Hello, how are you? I welcome you to my first official post about music.

It had been about 5 years since I had practiced the electric guitar. By practicing I mean having a skill, enough to participate in a live performance.

It was 5 years of not having that skill to the maximum. So I wouldn't be ready to participate in any musical movement. And I was fine with that.

I was "fine" with just working and concentrating on making money. But my talents, I was going to hide them forever.

My friend Ricardo, who lives in another city, told me he had a sound interface. He wanted to come to my house to record something.

I said no. I had to work, I didn't have that much free time and I had things to pay for at the end of the month.

Ricardo insisted that it would be great to record something for fun. I didn't understand the purpose, but he was giving me back the opportunity to practice some music.

When I understood, I said, "Let's do this."

My guitar is a Washburn Stratocaster x-series. I remember the last thing I did was take the money from the last performance, buy new strings and try to sell them. I even pawned it to start a business that had nothing to do with music.

I made quite a bit of money and got the guitar back. I left it there as an asset in my room.

Ricardo never stopped practicing as I did. Despite not having practiced for so many years, I picked up the techniques quickly, and made the base of this cover as best I could. And I am quite satisfied with the result.

I now practice 2 hours a day.

This friend lent me cables to practice with, as I didn't have any. Mine were damaged.

He arrived with his Squier, his laptop, and his interface. And the patience he had with me was enormous. He had been told that I was a very good guitar player. What he didn't know was that I hadn't done anything with my electric guitar for 5 years.

Ricardo composed for this occasion a guitar solo almost at the end, it was great.

Well, we can say that I have returned to the practice of musical instruments and musical composition.

At least as before.

It's the first time I've done a cover with a sound interface and I already want mine.

We used Reaper as Daw and all the plugins and vst already had Ricardo on his laptop so all we had to do was record.

The video was recorded with an iphone 10 and edited with Capcut.

M-audio track duo interface.

Information:

• Artist: Killswitch Engage
• Album: As Daylight Dies
• Launch date: 2006
• Genre: Heavy metal

Imprisoned, inside this mind
Hiding behind the empty smiles
So simple (the anguish)
As it mocks me
Crawling back into the dark
Running, always running, into the distance
Stop me before I bleed, again
The echoes of my voice
Follow me down
The shadows I cast
Follow me down
(Deeper I'm falling)
Into the arms of sorrow
(Blindly descending)
Into the arms of sorrow
There must be serenity
The echoes of my voice (the echoes of my voice)
Follow me down
The shadows I cast (the shadows I cast)
Follow me down
(Deeper I'm falling)
Into the arms of sorrow
(Blindly descending)
Into the arms of sorrow
The demons of my own design
This horror must not remain
(Deeper I'm falling)
Into the arms of sorrow
(Blindly descending)
Into the arms of sorrow
There must be serenity
There must be deliverance
(Deeper I'm falling)
(Blindly descending)
(Deeper I'm falling)