Emerald Green Summer (Instrumental inspired by the Afghan Girl)

[hank987]

Your awesome tone always shine thorough! Your licks have a nice Eastern feel which wraps around the picture. Can wait to hear more!

[MeanGreenLizard]

Simply beautiful and very atmospheric. Well played and arranged!

[SE]

Just top class guitar, with lots of emotion, this is some of your best work Tommy, lots of influences, but it,s instantly Tommy Satchwood.

[Gary F]

 FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!
I agree with S.E.,I think this is some of your best work!!! Great arrangement!!Great writing!!!
Amazing speed and precision!!! WOW what talent!!!

 Gary

[Jim1970]

This is my Second Listen!!!  Digging it.

Ah, Finally the Picture!!   NICE!!!

JIM

[Tangled Wires]

Another musical masterclass Tommy, full of great melodies and out of this world guitar skills.

This composition is right up there with some of your best in my opinion.

[Ferryman_1957]

Tommy, this is a superb track and I love the back story. It builds very well and the heavy guitars really crank the emotion to a high level when they come in. Excellent playing as always but as Andy points out, the restraint in your playing is really effective, you don't overwhelm the piece. Great dynamics, a fantastic track.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Satchwood]

Sorry for the long post...........your comments have inspired me this fine Sunday morning!

I spent the whole day Saturday with my son watching him play little league baseball, then did a movie, and then went fishing for catfish until late, so I need to catch up on my posts and listen to all this great music on here!  Now there's a contrast, between this Afghan girl's life, and my American son's life....

Thank you everyone for listening and commenting on my songs!   Your wonderful comments inspire me to try to record more originality in my songs and to break some of the molds that I have inadvertently generated in some of my music in the past.  

And now, to your comments that I deeply appreciate reading:

Tony, my ending was a bit abrupt, I agree with you; when I get around to working on part 2, I will probably fade into some piano music and singing.  Thank you for your comments and for not wanting the song to stop!  Honestly, many songs on this forum have the same affect on me as well!

Gnasty: I too, like how it starts off like a calm day before the storm.  I was trying to bump up the emotion.  I much appreciate your comments!  They are always wicked to read dude 

Kari: Thank you for thinking my music is beautiful! Wow!  And, good ear picking up on my melancholy melody vibe. The story is a bit sad, one I can't really comprehend, but it has deeply impacted me this weekend.  Thank you for the kind words!

SteveB:  Thank you for the link, I hope you liked the song as well.  The before and after picture really fits my composition, like J.G. pointed out.  Thank you for taking the time to listen and post the awesome link to the story, Steve!  I think that you helped me with the bitter sweet impact of this composition on many people on!

J.G. : Thank you for sharing your insight ~ indeed I was trying to contrast her younger years with her latter years, and you picked up on that nicely with your words.  Thank you for the compliments!

James: Thank you Jim, for the "fantastic" comment!  I can't believe that my tune put the Master Lyricist & Singer at a loss for words...wOw!

AndyR: Thank you for sharing your experience with listening to this song and for checking out Steve's wiki link.  The piercing green eyes~ fantastic picture by Steve McCurry, and that expression of the Afghan girl just sent me on a little musical journey.  I agree, I think everyone should interpret musical expression and the mental heart pictures it conjures, on their own~that is truly the magic of music.  Thank you for the critique and for taking the time to listen so intently and then commenting in such detail!  I hope the picture and my tune affected you in a wonderful way, like it did me when creating it.

LG: Thank you for the kind words; I'm glad that you thought it was magical and that your looking forward to part 2!

TC: Thanks for listening ~ I'm glad that you were impressed!  I think listening to the tune and looking at the picture is rather a haunting experience and if you can do that through the entire song, you're a better man than I...

Hank: Thank you for picking up on the Eastern feel of my guitar playing, thank you for listening & compliment!

MGL: Welcome to Songcrafters~you must be fairly new; thank you for your kind words, I'm glad that you liked my piece!

SE: "instantly Tommy Satchwood" ... what a cool comment!  I was trying for LOTS of emotion on this, and I'm glad that you and many others here picked up on that.  Hmm, my best work...wow, thank you!

Gary: I'm glad that you and SE both thought that this was my best work!  Thank you for the humbling remarks and kind words ~ made my day!

JFJ: ...second listen....that's always a great compliment ~ thanks for digging it man!
Andrew: Thank you for your great compliments ~ wow, "masterclass & out-of-this-world" ....i'm not worthy, but thank you, non the less!

Nigel:   I'm also glad that you and Andy didn't think that I overwhelm the piece, and that you thought that I used restraint in my playing; I know I sometimes over do it (I definitely do that on my blues tracks).  I'm glad that you thought it was superb (Thank you!) and loved the story behind it, and also you picked up on the emotional-crank-up that I was attempting to incite! ...that hopefully dynamically lifted the track at the end (representing the Afghan Girl's hellish life that may have cost her pure innocence, well displayed in the before and after pictures of her)

Please let me know if I missed anyone; I was in the mood to thank each and everyone of you for listening and commenting ~ it was exciting to use the affect of a simple photograph to inspire an instrumental piece.  Your many comments have touched me today!  I do have several verses of lyrics in the working and hope to continue with this idea a bit more, if I may....

~*~ thank you ALL my friends!                   ~Tommy..

[Vanncad]

Cool - This is really good Satch!

The intro guitar reminded me a little of Dire Straits, but it has a mid-eastern feel to me too.
The way you blend in the heavy guitar is very cool.
Very inspirational piece man.

Your skills are impressive (as always!)!

[Saijinn Maas]

Whoa! This cool as hell! Great playing! Loved the change to the more rockin vibe, but excellent job meshing everything together. Lots of emotion and definitely lesson in technique!