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I’ve been drawn to this lesson since it came out with its two parts and ragtime sound and was determined to try and make a recording. Finally got it done. The rhythm was hard work on the resonator as its sporing heavy strings for slide, but I kind of like the unrefined tone and thought it was worthy a slot on its own. The lead reminds me of Al Stewart for some reason but can’t think why🤔.
https://youtu.be/W-yHm8Mx04k?si=gnX96Pi-b6zvSHKv
Hope you enjoy it.
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That is great playing and really clever Andy. You made it look like two buddies sitting on the couch doing a jam session- brilliant! 😲.
If ever we were to sit down for a beer I would be grilling you on how you do that. It’s something I have tried with my classical duets but nowhere near as successfully. Kudos to you on that for sure 👏 👍.
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Hi Geoff,
Many thanks. Hope one day we can share that beer on one continent or the other!
The video trick is actually deceptively simple to do. You just take two videos of the two parts. Place them on top of each other in your video editor (Da Vinci in your case I think) then crop or mask the top one down the central line to reveal the one on the bottom.
To make it convincing you just need to take care of the details like not moving the camera between takes by using a tripod. Shoot the videos one after the other before the light changes and keep the exposure the same. Oh, and make sure neither performer strays over that centerline 😉 -
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Very well played on a difficult style and lesson.
Ragtime and bluegrass for me are up there with the hardest genres there is to play on guitar so I’m always impressed when someone does a good job with it.
Such an impressive video. I must look into how to do that.
Liam.
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. “
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Very well played and sync’d together, Andy.
I like the rooty tone on the Resonater, it goes well with that Ragtime piece in combination with that superb crisp tone of your Martin.Yes the rhythm is hard work! Especially playing fingerstyle with barre chords with that tempo😊😬.
But you still had the time to have eye contact with your neighbour.Excellent video!
Denise
More Blues!
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Brilliant rendition and video editing Andy! This piece sounds really cool on your Gretsch resonator and Martin (OM 28 I suppose), wonderful guitars! And of course both parts very well played and synced. I started to practice this lesson, but for lack of time I stopped, but you made me want to start studying again.
One technical question: how can you play the second part without headphones? I mean, I sometimes recorded two parts audio and video like yours, and I used headphones to avoid the first rhythm audio to be recorded by the microphone while I’m playing the solo part.Guido
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Many thanks for those inspiring comments Guido, You should definitely keep going with it as it’s fun lesson to play, particularly the rhythm part, though it took me quite a while to get it down.
For the second part I did have a small speaker by my right foot quietly playing the rhythm part and the mic does pick it up. But I’ve got the guitars panned about 90% left and right, so there’s intentionally a little bleed through of each guitar on the other channel. Because of that, the sound of the speaker sort of disappears into the background. -
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