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Post by RickW on Jul 30, 2020 19:26:01 GMT -5
That old traditional Irish tune. My first piece with the Garage Band Cooperative, my far flung recording friends. Me on lead and background vocals, bass, guitar, tenor guitar and cajon. Tony Horlor on background vocals and Terry Lawson on fiddle. Recorded in our various home studios in Logic, with their tracks coming to me via Dropbox, then mixed and mastered by yours truly. Photos are mine and Tony’s.
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Post by concertinagirl on Jul 30, 2020 19:44:58 GMT -5
That old traditional Irish tune. My first piece with the Garage Band Cooperative, my far flung recording friends. Me on lead and background vocals, bass, guitar, tenor guitar and cajon. Tony Horlor on background vocals and Terry Lawson on fiddle. Recorded in our various home studios in Logic, with their tracks coming to me via Dropbox, then mixed and mastered by yours truly. Photos are mine and Tony’s. Absolutely beautiful, Rick. This song has always moved me. Your rendition has brought me to tears.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 30, 2020 19:50:46 GMT -5
That song was all over the place about 15 years ago, everybody did it. Because it's a great tune. Then it kind of disappeared. The Garage Band Cooperative did a great job bringing it back, as it deserves to be. Very nice, exactly what I want out of that song.
Details on how that got put together?
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Post by drlj on Jul 30, 2020 19:52:01 GMT -5
Extra nice.
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Jul 30, 2020 19:54:42 GMT -5
Very nice work, Rick. I want to go visit some of the places in the video.
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Post by RickW on Jul 30, 2020 20:30:13 GMT -5
That song was all over the place about 15 years ago, everybody did it. Because it's a great tune. Then it kind of disappeared. The Garage Band Cooperative did a great job bringing it back, as it deserves to be. Very nice, exactly what I want out of that song. Details on how that got put together? Been playing it in my jam for a while, worked out the finger picking part, and sang it many times. Recorded those in Logic Pro on my Macbook along with a drum track, which is midi so it keeps perfect time. I then recorded my other parts, one after another, while listening to what I had already done by headphone. Dropped the midi drum track, as I had the cajon track to play along with. Once I had guitars, bass, lead vocal and cajon recorded, I did a rough mix, and sent that to Tony and Terry via Dropbox. Tony created a couple of tracks of background harmony that he saved out as separate audio files in dropbox, that I imported into Logic, and Terry did the same with the fiddle track. I imported those into Logic. I then did the mix for the audio portion from that, saving it out to Dropbox so they could listen and comment. The video is done on my iPad. I took the photos and added the layout and lyrics for each section of verse in Procreate, which is a graphics and drawing program on the iPad. I then created a video in Lumafusion, where I imported the audio, then pulled in the various photos/graphics, depositing them along the timeline. And voila. Obviously there’s a bunch more around the details, but that’s the main process.
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Post by Jawbone on Jul 30, 2020 20:31:47 GMT -5
That was very very nice. I got pulled into the songs story real fast.
Kind of a depressing song. Lovers off on their journey and yet love gets old and dies.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 30, 2020 20:32:34 GMT -5
So, and I'm just asking, putting it together was as much or more work than learning the music. Which is they way it goes. Having never done that before, did you enjoy that process? If you enjoyed it, all is well.
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Post by RickW on Jul 30, 2020 21:26:32 GMT -5
So, and I'm just asking, putting it together was as much or more work than learning the music. Which is they way it goes. Having never done that before, did you enjoy that process? If you enjoyed it, all is well. Oh, I do enjoy it, a ton. All part of the creative process, getting it recorded, doing the video. Yes, it’s a lot of work. But it goes not too badly. Some experience and the right tools smooth the way.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 30, 2020 23:16:37 GMT -5
RickW's video/audio is great version. beautiful British Columbia Canada & Mother Nature
I love Karla Bonoff's version with James Taylor and a bridge with Garth Hudson's accordion
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Post by RickW on Jul 30, 2020 23:38:27 GMT -5
Very nice work, Rick. I want to go visit some of the places in the video. The sailboat shots are in Aruba. All the rest are in BC, Tofino, Vancouver, and Parksville. It’s a beautiful country.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 31, 2020 8:00:18 GMT -5
Mr. Epaul Tandberg mesmerized those gathered in a Vinton church sanctuary years ago with his plaintive rendition of this classic tune, which included deep, insightful and poetic revisions to the original lyrics. Might you still have those words, Paul, that you might share with us?
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Post by dradtke on Jul 31, 2020 8:31:00 GMT -5
Mr. Epaul Tandberg mesmerized those gathered in a Vinton church sanctuary years ago with his plaintive rendition of this classic tune, which included deep, insightful and poetic revisions to the original lyrics. Might you still have those words, Paul, that you might share with us? Yes, Water is Wide is based on an old Norwegian folk song, and Paul does a stirring version of the original. I'd love to hear those lyrics again.
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Post by mnhermit on Jul 31, 2020 8:54:29 GMT -5
I used to have maestro Gene Backlins fine recording of that, but it has been lost over the years. Wonder if we could get ePaul to do another performance at some point.
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Post by brucemacneill on Jul 31, 2020 9:04:57 GMT -5
Guess all that school-work did you well, Rick. Good job.
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Post by Dub on Jul 31, 2020 9:08:17 GMT -5
Nice, Rick. Very nice all the way round.
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 31, 2020 9:51:45 GMT -5
Wilyum, how about the names of some of those Swannanoa guitar week instructors. I think I remember the really tall one with huge hands playing a lovely version.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 31, 2020 9:55:29 GMT -5
Wilyum, how about the names of some of those Swannanoa guitar week instructors. I think I remember the really tall one with huge hands playing a lovely version. Well, the instructor who has practically built a career around that song is Ed Gerhard, but he is certainly not tall.
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Post by coachdoc on Jul 31, 2020 9:58:17 GMT -5
Wilyum, how about the names of some of those Swannanoa guitar week instructors. I think I remember the really tall one with huge hands playing a lovely version. Well, the instructor who has practically built a career around that song is Ed Gerhard, but he is certainly not tall. Smith? I'm not a fan of Gerhard. He's too precious and thinks way too much of himself.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 31, 2020 10:03:53 GMT -5
Well, the instructor who has practically built a career around that song is Ed Gerhard, but he is certainly not tall. Smith? I'm not a fan of Gerhard. He's too precious and thinks way too much of himself. Doug Smith, tall, big hands, prolly who you were thinking of.
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