Dueling Fender steels- "Steel Guitar Strut"

[Jerry Gleason]

I know a lot of folks have already seen this on Facebook, but here’s a swing tune that I wrote a few years ago for twin steels, but never recorded until now. I’m playing my 1950 Fender Dual Pro, and my 1959 Stringmaster. The tune is called “Steel Guitar Strut”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQbW_XkMIFg

[Joe Cook]

Wow Jerry! That is great, I really enjoyed that one!

[Dustin Rhodes]

That popped up as recommended on my YouTube yesterday. Probably shows how many times I've played when you wish upon a star for my daughter when she's going to bed.

Great playing.

[Jim Mckay]

Great arrangement and playing Jerry. Thanks for posting.

[Eric Dahlhoff]

Very Nice!!!

[Jean-Sebastien Gauthier]

Very cool Jerry!

[Roy Thomson]

Very smart and well done Jerry.

[Jerry Gleason]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

[David DeLoach]

That was so very good!!! Really enjoyed that!

[Bill Groner]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

But wait! The kind words are not finished. I just had no time yesterday to sit down and write a post.

Jerry, I love listening and attempting to play along. Really like Louisiana Fairy Tale and My Little Grass Shack. All of your videos are great. Only one problem on my end........there just aren't enough of them. I am sure they take a lot of time to make, but I along with many other guys really do appreciate a well executed video and yours are all top notch.

Keep up the great work and please to take time to give us more!

[Clyde Mattocks]

Yessir!

[Paul McEvoy]

That was killer. I learned a bit just watching you play.

I was wondering how you made the video and coordinated all the parts. If you had time to explain, the more detail the better. Do you record video and audio to the same program at the same time or are they separate files? Really excellent!

[Rick Barnhart]

Love that...thank you for sharing it.

[Jerry Gleason]

Thanks again, everyone!

Paul, to answer your question, There are a lot of ways to do this. My recording method is pretty simple, although including video adds another layer and is a little more complicated. The order of things may vary, but for most of these, I often start with a MIDI scratch track for bass and drums. I make those with iReal Pro, or Band-in-A-Box. I import that into Logic (any audio workstation will do), then start adding guitar or steel tracks, and lastly, replace any MIDI tracks with real instruments (well usually). This last video is still using a sampled bass track, although I programmed all the notes by hand. Getting lazy in my old age. I don't pay a lot of attention to video, I just keep a camera rolling while I'm recording the tracks, then sync the video clips to the final audio track in a video editor after it's finished. Hope that makes sense and is helpful.

[Paul McEvoy]

Thanks for that! Are you able to put the video clips in logic and make the video that way?

[Chris Brooks]

Nice, Jerry, and well filmed, too.

I perked up at the end when suddenly there was a big old Guild . . . or DeArmond? I have 3 Guilds and a DeArmond myself.

Chris

[G Strout]

Sounds great! Excellent playing. Love the tone you are pulling out of those guitars!!

[Nic Neufeld]

That was fantastic and I had to go back and confirm that this wasn't some old steel guitar standard...kudos on your composition! I've been watching your videos on @steeljazz since I started playing steel guitar a few years back, great job as always!

[Mike A Holland]

Excellent.....really enjoyed it. Not only a cool take with great playing but such a great piece of music for steel guitar playing. Cant say enough really!