch?v=dAuMi0LIdBw

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Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

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VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

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Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

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Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

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updated 5 years ago

Shredding over Legendavs cover of Sweatshop from Persona 5

PeetaPlays 2019-05-14 | So Legendav did this awesome cover of "Sweatshop" from Persona 5. I honestly think it's better than the original version from the OST. Thanks to him for creating an epic solo section and being kind enough to let me rip his music and play over it ;D

Watch Legendav's cover here: youtube.com/watch?v=dAuMi0LIdBw

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Persona 5 Strikers - What You Wish For - Guitar Cover

PeetaPlays 2021-04-04 | A guitar cover of an already-guitar-song - "What You Wish For" from the Persona 5 Strikers video game / soundtrack.

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So this time I decided not to solo over the entire song like I'd usually do. I played what I would play on this song - if my guitar was in it from the beginning and needed to support the vocals. I edited the song to contain all of the "unique" parts, so you get the intro, verse, chorus, various bridges and then a little bit of my solo over the last part of the next chorus.

I slightly underestimated the tempo that this song is played at (175bpm) and I came up with a lick that was really difficult to play at that fast of a pace. Well, that's actually not entirely correct - I first had a different solo prepared, but that was over a month ago, I did other things in between and I forgot what it was... so then this new lick came out and I needed time to practice. A lot of time to practice... very, very slowly ;)

0:00 Intro
0:11 Verse
0:33 Chorus (fingerpicked)
0:44 Chorus p.2 (chords of power)
0:55 Bridge with neo-soul phrasing
1:17 Chorus 2 (playing violin / vocal melody this time)
1:39 Solo

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Persona 5 Strikers - Counter Strike - Guitar Cover + Tabs

PeetaPlays 2021-03-10 | Guitar cover of the incredible chorus in "Counter Strike" from Persona 5 Strikers

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This was originally going to be a short, but I recorded the video at an angle that is not fit for 9:16 :P Also this chorus is so amazingly long ;D

Tabs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ohiTid4i8ZMk2gUlpN4PEQJCHfBBTcPP?usp=sharing

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Persona 5 Strikers - Blooming Villain - Lost Guitar Solo + Tab

PeetaPlays 2021-02-20 | A short solo written for and recoded on top of the Persona 5 Strikers remix / version of "Blooming Villain".

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0:00 Solo
0:59 Tab (feel free to slow the video down)

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Persona 5 Royal - Throw Away Your Mask - Funkd Up Cover

PeetaPlays 2020-08-29 | A funky / rock guitar cover of "Throw Away Your Mask" from Persona 5 Royal.

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I didn't expect this song to take this long to cover. Especially since I somewhat had the core idea down before I even started. The scope sort of grew as I was doing it and about 70% into it, I came up with the idea for the super funky 2nd verse and then the part after the 2nd chorus. Then I came up with the concept of making the song more and more aggressive further on, to sort of resemble a boss fight with different phases. I think I've managed to accomplish my goal and it came out pretty good, although I had to cut down my production / video editing time as I was leaving for vacation.

Oh, I almost forgot - this time I decided to include that 'slow' part that is usually in most of those vocal Persona songs. I was going to ignore it, but I randomly found a really great sounding Cmaj7sus2 chord voicing and chose to make a very genuine rendition of Mateus Asato style delay drones :D

Hope you guys like it! As I mentioned, this will be my last P5R cover for a while. What's next? Not sure, I've started a P4G cover some months ago and then I also have a Nier cover I haven't touched in over a year, so maybe those.

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Persona 5 Royal - I Believe (Guitar Cover) | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-07-16 | All guitars were recorded with S-Gear amp modelling software by Scuffham Amps. Get a free 10 day trial of S-Gear 2 here: scuffhamamps.com/product/s-gear

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Hey guys, here we go with another instrumental Persona 5 Royal cover. This time it's "I Believe", or maybe it's "Life Will Change"? Does it make a difference, as long as it's awesome? ;D With the intro it may seem like my arrangement is way different than the original, but don't worry, the verse and chorus sound more like what you would expect. I didn't include the breakdown in the middle, it sounded pretty generic - a lot of P5 songs have a part like that - and I didn't want to arrange another one of those. Maybe next time! :)

With this video we have a lot of changes, first of all I've improved my tone a little bit. I lowered the input gain on my interface (previously I used to have it at a level where it would clip regularly) and I increased the gain in S-Gear. The reason for this is that I'd often lower the gain in S-Gear, but if you do that on the Stealer amp, you'll lose the 'fatness' that comes with higher gain settings. So lower input gain, but higher amp gain gives me a pretty 'fat' but super smooth tone. I like that little bit of fizz and general clarity and definition of the highs, so my amp settings are cranked on presence and treble. I also moved the cab mic closer to get even more of that effect. I use EQ after the plug-in to mitigate some of the resulting ice picky frequencies and I think I ended up with a pretty nice low-mid gain tone. Or at least something I like more than what I had previously ;D

I wasn't happy with my last mix, because I thought it was too muddy, so I've taken a closer look at my process. I started using Sonarworks Reference and bought new headphones, started mixing and referencing everything super flat and I think the result is a punchy and balanced song, but you be the judge! :)

