Cavatina - By Stanley Meyers - SOLO GUITAR - JOHN H. CLARKE

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I know there are mistakes in my playing... To critics: I come from the street, not the conservatory. I don't go for perfection, I go for honesty.

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I record all most all of my videos myself in my home.

I use a light box for the lighting effect. The light box (same one I've been using for a couple years now) I made out of card board boxes The same couple of boxes that were originally used to ship my cds from the manufacturer. ...I like to reuse stuff.

I taped the two boxes together to form a larger chamber open on each end. i lined the inside with reflective bubble wrap foil insulation stuff from the hardware store.

I covered one open end of the box with a sheet of packaging material that was translucent...like a thin sheet of some kind of Styrofoam. anyway, it was quite diffuse and dispersed the light well.

on the other end of the box I sealed with just more cardboard and stuck in a light bulb--one of those compact florescent, low wattage ones. again the whole inside of the box is covered with reflective material (accept for the translucent front of course).

The idea behind a light-box is to spread the light over more area---the opposite of a spot light. Professional light boxes are ridiculously expensive, and they are not usually made out of recycled materials. so the DIY one suffices quite nicely.

I use low wattage bulb because I don't want it to be too bright. That way only the foreground is lit and the background is dark.

I captured the audio with the cameras built-in mics plus an external usb stereo condenser mic pair. I added I tiny bit of reverb using a software plugin.

(i'm not naming the brands of anything because I don't think brands matter that much. that goes for guitars also, btw. i know i might never get an endorsement deal for saying this kind of stuff, but i have to be honest. its YOU that matter. not the brands. and its your own creativity that matters when it comes to artistic endeavors such as music and film).

I used a decent quality HD camera mounted to my headstock with a guitar camera mount device I built out of wood and bolts.

I used my computer's built-in camera for the smaller image.

This song I started practicing about 10 years ago. It was written by Stanley Meyers for the Film "The Dear Hunter" --A movie about a working class group of friends who's lives were torn apart by war. The way I see it, the underlining theme of this movie, and i believe this song, is an appeal for peace.

thanks for watching

-john

6-14-11

CD/MP3 http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johnhclarke2

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Classical
• guitar
• cover
• cavatina
• acoustic
• Acoustic music
• cover song
• acoustic guitar
• acoustic cover
• unplugged
• youtube

[DrumEnforcer]

I'm a big fan of your stuff. But the beginning felt a little shakey tempo wise. It might have been a stylistic choice or something, I don't know, but it didn't quite flow as nice as your other songs, just at the beginning. The rest of it was awesome though. I'm still a huge fan.

[johnclarkemusic]

@DrumEnforcer Thanks for being a fan!!! ...I will continue to work on this song.

[alohaolamele]

@johnclarkemusic Yea you better... like... straighten up... and fly right... boyee... lol

[johnclarkemusic]

@alohaolamele haha! I know! Right?!

[Szten]

I won't be popular... and I feel really bad about this... but I have to say what I feel... It wasn't good. Watch this piece by Per Olov Kindgren or Ana Vidovic and get what I mean... It's not like you, it's not like John Clarke. After this, I watched the "With Love" video ( watch?v=IZq4V8FMghI ) Is it really the same man? In this video, I felt like you really need to practice with a metronome.. a lot. But it's a nonsense, the John Clarke I know from the old videos doesn't need anything like this

[johnclarkemusic]

@Szten I am not a classically trained guitarist...I never studied in a conservatory, and I am mostly self-taught. So I am a very different type of musician. I know what you mean though, I think there are times when I have played this song much better, but that was when a camera wasn't rolling.

[MrDancelikeamonkey]

you finally did what i ask ♥ (cavatina)

[dulceypeligroso]

Beautiful as always.

[3Z3M3RX]

John u Shuld put it music for sells trew Google for those to buy

[MYkelloGs]

@0:33 i'm a fan! stop showing me the finger! :)

[kokoooouuo]

Mebay sem maqam sonata moon

[gcastellanos02]

More of this!!!

watch?v=W3iuUWSYomA&feature=re­lated

[RDM213]

Nice John. The camera gives a nice birds eye view of rest / free stroke.

[LuvvieStarsider]

i agree, Drum. A metronome would ruin this one.

[divinegod102]

@DrumEnforcer Some songs aren't meant to be perfected, you have to play them with your heart and your soul :)