Captain O'Kane - DADGAD fingerstyle Irish Waltz - Video 4k

[Jean Banwarth]

Hi,

My new video : "Captain O'Kane", DADGAD traditional irish Waltz.

A brand new camera (Q2n 4k zoom) and therefore a brand new video to test my new toy 🙂



Here is "Captain O'Kane", a traditional Irish tune, often attributed to Turlough O'Carolan.

- Guitar : Lowden S50 Walnut / Cedar
- Strings : D'Addario XS Light Phosphor Bronze
- Capo : Shubb C1G Guitar Capo Royale
- Mics : Zoom Q2n 4k
- Mix : Samplitude / TC Native Reverb
- Video : Q2n 4k Zoom / Adobe Premiere Element

I don’t know if it’s worth it to go to 4k resolution, tell me what you think...

[TBman]

I liked it. Nice arrangement also.

[rick-slo]

Good one. Thanks for sharing.

[Bob Womack]

Very nice.

Here's a modern Captain O'Kane - Richard Heatherington O'Kane, USN, (Medal of Honor), 1911-1994

O'Kane was the most successful U.S. submarine commander of the Second World War. His war career ended when a malfunctioning torpedo fired by his ship, the USS Tang, circled back and exploded, sinking his own ship in Japanese waters. He and eight other crew members survived, mostly men who were blown off the bridge by the blast. He spent nearly a year being tortured for information in the notorious Ofuna Naval interrogation camp and Omori POW camp, the latter time spent with Louis Zamperini. At the end of the war when the Allied ships arrived to evacuate Omori, they immediately sent a scouting group to check out the camp, thinking they would begin the evacuation the next day. When they saw the condition O'Kane was in, literally hours from death, they began the evacuation immediately. O'Kane was awarded the medal of honor for his fifth patrol in Japanese waters.

The wardroom of the oldest fast attack submarine in the United States Pacific fleet carries O'Kane's personal cribbage board, and upon decommissioning the board is transferred to the next oldest boat.

When I heard the name of your song I immediately thought of Richard O'Kane.

Bob

[UKPhil]

Excellent Jean. Really enjoyed it. Lovely guitar too.

[ssjk]

so THAT's what it sounds like. Not when I try it. Lovely.

And as far as the question of 4K goes, yes it is worth it. At least if you have a 4K monitor. Mine is a couple year old Dell P2415Q attached to a mac mini. On that the video looks great.

[blackie51]

Another vote for excellent, and that Lowden sounds like it was born to play it. Was that your own arrangement? Thanks for posting it.

Tom

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by TBman

I liked it. Nice arrangement also.

Thank you

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by rick-slo

Good one. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for listening

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by Bob Womack

When I heard the name of your song I immediately thought of Richard O'Kane.

Bob

Thank you Bob, I didn’t know that story.
It seems that the fate of Captain O'Kane of this tune is not much more enjoyable according to the site "The Session.org" :

"Apparently this lament was composed by O’Carolan for Captain O’Kane. A quote from Patrick O’Leary (in O’Neill’s Irish Minstrels & Musicians), described O’Kane as ‘the hero of a hundred fights from Landon to Oudenarde, who, when old and war-worn, tottered back from the Low Countries to his birthplace to die, and found himself not only a stranger, but an outlawed, disinherited, homeless wanderer in the ancient territories that his fathers ruled as Lords of Limavady. His friend and sympathizer, the illustrious Turlough O’Carolan, has immortalized his name in strains the most plaintive and touching.’"

[rémy64]

Très bel arrangement, bravo

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by UKPhil

Excellent Jean. Really enjoyed it. Lovely guitar too.

Thank you, I’ve had this Lowden for two years and I never get tired of it

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by ssjk

so THAT's what it sounds like. Not when I try it. Lovely.

And as far as the question of 4K goes, yes it is worth it. At least if you have a 4K monitor. Mine is a couple year old Dell P2415Q attached to a mac mini. On that the video looks great.

Thank you :-)

Filming in 4k allows at least to zoom in the picture without losing quality even when looking on a screen with a lower resolution.

[Jean Banwarth]

Originally Posted by blackie51

Another vote for excellent, and that Lowden sounds like it was born to play it. Was that your own arrangement? Thanks for posting it.

Tom

Thank you Tom. Yes, it's my own arrangement and I’m glad you like it