This arrangement was inspired by many different artists. For the pre-chorus melody (finger picking and then the funky version) I was listening to Mateus Asato (mainly his Skrillex song). When doing the intro I listened go "Go Faster" by Richie Kotzen (great song, great album) and when arranging the chorus, I listened to Jack Gardiner's new release. SkyPinkBlue was the main inspiration for the super mid-rangey, single-coil sounding guitar you hear in the background of the chorus. I think it actually all blends together pretty well and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I also didn't play any of the parts exactly the same on the repeats, so that makes me happy as well - I hate repeating parts :P

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

#persona5royal #scuffhamamps

Persona 5 Royal - Shred Over (Take Over cover) | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-05-30 | A rock / funk guitar cover of "Take Over" from Persona 5 Royal. Warning - contains guitar shredding and too many notes.

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This is a pretty simple song in terms of P5(R) soundtrack and as such, mine is also a pretty simple arrangement. I think this is the closest I got to the original in one of my covers. I tried to make it sound super thick with wall to wall guitars and I omitted the brass punch ins, because while a big part of the song - I don't think they sound very good in the original. I wasn't even going to attempt at getting them to sound better in my cover :D

I've had a lot of this recorded for weeks, but then I lost some of my motivation to finish it. I couldn't come up with an ending solo for the longest time, I also had to stop playing guitar because I flat out injured myself with the first batch of solos :D

The break in the middle is my favourite part. It started out as neo-soul funky guitar in the background and then I added the pads and went full on wall of sound with it. I hope you enjoy the cover!

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.9

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Final Fantasy VII - Battle Theme / Those Who Fight | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-04-29 | A guitar non-metal cover of Final Fantasy VII's Battle Theme titled (in some places) "Those Who Fight" or "Fighting" (in others). Totally not confusing!

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This took such a long time to complete. Besides the fact that this is an iconic battle theme and I absolutely love it, I also wanted to incorporate a bunch of different things in it - like the piano version, or the remake version etc. Some of these problems took me a long time to solve and figure out. Making such a metal tune sound *not metal* was one of the difficult parts. This song just lends itself to the genre so well! But that's not very surprising, considering the author.

I hope this is somewhat of a step up in sound production quality as I've learned a lot about compression during this. Probably half the time I spent working on this cover was just learning about compression :P The other half was stealing ideas from other songs to incorporate into this one! :)

#finalfantasyviiremake #thosewhofight #ffviibattletheme #finalfantasyviibattletheme

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Persona 5 - Life Will Change [onscreen TAB and breakdown] | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-04-19 | Years later "Life Will Change" cover is still one of my most popular videos.

Due to popular tab demand, exactly 3 years from uploading, I accidentally decided to finally transcribe the whole video. Technically this is a reupload, but you get a very detailed onscreen tab and some of my thoughts and breakdown of some of the licks. This was most of my day today! :)

For those of you that were interested in the tabs, I hope this satisfies you and please let me know if I can do anything to break any of my songs down even further. Maybe go a little bit into the theory or the guitar tone etc.

Persona 5 Royal - Colors Flying High | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-03-19 | Instrumental guitar cover of "Colors Flying High" from Persona 5 Royal soundtrack

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I couldn't figure out how to do the intro, now I'm thinking I wish I stayed with the original song intro, it does sound pretty cool :D This electronic bass sound was also pretty difficult to get right, I think the one I used has a little bit too much information in the high frequencies and it clashed with the guitar. Other than that, I'm fairly happy with how this cover turned out, hope you enjoy! :)

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.7

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

#persona5 #persona5royal #colorsflyinghigh #persona5colorsflyinghigh #videogamemusic #peetaplays

Persona 5 Royal - Mementos - Lower Layer | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-02-21 | Rocking cover of "Mementos - Lower Layer" from Persona 5 Royal
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I've wanted to cover the original Mementos as a joke for a while, but since this new version came out, I just couldn't resist giving it a good, honest try. I think it came out to be quite a banger :D

The instrumentation is a little bit simpler than usual, but I thought that keeping it that way for the most part gives you a better effect when the "hit" happens. I think this made the chorus that much more powerful. Once I had the guitars done for the verse, I didn't really have any other good idea on how to fill the space appropriately and I thought that leaving that space there was the best solution.

At some point I did write the solo in the "interlude" and then started layering awesome rhythm parts. Then the rhythm parts somehow took over the solo and I ended up liking them better :)

Yes, I did include Scarified in this. The tempo was right, it felt right in that spot, I couldn't resist :D

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

Ark - Persona 5 | Full Cover | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2020-01-15 | Rock (but funky!) cover of Shido's palace song from Persona 5 - "Ark".

