AZ GuitarDone as the soundtrack to my sibling's video! My sibling Skarfelt is one of the top SSB4 Fox players in the UK, and asked me to supply the music fo their latest combo video!
You can check out the video (which is way cooler than this one but has no orchestral intro) here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ztga1If7qb4
Starfox - Corneria/Venom (Orchestral/Epic Metal Cover)AZ Guitar2016-03-23 | Done as the soundtrack to my sibling's video! My sibling Skarfelt is one of the top SSB4 Fox players in the UK, and asked me to supply the music fo their latest combo video!
You can check out the video (which is way cooler than this one but has no orchestral intro) here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ztga1If7qb4
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette-5 Pre-Amp/Tones: Avid ElevenRack DAW: Reaper Orchestral Samples: EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Platinum (Strings/Choirs/Brass/Pianos) Drum Samples: Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0Fellowship - Victim (Guitar Cover)AZ Guitar2024-10-30 | Less than 24 hours after release, enjoy this cover of Fellowship's new single Victim! Absolutely fallen in love with this band and their power metal for mental health ethos, so had a lot of fun putting this together!
Many thanks to my long suffering partner V for helping film this and letting me steal their lightsaber for lighting lmfao.
All guitar sounds made with my Jackson HT-7 Modern Ash and Neural DSP's Quad Cortex.Fire and Moonlight (How to Compose a Title Theme)AZ Guitar2022-05-10 | I was commissioned to write the title theme for an indie game, so I thought I'd give a little insight into how I wrote the piece to evoke the kind of imagery and feeling requested in the brief!
I love this song. idk what more to say it's just so good. Only downside is that the chorus doesn't play MORE seriously how are you gonna give us an all time great like that and only play it ONCE come onnnnnn
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Acoustic: SIgma 00M-15 USB Interface / Bass Tone: Avid Eleven Rack Guitar Tones: DSP Neural Archetype Plini Camera: Samsung S7Rage Against the Jewels (Bombtrack vs Close Your Eyes and Count to F***)AZ Guitar2020-09-14 | This is about as far away from what I usually upload as it gets but listen Close Your Eyes came on my playlist at like 3am while I had my guitar and I just started playing the Bombtrack riff over it for the craic and it worked PERFECTLY so I was Possessed and I had to make this immediately.Unravel (Tokyo Ghoul OP) | Orchestral Metal CoverAZ Guitar2020-07-28 | Absolute banger of an OP.
Shout outs to Cameron and David for providing vocals for this one live at Chibi Con a while back! Unfortunately we couldn't get any footage but still an amazing memory.
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette-5 USB Interface / Bass Tone: Avid Eleven Rack Guitar Tones: DSP Neural Archetype Plini Orchestral Samples: EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Platinum (Strings / Choirs / Brass / Pianos) Drum Samples: Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 Camera: Samsung S7Apex of the World - Fire Emblem Three Houses | Orchestral Metal Cover (Instrumental Version)AZ Guitar2020-06-17 | Loved this game so so much so I just had to do a cover of one of the best final boss themes I've ever heard. Black Eagles for life!
I did a bit of an experiment with the video layout, let me know in the comments what you think!
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette-5 USB Interface / Bass Tone: Avid Eleven Rack Guitar Tones: DSP Neural Archetype Plini Orchestral Samples: EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Platinum (Strings / Choirs / Brass / Pianos) Drum Samples: Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 Camera: Samsung S7Painters of the Tempest Bass Cover - Ne Obliviscaris AuditionAZ Guitar2017-07-18 | My audition for the vacant bassist role at Ne Obliviscaris! This song's pretty hard to play and I'm not 100% happy with my playing but the deadline was today so here we go!
Gear:
Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette-5 Pre-amp/Tone: Avid ElevenRack DAW: Reaper Camera: iPhone 4 Video Editor: Sony Vegas 13BASS TAPPING COVER - Ne Obliviscaris - Devour Me Colossus Pt. 1 (Blackholes) OutroAZ Guitar2016-03-02 | Not an Iron Maiden song!? The tapping from this song is a blast to play and was a real challenge to work out. There's probably a couple of mistakes and my tapping is nowhere near as clean as I'd like but I'm still happy enough. Some guitar thrown in because that chugging riff is super addictive, no solo though cause I'm a coward.
