The Channel - Calum Graham
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- TABS AVAILABLE @ www.calumgraham.com
Sometimes you don't need words to tell a story.
This song is inspired from a visit to Charlottetown, P.E.I (Eastern Coast of Canada) where I walked around to the front of an old lighthouse near the water, and looked out for miles, and miles at the endless ocean. The water surrounding me was from a small Bay that stretched from the shore, through a narrow Channel, into the ocean. I took it to represent exactly 'Where I was' in my life at the time. Leaving the familiar waters, and the safety of the shore to venture out into the vast, possibilities of the ocean...
Then, once I picked up my guitar, I had the image of a new child being born into the world, as an old man lies on his deathbed, slowly taking his last few breaths. It was similar to the above concept in that an old life was about to end, as a new one began. The last part of the song is where his life vividly flashes before his eyes, and then all of a sudden - his time comes, and his heartbeat slowly fades the track out to stillness...
Life & Death.
The Channel - The point of transition.
"There is more around us, and within us than our senses will ever allow us to perceive, and it can be heard, seen, felt, and brought to life....through the voice of art"
TABS/SHEET MUSIC available at www.calumgraham.com
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Calum Graham
www.calumgraham.com
If he puts more soul into that guitar it'll come alive.
Unfortunately that's not possible. There's too much soul as it is 😅
"Sometimes you don't need words to tell a story" so true. I never even really realized it until i heard this song. I'm a horrible singer but an ok guitar player, and this song made me realize I really don't need to know how to sing, I'll just let my guitar tell the story. But of course, i still have ALLOT to learn before I can tell that story as well as you can on that thing.
but what a story you will tell when you do get there!!
Calum Graham haha. that's a good question! I plan on telling stories of innocence. Stories that remind me of what it was like before I realized the awful truths of reality. Stories of peace, love, and humanity that seemingly lose value in today's society. Some of my influences come from artists like Bob Marley, John Lennon, Kings of Convenience, Brad Paisley, Neil Young, Zac Brown, etc. it's a wide range that now includes you Calum! You're awesome man and i'm diggin your music. I just recently heard Sunny Side Up and I really enjoyed how uplifting and fun that song sounds. Really cool, man. Phoenix Rising is a great song too. I'm so glad you taught us how to play it! lol. :) thanks Calum. I'm a huge fan bro, and I hope you keep filling the world with the great sound of your music. I'm 21 years old and have been playing guitar for almost 3 years now. I hope it's not too late for me, but i'm trying my best to learn how to play as well as you do. The technique you display is amazing. That's true talent. I hope i get there one day. haha. alright, i've written too much here. thanks for reading. One Love Calum! peace out, man.
Cherevolution1 Just tell about your truth and everything is said.
Calum Graham lol i read your comment wrong and it took me 2 months to realize it. :p still listening to this song, man i hope you teach it to us sometime. This is an absolute masterpiece.
Cherevolution1 :D It's never too late, just don't give up. Practice like crazy, and you'll get where you want to be. There isn't any way of measuring skill in musicianship, just hearing the soul in it. Those that don't hear it just aren't listening hard enough! ~ cheers
many people do not realize how much they can change the life of a person with only one music .. My sincere congratulations for the great work, please keep making incredible music that many other people feel what I felt when listening.
Calum, So many guitar players out there and especially on youtube. But your truly special brother! Your music is such buttery goodness..it takes me away every time I listen to it. Thank you
This is a masterpiece!
The sound u get out of that guitar is something I can listen to all day long
Удивительное владение гитарой! Всё чувствуется, не поддельная любовь к инструменту. Большое спасибо за творчество!
very emotional..and beautiful
I meditate to this song every day. Thanks for sharing Calum
I don't usually comment on videos, but this song deserves a tip of my hat. I heard this for the first time the other day and I'm wondering where the heck it's been all my life. Thanks Calum, you've got a new fan.
One amazing way to pluck the strings of his guitar.... Claps, écho, and strings... Wonderful..
my life in one nownmoment xxxxx😍😘🤗nowi die happy thank you callum xxxx
So beautiful...
I love your gentleness, intensity and sensitivity in this gorgeously-timed piece, Calum.
(Attn Spielberg) Calum, some composers are considered lucky to make film soundtracks... In your case, your talent is so amazing that a film maker would be lucky to create/articulate a movie around your music, somewhere at the bottom of the rockies where're you're from. When I hear your guitar, I hitchhike the NorthWest in my mind . Thank you for the many trips Spider hands.
Tom Hayot
Yeah absolutely true its beautiful
This is a song that touch heart and soul!!
So much emotion in this piece.
leaves me breathless
This is one of my favorite songs it really tells it own story i really connect with this piece in a big way thank you for recording this brilliant masterpiece.