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I really like the melody of "The Ark". I know some people thought that it wasn't a good final palace song, being a little too simple and not getting you pumped up enough to fight Shido. Well, I sure tried to fix the 'too simple' part by adding a guitar version of "Impromptu for the Next Prime Minister". I didn't realise that it was in a different key until I learned both parts so I had to get a little creative with doing key changes to get there. Hope it worked OK and you'll like the result! :)

With this cover I'm also trying something new (to me): I want to stick closer to the original song in the arrangement style for at least the head of the song. I'm doing this so you can immediately go "oh, it's that song"; of course afterwards I do drift off and do my own thing later on ;)
With some of my previous arrangements, I thought I was meandering a little bit too much and the result was that maybe I was straying too far from the original material, so I'm aiming to remedy it now!

Sorry for some dropped frames / video glitching. I'm trying new method of capturing video where I go from my camera straight into elgato and OBS instead of recording to a SD card. Makes it a lot easier to get video done, but there are some problems there to figure out too!

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.7

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

#persona5 #persona5ark #shidoisjacked

Want To Be Close - Persona 3 | Funky Cover | PeetaPlays

PeetaPlays 2019-11-23 | Funky cover of Want To Be Close from Persona 3

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.5mm

#persona3 #wanttobeclose #persona3cover

First VGM Album Full Stream! | Peeta Plays Instruments and Stuff, Vol. 1

PeetaPlays 2019-11-16 | Finally, my first ever album is here :D Available on most DistroKid supported stores ^^

open.spotify.com/album/5U6Oeanr7t98f1kzEKBm5S
music.apple.com/us/album/peetaplays-instruments-and-stuff-vol-1/1487720337?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
play.google.com/store/music/album/PeetaPlays_PeetaPlays_Instruments_and_Stuff_Vol_1?id=B3r5zs43cmcjwpbq3izyjwsp62y

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So obviously finishing this took me way longer than I initially expected. I thought I'd just do some small mastering tweaks and release the songs again, but in actuality I did a full remix, re-recorded some parts and then mastered everything.

Doing this album was a huge learning curve for me, as I've never really looked into mixing as much as I did this time around. I think it's pretty obvious that I also never really mastered my tracks before :D My main goal with this was more detail and definition. I think the lead guitar was featured a bit too prominently, so I wanted to move it back a little to allow the other instruments to be more audible. The original YouTube releases tended to be really bass heavy, so hopefully now the sound should be more balanced. I hope that at least most of the songs on the album sound "better" than the originally uploaded versions. Enjoy!

Persona 3 - Memories Of You (Kimi No Kioku) | instrumental

PeetaPlays 2019-06-19 | Groovy arrangement of the credits song - Memories Of You (Kimi no kioku) from Persona 3.

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I probably say this every single time, but this took way longer than I anticipated. I had about 20% of the arrangement done when I recorded the bass and all guitars. The next day I went on vacation and focused on arranging drums and all piano parts. Then it was a really long process of mixing, where I stumbled and learned a lot.

The mix is not perfect, but it's as good as I can get it with what I have now. It got a little bit out of hand with length and I had to start chopping stuff out, but now I have ideas for more P3 covers :D

Sorry for meandering a bit in the beginning, just imagine it's like one of those video games you have to play for 5 hours before you see the title screen ;)
Hopefully this particular cover brings me a little bit closer to my target of "sounds faintly like Persona 5 soundtrack".

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#persona3 #kiminokioku #persona3cover

Persona 3 - Memories Of The City | guitar arrangement

PeetaPlays 2019-06-18 | My Mateus Asato style guitar arrangement of "Memories Of The City" from Persona 3.

This one is really short because I planned it to be a part of my long video. When I was putting it together today, I thought that it just doesn't mesh as well as I'd desire, so I decided to split it up to make everything more coherent.

I mentioned this before, but all my arrangements start with this kind of Mateus Asato melody / chordal thing which I later cut out due to videos being longish etc.

If you like this, let me know and there'll be more :)
The longer P3 video will be up tomorrow.

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

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Channel Update: 1000 subs, new name, album announcement, next covers

PeetaPlays 2019-05-18 | Thanks for watching my stuff for the past couple of years. I'm thinking there'll be more! :)

Beneath The Mask (New Arrangement) | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate / Persona 5 guitar cover

PeetaPlays 2019-04-21 | Guitar cover of the new arrangement of Beneath The Mask created for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Persona 5 collaboration.

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This song is such a jam! It's almost too bad I didn't learn about its existence a couple days earlier. 19.04 marked 2 years since my "Life Will Change" cover and that's the night I've found out about this new Beneath The Mask arrangement. Of course I thought it was amazing and just had to do a cover.

It came together really quickly and I'm quite happy with it. I spent the entire Saturday arranging, recording and editing, went to sleep at 3am and got up at 6am the next day to catch a plane to go on my 'holiday'. As such it's not perfect, but definitely as good as I could get it in the timeframe!

Hope you enjoy this! I made it purposefully in the same vein as the Life Will Change cover, but I think my groove is much, much better here :D

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Sunleth Waterscape | Final Fantasy XIII - chill / jazz / neo-soul arrangement

PeetaPlays 2019-04-16 | My weird guitar cover / arrangement of the "Sunleth Waterscape" from Final Fantasy XIII.

