Renaud Louis-Servais dirige 50 guitaristes sur une œuvre de Michel Legrand !

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Renaud Louis-Servais dirige 50 guitaristes sur une œuvre de Michel Legrand !

<h3><strong>PROJECT&nbsp;PRESENTATION</strong></h3> <p><strong>Fifty Plugged Guitars</strong>&nbsp;is a musical concept imagined by guitar player <strong>Renaud LOUIS-SERVAIS *</strong>.</p> <p>It is a fifty electric guitar players orchestra for which Renaud Louis-Servais wrote modern arrangements of &laquo;&nbsp;classical sounding&nbsp;&raquo; tunes. In this new orchestra, accompanied by a &laquo;&nbsp;rock&nbsp;&raquo; rythm section (bass/drums), overdriven guitars take the place of symphonic traditional strings instruments (violin, cello, double bass, piano). Some bass parts are played with electric bass, some other with double bass and a bow.</p> <p>For Renaud Louis-Servais, <strong>Michel Legrand</strong>&rsquo;s** music always been a magnificent starting point &nbsp;for new arrangements, as it is lyrical, at the crossroads of classical music and modern music&hellip; In short, timeless&nbsp;!</p> <p>Contacted, <strong>Michel Legrand gave his full support and agreement </strong>for this project.</p> <p>The project&rsquo;s first step is an HD video recording of the whole <strong>Fifty Plugged Guitars</strong>&nbsp;playing a Michel Legrand&rsquo;s tune arranged by Renaud Louis-Servais,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;What are you doing the rest of your life?&quot;</strong>, the 28th of october 2018 in <strong>L&rsquo;Empreinte&nbsp;</strong>(a theater in the suburb of Paris), without any audience. Once edited, this video will be shared on the main video hosting websites (YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo&hellip;) and social medias (Facebook, Twitter&hellip;).</p> <p>The second step is to contact producers to involve them into a <strong>full show</strong> production, including numerous Michel Legrand&rsquo;s songs arrangements. Nowadays, a beautiful YouTube video is really helpful to convince producers of a project&rsquo;s relevance.</p> <p>This <strong>volunteer</strong> project needs a money raising to pay the video filming team, sound engineer, tee-shirts making, fifty guitar players greeting and food, etc&hellip; through a crowfunding campaign and with the financial help&nbsp; of sponsors.</p> <p><strong>PROJECT &lsquo;S ORIGINALITY </strong></p> <p>Even if managing large guitars ensembles is not a new concept, part of the project&#39;s originality&nbsp;is about the symphonic approach of it.</p> <p>Moreover, the idea to combine in one project <strong>guitar fans</strong> as well as <strong>Michel Legrand&rsquo;s music lovers</strong> is really new.</p> <p>And last but not least, a part of this project&rsquo;s originality comes from the <strong>players themselves</strong>. The fact that they are coming from the professional field as well as from the amateur field is really new. This is allowed by the particular arrangement writing, conceived so that each player only plays relatively simple &laquo;&nbsp;note-for-note&nbsp;&raquo; parts. The final harmony is the result of all those intricated guitar parts, with several difficulty levels, so that some guitar parts are really &quot;playable&quot; by not necessarily professional guitar players and some other parts are much more difficult to play.</p> <p>So, for sure, what we have here is an <strong>&laquo;&nbsp;outside of the norm&nbsp;&raquo; project</strong>&nbsp;!</p> <p>*&nbsp;<em>The French Renaud Louis-Servais is one of the most accomplished guitarists of the jazz-rock-fusion stage with every type of guitars (electric, classical, folk, jazz, guitar-synthe&hellip;). Renaud likes to surprise and transcend musical divides. His first album &ldquo;ILUNA&rdquo; (2011), recorded and mixed by Steve Prestage (Gino Vannelli, Gary Moore, Peter Gabriel...) mirrored what had always been driving him musically: the pleasure to move freely between &lsquo;metal&rsquo;, progressive music, jazz and rock, with a lot of attention paid to composition and sound quality.</em></p> <p><em>In 2015, he released the album &ldquo;EPIC CIRCUS&rdquo;, recorded and mixed between France, United States and Australia. Real artistic achievement, well-known international musicians take part in the album, as Virgil Donati (Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale...), Philippe Saisse (Al Di Meola, Chaka Khan, Al Jarreau, David Sanborn...) or Christophe Cravero (Billy Cobham). The music video Epic Circus shot in Los Angeles is available on YouTube and well reflects this style fusion / progressive rock that Renaud&rsquo;s fans enjoy so much.</em></p> <p><em>Fond of musical pedagogy, he took part in different methods and regularly hold Master Classes about improvisation, technic, pedal using and fusion play. He taught the guitar to more than 500 students in 20 years, such as Callum The Heavy Metal Kid (11, finalist of Australia Got Talent), Manou Rao (13, India) or Tina S (18, 100 millions views on her YouTube channel). Renaud posted also numerous videos demonstrating his guitar solos, covers and compositions on his own YouTube channel.</em></p> <p><em><strong>** </strong>Born in 1932, Michel Legrand is a French prolific musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many memorable songs. He is best known for his often haunting, jazz-tinged film music. His celebrated scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song &quot;The Windmills of Your Mind&quot; from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968). He has also recorded more than one hundred albums with international musical stars and worked with such diverse musicians as Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan and Shirley Bassey.</em></p>

