Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic)

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2017/12/26 21:19:42 (permalink)

Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9t4NXx7nA
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    mississippi
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/28 01:15:16 (permalink)
    Why are you in this forum? You should be on the road with Tommy Emmanuel or something. That was too good for words so I'll stop trying. That's what music is all about.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/28 12:52:41 (permalink)
    great job...really enjoyed the tune, musicianship and video...no crits at all. So please share the micing on this, any eq'ing you did post production and who helped video this?...
     
    all and all...great job!!
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/29 20:25:59 (permalink)
    This was recorded several years ago. I've traveled for years with some Oktava MK012 mics for acoustic work, so those are probably what was used. Another guitar player by the name of Buster Jones recorded the video, or turned the cam off and on anyway. We both played at the Carbondale Bluegrass and Folk Festival that year and he stayed at my place for a couple of days and was kind enough to run the camcorder for me when I recorded this at home. I just did some zooming and panning in Premier and added some compression and reverb. Not much to it. I thought it came out pretty good for standard def. Buster took home a DVD copy I ran out so he could learn the arrangement. I know he played it at least a few times before he died the following year, but he never had a chance to record it, which is a shame because I know he would have done something awesome with it. He was a really good guitar player and friend.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/30 21:13:22 (permalink)
    Very nice playing Bill.

     
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    the_user_formally_known_as_glennbo
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/31 18:03:38 (permalink)
    Great freeking playing dood!!! I love the intro you did on this.

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/31 19:40:49 (permalink)
    What can I add?
    So nicely arranged and played.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2017/12/31 23:43:18 (permalink)
    Hey some people finally noticed! Thanks all. Man, I worked my butt off on this one. (But somehow it's still fat--go figure. )
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/01 01:23:07 (permalink)
    I think you are ready for 2 more strings. 

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/02 13:31:44 (permalink)
    I tried to play a friend's 5-string bass at a band rehearsal once where the bass player couldn't make it. Man that 5th string completely threw me off. If I had an 8-string guitar I'd probably be playing Martian music without trying.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/02 16:59:28 (permalink)
    Wayfarer
    I tried to play a friend's 5-string bass at a band rehearsal once where the bass player couldn't make it. Man that 5th string completely threw me off. If I had an 8-string guitar I'd probably be playing Martian music without trying.




    I've got both short scale Gretsch Jr. Jet 4-String, and Stingray 5-String basses, and find the each have their own forte. I love the little short scale bass for playing quick bubbly stuff. It's easy to get around on and has a tone that's slightly shifted to the dark side, but still surprisingly clear. The 5-String Stingray has wide colorful tone, and dropping below low E always perks my ears up when I hear it on that bass. It's surprisingly clean with definition all the way down to playing an open B.
     

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/02 19:45:14 (permalink)
    I'm so accustomed the low E string being the closest string to me that I kept hitting notes on the 5th string where they would normally be on the 4th string of a regular bass, and of course they'd be the wrong notes. No way I was going to adapt to that extra string in one night. That 5th string must take a lot of getting used to. I mostly just play bass on recordings anyway.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/04 16:50:56 (permalink)
    Nicely done - that was a pleasure to watch.  That Taylor sounded excellent in your hands.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/17 02:34:47 (permalink)
    Thanks Doug.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/17 14:26:15 (permalink)
    Virtuoso. No edits, full take. Just wow. Hat's off to you. And the intro was superb. Loved every second.

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/19 02:46:04 (permalink)
    Thanks Walt. I hope to be out again, playing all over creation by next winter. Lord knows playing live is the only way we can make any money these days. Ain't nobody buying records anymore, that's for sure.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/19 03:27:11 (permalink)
    Loved this. Just great, and that is some serious playing. I do a lot of choral conducting, and performance work on piano, so I know good performance chops when I hear it. And I'm hearin' it. 

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/20 03:32:25 (permalink)
    Nice of you to say Amicus. You're a terrific composer, and your opinion is important to me.
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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/20 04:00:01 (permalink)
    Very kind of you to say. Thanks.

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/20 18:51:58 (permalink)
    That was really great.  My mom used to play that tune on piano when i was a kid.  It never occurred to me that it could be done on guitar.  Well played!

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/29 21:21:11 (permalink)
    Wow... I haven't this tune in years.   No, make that decades.     Freakin' awesome! 
     
    Loved the thumb pick and fingers technique too.  I've used a flat-pick and fingers for years but never thought to try a thumb pick like that for guitar - I'd say you have that technique nailed!   
     
    Oh, and yeah, the intro was sweet. 

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/01/30 00:11:33 (permalink)
    Oh very nice playing mate. And the sound was great!!

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    Re: Baby Elephant Walk (solo acoustic) 2018/02/07 00:29:48 (permalink)
    Thanks fellas. I wasn't ignoring you. For some reason I never got an email notification for these last few comments. When Gibson bought the company, they must have set the monkeys lose.
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