Still my fav song of All Time. 🙏
Reading the story behind this song is really interesting because I have listened to this song many times and everytime I imagine an old man looking back and reliving moments of his life as he dies. He gets to re-experience the joys and energy of youth, the nervous excitement of his first kiss. Falling in love and spending the entirety of a life with that person through it all, easy or hard... Seeing that person die and feeling totally alone. Then comes the utter and complete inner peace from knowing it's done and that they don't have to be alone anymore.
Beautiful piece of music man.
Calum,
I'm on my break from my medical studies and had to give a comment to this wonderful piece of art. Your ability to portrait a picture with music to your audience is phenomenal. You are extremely gifted and I pray you will continue to spread music to the world. As a guitarist myself, your style and technique is spot on and amazing. I hope one day to be as clear, precise, and creative as you are
Kind Regards,
Tyler
Magnificent! I have never seen so much pure talent in a young guitarist.
Love this kid,, clearly has the chops, knows the rules, steps out over but just enough to push. His ear never strays too far from his mind..watch his head ! Too many go past the ear straight to the mind and get ..too "Cerebral"and loose's the soul, thus ,, those listening!! C.G. knows what pleases the ear. His ear ! and that works for Me !!
What the heck dude.
This is the kind of music I imagine making someday, when, y'know, I become a master acoustic guitarist and injector of emotion into music.
I don't think I will ever get sick of listening to this song. Can't wait to learn it.
Он исполнил это своим сердцем... Я даже почувствовал его стук...
Просто СУПЕР!!!
you look my age..maybe if i practice everyday for another 4 or 5 years ill be here.. definitely one of the most inspiring guitarist.
This reminds me of my uncle who had his own band for 40 years, he loved appalachian bluegrass and ragtime :-) may he RIP! Well done young man!!!!
I love the emotion you put into your songs and play style. Much respect
Heaven 🕊Eternal Life
The Channel - The point of transition.
"There is more around us, and within us than our senses will ever allow us to perceive, and it can be heard, seen, felt, and brought to life....through the voice of art"
Man... The vastness of your reverb took me right back to a cave on the coast of Oregon. I'm native "Oregono" and as a kid would drive a couple hours from a town near MT Hood.. "Boring"... Goin west to! hang at the cool beach towns like...Lincoln City, Seaside and other on the dramatic Oregon Coastline. All in for explorin caves, campin and diggin razor clams. Your guitar sparked a flood of those fond recollections and You are the conduit!. We'd walk aways up into one Cave we liked the best ...why? For its amazing acoustics, of course!! I'd play my blues harp, my bro banged his sticks(like Buddy Rich!) on EVERY surface inside that dark, wet and friendly old cave. Nature's Authentic Acoustic Amp"! A 12 string guitar playin friend and a piano man with top chops , rounded it up for one... Top Shelf Jam! My brother went on ahead in '78. Sure miss him. He keeps an eye on me and it's so nice when he still, after 43 years, joins me in my dreams. Never often enough but he keeps me grounded and keepin keepin on.. So thanks Calum. Fer letting yer guitar playin story "tale-in-" mash up to mine. It always feels great to ponder great times but you let me reLIVE that precious memory IN LIVING COLOR!
We'll be listening
💪🤠👌.
Peace
Man! I can't stop listening to this song. You got some mad emotion in your playing! Great job! Love the music.
God has truly blessed you
Im crying here soo beautiful
Awe thx!!! xoxo
I've heard this song at least two dozen times, but this time have me goosebumps. Gorgeous
Your music and talent are most inspiring. I searched the world to find you, and lo and behold, you are from a place only 25 miles from where I am.
Really in love with this song
A truly excellent performance. You can learn the techniques but the talent comes from somewhere else. Well done my friend.
It has been well over a year since I originally heard this resilient piece of music. This is a song that will truly stand the tests of time. The most beautiful part of this song is that I still get the same feeling of jumping off of a cliff and having the wind picking me up by my wings, upon my transformation to a bird, and carrying me across the seas and lands of the world.
best western guitar playing I heard in a while. no technical wanking... just music!
your music touches my soul
That was truly amazing, really an inspiring piece of art!
Beyond talent... Beyond any technique. Beyond the efects. Expression from esence is all that matters. Gratitude for sharing this inspired unword messege but full of beauty and Harmony.
You are one of the ones who is a master guitarist and it shows in your playing very powerful and polished.
I came to hear it again! It's still there on the tube and just as good as I remember it, thanks Calum for the delivery of your music. I'm still playing! Seriously, you're inspiring. MARY
Breathing in and out
One begins and one ending
Each one another
This song touches the primal, thank you Calum.
I just discovered Calum, I immediately called a friend in Toronto and told him I am visiting when Calum plays a show there. He is obviously the real deal. He is worth flying 3000 miles, for sure.
Beautiful,So beautiful.cry
It looks like in his head he thinks everything he is playing is wrong! GONNAEE NO SHAKE YOUR HEAD CALUM GRAHAM YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!
💙 Lovely 🕊'Where I was' in my life at the time. Leaving the familiar waters,
and the safety of the shore to venture out into the vast, possibilities of the ocean...
