Doug Young - E Ku'u Morning Dew - Taylor Baritone Eight-String - Solo Guitar
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- Keola Beamer's arrangement of E Ku'u Morning Dew, recorded on a Taylor GT-8 Eight String Baritone guitar. The tuning is AEAEF#B, or with the octave strings, it becomes AEAaEeF#B.
Filmed with a Kodak Zi8, and a Panasonic Lumix ZS3 with audio recorded to a Zoom H4n, edited with Final Cut.
See my review of this guitar in the April 2010 issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine or online at www.acguitar.com/article/defau... or watch the online version at
• Acoustic Guitar Review...
Visit my website for more tunes and info, www.dougyoungguitar.com - Hudba
It could be argued that this particular guitar was born to play that singular song.....under your fingers. Quite beautiful. Thank you.
this is so nice, thanks. the taylor gt-8 has been like, "you buy me now", there is just no denying it, that deep yet bright tone is remarkable.
Doug, I love your playing. Again seeking for the excellence of sounds, and always a fine step forward. Thank you for sharing!!
This has been in my favorite for almost 13 years, and for good reason. Wonderful work, Doug.
I was wondering what this instrument was capable of and now I know.
Beautiful playing Doug, kudos.
Mark
I saw this clip 3 years ago, after that I bought this insrument....happy to have one of those,,,very inspiring...
That is the most amazing deep tone tone for such a small body. Just when you think Taylor has done it all, They make it better. Great job on the song Doug. Glad to have something new.
I’m very glad to have found this video again, after all these years! Thank you.
Man those baritone's put me right to sleep like a lullaby as a child...
Hello Doug!
A wonderful melody played with mastery.
What a wonderful instrument!
Thank you for posting,
Best wishes
Staffan
Oh that is beautiful!! A good friend of mine has just bought this guitar & he's going thru' the relearning around those two extra strings. I was thrilled when I found you here playing with such ease, so I sent him your link.
Thanks so much for sharing...I play 6 & 12 string but don't know about an 8. ♪
Wow, awesome!
Nice and relaxing song, you use the Baritone beautifully !
i like your version! i wish i can someday play like you....& the sound from that guitar.... absolutely beautiful!
So beautiful Doug !
Beautiful...!!! What a fantastic and unique tone. Interesting to hear an acoustic at such a low pitch on the bass end yet just sparkles on the high end. Big thumbs up from a fellow Taylor player...Thanks!!!
A really beautifully played song.....awesome performance......thanks for posting...
Very, very nice. Gotta love the Beamers, and you nailed it.
Just great!!!! Great playing/tone/tune/tuning yeah!
Hello Doug,
I come back to this video time and time again.
Seems this tune is written for this special guitar.
Thank you for this great post.
Best wishes
Staffan
This is beautiful Doug.
Shikarno thanks a lot! God bless you - more and more real music
Wow! what a great sound!!!
Wow! What a beautiful guitar... Very good playing
great playing.... inspiring.... thank you!
Wow -- that's beautiful . . .
I play it on a 6 string. I had to adapt a few spots for the 8, if I recall, mostly either watching how I picked the octave strings, or occasionally playing different strings. Come to think of it, I think I'll play this on a regular 6 string in a webcast on StageIt coming up this thursday... Something I haven't played live very much.
Awesome tune. I really like the sound of the Taylor. I have a 414ce and was thinking about getting a 12 string as my "other" guitar but I am now awfully tempted by the 8 string Baritone. Well done. Thank you !
Yea, you make that Taylor sound nice. I've been curious about them. Nice job!
One of my favorite guitars by Taylor.
Very nice, Doug..!
What's really cool is if you open another tab, go to youtube and search for a holophonic or 3d rain sounds, play that at semi low level, Then play this video and the effect is awesome.
I wondered what this guitar really sounded like, after the AG report/review. I want one now, but I won't play it as well as you do. Thank you, great sound and playing. Cheers... Mike
I keep coming back to this piece, The tone of thus guitar is awesome. Finally tried one but found it a bit of a stretch for by fingers! Now hoping for a GS Mini baritone??