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The idea for doing this song was heavily inspired by BKMJMBOX's video. Ironically even though I arranged a solo guitar part for the intro, it didn't make the final cut of the edit as I changed my mind and decided to go with a 'foreshadowing' of a later second verse :)

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#finalfantasy13 #thesunlethwaterscape #finalfantasy13therpromise

Face My Fears | Kingdom Hearts 3 [Guitar cover] | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2019-03-26 | Guitar cover of Face My Fears from Kingdom Hearts 3.

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It's been long enough since I've finished KH 3 for me to feel like I could (and wanted to) do this song. While the game itself wasn't everything I wanted, it was pretty good and I really enjoyed my time. Now onto the next period of waiting! :)

The guitar arrangement is largely based on Caleb Hyles' cover because it's amazing and that's what got me into playing over this track.

I used Victor McKnight's backing track for this video, spliced together with the original song at one point.
You can find the backing track here:
youtube.com/watch?v=f-tsVEh5r-Y

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Nero vs Vergil theme - Devil Trigger Remix - (Silver Bullet) | Devil May Cry 5 [Guitar cover]

PeetaPlays 2019-03-17 | Guitar cover of the Devil Trigger Remix (Silver Bullet) which plays during the final battle in Devil May Cry 5.

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I love Devil May Cry series, so how could I not? Let me know how I did on the 'dubstep guitar' thing! :D

Also - that final battle was awesome. The game is everything a DMC fan could ask for. Except maybe more Dante if you're a purist! ;)

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#silverbulletcover #devilmaycry5cover #deviltriggercover

Sanctuary / Passion - Kingdom Hearts 2 [Guitar Cover + Tab] | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2019-01-29 | Rock / fusion guitar cover of Utada Hikaru's Sanctuary / Passion from Kingdom Hearts 2.

Tabs: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q5Huf1fSEp1MQ1UrVmez3yMy5D0E10la?usp=sharing
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This took a while! I'm quite happy with how it turned out, but I swear - I'm never making such a long music video again :D I hope you enjoy it! I'm off to start playing KH 3 :)

Sorry for a low-ish quality video, but I'm moving in a week and I have tons of things going on!

Downloadables:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Simple and Clean (Hikari) - My craziest cover yet!

PeetaPlays 2018-12-31 | Rock / jazz / lo-fi / neo-soul / guitar cover of Simple and Clean (Hikari) from Kingdom Hearts.

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I promised to cover this song way back in February and it finally happened! This occupied most of my mind space for the past 5 weeks (hence why I'm uploading it instead of celebrating New Year's Eve!). I was racking my brain for arrangement ideas and I just couldn't figure it out, turns out I'm at my worst when I try to style my covers to be like one particular song I currently like.

It was a lot of sweat and tears but in the end, I really like what I came up with. The first half is a bit crazy with a lot of different styles mashed together, while the second half focuses on a typical, more rock oriented melodic soloing. Hope you enjoy it!

Yes, I'll do Passion next. Also, can't wait for KH 3! :D

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.7

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.35mm

Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Final Fantasy XV | Stand By Me [Guitar Cover] | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-11-21 | A smooth / neo soul (ha!) cover of Ben King's "Stand By Me" which was used in Final Fantasy XV (performed by Florence + The Machine).

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So a couple weeks ago it was announced that Hajime Tabata would be leaving Square-Enix and also that all remaining DLC for FF XV except for Episode Ardyn was cancelled. It was sad news for me and other people, even though FF XV wasn't a great game and pretty much most people could agree that prolonging its life with more DLC was perhaps the wrong decision I still did enjoy it.

The game had many, many problems but I still think Tabata did a decent job - managing what they had, motivating a group of depressed developers who didn't want to work on the game anymore, probably mitigating a lot of pressure from management to just push it out the door already. It really was a miracle it was actually playable all the way through and I think Tabata took way too much blame for how it turned out.

Downloadables:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Prologue Fight Theme [Cover + Tab] | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-10-28 | Cover of Prologue Fight Theme from Red Dead Redemption 2.

So I took a spaghetti-western song and arranged it as... a different spaghetti western song I guess? It has a more modern sound for sure, hope you like it! :) This game has a great soundtrack.

Yeah, I totally stole the idea from Nick Johnston :D

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Tab: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UIVCAZGsHnUfp5_BrpdDOoEL-HHYQiD2?usp=sharing
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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.7

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.35mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

MHW + FF XIV | Behemoth Battle Theme - Torn From The Heavens | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-08-28 | An epic rock guitar cover of Behemoth Battle theme from Monster Hunter World that was originally featured in Final Fantasy XIV - Torn From The Heavens

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Since this was originally a Final Fantasy theme and BKMJMBOX is my spirit animal when it comes to doing shreddy covers, I tried to get some inspiration from his stuff. This version probably has a bit more fast licks than I'd usually do, but I think it's still a good balance between melodic solos and it's not shredding aaaall the time :D

There are parts in orchestral music that are really hard to arrange or make sound good in other contexts... So I didn't. But I really like all the parts I did arrange and I think my mixing skills are getting slightly better too! :D

