Classical Guitar Chick Corea Arrangement

[newislandguitar]

Fantastic music and playing!

[rachaelmcconnell]

John this is so good , I love you

R

[gtrdriven]

Hi,

You can go to the Reverbnation site and type in:

john martin

(under the search tab)

There you will find many pieces to listen to. I will also be uploading a video

soon. I thank you for your long term patience and interest in my work.

With kind regards,

John

[evildelul]

fantastic

[alichoturko]

Still no new vids? You've been promising for a year man! Do you have any albums I can buy?

[TexasSizzle]

Great playing John. Where are you from man?

[gtrdriven]

Many thanks. Sorry for the delay in answering.

I am in the Atlanta area.

[dedosdigital]

The pleasure of new discovery of a notable artist in watching and hearing you play ; superb.

[jimthrelkeld]

Beautiful playing, John. Very clean, great tone. And i love the Sauron figure over your shoulder you should have that in all your videos!

-Jim

[littledog95610]

John Boy, You are great, but then again, you always have been. I remember why I had such a crush on you once upon a time. Laura Ortiz Beltramini

[spodface]

what type of guitar you use exactly ? thats a beautiful arrangemwent, , amazing playing , such a great understanding of the thematic idea. wow

[alichoturko]

wow...

[alivonal]

I beginning to think you simply don't care about your fans. Where's the new song you big liar?

[gtrdriven]

Now don't be mean. I have a lot of other things I am dealing with at the moment. I will have one for you very soon. Patience is a virtue.

I have dropped the ball on this one, though.

It has to be a good one and I am thinking what best to record. This is a tough one to top.

I will post soon, I promise.

j

[ROCDR88]

Beautiful playing man.

Nice arrangement and superb technique.

[s2p3r]

you're great dude keep it up hope to hear more from you.more jazz on classical guitar please preferably some joe pass material.

[bleednfingers]

That was exellent! Musicians such as yourself are rare! :)

Oh, and I don't know if it's just me, but you remind me of a later Julian Bream lol... which isn't a bad thing!

Keep up the splended work!

[gtrdriven]

A rare compliment, indeed!

Thanks, mate.

j

[gtrdrivn]

good playen john cant waith till i can play that

[gtrdriven]

Thanks Brett.

You're sounding great these days. Keep up the good work.

j

[coreyagraph]

nice.........keep in touch

[alivonal]

Ive been waiting a year for you to release something, anything man. For fuck's sake man, get working! I'm willing to pay to hear more. This is quite possibly the best guitar piece on YouTube. just perfect, so beautiful. PLEASE, IM BEGIN YOU FOR MORE!!!!

[gtrdriven]

That is freakin' hilarious. OK, I just recently finished refurbishing my home and moved in. I have some other tasty Corea and Giuliani that I

will put up.

I don't understand why I only have 8k in hits after a year. All these other cats have 100k+.

j

[alivonal]

I am sorry to have to add to your woes, I think it was me who watched this 8k times. Sorry dude, I will pass on the word. hehe.

[skunkfunk89]

CGDGBE???

[gtrdriven]

6th dropped to D

[Guitarwizard]

Very very nice! I would love to hear you

through a better recording system! You're a great player!

GW

[staticfeak]

ur really good seriously talented

[gtrdriven]

thnx

[catandzeus]

oh - have you written tab or sheet music for this?

[gtrdriven]

I am in the process of engraving and recording a suite of these works and publishing soon. I will update here soon.

Thanks for the kind words,

j

[catandzeus]

As a classical guitar player and jazz lover I wanted to say how much I admire your playing. It's very smooth (quite rare, even among classical players) and very well arranged. fantastic!

[SimpleMind1]

Congrats to the excellent playing and fine arrangement! Wondered how you managed to synchronize your Edirol R09 and the camera. I have a Edirol and wanted to make some vidoes but i don`t know how to do it. Is there a line in for a camera on the Edirol??

[gtrdriven]

I used Windows Movie Maker. I used one track for the video and took the audio off of the expansion card from the R-09 in mp3 format (to keep the file small) for the 2nd track. It was

then just a matter of shifting the audio until it synced up, saved and uploaded. I did put a bit of reverb on the audio track first, however, through Cool Edit Pro.

Thanks for the kind words,

John

[gtrdriven]

I also have a video camera that will record mpegs on an expansion card.

[P5ych00]

too pro

[P5ych00]

... too pro

[hyperboreal]

Exquisite playing and arrangement gtrdriven. You captured really well the Coreaesque phrasing for guitar. Keep those videos coming and thanks for sharing.

[elguitarolerno]

so this is the amazin guitar for sale eh!

absolutely lovely beautiful tone, seems very responsive too!

not a fan of the piece sorry to say but the playing is great, fantastic infact!

i recently purchased a ramirez centenario sounding very much like that. do you that rodriguez is better?

[gtrdriven]

I will post some more videos from the classical rep, including some Giuliani and other works.

I have played a Ramirez for many years and this has a similar play and feel, however, my Ramirez was a 664 scale length and was becoming more of a challenge to play as the years go along.

I have also played the Ramirez Centenario and it is comparable to this instrument.

Thanks for the kind words.

With kind regards,

John

[StaticGuitarPlayer]

awesome. I want to start playing classical guitar,now!

[adm59]

Have you removed the demonstration of the manuel rodriguez guitar? I loved the video. You are a terrific player and inspire me to play more. Thanks very much!!

[gtrdriven]

I will be uploading new videos soon.

Many thanks for the kind words.

Was feeling a bit down, but that helped.

Thanks,

j

[AXXID]

you make it look so easy that i think im going to stuck my guitar in my head.

amazingly beautiful

[aparicon27]

Do you have a microphone in the guitar or is the tone unaided? The sound is just great!

[gtrdriven]

The sound (although compressed) is from the Edirol R-09. Very cool unit to do recordings.

j

[rdnzl71]

This is simply BEAUTIFUL. You inspire me to play more and learn more. Thank you

[alivonal]

my jaw drops every time I hear this, which is , like, everyday.

[jasoncasper16]

Wow!! Amazing!!!

[hmurrieta]

Nice playing man, keep up the good work.

[Dihelson]

AWESOME ! Incredible! I am one of the greatest Chick Corea fans ever, I have made many transcriptions also, and I can assure that your adaptation is amazing. I don´t know how did you get, but I´m astonished by the way you did, you didn´t merely replicated, you ADAPTED for the guitar. great!

[gtrdriven]

Thanks for the kind words.

I used the score from his Piano Improv. folio. I scanned the score and photoshopped the melody line to a new score and added as much of the bass as I could fit in and remain playable. It was in D major already and seems to lay on the guitar quite well.

j

[mediaproductlab]

Very nice... Good to see you again

Got the pleasure of seeing you play once

at Kudro's house back in the late 70's

and you where excellent even then.

ATP

MediaProductLab

[TheGnome12]

Unbelieveable. Humbling. Now I'm going to throw my guitars into the nearest dumpster.

[narshadda]

Beautifully played man. Absolutely jaw dropping. Well Done

[tommya]

Hey Man-

Beautiful. I've always loved this little known tune by Chick from the early years. Harmonically interesting as Chick always is. Great job.