Equipment:
Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette 5 Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Preamp/Tones: Avid ElevenRack DAW: Reaper Camera: iPhone 4 VIdeo Editor: Sony Vegas 133 Chord Iron Maiden Medley - 40 Years of the BeastAZ Guitar2015-12-25 | Facebook: facebook.com/AZGuitarProject
Iron Maiden were formed by bass player Steve Harris on Christmas Day 1975, and what better way to celebrate their 40th anniversary than with a tribute to their career. More specifically, showing off just how much creativity and diversity you can really wring out of just three chords.
This video is in no way intended to be derogatory towards Iron Maiden for their chord progressions, if anything it's a celebration of just how much they can do with them.
Some songs were played in different tempos or keys to better fit the overall flow. Yes, I know Fear of the Dark is meant to be in D.
Equipment
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette 5 Pre-Amp/DI: Avid Eleven Rack DAW: Reaper Drums: Superior 2.0 Strings: EastWest Hollywood Strings Platinum Piano: EastWest Pianos Platinum Video Editor: Sony Vegas 13Mega Man 2 - Dr Wilys Castle (Guitar/Metal Version)AZ Guitar2015-11-21 | Tab: docs.google.com/document/d/16ANzKMua9GvNkXykffZp7xXAmviHs0C2b0Pjuy5yqYk/edit?usp=sharing
Yeah I know, everyone on the planet has done this song, but it's just way too fun to not have my own crack at it. More videos and songs coming soon!
All art is official Mega Man art except the awesome intro animation by HeavyMetalHanzo on DeviantArt. If you want me to take the animation down please let me know.
Equipment:
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette-5 Video Camera: iPhone 4 Pre-Amp/Tones: Avid Eleven Rack DAW: Reaper Drums: Superior Drummer 2.0Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds (Cover Piano, Guitar, Bass) WITH SOLOSAZ Guitar2015-09-27 | WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS AT 7:00, 8:35 AND 13:04
At long last! Definitely the biggest project I've ever done, really happy with how it turned out. Sorry for the dreadful piano technique, any advice is greatly appreciated! Absolutely love everything about this song, a true masterpiece by every definition of the word, really proud to be able to pay tribute to it.
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Bass: Warwick RockBass Corvette 5 MIDI Keyboard: M-Audio Keystation-88 Piano Samples: EastWest Pianos Platinum Pre-Amp and Tones: Avid Eleven Rack DAW: Reaper Video Editor: Sony Vegas 13(Guitar Cover Rhythm/Lead) Iron Maiden - When the River Runs Deep (No Solos) NEW SONGAZ Guitar2015-09-14 | Tab: docs.google.com/document/d/1moc-RvYF_l5TJW4dshPEubCNP-y_Ix-vGUpoxsKgYDo
One of my favourite songs off the new album, absolutely love that heavy, bluesy, mid-tempo feel, and the main riff is a blast to play!
Another new song! This one's pretty fun, although I'll never understand why they don't go back into the chorus after the solo at the end. Ah well, still got some solid sections. Tried an experimental blurry thing over the harmony part, hope it looks cool to you guys!
Equipment
Guitar: Jackson SL2H Soloist Camera: iPhone 4 Modelling Effects: Avid Eleven Rack DAW: Reaper Video Editor: Sony Vegas 13(Guitar Cover Rhythm/Lead) Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (No Solos) NEW SONGAZ Guitar2015-09-09 | Intro missing to try and avoid copyright, and because it's incredibly boring to play
Another song from The Book of Souls, the title track this time! Was blown away by this track on the first listen, first half has some quality riffing and the energy of the second half is great.
Recorded this a couple of days ago, but copyright's strict these days.
More covers from The Book of Souls on their way to this channel shortly. Absolutely love it and this song in particular, the entire instrumental passage is some of the most fun I've ever had playing along to an Iron Maiden song. Legitimately cannot wait to see them do it live!
To those of you who haven't seen my channel, I do mostly rock/metal covers and arrangements of songs from video games, anime or anything else I find cool. And since Iron Maiden are my favourite band, I find them releasing an album as good as this pretty damn cool!
Rock guitar cover of Again by Yui, the first opening of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. FMA is one of my favourite anime and the opening is definitely what got me hooked, so I hope you all enjoy my tribute to it!
Art used in this video is either public domain art from the show, or is credited to the following artists: Solarifur, White-corner, Elrick87, SweetL, Narusailor. Please check out their awesome work. If you are any of the aforementioned artists and don't want your art to be used, please message me and let me know.