Category Archives: Videos

Shmopera Release and a Video Treat!

Posted on 26/04/2010 by philhaymes

It’s Monday and the Complete Shmopera has finally released. To celebrate, I thought I’d record up a video of my favorite song from the whole thing and share it with you all. You can find out more about the Shmopera … Continue reading →

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Testing the Gilmour Strings Part One: On An Island

Posted on 21/04/2010 by philhaymes

So the David Gilmour Strings turned up and I decided the best way to give them a good test was to play some Gilmour stuff and see how it goes. Currently I’ve only used the first set, the 10 – … Continue reading →

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DayBreak Jam Session Video

Posted on 03/04/2010 by philhaymes

Well I mentioned a few times already over the last few days on the site that I’ve been working on one of my songs called ‘DayBreak’ so I thought I’d take some time to show you all where I’m at … Continue reading →

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Cleared 50,000 views on Youtube ^^

Posted on 03/04/2010 by philhaymes

And to celebrate my most viewed video: This is a quick improv jam that I did over one of David Gilmour’s barn jams that was released in the Live in Gdansk set. This was an interesting one in that it … Continue reading →

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Bright Shadows – Intro/melody Video

Posted on 02/07/2009 by philhaymes

I recently posted up a piano/strings version of the song and figured it was about time to show some hints of where the song is going after adding in other instruments and of course the main guitar melody. As always, … Continue reading →

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What I’ve been playing

Posted on 01/07/2009 by philhaymes

Ok so I mentioned in a recent post that I was going to attempt to transcribe and learn to play Guthrie Govan’s wonderful track called ‘Fives’. At the time I knew it was a tall order and I still think … Continue reading →

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A Whole load of Black Mages Covers ^^

Posted on 28/06/2009 by philhaymes

Videogame music in my opinion is some of the most under appreciated in the world. It always amazes me that both TV and film soundtrack is acceptable to the general public but not games. It is an interesting medium and in my opinion, whilst there are some seriously great composers out there, Uematsu just pushes the boundaries more than most. Continue reading →

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Recording Drum Tracks

Posted on 24/06/2009 by philhaymes

Evening all, how are you? I’ve recently been recording some drum roughs for various tracks I’m working on and figured I’d get something up for you all to see. So here we have some short sections from a currently unnamed … Continue reading →

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Bear McCreary Live…

Posted on 21/06/2009 by philhaymes

Bear is one of my favourite musicians, period. His work as a composer for TV to date has been phenomenal without exception, showing a distinctive and new style and a complete understanding of how to represent musically what is happening … Continue reading →

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Video Cover – Drivin’ Through on Max

Posted on 14/06/2009 by philhaymes

I really love soundtracks, video games and great guitar so naturally I also love the F-Zero Guitar Recorded Version Soundtrack. I recorded this some point last year and it seems to get a lot of decent feedback on Youtube so … Continue reading →

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