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Crash Team Racing - Win Race | Rock Guitar Arrangement | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-07-31 | A rock guitar cover of "Win Race" song from my favourite PS1 game - Crash Team Racing :D

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So I went on a long holiday in July and almost missed the entire month of uploads :P Sorry! I wanted to do something quick and was also thinking of a CTR medley at the same time so decided on doing this one song first to test the waters. I think it came out great and it was a lot of fun! :)

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

The Last Of Us | Main Theme - Spaghetti-Western cover

PeetaPlays 2018-06-21 | A spaghetti western / country guitar cover of the Main Theme from The Last Of Us

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Last week was E3, TLOU 2 was shown off and it reminded me how great TLOU music is. I always thought this song reminded me of "Hidden" from the Dexter OST and that song in turn reminded me of western spaghetti tunes hence the arrangement. I had trouble figuring out what to do with the middle part (what happens at the end was actually the middle in the beginning), but thankfully Brad Paisley's music was there to help and I managed to turn it into straight country for the chorus.

This was really fun to arrange, I love spaghetti-western music and I like the "Brad Paisley type of country", I've always wanted to do a song like this and it finally happened :D TLOU's main theme has the typical "movie" chord progression - a minor key with a major IV thrown in out of key, it's also a classic spaghetti-western (and surf guitar) move, which is why it was so easy to turn the song on its head like that.

I hope nobody gets offended by taking this very particular song and turning it into something else :)

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Tifas Theme [Lazy Guitar Cover] | Final Fantasy VII | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-06-05 | Freeform guitar arrangement of Tifa's Theme from Final Fantasy VII, loosely based on the ubiquitous piano version.

I wanted to record this song years ago, but I could never quite come up with something that would be based on the piano version and still sound good. I won't lie, I'm not there yet :) I'm thinking I will actually make this into a full arrangement with bass, drums and my favourite rhodes sim later this year, I really like this piece and FF music in general. Nobuo is music, he is life.

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Nergigante Battle [Lazy Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Monster Hunter World | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-05-20 | This a simple cover (playthrough) of the orchestral "Nergigante" theme that plays during spiky boi battles in Monster Hunter World.

This is a pretty interesting song as it's not really fast or anything (...except for the fast parts) but it builds a lot of tension with the very dissonant note choices and some half-whole-tone scales.

Yes... I'm playing Monster Hunter World again, still can't get my bow decos! ;(

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Download:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u2OH8SGf4_fr72UgONPk7ijood0rLj7C?usp=sharing

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Gear chain:
Richie Kotzen Fender Telecaster into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.0mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Rotten Vale [Guitar Cover]| Monster Hunter World | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-05-07 | Rock / fusion / smooth guitar cover of the Rotten Vale battle theme from Monster Hunter: World!

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Sorry for being a bit late with this one guys, first God Of War came out, then I went to a wedding last weekend, then I got sick... Stuff just kept happening :D

The original song is a loop and I don't like repeating myself so I made it slightly shorter, I also wanted to 'put the track on its head' whenever I felt it was getting a bit boring. Hopefully you like the beat I stole from Martin Miller's "Fresh Ducks"! :D

Oh, also the first few bars of hi-hat were totally inspired by what Pat Torpey would do with Mr. Big live, that guy had the best hi-hat licks, I swear!

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

When The Moons Reaching Out Stars [Lazy Guitar Cover + Tab] | Persona 3 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-04-08 | A minute long guitar cover of Persona's 3 When The Moon's Reaching Out Stars.

Tabs:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TsKLLLIlZW01S0EKvWuAxH5QCJKvQSSP?usp=sharing

I came up with this format to help me get some of my ideas out there. Whenever I have fun playing over a particular track, I'd like to be able to upload 'something' in a matter of hours, instead of weeks as with my usual covers. To be honest, with some of those songs, I lose all my steam once it gets to the 'serious recording' phase, so it's just nice to be able to put something out, after maybe 2 hours total of arranging, recording, editing etc. instead of having to wait for the 'full thing' to come together! :D

When it comes to those big projects, there's a point there somewhere in the middle when I don't even feel like a guitarist anymore because most of the stuff I'm doing is not guitar related, so that's another reason I'd like to do some more of these. Don't worry, this video format WILL NOT replace my regular covers. I'll still try to put out a 'full scale' video at least once a month! :)

Please let me know what you think about this 'minute video' idea, and shout if you want (or don't!) more of them :D

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When I first played Persona 3 eight or so years ago, I wasn't into that kind of music at all (I was still listening to heavy rock at the time), so I thought that the OST was just 'OK'. Coming back to it now, I'm discovering that it's actually amazing! :D

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.0mm

Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr
Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP

The Days When My Mother Was There [Funky/Smooth Arrangement] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-04-03 | A slightly funky, slightly smooth but also a bit of rock and shred guitar cover of "The Days When My Mother Was There" from Persona 5 (the Pyramid / 'Main' version) ;D

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Downloadables:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A3PJS4ESrYTQtIFHTAhY0Da1dc1IxCPn?usp=sharing

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I've tried a lot of new stuff with this video in both audio / mixing and video production so hopefully you'll like it! I was aiming for a bit shorter turnaround but it seems like it's impossible for me to get under 3 weeks with arranging / recording etc. and still having 'family time', working full-time and improving my own guitar playing.

