The Midnight - Sunset (Leppardized Guitar Cover)

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I think it was around 2016 when I first started getting into 'synthwave' and I remember it being quite exciting and refreshing to hear that type of music. The excitement started to fade when I realised that a lot of it was essentially 'electronic dance music' but with 80's sounding synths and production. The Midnight were one of the few artists doing actual songs and I rank them the best in that genre. 'Jason' was the first track I heard and ever since I've been a big fan. I have fond memories of listening to their 'Kids album over the summer of 2018. We had a good summer in Scotland and it was the soundtrack to twilight nights, walking to my car after a late or night shift at Edinburgh Airport. :)

Anyway, really fun track to play that has some quite challenging guitar work already, especially the last solo lick, but I thought I would add a little more in the Leppardized style. Hope you enjoy! :)

'Leppardized' is my way of adding interesting guitar parts to a song that has little to no guitar in it, in an attempt to make it more like the Hysteria era of Def Leppard. Although really it is just an excuse for me to play over pop. :)

You can find more Leppardized covers here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuh0lQogSUm8S5-sMLeSaaLLnhTHXCTDN

I use a Charvel DK24 (it's purple) into a Boss Me50 into a Palmer Pdi-09 into a Focusrite Scarlett into my computer running Logic Pro X.

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My headphones are purposely like that so the cable stays out the way.

I have a Patreon where I upload my notation notes for all my new covers and I am going through my old ones too. But I also provide custom notation and video lessons content there or at my bwmguitarlessons@gmail.com address. Please get in touch if you want help playing the music you love. https://www.patreon.com/bwm5150