Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let's go into another Three Tune Tuesday post.
As always, thanks to @ablaze for making this series. Lots of people participate in it! Follow the tags to find a ton of good music recommendation.
I had something completely different in mind when I started to write today's post, but as happens so often with me, as soon as I opened YouTube, I saw one of the recommended videos and this pulled me in a completely different direction.
Ahh... maybe this is that ADHD thing @bozz is always talking about. Well, my distraction may be your gain, I don't know. Whatever the case may be, enjoy what I found!
Moyun - Hotel California
The twist here is that this famous song is rearranged and played on the traditional Chinese instrument, the guzheng—which looks very much like a Japanese koto to me, but I suppose there many be some differences.
Anyway, this is a really fantastic arrangement and great playing! Enjoy.
If you are one of the three people who hasn't heard the original before, listen here.
And after watching how great that was, I just had to explore this channel more. Here are two more songs that popped out at me, though I listened to far more (and I suggest you do too).
Sweet Child o' Mine (Guns n' Roses)
Another classic that just about everyone has heard and loves. This is a really unique arrangement of it, but it works really well.
Numb (Linkin Park)
While I was tempted to pick her arrangement of Michael Jackson's Beat It for my third pick, I had to go with this when I saw it. Though I can't say I listen to the original Linkin Park song often these days, back in the day I listened to it plenty.
As with the others, this is a great arrangement!
Bonus: Yoru ni Kaeru (Racing into the Night)
This is one you may not be familiar with. Yoasabi is really popular in Japan, so I have heard it many many times, and this cover immediately jumped out at me. Here is the original if you want to listen to it before listing to her cover.
So what's your favorite?
I thought the first song was the best because I couldn't recognize the song untill about mid way through. it was intense. 😉🔥✌️
Yeah, that's the best one!
Linda musica. Gracias por compartir.☺️
I learnt to play the guzhen many years ago when I was going through my jack of all trades master of none phase, I even bought a guzhen to practice at home. Needless to say I didn't stick with it. It was a very elegant instrument though, and I learnt to play a few pieces during my course, enjoyed it very much even though nit made my fingers hurt
Yeah I can imagine that makes your fingers hurt a lot until you get used to it. I would love to learn to play one, but I already have no time so I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
It's actually kind of interesting you don't see more modern artists playing around with stuff like this. It seems like something the Beatles would have been all over. Good stuff! Sometimes those tangents are well worth it!
Music was much more creative back then. Those 60s bands were willing to try anything. That seems to have slowly dwindled until these days very few groups are willing to take any risk at all. Oh well. Maybe it will turn around sometime in the future and we will get more creative sounds.
Nah,the old stuff will still be better! :)
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