<glacius:metadata>

    <title>Blackmore's Night - Memmingen</title>

    <description>

        My recording of Blackmore's Night's "Memmingen"

    </description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="34">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    I first learned about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmore's_Night">Blackmore's 

    Night</a> by watching a YouTube video of some sweet gameplay of the pivotal

    tower defense game <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Tower_Defense">Desktop

    Tower Defense</a>. Some dude was playing through the game with

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IzVUOtMHa4"><em>The Storm</em></a> as

    background music. I was mesmerized. Kind of.<glacius:cite>I tried to find

    this video on YouTube, and even though I found multiple 15-year-old Desktop TD

    gameplay videos I didn't find the one with <em>The Storm</em>. It was probably taken

    down for copyright violations. I remember the days when a man could just upload

    copyrighted material to the Internet and it wouldn't get taken down. Alas.</glacius:cite>

</p>

<p>

    It's pretty much exclusively 

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_fair">Renaissance Faire</a> music,

    with old-timey lutes and stuff, but Blackmore can't escape his <em>Smoke on the Water</em>

    phase and he plays some mean licks on occasion.

</p>

<p>

    Anyway, <em>Memmingen</em> isn't one of those. It's just a short, 

    classical-inspired<glacius:cite>You know it's classical-inspired because it

    ends on the world's most obvious Picardy 3rd.</glacius:cite>

    acoustic guitar solo with some fake strings in the background. I'm assuming it's

    named after the German town <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memmingen">Memmingen</a>.

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Blackmore">Blackmore</a> spent a lot of time

    in Germany at one point in his life according to Wikipedia.

</p>

<glacius:figure glacius:src="memmingen-book.jpeg" type="image">

    <caption><em>Memmingen</em> score via Japanese eBay</caption>

</glacius:figure>

<h2>Recording</h2>

<p>

    Capo on II. Unlike every other <glacius:link category="Guitar">guitar</glacius:link>

    <glacius:link category="Music recording">recording</glacius:link> I've made, I actually

    recorded this one live. As usual, I half-assed the mixing so the bass is just kind

    of overblown, but I don't have the patience to twiddle those knobs.

</p>

<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="memmingen-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="memmingen-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of Ritchie Blackmore's <em>Memmingen</em> from <em>Blackmore's Night</em>'s debut

        album <em>Shadow of the Moon</em>.

    </caption>

</glacius:figure>

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<glacius:figure 

    glacius:src="memmingen-ardour.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="memmingen-ardour-thumb.jpeg" 

    type="image">

    <caption>Screenshot of my <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a> setup</caption>

</glacius:figure>