Led Kaapana did a mini-tour of Northern California this past October and made our house his home base. I managed to get him to spend some time in the Brass Toucan Studio (also known as Fran's room upstairs). One of the tunes we captured was this Ledward original, "Slack Key Lullaby."
This is one of the songs included on the tutorial video, "The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar of Ledward Kaapana" published by Homespun Video. It's probably the first of Led's tunes that I learned.
Led uses this little two chord piece as a vehicle for improvisation and I tried to follow along and provide accompaniment. He's playing his 90s Martin 000-16, a relatively rare long scale, dovetail necked mahogany and spruce model. I'm backing him up using my Wingert Model E. Both guitars are tuned to taropatch tuning or open G: D G D G B D from low pitch to high.
October weather in Walnut Creek can vary wildly, and our studio time came during a chilly spell, so Led wrapped up in his sub-Arctic outfit. I'm saying it worked, his hands were clearly fully warm.
Recording was done with one Schoeps CMC641 at the 12th fret of each guitar. The audio interface used was an RME UFX, audio software was REAPER. Video was shot using two Panasonic Lumix GH4s for the head shots and one Lumix LX100 for the wide shot. Video editing was done using Edius 8.5.
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