Another Teja Gerken/Doug Young Social Distancing Video

[Teja Gerken]

Doug and I have been having fun making more videos of the tunes from our new duets album, and since we still can't be in the same place, we're exploring more ways of doing them separately. Here's Doug's tune "Autumn Roads" (which opens the CD), with him playing in his living room in Mountain View, while I'm in my living room in Fairfax. I'm playing my Mario DeSio baritone, Doug is playing a Kent Hamblin. Here we go:



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[birkenweg42]

That’s excellent. It’s such a beautiful melody. I love the deep, sonorous bass of the baritone guitar.

[islandguitar]

Oh, that was just beautiful!!! I don't know how you guys technically do it from a distance, but what you've created is really sublime....and thank you!
Wonderful tune.......I may have to order that CD!
The tone on the Kent Hamblin guitar confirms the "suspicions" I've had over the years. Killer!!
Thanks,
Fred

[Ukulele_Eddie]

Love it, Teja.

My I ask, were you playing together or one recorded and then the other played to that recording? If the former, did you use something like Jamkazam?

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by islandguitar

Oh, that was just beautiful!!! I don't know how you guys technically do it from a distance, but what you've created is really sublime....and thank you!
Wonderful tune.......I may have to order that CD!
The tone on the Kent Hamblin guitar confirms the "suspicions" I've had over the years. Killer!!
Thanks,
Fred

Thanks! I've been really happy with the Hamblin ever since I got it, but more so lately. Its always sounded good, but it's now 19 years old, and seemed to just make a leap in the last year or so.

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by Ukulele_Eddie

Love it, Teja.

My I ask, were you playing together or one recorded and then the other played to that recording? If the former, did you use something like Jamkazam?

Right, we overdubbed. I'd like to try JamKazam, but the reality is that there's always going to be latency on the internet that makes it pretty impractical to play together at the same time. There's going to be a delay both directions. It may be possible to get it good enough to be satisfying for jamming or lessons, but I can't imagine it would be acceptable for a recording.

All we've been doing for this is one of us shoots his part, then the other one plays and records while listening in earbuds to the first player. Then I sync the 2 videos and mix/edit, etc. For the CD, we recorded most of it together in the same room, usually playing at the same time. There are some tunes where we'll probably never be able to create a video like this, because we rely in interaction, swap parts back and forth and so. But this tune is an example where I can play my part completely alone - I also play it as a solo piece, then Teja added his part from his house.

[ChuckS]

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing this.