Here's a cover of Shadow's Theme from Final Fantasy VI on the SNES (better known as Final Fantasy 3 to American gamers who played it when it was released in 1994!). This track sounds vaguely spaghetti western-ish but with a whistle leitmotif that sounds a bit more like a theme for ninja with a dog, I guess! The whole Final Fantasy VI soundtrack is a masterpiece with numerous classic songs, so I decided to play around with this tune that is amongst the simpler, more straightforward themes.
For tracking, I double tracked all rhythm guitar and acoustic guitar parts, and the lead guitars were double track, although in a few spots the double is a harmony. The bass featured some double thumb parts in the bridge I put together in the middle. For the keyboards, in the intro I used the stock whistle sound on the keyboard which sounds remarkably SNES quality, but switched to Surge XT synth sounds elsewhere in the song to get some dirtier/noisier patches. Drums were pretty routine although I put a crazy amount of reverb on the cross sticking at the beginning which sounded absolutely bananas in solo! The bridge part/guitar solo section I comped as I tracked, starting with the outline from the drums, and vamping over the intro Emin chord. Nothing was improvised, but I wrote each new layer as I tracked each instrument. I actually also used this approach to write the extra harmony and rhythm guitars that kick in after the first pass of the song.
All in all, a great tune that was fun to build extra guitar parts on, and I'm continuing to really enjoy the sounds I'm getting from that Yamaha acoustic guitar, it sounds killer!
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