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Plans for this week (things have been a little hectic lately)

Hey guys. Just thought I'd give you a little update about future content. Unfortunately, I've been dealing with a bit of a family emergency on my side. While the relative isn't someone I know super personally, they are close to my mother and I would like to be there for her if possible. If things go...

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A link to my Discord! [There is a Patron-Only chat as well]

All you have to do is join right here: https://discord.gg/Xkjkkp3  I'm still learning about it, but after this, I can make you a patron so you can access the patron chat as well.

To those who don't know what this is, it's esse...

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This Week's Cover [Backing Track]


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This Week's Cover [Early Download]


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Song Request Time! (May 2017)

It's finally time! I will be adding options for original music as well, but this month will just be for covers. To those who don't know what this is, all you have to do is suggest a song that fits my given theme. If I like it, I will cover it and give it to you guys. If there's enou...

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Upcoming videos and covers/ideas

[Covers] - I have a few games and anime themes lined up for this. This week, I'll actually be doing a song from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's battle mode (specifically the Luigi's Mansion theme). It's really damn cool, if you havent heard it yet. I also have Kass' Theme and a Dark Beast Gan...

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New How-To [special backing track]

Not putting this one up for purchase or anything, so for now, you guys are the only ones with this...thing.

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New How-To [Free Early Download]

Made this entire song and video in a single day. Still editing. I want to die (but still, it was a lot of fun)

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Life Will Change - Persona 5 (Metal Cover)

This game's soundtrack is so damn good. How could I possibly resist making a cover from it? As funny/dumb as this sounds, I'm actually really happy with the video thumbnail. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this cover! There is definitely more to come!

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Upcoming videos, song requests, and how-to album (UPDATE)

Hey guys! Just wanted to update you on a few things. 

[COVERS] I'm planning to continue Zelda at some point, as well as Persona 5. I would also like to take a crack at some Kirby again with the new mini 3DS games that were released. As for covers that are done and waiting to ...

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New song sneak peek (rough demo) - Opinions are welcome!

Here's my Synthwave Metal song I've been working on. Still figuring out the mixing/mastering and I still need to add some parts here and there, but I'm definitely excited to get this mix going.

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This Week's Cover [Backing Track]


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This Week's Cover [Early Download]

This was one hell of a groovy track to make. Persona 5 is great!

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RED - Shady Cicada (How-To Make a Math-Rock Song)

This is the hardest song I ever wrote and recorded, but it was such an incredibly gratifying experience, especially with the amount of views and success it has been getting. Almost at 16K views already. I seriously appreciate you guys pushing me further to become more ambitious when it comes to doin...

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Upcoming Plans

Just a small list of things to come. 

A small update video will be available soon announcing my new "How-To" album (with tabs included). All $10 patrons will get it for free when it's out. 

After that, there will be a cover on saturday of "Life Will Change" from Persona 5. This sou...

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New Original Song [Free Download]

Here it is! Stay tuned for the album. It'll be completely free (as well as the tabs) to all of you $10+ patrons.

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Divine Beat Vah Ruta Battle - Breath of the Wild (Metal Cover)

Probably one of the most intense themes in the whole game. I'm actually surprised it was so highly requested. I didn't think so many people would remember it! I wanted to do it during a thunderstorm, but the one time it happened, it was already night time. We'll get proper atmosphere one day!

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Plans for this week + Common Updates starting next week

Right, so I've been late the past couple of weeks because work has been killing me, but the new rewards are here and I'm getting a bunch of work done. The updates will be coming much earlier now. With that being said, this week will most likely be a new How-To in the style of Math Rock. It is the ha...

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New rewards are here!

Yes, yes. New rewards are finally being implemented! There are more coming, but I'm very excited to announce the ones that are available now.  So here we go!

[$1+ Reward Tier] - Every single Patron from $1 up will be able to join a Patron-Only server on Discord where we can talk about..anythi...

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What's in store for the next couple weeks

I'm trying to pick up the pace on my originals and How-To vids, because as I've mentioned before, those are the videos that are making my channel grow. For example, my last two covers ranged from around 3-4K views. The How-To that came out AFTER them is ranging around 11K. It's crazy. So I'm going t...

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Backing Tracks for this week's cover and next week's


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2 New Covers [Early Downloads]

Bam! Breath of the Wild hype. I may take a break after these so people don't get tired of them, but we'll see! I might also add more to Kass' theme. Hope you guys enjoy!

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Thank you all so much. New Rewards coming by this week. + cover announcements

Hey, guys. I have received a few new patrons this week, and it means so much to me. I don't know how to word it correctly, but all of the viewers (especially you guys) bring me so much happiness, its crazy. From someone who has been kicking back depression forever and wondering is things were ever g...

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Cover coming tomorrow! [Early Download]

Yes, this cover may or may not be for April Fools. The download itself is just a normal cover though, so no worries there ;D

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New original [Free Early Download]

This is the new How-To. How to write a J-Rock song! My favorite by far.  Backing track coming soon.

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Videos coming over the next 2 days

Right. So there was only going to be one video this week, but due to April Fool's Day, I went ahead and made a quick cover for it. Yes, the video itself has something funny, but the full cover will be in the download section. It's a mini cover of the Tadtone melody from Zelda: Skyward Sword! And it'...

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Mipha's Theme (Rock Cover) - Breath of the Wild

Yep. Another BotW cover! The spree is ending soon, But as someone who mainly does covers of newer games, this is really helping out. There was a bit of a drought with new popular songs until this game came out. That being said, I will have more content from other games coming soon. I'm seriously enj...

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Calamity Ganon (Metal Cover) - Breath of the Wild

The hype train cannot stop! (Although it'll stop very soon, because I don't want to overdo it on the viewers).  This is one of my favorite tracks in the whole game, and it was an absolute pleasure to do. It also didn't have ridiculous time signature changes every 3 seconds like hyrule castle (w...

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Another exclusive download (from my zelda collab video)

If you haven't seen it, here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0-B_ZlJ1w8

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2 Early Song Downloads

I might add more to Mipha's Theme, but these are some of my favorite covers yet. Feel really good to be covering some new Zelda.

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