As per usual, the initial idea for this cover was quite different than the finished product, it started out as continuation to the previous cover which is why I quote myself in the intro... but then it all took off on its own :)

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#persona5 #thedayswhenmymotherwasthere #persona5cover

The Days When My Mother Was There (Another Version) [Guitar Cover] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-03-11 | Smooth neo-soul guitar arrangement of The Days When My Mother Was There (Another Version) from Persona 5.

I started doing this as a request in January, stopped for a bit and wanted to release it last week, but... Originally it was supposed to end at 1:51, at which point I'd leave it with a "TBC" style screen and I decided to actually record an ending to this instead, sorry ;D

It's quite unfortunate that you don't hear this song more in the game, I tried for my version to really give you the feeling of entering a tomb. It's a bit spooky, isn't it? And nostalgic? With a bit of abandonment? That's what I was going for :)

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Downloadables for all my covers:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads

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Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar-Centric YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

New Days [Guitar/Piano Cover] | Persona 4 | VGmPeeta & half-assed covers

PeetaPlays 2018-02-17 | A smooth arrangement/cover of New Days from Persona 4.

Downloadables:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Persona%204/New%20Days

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This has been on my hard drive, pretty much complete, since late Decemeber. I planned it as a December/January release, but life happens ;)

A collaboration with half-assed covers because he's a great dude and his ideas are awesome. We started off by coming up with different arrangements for 'the first song you hear when you get off the train in Inaba' (or at least that was my idea for a P4 cover). Long story short, hac's arrangement was awesome (and mine wasn't) so we got to work and this is the result :)

This was the first recording with my new guitar, yay! :D

P.S. I think I'm getting the hang of the whole 'write decent enough drums and record in time' idea :) Check out my first cover on this channel, I dare you. It was terrible.

P.S.2. I still have not played the entirety of P4G. I dropped it after the beginning of "Kanji Investigation" this time, not enough time for this AND guitar!

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Main Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Dont Think Twice / Oath [Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Kingdom Hearts III Theme | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-02-11 | Guitar cover arrangement of Don't Think Twice / Oath from the Kingdom Hearts III Theme Trailer.

All downloadables here:drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HewbAFNE46VCTTpbNhlNLibUQcRMwNvE

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Right... so years and years ago I used to listen to some epic Kingdom Hearts rock / metal covers and I thought to myself "man, I wish I could do that!". Of course at that time the games have already been out for so long, there were hundreds of different covers and I also wasn't doing VGM stuff as I was deep into Paul Gilbert shred practice :D

At last Kingdom Hearts 3 MIGHT ACTUALLY COME OUT! There's a new trailer, a new theme, a teaser of a 'release date'. Exciting stuff. It's been over a decade since I first played KH 2, I was 16-17 at the time, now I'm 28. Feels like a lifetime ago, but I might actually be able to finally finish this journey!

When I first heard the theme, I thought the piano sounded a bit too mechanical to my taste, but it sparked an idea in my head and I think the song really has some great potential (as already displayed by the likes of Kyle Landry ;) ). This was my chance to finally do a 'proper' theme cover for Kingdom Hearts, so here it is. A very short one as that's all of the song that we got for now, so what happens later is up to speculation, but my ending is simple... and clean you could say :)

If there are any requests, I can tab it out for you.

Also, two uploads in a single weekend, craziness, huh? I'm not used to doing an arrangement and recording in a single day!

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Main Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Bazelgeuse Battle Theme [Lazy Guitar Cover] | Monster Hunter World | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2018-02-09 | A very simple cover of the orchestral Bazelgeuse battle theme from Monster Hunter World.

Downloadables: http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Monster%20Hunter%20World/Bazelgeuse%20Theme

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Sometimes an orchestral song is so great, I don't want to ruin it with a sketchy arrangement in a different style. I love orchestral music and it's really fun to put guitar on top of it, so this is more of a 'playthrough' than a real cover since I didn't really add that much of my own :)

Because the guitar parts were so simple, I decided to have some fun and capture MHW gameplay to create a 'story' for the video :P

I know, I know - I promised a Persona 5 cover, listen... it's done! I have it! I do want to make it a bit longer however and for the 2 weeks of January I was away in another country, then MHW came out and I played it for about 60 hours in the first week (oO) so there wasn't that much time to play guitar you see.... :P It will come, soon. I promise!

I also have a Persona 4 cover done that was a collaboration with another YouTuber, but he's been AWOL for over 2 months now so the finished song is just sitting on my hard-drive...

Gear chain:
Suhr Standard Pro 'Bahama Blue' into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop TIII 1.14mm

Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Aloys Theme [cover] | Horizon Zero Dawn | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-11-13 | I love Horizon Zero Dawn. Along with Persona 5 it's my favourite game of 2017 and maybe on PS4 in general. I finished The Frozen Wilds DLC last week and thought that there's not better way to show the love than to cover the main theme of the game - Aloy's Theme!

