Sleepless City Treno (Ver2) - Final Fantasy IX | Fingerstyle Guitar

Here's an updated rendition of an old video. It's a re-do of my cover of the FF9 track, "Sleepless City Treno", also known as "The City That Never Sleeps". I re-recorded this song for a few reasons. Part of it was that I wanted to improve the audio and video quality from the original recording. Plus, there were some minor changes to how I played certain parts of the song. I also tried to slow down the tempo from the first cover because it felt like I was playing too fast back then, but I may have ended up slowing it down just a tad too much, 'cause now it feels slower than the original track from the game lol. But the main reason I wanted to do this basically boils down to one thing: the thumbpick.

When I recorded my first cover of this track nearly 5 years ago, I had absolutely zero experience using thumbpicks. When I finally learned how to use one, I immediately started thinking about re-recording this song, because it had so many walking bass lines - and I thought using a thumbpick would really bring out those notes. I did manage to record myself playing this song with a thumbpick in a live gig a few years back (link to that video below), but there was a lot of background noise in that video. Interestingly enough, I had some people comment that the noise and audience chatter actually added to the atmosphere of the song, making it feel like I was really playing in the streets of the city that never sleeps. Regardless, I wanted to record a clean version of the arrangement with a thumbpick. Hopefully, I have achieved that with this video. 😃

Link to original cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CKtB6mjw60

Link to the live performance version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNooV3W5dmg

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Видео Sleepless City Treno (Ver2) - Final Fantasy IX | Fingerstyle Guitar канала Anton Betita