The Awakening is a thoughtful instrumental piece I wrote with guitar, strings, and synthesizer. The song started as a solo guitar piece after exploring a dropped tuning that I’d setup for teaching a guitar student to play the guitar part to the song “Yesterday” by the Beatles.  I loved the way this guitar sounded in the dropped tuning and decided to write my own solo piece with it.   I added strings, harp, and a synth part to fill out the song.