Downloads:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Horizon%20Zero%20Dawn/Aloys%20Theme

I'm a huge fan of Nick Jonhston so if you listen to his latest album 'Remarkably Human', you might find that this arrangement is a 'bit' of a rip off of the song. It's so good though, I had to do it! :)

Man, doing these would be way easier if I always had an idea that I could realize in under a week without too much practicing.

It would be even easier if I didn't record any video :D

Until the next one! Please sub and comment, I read all of them:)

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Will The Circle Be Unbroken [Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Bioshock Infinite | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-10-29 | I'm a sucker for a sappy story, so Bioshock Infinite was obviously my favourite entry in the series and this moment in the game with Elizabeth singing the old gospel song 'Will the circle be unbroken' was a very heartfelt one.

Downloads:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Bioshock%20Infinite/Will%20The%20Circle%20Be%20Unbroken

Tab is only the intro, I have to update it!

I've been away for a while, uni work, guitar competition - lots of things happening in my life, but I'm back now and I'm ready to get to work!

I'll try to do AT LEAST a cover a month, might be two a month if I have time to do something 'quick and easy' or don't record my own backing track. I'm very slow at recording and in general I don't like the process. This following year I'll be trying to focus on 'legitimizing' my guitar playing and becoming better at improvising, jamming and recalling licks so while I want to do as many arrangements as I can, I also want to spend as little time recording as possible as it's not teaching me new skills I want :D

Leave me some nice comments if you want me to write a tab for this. I could probably start doing 'teaching' videos for my covers if people want, let me know what you think!

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop Tortex III 1.14mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Swear To My Bones [Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-07-19 | My guitar arrangement of Swear To My Bones from Persona 5! (also bit of the Ending Theme / Hoshi To Bokura To / With the Stars and Us).

Persona 5 mp3s / tabs / backing tracks:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tgYrtG-GqDfLCPrGlSn4SCmmqW5jEZ_h?usp=sharing

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Let me begin by saying that I thought I was very clever by including the ending theme, which was my plan from the start. Only afterwards I realised that it already was at the end of Swear To My Bones anyway ;D

So to the point now - I originally wanted to do this song when I feel like I'm done with Persona 5 covers. However I'm doing it now, because I need to take a few months off. I 'accidentally' got into the finals in a Polish national guitar competition so I have to fly to Poland in August for the live show. Then I have to start (and finish) my dissertation since I'm supposed to have a master's defense in September. When all that's done, I'll come back, I promise :)

I love Persona 5 music and if things keep going that way, I might end up covering the entire OST. It would be ridiculous, I know, but it's just so good! And stylistically fits me so well! While I'm gone, feel free to leave me suggestions on what you'd like me to cover. Persona or otherwise. Have fun!

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Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21,
1994 Fender Richie Kotzen Telecaster into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#persona5 #persona5cover #sweartomybones

The Whims Of Fate [Guitar Cover] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-07-02 | Guitar cover (arrangement) of The Whims Of Fate from Persona 5! (6th palace theme).

Persona 5 mp3s / tabs / backing tracks:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Persona%205

This song was weeks in the making ;D I first came up with that nice chorus part in the middle and decided to go from there. I think I had that part even before my Beneath The Mask cover, but didn't have an idea of how to do the rest of the song so I just put it on the back-burner. I then bought a MIDI keyboard and the arrangement became quite obvious. Even then, I think I've had around 15 different intros to this as I was going through different ideas (starting the song was the hardest part). I'm not 100% with the mix or some of the playing, but that will always be the case and I have to give up and release it at some point! :) Some of the video footage isn't amazing but I was recording it hours before getting on a plane to Poland, as per usual ;D

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer 21,
Squier Jazz Vintage Bass into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Beneath The Mask (Cloudy/Sunny) [Guitar Cover] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-05-25 | A slightly "happier" guitar cover of Beneath The Mask from Persona 5!

Persona 5 mp3s / tabs / backing tracks:drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cnQm3WOVFzKRxB3La-pfNYMA1y6XbL6m

I was feeling very nostalgic after finishing the game so I went back to my December save and hung out with a bunch of my "virtual friends". As it usually happens, "Beneath The Mask" played after going back to "LeBlanc" one night and I felt compelled to do my own version of it. I came up with the slightly funky chorus part that is in this video, I flew back to UK (as I was in Poland during my "uni weekend"), listened to "Rivers In The Desert" a whole lot on the plane and got so excited about that song that I recorded it first.

Time has come to finally finish my version "Beneath The Mask". It started coming out a lot more positive and "happy" than I first envisioned. I raised the tempo just a tiny bit and decided to go with it. So here it is, my "Cloudy" version of Beneath The Mask that then moves slightly to "Sunny". I didn't change the key of the song, it's still in (V)Gm, however the change of context gave the song a completely new sound :)

I recorded the video late night, right before flying out to Poland again the next morning, as it turned out, I had a slight "mishap" with my camera's focus... Sorry for that. I had to use the footage because if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to re-record it for another week and then some other things might get in a way and I would've never finished it!

