The Wind (Classical Guitar)

Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Performed by Brian the Amateur

(Listen at the bottom of the page)

I first heard the song at Season 7, Episode 23 of How I Met Your Mother, and I was grabbed immediately. I dreamed of being able to play this song, but then I didn’t even have a guitar. 

To learn more about how I first started record this song, click here to go to the page “The Wind”, where I have elaborated more.

When I first tried recording the acoustic guitar version with the guitar plugged into the speaker, it gave me a really unpleasant sound for such a peaceful music. That’s when I thought, hey, maybe I should buy a classical guitar to get more of that muted sound.

I asked my friend Aileen, who plays professional with classical guitars, if Cat Stevens used the classical guitar in his song, but she said no. Then, I figured, I should buy one anyways because I might one day play the song “Spanish Romanza”. When I bought this (click here to read more) guitar, I immediately started playing “The Wind”, and the sound shocked me. It gave me such a warm sound, that I am drunk in it. My friend Aileen was right, the sound of a classical guitar was not the one I heard in Cat Steven’s original song, but damn it does it sound good. That’s when I decided, hey, I should do a separate song and video, just for the classical guitar version of the song. Maybe I will even sing it at a wedding some day in the future. I don’t know.

Even though the original song was lower than my normal line of voice, and even though I have already upped the pitch for the acoustic guitar version, I still wanted to do this version in the original key, because the lower it is, the more peaceful it is. I had to record the lowest point like “never” at mornings, because that’s when my voice can reach the lowest. The end result was pretty good. I have also sped down the song, just because I want it to have more of a “ring” to it, and the end result was pretty surprising, well, in the good way.

Notice there’s no serial number for this song? That’s because I chose not to publish it to major music platforms like Spotify and iTunes alike. I have to pay $12 for every cover song that I want others to hear, ANNUALLY! I mean, I am already losing money at this, why double it by uploading a very similar version? Unless people ask for it, I’m not going to just pay another $12 annually for fun. You can still find it at Soundcloud and other free places like Netease.