Stamen47's guitar videos

These videos are mostly to complement my website, www.freewebs.com/stamen47/, which is a site of guitar tabs for video game music. Most of the songs I play will have tabs there. Check it out sometime!

For tabs, you can either go to my website:
www.freewebs.com/stamen47

or you can find them at:
www.gametabs.net

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*UPDATE 1/3/2011* - Hey everyone, I disappeared from youtube for a couple of years. The main reason was because I realized I wasn't happy having a second life here, so I committed cyber-suicide and stopped coming here. I actually logged on today to delete a bunch of my videos and further disconnect myself from my youtube counterpart, but after re-watching my videos I only decided to delete two of them. The reasons why are:

1) I don't play many video games any more, but watching my videos for the first time in a couple of years made me remember what I loved about those games. I figured that if it works for me, then maybe it works for others.
2) I'm not happy about how many mistakes are in my videos. I would get excited about making a video and then rush the learning process more than I should have. But they do have their redeeming qualities. Looking back, I was just a largely self taught guitar kid trying to do something positive and constructive, and I'm remembering how much I loved doing this, and I hope it shows to some degree in my tabs and my videos.
3) Not the best or most professional of reasons, but I think my videos fit in well with the genre of "homemade video game music covers". I certainly never recorded a video with the spirit that they could be scrutinized by music critics. They're not the head of the pack, but they are what they are, and I'm ok with that.

My life as Stamen47 has been a sort of laboratory for music, and specifically for the guitar, to see what's possible, what's effective, and what's enjoyable to both me and others. In this sense, your comments have been very much appreciated, and I've really learned a lot. However, I've been having an urge to close the lid on Stamen47 so I could "move on" in a sense, and not feel that my future works would have a connection to past works that I'm no longer satisfied with. But maybe destroying the past isn't the best option, and maybe there are still things to learn and enjoyment to be had from Stamen47, because I really did build something for myself that I didn't see as I was building it, and it feels good to say that it's mine, but I choose to share it with everybody. And maybe one day I'll come back and build something better. But right now life is too much in the way for that, but know that I'm alive and well and happy.

So there's the long answer to the questions "what's up?", for any of you who were curious. By the way, I still make the VERY occasional tab on gametabs.net, mostly ukulele tabs lately.

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