hey hey y'know i make my own music too, mostly covers of video game music with a couple band songs thrown in. maybe give a listen to one of my covers if you have time i promise most of them are fun :3

Badass

i love it this cover, awesome!! ❤‍🔥🔥🎆

Simply beautiful and good very good extraordinary skills on the guitar👍👍! Well time for me to get cracking and practice on my guitar skills to one day to play as good as youฟ!!!!

Good! You're here. Glad to see my notices in the description worked! Alright. So. I want to start off by addressing some very unfortunate news that came out as I was finishing this project. For those who are unaware, it was announced recently that starting May 6th (tomorrow at time of writing), all news players will have to link a PlayStation Network account if they purchased the game for PC. For those of us who've bought the game already, we'll start seeing a mandatory login starting May 30th, and have until June 4th to link our PSN and Steam accounts. This is regarded as a serious invasion of consumer privacy, and I agree completely. The claim is that this is in the name of player security, which is very funny considering how Sony is known to have suffered major data breaches in the past. They are the LAST company on earth that has any business discussing data security. Now, it's not hard to make a PSN account. You don't even have to pay for one. So what's the big deal? Well, there's another serious aspect to this in addition to the breach of privacy: PSN is not available globally. Globally as in "all countries." Helldivers II has in fact been pulled from sale in 177 countries at time of writing. Because guess what? If this change goes through, there are countless players who straight up won't be able to play the game THAT THEY PAID MONEY FOR. No joke, there's one Level 90 Helldiver who will lose their access to the game if this goes through. I cannot overstate how far over the line this is. Sony has effectively burned straight through all of the goodwill that they may have had with this game. And to be clear: it's an amazing game. I wouldn't have covered this song if I didn't love the game. So please, spread the word about this where you can and do not let corporate greed destroy yet another of our beloved games. If you ask me this is a crystal clear example of why we need to have some regulation in the gaming industry. Now, to let an honest opinion through that I genuinely believe contains zero hot takes: I don't like that we have to have all these accounts just to play the games we pay for. I do not like it. I WILL not like it, and there's nothing anyone can say to make me think otherwise. I believe it should come down to: you pay for a game, you get to have the game, physically or digitally, and you get to play it. Forever. That's it. No always-online requirements for offline games, no additional accounts, none of that. No. Unfortunately, until a more fundamental change takes place, this is the system we're stuck with. We have to bring about that kind of change if we wanna throw this nonsense out for good. And no, at this point I'm not just talking about a Steam review bomb, though that is still one way of letting your voice be heard on this specifically so rock on. Oh, and before the one person who still respects Sony mentions it: we've read the off-platform EULA. PlayStation Network accounts and requirements to link them to Steam aren't even mentioned in it. Go ahead and erase that essay you just wrote on how much of as idiot I am, I already see through your nonsense. As one Redditor pointed out, claiming the game always required something but only implementing that requirement months after launch is disingenuous at best when such a requirement was never in the EULA to begin with. Okay I'm running out mental bandwidth for this. I hope you enjoy the song, at least! Hopefully my next project won't be so poorly timed. (and just in case this crowd shows up here because apparently they wanna rear their ugly heads again nowadays: hey gamergater, buzz off. i ain't your friend. go away.)

Tabsss pleaseee

you did a real good job mate. Loved this

This was one of my favorite games, and your playing is absolutely beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing 🪽❤️

what the hell this slaps haha and yes to forte supremacy

why haven't you streamed the latest games though :)

this is damn goooood, keep up :3

Littleroot college town..

Mix sounds awesome bro🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽

this is some premium content my friend, simply goated

IRON MAIDEN 4 LYFE..

