Sunday Visitors- an original composition by Scott Balsai

This is another live "parlor concert" video of Scott Balsai playing another of his original fingerstyle guitar compositions off of his CD, "Reflections of Maple and Mahogany: A Musical Diary".
The piece is titled "Sunday Visitors".
It starts with a sleepy, easy feeling melody, reminiscent of how it might feel on a lazy Sunday morning, sipping coffee or tea.. Then in the middle, it picks up tempo reflecting the emotional excitement of anticipation, perhaps, from receiving a phone call about some long awaited visitors coming to say hello and spend some time visiting and reminiscing. This continues until the piece quickly concludes with the visitors finally arriving and ultimately ringing the doorbell in the form of a 12th fret open harmonic,( which fortuitously sounds like a doorbell).
This piece is in an unusual tuning that Scott snitched off of Will Ackerman's website for the Ackerman tune "Visiting". In fact, Scott uses the same first four notes from Ackerman's "Visiting" only to take his piece off into a completely different musical direction.
So Scott uses his title, "Sunday Visitors", to give a salute to Will and sort of a "thank you" to Will for sharing his tunings on his website. Also note that Scott did figure out Ackerman's "Visiting" before composing "Sunday Visitors". After learning to play "Visiting", Scott wanted to see what he could do with this strange and previously unfamiliar tuning. (Note: Scott tunes his guitars about one whole step down from the actual pitch denoted by the tuning designation.)
Will Ackerman's tuning page and website:
www.williamack...
Just scroll down to "Past Light" to find the tuning of Will's "Visiting" and by inspiration Scott's "Sunday Visitors".
This video was recorded on February 4, 2025.
This video was recorded "unplugged" using only his RODE stereo microphone mounted on a dummy Nikon camera and connected by extension cord to a second Nikon camera for the video. Like his other videos, it was not mixed or mastered for sound but was recorded live and posted here on You Tube.
On this video Scott uses his Taylor K14 ce from 2002 acoustically, and is the same guitar he used to make the audio track for his CD 'Reflections of Maple and Mahogany".
You can book a gig with Scott at:
www.gigsalad.c...
You can hear and/or download the original CD recording of this piece on Scott's Bandcamp page at:
scottbalsai.ba...
You can hear all of Scott's solo fingerstyle acoustic guitar recordings at
scottbalsai.ba...
You can also hear the original audio CD recording of this piece on You Tube at:
• Sunday Visitors
You can also hear Scott's version of the Will Ackerman tune "Visiting" which was the piece that inspired Scott's "Sunday Visitors" at :
• Visiting
You can hear more of Scott Balsai at his RUclips channel at
/ @scottbalsai
Lastly, you can also hear this piece and others at Spotify at
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as well as many of the other streaming services such as Apple and Amazon, etc..
You can contact Scott by email from his contact link on his Bandcamp page at
scottbalsai.ba...
(As always, we suggest headphones for the best sound representation.)
Enjoy.