The Lady to Her guitar [ SSC7 Poetry Challenge]
Progressive Trance 2010, Uplifting Vocal Trance 2010, Live‑Guitar Trance
Tempo: 134 BPM
Key: G minor
Vocals: Ethereal female lead (soprano, light British accent), airy backing choir; optional male whisper FX layer
Instrumentation: felt piano, warm acoustic guitar intro, supersaw stack, distorted lead guitar in drops, rolling trance bass, orchestra string pad, pluck arpeggio, gated claps, white‑noise risers, sub‑drop booms
FX: heavy side‑chain, big‑room reverb tails, stereo delay on guitar, plate reverb on vox, glitch‑stutter chops in drops, OTT parallel compression, tape saturation on master
Structure: Intro (piano+acoustic gtr) → Verse 1 → Build‑Up 1 → DROP 1 (supersaw+electric gtr) → Break 1 (piano solo) → Verse 2 → Build‑Up 2 → DROP 2 (bigger) → Bridge (clean gtr & pads) → Final DROP 3 (layered choir) → Outro (piano reprise)
Classic 2010 festival anthem; emotional, cinematic, goose‑bump
For him who struck thy foreign string, I ween this heart hath ceased to care; Then why dost thou such feelings bring To my sad spirit, old guitar? It is as if the warm sunlight In some deep glen should lingering stay, When clouds of tempest and of night Had wrapt the parent orb away. It is as if the glassy brook Should image still its willows fair, Though years ago, the woodman’s stroke Laid low in dust their gleaming hair. Even so, guitar, thy magic tone Has moved the tear and waked the sigh, Has bid the ancient torrent flow Although its very source is dry… [End]
