Enclosure - Metal Gear Solid OST | Fingerstyle Guitar

"I was born on a battlefield, raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens and screams, they were my lullabies..."

- Sniper Wolf

Today marks the 24th Anniversary of Metal Gear Solid's release on the Playstation. I thought I would commemorate the event with an arrangement of one of my favorite pieces from its soundtrack, which accompanied what is arguably my all-time favorite scene in the entire game series.

This scene with Sniper Wolf was what officially made me a Metal Gear fan back in the day. As far as I was concerned, it was peak storytelling. I loved everything about it - from the content and delivery of Sniper Wolf's speech - to the scenery - to the wolves you could hear howling in the background - and of course, the music.

The track is called "Enclosure". It was rather challenging to come up with an arrangement for it, because the original piece is basically the same short segment repeated 4 times - but each time there are different instruments in the arrangement making it so that each new repetition is more intense than the last. Well, there are only so many "instruments" I can try to emulate using one guitar. So I had to find creative ways to achieve dynamic in this arrangement, so as not to sound like I'm just playing the same old thing over and over lol. I hope I did it justice, and I hope you like it. 😁

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