Nice man

Nice

This sounds really good!

fucking sick cover man!

okay, time to reflect a little on this past year i guess! i like to think i started this year off pretty strong. i put out a bunch of songs, some of which were quite challenging and on some i really pulled out all the stops! one of the early songs i literally recorded, mixed and mastered in one night due to a trip i was going on the next morning. one of the songs even blew up! (well, for someone with under 100 subscribers at the time.) that early couple of months of 2023 was filled to bursting with music i loved, and it was sick to get to cover some of the most iconic video game songs! march brought with it a major change: working full time. i'm sure i don't have to spell out how that affects things here. long story short, having limited time on my hands meant i simply had less time and less mental bandwidth to use for music, and though i managed to pump out some killer covers in my opinion, it eventually had me burning out some. i was also trying hard to maintain a regular upload schedule, first weekly, then bi-weekly. eventually i just threw in the towel and took a couple months to focus on other things, namely, getting a professional certification for my line of work (avixa cts if you're curious) and twitch streaming. i've actually had a blast streaming this year! i played through the third and final game of the atelier ryza story, there was pokemon violet, i gave splatoon a try, and i experimented with making final fantasy xiv my main twitch game, which has been a nice change considering how chill a game it is (even if i still get nervous in dungeons)! i'd be remiss not to mention the regulars that come in, well, regularly, they're legends. i kept the guitars close by though, and with the help of bernth and his course, managed to work out a nice warmup and practice routine to go through. i'm working on those guitar skills, hopefully i'll see some more improvement in the new year! i've managed to settle into my new routines over the past months and have found new rhythms through which i can do what i seek to do. i've found that not rushing myself to upload a new music video as often as i can gives me all the room i need to work with, and putting out, say, a video a month is nice and flexible. i can focus on bringing out all my tools and shooting for the highest standard i can hit when i just let myself breathe and, sometimes, just let a project sit for a day or two. and when i come back to it, it's all still there, waiting to be synthesized into whatever i want it to be. ready to be thrown at even the toughest bosses! code of the universe ain't got nothin' on these jams for real. (you're a real one if you get it lol) so that's where i'm at right now! i can say with a fair degree of confidence that there won't be as much music next year, but, heavens willing, the music i do share will be absolutely freakin' SICK! that's what i ultimately want to do after all: make music that folks enjoy listening to. so here's to the metal, all the jams to come, the good folks who've elected to support and follow me, and a happy new year! rock on, pals.

absolutely amazing! Well done!

Amazing cover!

This is a good rendition

<3 <3 <3 wow! Great Cover!!!!!

memories

absolutely love this cover man, great work also your pikachu hat rocks!!!

This is sounding good

spot on!

banger

Pretty sure the same person listening to it doesn't add up views, or half of those would be me lol Great job! I hope to see more whenever your up for it

Beautiful

Bro deserves more views

My absolute favorite Atelier Workshop theme from the series. Such a jam. Great cover!

I appreciate you continuing to cover Atelier music despite the sad fact that the series is pretty niche. Antoher banger, too. Nicely done.

Another banger dude. Well done.

Okay, binging all of your Atelier stuff now. Hell yeah, dude.

DUDE super sick. I hope you cover more Atelier music in the future! Very well done!

Hey I like your cover, can I have by chance your bass tab pretty please ??

Very nice, insatiable from the shadowbringers expansion would be fire or a cover of a song that doesn't get many covers from xiv like hard to miss or hell i have a long list of interesting songs that could be covered if ever interested. I'd do it myself but i lack the equipment rn ;w;

dude i neeeed the tab for this, can u provide?

Peaceful and emotional feeling at the same time

You are wonderful on the guitar, but if you feel your technique needs improvements and you need to step away from covers for a while, thats perfectly fine. Life is unpredictable and its perfectly ok to tske a break to focus on something you need or wsnt to do. It should be yourself over the content, so no worries man. Do what you need to. Also, DAYUMNNNN THIS IS GOOD.

