The past few months have truly been a flurry of activity. It all started a few weeks before Thanksgiving when 
This post isn't about her though. Believe me when I say I do have enough pictures to cover at least a dozen posts and she isn't even three months old yet.
However, I felt this (cropped) image fits perfectly with my theme this week for #threetunetuesday sponsored by 
I've always been a fan of instrumental music. Many people call it "elevator music" and look upon it with disdain. I think perhaps they just haven't taken the time to really appreciate it. Either that, or they just have really bad taste!
Maybe they were forced to listen to classical music as a kid and that ruined it for them. Whatever reason, I feel they are really missing out.
I was in band all through junior and senior high school. Plus, when I was younger, we used to listen to one of the instrumental stations at the time on boring rainy Saturday nights as a family and play "name that tune". You probably won't be shocked to find I was quite good at it.
I remember when Zamfir came out my dad bought several of his pan flute centered albums. Likewise, my dad was also a big Yanni fan back in the day, so perhaps that helped feed my admiration for this style of music as well. I have a plethora of jazz or instrumental playlists that I play in my office pretty much every day of the week.
It was via one of those playlists on Spotify that I was introduced to 40 Fingers. I'd actually never heard of them before this point, but I have to say, these four Italian guys absolutely rock.
Although this is called #threetunetuesday, I'm focusing more on the group this week than the songs. Yes, I am going to share three songs with you, but whichever ones I pick, they are pretty irrelevant. They hold no special meaning for me beyond the fact that they are all performed by this amazing quartet.
This cover of "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits is actually the first song I heard by 40 Fingers that introduced me to their music. I was working away in my office one day when this familiar tune came on, but it was in a style that I had never heard before. Sure, the melody and all of that was the same, but the acoustic instrumentation and tempo was just a bit different enough to grab my attention.
As I said before, 40 Fingers is a quartet of guitar players from Italy. They were formed in 2017, and there is a good chance people in Europe have known about them for years even though they are quite new to me. I think what makes them so special is that the way they cover popular classic rock songs as you have seen by the past two videos (Deep Purple and Dire Straits).
In case you are still confused, 40 Fingers is clearly a reference to the fact that there are four of them and they each have ten fingers. Hence the photo of hands and fingers at the beginning of this post.
Besides popular classic rock songs, it appears they also cover a fair number of film scores and their cover of Bohemian Rhapsody is pretty phenomenal though I didn't share it here. I will leave that as some homework for you!
I'm actually going to be keeping my eye out for these guys. They seem to be the sort of group that might find their way to the local performing arts venue where I live. If they do, I will be snatching up tickets in a heartbeat. It's something that I think both
Have you heard of 40 Fingers before or is this a new one for you? What do you think? Too boring for you? Pretty amazing? I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments!
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