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Turn your speakers up to 11 and prepare to ROCK! Light Guitar Rock combines elements of photography, music and even video games into a colourful video experience. Using a photography technique called "light painting", I took an individual photo for each fret and body component on my Gibson Les Paul and colourized each image in Photoshop. Using a piece of instrumental rock music I wrote myself, I synced the images corresponding to what fret was being played on the guitar in the song. And voila! You have this explosion of colour and sound known as Light Guitar Rock!

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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    really nice job, must have taken a while.
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 2 years ago
    Very impressive.
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  • Dave Deacon 2 years ago
    Great stuff! I can see everyone will want at least one of these.
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  • HCaminhos 2 years ago
    very cool... jejeje... rock on...
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  • suzenako 2 years ago
    great idea!!
    but, let me be a bit critical ;)
    and please, i don't want to hurt your feelings!
    that's not a 'loopy' video (what i waiting for), it's a video clip.
    and the riffs sometimes don't fit in time with the drums.. but i know is so difficult to play, record, and edit in 1 week and get a perfect clip. (mine has a lot of mistakes! in fact it was an exercise for me)
    by the way, i like the 1:57 part, and of course the idea is sooo cool!
    Keep up the good work!
  • Andrew Wilson plus 2 years ago
    Thanks, glad you liked it. :) Yes, I'm very aware of my lack of proper musical timing. I only had three evenings to finish the song, so I didn't have enough time to get it perfect.
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  • Jordan Megahy plus 2 years ago
    Incredible!
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  • Austen Goehring 2 years ago
    Good Job!
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  • Breezy Granzow 2 years ago
    wow that was incredible! awesome job!
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  • Billy Barber 2 years ago
    I have to second the lack of being "in the pocket" with the drums. You need to make sure you've got a solid drummer/drum track first and foremost and then....DON"T RUSH!!!...when you lay down the guitar. Also the mix is a bit lead heavy. Having said that, visually it's a very appealing idea.
  • Andrew Wilson plus 2 years ago
    Thanks. Once again, I am PAINFULLY aware of my undeveloped musical timing and drum track issues. I'm not a real drummer, nor am I a proper musician, and I had very little time to finish all this, so I had to slap together something that at least sounded decent so I had enough time to work I the most time consuming and challenging aspect: The video. If I do another one of these types of videos in the future, I'll be sure to spend more time and effort to make the music more professional and finalized. :)
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  • tomerinmotion.com 2 years ago
    very creative! only I think that that sound is a bit too high, you think its something to do with the compression?
  • Andrew Wilson plus 2 years ago
    It's most likely Vimeo's compression. It sounded ok to me, though. Although, did notice some clipping in editing. I need to tone down the lead part a bit, maybe.
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  • Paul Davis 2 years ago
    I think I'd have to quit my job to put something like this together. It would literally take me forever. =P

    This is awesome!
  • Andrew Wilson plus 2 years ago
    Nope, you just need a couple of "sick" days... ;)
    Hehe glad you liked it. :D
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  • Ivan Castell 2 years ago
    Rock & roll baby :B
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  • Anthony Petito 2 years ago
    coolllllllLLLLLL
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  • Harley 2 years ago
    I like to take the "light painting" photos a lot and I have made some stop-motion videos in the past and how many frames did you take? I'd love to do this experiment but i dont think it would compare to yours. This video is sick!
  • Andrew Wilson plus 2 years ago
    To make the job simpler, I only took an image for roughly every 2 frets on the neck, then 8 for the body. That way, instead of having over 130 images to deal with, I only had around 70. The hardest part of this project was taking every single image, naming them, cropping them, rotating them, then finally colouring them.
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  • Brice Necker 2 years ago
    awesome
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  • Boyan Iontchev 2 years ago
    very very creative idea:) well done
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  • Lisa M 2 years ago
    DUDE!! you rock! this is awesommmme! obviously took ages to complete, brilliant idea to lightpainting on the frets - 1:57 > ...wow! :D
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  • Grafitat Ecuador 2 years ago
    Super bacan panita!
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  • Lou Yardley 2 years ago
    I love this!
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  • Karl 2 years ago
    WOW! Excelente!!
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  • Epic Editor 2 years ago
    Lol not really in time but awesome anywho
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  • Gary Weber 2 years ago
    Really nice work! Very original.
    It gets to the core of the instrument.
    Keep up the fantastic work!
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  • Gabriel 2 years ago
    killer!
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  • 05studio plus 2 years ago
    creative rock
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  • freaksauce 2 years ago
    I like the idea, but I found it hard to listen to, sorry.
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  • deleted! 2 years ago
    fun! :)
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  • Aaron Bannasch plus 2 years ago
    This is inspiring.
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  • Diego Espinoza 2 years ago
    awesome!!! :)
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  • OCTNIUS 1 year ago
    Such a bad guitar playing but the video is cool! :D
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  • W B Ford's Winkyfaces 1 year ago
    Very Cool.. Andrew . I liked the sections were it follows were the fingers are on the neck....
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  • N1K 1 year ago
    fantastic and original idea wow
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  • bixr 1 year ago
    you rockk!!!
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  • Henry Dittrich 1 year ago
    cool
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  • Daniel Caramia 6 months ago
    it's creative. nice job.
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  • mpared plus 5 months ago
    its up at thecuriousbrain.com/
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