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21,
Squier Vintage Jazz Bass into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5
Bias Desktop (for bass)

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

Rivers In The Desert [Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-05-07 | Guitar cover of Rivers In The Desert (boss battle) from Persona 5!

Persona 5 mp3s / tabs / backing tracks:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cnQm3WOVFzKRxB3La-pfNYMA1y6XbL6m

This is one amazing song. I was working on it for the past two weeks and trying to get that vocal line under my fingers just right. It's such a shame that the instrumental version of the song doesn't have the melody line at all, but hey, it's easier for me to use it as a backing track! :D

BTW, I bought a Panasonic G7, recorded this video in 4k and downsampled to 1080p so I'm hoping the visual quality is better than with my previous DSLR. Sorry for the erratic editing, it was one of those days today.

Have fun!

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop Tortex III 1.14mm
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#riversinthedesert #persona5cover #peetaplays

Life Will Change [Guitar Cover] | Persona 5 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-04-19 | Guitar cover of Life Will Change (final palace infiltration day) from Persona 5 with a jazzed up shreddy solo!

Persona 5 mp3s / tabs / backing tracks:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Persona%205

This is such a badass song that I knew I was going to cover it the first time I heard it in Kamoshida's Palace. I'm still playing through the game and I'm over 60 hours in so playing the guitar has been on the backburner for the past couple weeks :D Nevertheless, here's the best I could do over this awesome, funky song. I also took it upon myself to "remaster" the original song a little bit, as the instrumental version has virtually no bottom end.

BKMJMBOX will forever be my inspiration for doing these covers, so this is more akin to something he would do in his earlier videos - take the more or less "original" version of the song and just shred his heart out all over it :D

Have fun!

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Dunlop Tortex III 1.14mm
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
Facebook Page: facebook.com/NowakGtr
Instagram: instagram.com/nowakptr

#persona5 #persona5lifewillchange #persona5cover

Dearly Beloved [Guitar Cover] | Kingdom Hearts 2 | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-03-28 | Kingdom Hearts 2 - Dearly Beloved electric guitar cover arrangement, complete with some orchestra and a Mateus Asato solo section! :)

Dearly Beloved mp3 / backing track:
http://vgm.nowakptr.com/downloads/Kingdom%20Hearts%202/Dearly%20Beloved

"Main" Guitar YT Channel: youtube.com/NowakP
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Kingdom Hearts Final Mix(-es) are finally being re-released on PS4 in US and Europe so I decided to use this occasion to bring you my cover / arrangement of "Dearly Beloved" from Kingdom Hearts 2. I originally played Kingdom Hearts when it first came out on the PS2 and I have many fond memories of it. The game itself and its music bring so much nostalgia for the virtual adventures of my childhood.

I've wanted to do an arrangement of "Dearly Beloved" for maybe 8 years now. I've listened to Kyle Landry's versions more times than I can count, but I never gave it a try as I didn't have enough... of "something" to actually pull it off. It might have been for the best however since I really like how this turned out! The solo was inspired by Mateus Asato, in case you were wondering!

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All guitars played by myself, all instruments programmed by myself :)

Gear chain:
1997 Ibanez Blazer21 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

Final Fantasy VIII [ReOrchestrated] | Battle Theme (Dont Be Afraid) | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-02-01 | "Orchestrated" version of the original "Battle Theme" from Final Fantasy VIII. I took one of the myriad of midi files available on the internet, added some additional drums for more dynamic pace, applied EWQLSO VST to it and mixed/mastered the track.

I originally started working on this way back in 2014 but due to my move to UK, my Cubase project broke at least 10 times. I still plan to turn this into a proper guitar version, but for now, you can listen to this "ReOrchestration" because I think it sounds pretty cool.

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Final Fantasy XV [Guitar Cover + Tabs] | Diner Song (Valse Di Fantastica) | VGmPeeta

PeetaPlays 2017-01-02 | Guitar cover / arrangement of "The Diner Song" or "Valse Di Fantastica" that you would normally be able to hear in the diner in Cartanica in chapter 10 of Final Fantasy XV.

Valse Di Fantastica (Cartanica Diner) mp3 / tab / backing track:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YN2R6t8latF5VTwN10hHWLTDKs4RjNWb

I didn't want to do just "another jazz arrangement" of the song so I decided to bridge the gap a little bit - between the "Cartanica Diner" arrangement and the orchestral version of the song.

It was a bit touch and go there a few times, my Cubase project kept breaking and after recording all of rhythm guitars and half the leads, I had to export all of my files and start again in Reaper. Servers me right, probably won't be using Cubase again!

Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this arrangement and let me know if you'd like to hear more Final Fantasy/video game music played me. I sure do enjoy doing it! :)

Gear chain:
1994 Richie Kotzen Telecaster
1996 RG 1608 J. Custom
1998 Ibanez PGM 90th
2004 Ibanez PGM 301 into Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

DAW:
Cubase / Reaper

VSTs:
Scuffham S-Gear 2.5

Strings:
Ernie Ball Regular Slinky 10 - 46

Pick:
Planet Waves by D'Addario Duralin Precision 0.85mm

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