Reverent guitar taps~"and his heartbeat slowly fades the track out to stillness..."
I believe that life is conserved, like energy and mass. That there is a finite amount of life possible, as human lives goes up so goes down other species life. There is a balance. Every life takes resources, every death provides resources. A lost love one makes room for a new ignition of life. All that is was and will be. Life continues. Your music really speaks to this belief and the the cyclical nature of the universe. It is pure light in a time of dark night. Thank you.
I still play this song to this day, one of the most enjoyable pieces to play.
waiting was my favorite now this makes me really happy
Que buen tema me hace remontarme a toda mi vida que he pasado muy linda melodia hacia mucho tiempo que un tema no provocaba tantas sensaciones
God bless you - sugar. Your art ministers to me almost daily.
Just lovely. What a gift. You seem so young to have such a richness of expression. May you follow the Giver of this gift, and not the one who'd like to steal it.
dmn that's nice, those harmonics were awesome, and so is the rest.
Amazingly powerful yet gentle. A valuable human.
Most visual instrumental acoustic song I have ever heard in my life. Reminds me of where I grew up on the ocean. The amazing moving sea and how it is within us too.
So incredible.........
Your stuff hits me right in the feels.
I've only been playing this instrument for 6 mouths and I'm great so far,....and this song and what this music can do,....has inspired me to continue. Great work man.
i have listened to this video so many times before and I can"t get tired of it!
Man that bend at 4:35 I just had to replay a few times, so awesome! I hope you go far with your music and inspire a lot of people with it, you have some serious talent there :)
I think im gonna cry, this is so beautiful
So beautiful. I heard this song from 1234 and immediately associated it with time spent with my father who passed on when I was 15. You have definitely told a story through this piece. Now, I read the 'about' section and it's awesome to know your inspiration for it. Nothing short of amazing, and nothing short of inspiring. Thanks, and hope to see another online concert soon!
pure magic!!!!
My first listen and I love your music. I feel a little Michael Hedges in it. I have a Michael Hedges story. I was camping with a friend in Big Basin State Park in California many years ago, and we camped next to a couple of guys and one of them was Michael Hedges. The four of us sat around a campfire and he planted all evening. He was booked to play a few Gigs in the area and wanted to camp out, and I was just lucky enough to be there. I hope to see you at a show some time, thanks for triggering the memory too with your excellent playing...
Calum, I've listened to this song many many times in the past few days, and it's one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. Honestly up there with some of the Beatles songs. You're so freakin talented. Like oh my god dude. When the day comes, I'd happily have this song played at my wedding or anything. It shows so much emotion and it's just all so genuine. I could listen to this song on repeat for years and never want it to stop. It's beautiful.
Wow..What a beautiful comment! Thank u so much!! Much love from Canada :)
Talent, talent, talent. Amasing music, thank you!
So beautiful
BRILLIANT @!!!,,,🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
Breathtaking...
Beautiful !
gotta respect the heart he puts into it
yes is very good calum i love you !!! houuuhouuu
Nice to see someone from over the pond using European guitars
Brilliant. Risky. Worth it.
Stellar - beautiful composition, expertly and sensitively performed...
Thank you for sharing your gift of music with us! You are truly blessed by God and your music has so much Soul and it is a Beautiful Gift to all that hear and feel it. You are my favorite instrumental acoustic guitar player!!!
Eternal piece
THIS GUY IS ON GOD LEVEL IN SONG WRITING!
I have listened to Calum's music for several years now and always find it very relaxing. Keep up the great work.
lovely! nice melody´, never heard anthing like it, wow!!
Outstanding!
So a while ago I learned how to play "Waiting", like sometime over a year ago, unfortunately I didn't write anything down or buy a tab so I dont remember how to play it fully anymore, but I've now decided after hearing this song again after almost a year that I'm going to learn this piece and Waiting, they're just such amazing, beautiful songs, and I want to be able to carry it around in memory, heart and soul by any means necessary. Thank you so much for these amazing pieces of music.
You are amazing, Calum. I admire you.
Thanks for writing this Calum. Learning this song was one of the most spiritual experiences I've ever had with a guitar.
So amazing
Beautiful track Calum, keep it up!
Spot on Calum, You captured it better than any words can ever say.
Pure talent, out of all my favourite guitarists you are there in the number 1 spot, you know how to make someone feel music fair play to you man!
The fucking talent this dude has is beyond ridiculous!
This is so amazing. You are a gift to the world! I totally felt the essence of "channel", transitioning between phases of life, of being, of who we are, physical or nonphysical. This was perfectly timed as I transition out of my beloved old profession and am reinventing myself to be more of a lighthouse in the world - serving others deeply while not harming my own health and wellbeing, moving to my bliss and brining others with me.
World-class act
C'est tellement beau
I like this tune so much more after reading Calum's inspiration in the "About" section. Especially the end. Do not go gentle into that good night...
This is such an inspiring and powerful piece of music. Phenomenal.
Alucinante!