Recording: Dark Souls - Main Menu Theme

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This is my attempt at arranging the music you hear in the main menu (when you select Load Game, anyway) and character creation screens in Dark Souls, originally composed by Motoi Sakuraba.

I tried to preserve the harpiness of the original harp prelude by arranging it such that as many notes as possible can ring out, with minimal fingering changes. As such, I ended up with a rather odd tuning (Open D#7M9).

I used an GoPro HD Hero 3 to record from both angles - the neck cam footage was recorded afterwards whilst playing along to the prior recording to ensure synchronisation, also explaining why the headstock mounted camera was absent from the other recording angle.

Thanks once again to the pungent yet udderless Brishan Palmer for assisting with the audio recording and mixing, and Dr. B. Bird for squawking at the start.

Tuning (from high to low, no laughing) - F A# G D A# D#
Capo - Fret 2