Allocation of funds

<p>- Video filming and editing 50%<br /> - Tee-Shirt making for guitar players 9%<br /> - Greeting and food for guitar players 9%<br /> - KissKissBankBank fee 8%<br /> - Musical equipment rental 7%<br /> - Event managing organization fee 6%<br /> - Miscellaneous costs 11%</p> <p>Notice: even if the video is filmed on the 28th of october, the crowd funding will end on the 15th of october, which is the video filming&rsquo;s end theoretical date.</p>

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Your name in the end credits of the video!

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As a contributor, you will appear in the end credits of the video. This is also the case for all other counterparties!

1 SAVAREZ bottle opener & key tag !

€10

  • 12 contributions
Enjoy this cool bottle opener & key tag, very useful for rockers !

Le dernier album de Renaud Louis-Servais (en MP3) !

€10

  • 8 contributions
Le guitariste français Renaud Louis-Servais est l’un talents les plus accomplis de la scène jazz-rock-fusion actuelle. Son second album "Epic Circus" (2015) a été enregistré avec des artistes de renommée mondiale tels que le batteur Virgil Donati (Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Scott Henderson…) et les claviéristes Philippe Saisse (The Rolling Stones, Al Jarreau, David Bowie, Al di Meola...) et Christophe Cravero (Jean-Marie Ecay, Billy Cobham, Didier Lockwood...) ! Le clip vidéo "Epic Circus" tourné à Los Angeles et disponible sur YouTube illustre bien cette couleur "prog-rock/west coast" que les fans de Renaud apprécient tant...

One month subscription to GUITARE LIVE online guitar lessons !

€15

  • 6 contributions
Guitar Live is an educational website dedicated to the guitar. From learning to perfecting the most advanced techniques of the guitar, Guitar Live aims to help you progress with more than 800 online guitar lessons in videos, plans analyzed to develop your phrasing and courses to master the guitar techniques from A to Z

1 LA CHAINE GUITARE Tee-shirt !

€20

  • 1 contribution
LA CHAINEGUITARE (THE GUITAR CHANNEL) will relay information on its website and will also conduct interviews and behind the scenes footage of the project! The mission of La Chaîne Guitare is to (re) discover the guitar from all angles and in all styles of music through meetings with musicians, luthiers, manufacturers of amplifiers or effects, masterclasses and chronicles pedagogical, hardware testing and a private community where the passion amplifier is running at full speed!

1 LANEY Tee-shirt !

€20

  • 2 contributions
LANEY, an English manufacturer of guitar amplifiers since 1967, will supply Fifty Plugged Guitars 50 guitar amplifiers Laney CUB12R free of charge through its SAICO distributor. Laney Amplification is a British company that is part of the pioneering brands of hard rock / heavy metal sound in close competition with Marshall, Orange or Vox...

1 NEWLOC Tee-shirt !

€20

  • 7 contributions
NEWLOC is a famous french backliner, i.e. a musical equipment renter. It will provide music stands and stairs necessary for the reharsals and video for free ! Without the backline, a concert, a studio session, couldn’t be done under good conditions, and Newloc is one of the best in this domain !

