Time really does fly when you're an old fogey like me, it's hard to believe that the original "Lanikai Slack" was composed, played, and recorded eight years ago. We were enjoying the beauty and tranquility of Kailua Beach Park and naturally we brought guitars. Ledward fired up his old Martin 000-16 and this lovely collection of notes poured out, he was making up a new slack key tune on the fly. We named the tune for the Lanikai boat ramp just across the parking lot and people have enjoyed it ever since, judging by the more than 100,000 views and the many comments.
We'll be heading back to Kailua in a few weeks so I'm trying to make sure my fingers are ready for the adventure. While I was fooling around with songs it occurred to me that I should add this piece to my collection of Ledward originals. It's a bit humbling to find that it took me a couple of weeks to get comfortable with a song that Led made up in seconds - the difference between a musical genius and a student I suppose. When I told Led I was working on his song he reminded me that if I did things a little differently from him it was part of making the song my own, so I gave myself some leeway. The effort was certainly worth it to me, it's so sweet to have a new melody bouncing around in my head and flowing out of the guitar and I'm looking forward to doing another duet version with Led.
I played the piece on my Martin OM-18GE, tuned to taropatch open G (D G D G B D from low pitch to high). I set up a pair of Schoeps CMC64 mics in a spaced pair and recorded the result on the Zoom F6, then mixed the tracks in REAPER. I used a pair of Panasonic Lumix GH4 cameras for the video then compiled the whole thing in Edius 9.
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