That's great quality work ! Hope you'll do more :)

GG's

Okay so, something I gotta talk about real quick. You probably noticed that this video was waaaaaayyyy low effort, even compared to the covers that had no video element at all. Let's get into what's going on. I had a lot of trouble finishing this cover. Not because I couldn't play my instruments well, for what it is I like to think I did alright and did the song justice, but there was a major roadblock when it came to nailing down some details. If you've listened to the original, which you should do if you haven't yet, you hear some fun runs especially on the brass and woodwinds. To put it simply, I just couldn't get these. This is actually not the end of the world, I have plenty of covers where I've simplified parts to make them a little easier to nail down, but for whatever reason it was especially frustrating here. Which isn't good, because it's kind of a small thing. It's also not the only thing, as, small confession, I had a lot of trouble just enjoying the process of making the music. I loved the music itself don't get me wrong, but the process of getting there was a hike and a half. You can kind of tell too, that the quality of my music has stagnated recently, with each cover, though thoroughly listenable (lol), not really improving upon what was learned from the last. Not only that, and I'll be blunt with this one: my guitar technique needs work. Lots of it. I don't know if this is the only one, but a reason for this is me getting in over my head and wanting to have a regular release schedule like all the cool kids have. I've wanted to have something like this ever since I started, but it was only at the start of this year that I actually tried committing to one. The thing is, life can throw a wrench in your plans at times. Having a full-time job and also trying to stream on twitch like all them cool kids can sometimes impact how much bandwidth you have for the tunes. I'm not giving myself much breathing room, and the music is suffering for it. If I continue like this I can't see it ending in anything other than me smashing my computer in a moment of frustration. (I've already had the "I should just delete my whole channel" moment, I won't do that don't worry.) So, where do I go from that? The first and most obvious thing is this: I might wanna step away from the covers for a bit. I'm not stepping away from this channel or music altogether, but I both need and want to do something else for a little while. I've listened to some amazing music by amazing musicians lately, and more and more I find myself wanting to explore musical ideas of my own. I often have ideas for riffs, motifs and progressions in my head, but I've never managed to develop them further than that. I'd like to give that a try. This is not an original album announcment by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd love to pursue that some day. I'll still be on twitch, though I may want to adjust that schedule again to make sure I'm not pushing myself too hard at it. (Also twitch's new affilate policy sucks so it's not like I'm especially fond of the website outside its creators lol) We'll see what happens! This was a lot, so if you read the whole I do appreciate it. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you when I see you!

This is nicely played

I (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤ this soundtrack pokemon

Never played the games, but love the songs from them. great job on this; it's awesome!

YESSSS YESSS THIS IS WHAT I NEED IN MY LIFE THSNK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EXIST

ANNOUNCEMENT 1: I plan to play Atelier Ryza 3 live on my twitch channel when it comes out! If I have my dates correct the live playthrough should begin on Friday, the 24th. Please consider tuning in then! I'm starting streams around 9:30 nowadays, and I always share the links on Twitter and Discord when going live. Announcement 2 (the important one): As I mentioned in the description (which you should read if you have time), a major challenge with this cover was time constraints. To put it simply, with my new job and my twitch channel to consider, I don't have as much time to sit down and record music anymore. I still have time to, just considerably less than before. So, let's get a couple things out there so we're all on the same page. First, I've decided to push my next cover back a week so I can take a breather. I've managed to release a cover every week thus far in 2023, and I hope to continue to release music regularly, but I shouldn't do so at the cost of my sanity. So while I will continue to strive to release regularly (that is my personal goal for this year, remember), I'll occasionally just take a week to relax, reflect on what I did well and what I didn't, and shift focus to other areas of my life so I can come back refreshed and ready to get back into the jams. Second, you may have noticed that my most recent covers have no video component to them. This is for the same reason. I normally film on Saturdays anyway so I could theoretically still do it, but considering that I'm now recording lead guitars as late in the week as, well, Saturday, you can see how that'd be a bit stressful. So, until something changes, the video elements will be put aside. Thanks for understanding the situation! I hope you'll keep on listening and rocking out with me :)