1 SAVAREZ Hexagonal Explosion electring strings set!

€20

  • 11 contributions
SAVAREZ, French manufacturer of strings since 1770, strong of its know-how, returns on the market with a new range called Hexagonal Explosion, a range which is declined in 6 games, from 9-42 until 12-52 (for the guitar). These strings have been the subject of many treatments in order to obtain a perfect flexibility for the bending and an extremely precise response.

1 SAVAREZ Tee-shirt!

€20

  • 2 contributions
A beautiful T-shirt, which bears the colors of SAVAREZ, French manufacturer of strings since 1770, privileged partner of Fifty Plugged Guitars!

1 SAVAREZ guitar strap !

€30

  • 4 contributions
Enjoy these beautiful, practical and robust straps! SAVAREZ, French manufacturer of strings since 1770, is a privileged partner of the Fifty Plugged Guitars, since it graciously supplies the fifty guitarists with straps and rope games and also supports the project through a financial participation ...

3 months subscription to GUITARE LIVE online guitar lessons !

€45

    Guitar Live is an educational website dedicated to the guitar. From learning to perfecting the most advanced techniques of the guitar, Guitar Live aims to help you progress with more than 800 online guitar lessons in videos, plans analyzed to develop your phrasing, courses to master the guitar techniques from A to Z ...

    1 hour skype lesson with Renaud Louis-Servais !

    €60

    • 2 contributions
    Guitar teacher for more than 25 years, Renaud Louis-Servais has taught guitar to over 500 students! A recognized teacher in the small world of high-level guitar teachers, he has worked with students such as Tina S (age 18, more than 100 million YouTube views) and Callum The Heavy Metal Kid (age 11, Australia, finalist of Australia Got Talent 2016). Since 2014, he has been hosting a vast series of courses on the "Fusion" game, which is a great success. Finally, his YouTube channel presents a large number of videos, from excerpts of his own concerts to covers of famous guitarists (Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Steve Lukather, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale ...).

    1 year free acces to LA CHAÎNE GUITARE !

    €80

    • 2 contributions
    LA CHAINEGUITARE (THE GUITAR CHANNEL) will relay information on its website and will also conduct interviews and behind the scenes footage of the project! The mission of La Chaîne Guitare is to (re) discover the guitar from all angles and in all styles of music through meetings with musicians, luthiers, manufacturers of amplifiers or effects, masterclasses and chronicles pedagogical, hardware testing and a private community where the passion amplifier is running at full speed!

    6 months subscription to UGuitarTool

    €100

    • 1 contribution
    UGuitarTool is an educational structure designed by the excellent Jean Fontanille, with teachers such as Renaud Louis-Servais, Christophe Godin, Pascal Mulot and Pascal Vigné. Its primary purpose is obviously to offer educational content in different forms. The 6 months of subscription will allow you to enjoy 4 classes per week live, on beginner / intermediate / advanced or "Patator" :) In addition you will be able to access a dedicated community but also to course materials provided.

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    RENAUD LOUIS-SERVAIS GROUP’s last album!

    €15

    • 5 contributions
    French guitarist Renaud Louis-Servais is one of the most accomplished talents of the current jazz-rock-fusion scene. His second album "Epic Circus" (2015) was recorded with world-renowned artists such as drummer Virgil Donati (Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Scott Henderson ...) and keyboardists Philippe Saisse (The Rolling Stones, Al Jarreau, David Bowie, Al di Meola ...) and Christophe Cravero (Jean-Marie Ecay, Billy Cobham, Didier Lockwood ...)! The video clip "Epic Circus" shot in Los Angeles and available on YouTube illustrates this color "prog-rock / west coast" that fans of Renaud appreciate so much ...
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    1 FIFTY PLUGGED GUITARS Tee-shirt !

    €30

    • 10 contributions
    The original Fifty Plugged Guitars tee-shirt!!! A proof of your support to this incredible project!
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    1 year subscription to GUITARE XTREME magazine

    €50

    • 5 contributions
    GuitareXtreme, bimonthly magazine, one of the biggest sales of specialized paper guitar magazines, is a must in the sector, with interviews, gear, artists and lessons! This counterparty offers you 6 issues (1 year subscription) + 1 Amplitube software (version 4) + 3 months premium subscription to UGuitarTool online course !