Hi Pascal, the Zoom part is very straight-forward, I just put in it 4 channel mode, recorded with the built-in mics, and 1 channel with the Taylor pickup. I mixed the two together in Logic, adding a little reverb and a little EQ. The pickup tends to add a bit of beef to the bass
sounds awesomeee..
@Twoosy That sounds like a nice selection to listen to. I added my website to the tune description
@captbanjo1 Yes, on the AG demo review of this guitar, if I remember right, I demonstrated how you could control the different sounds you can get with a thumbpick and fingers. I definitely find a thumbpick is helpful on baritones for avoiding the mud on the low strings. I don't have this guitar anymore (it was for review), so I can't verify the intonation issues, but I don't recall having any problems with that.
@Twoosy Thanks, Roy. Yes, unfortunately, I don't get to keep the review guitars :-) But they're fun to play with while I have them. This model is on my shopping list now, tho! Gryphon had one in and it sold immediately, from what I hear. Maybe they can let you know when this next one arrives before someone snatches it up.
I love this guitar and the arrangement. Can't afford one right now but will find a way...
Meanwhile I've tuned my 1982 Balladeer down to CGCGAD and am learning the tune. It may not have the octave sound but it does sound goooooood!
Nice one Doug!
Perfect
One of my goals is to own a couple of Taylor acoustics...this will be one of them. :)
Thank you for replying! It's a great surprise because I really admire you and your work. About the tuner, I'm really not sure myself. There's an A4 button, which i'm not sure what it's for, but I put it to 440 as the manual said(i threw that somewhere, unfortunately). And there is a "flat" button where I can adjust for who knows. Say, I play a low E, then i press the "flat" button once, i play the low E again and it reads "C". I press it once more then it reads a C#, once more it's D
@TravisRinker Sure, tho something capable of reproducing the low end will do it justice a bit more. I think in my video demo for Acoustic Guitar, I played it through my AER Acousticube, a very small amp.
This is beautiful. Could it be said that a Baritone is the ideal open tuning guitar ? Pristine A/V production and guitar playing. You put a lot of feeling and emotion behind every note.
@WhiteLakeDan In theory, you could tune any guitar down, maybe with heavier strings, but baritone guitars are designed to be tuned down, with a longer scale for better intonation and also a deeper voice. You could certainly mimic the string arrangement by removing strings from a 12-string, but the string spacing wouldn't be optimal. Still, a good way to try it and check out the effect!
Doug this is really a great lazy afternoon piece of music and I'm glad you composed it for all of us on CZcams. I read that you're in Mountain View. I have been wanting to try out one of these gems from Taylor since learning about baritones in general. Gryphon Palo Alto still has one of these 8-strings on order. Just curious did you have to return this guitar back after writing a review, too?
- Roy McDonell in the east bay.
@DougYoungGuitar Thank you so much anyways =]
Nicely done! I own this guitar and I too use a thumbpick along with fingers. I find it articulates notes very clearly on the bottom end. I'm curious, do you find some intonation issues beyond the fifth fret on the octave string for the fourth string? Mine won't clearly intonate and I think I may have it looked at by a Taylor-certified luthier.
Great question! The difference is the tonal range of the instruments. Physically they are no different as I can put my Taylor Baritone into my normal 614ce case. BUT! The strings are tuned down 5 half steps (E drops down to B) - this allows guys like me who have lower vocal ranges to be able to sing comfortably and not sound strained attempting to sing like Robert Plant all the time. It is a long overdue development in music.
Physically they are very different.
@mcchung This tune is in AEAEF#B, so it doesn't fit will into a book about DADGAD :-) I actually never tabbed this tune out, sorry.
Grpyhon has my email. I have only three acoustics: an Esteve Classical, Taylor DN4, and a Tacoma Baritone. I asked Gryphon if they could convert it to an 8-string, but overall the luthier advised to leave it be. The joy of strumming acoustic has come about at my gym; the pilates teacher chooses Celtic, New Age and Irish with sound so clear it's like your in the same room as the composers.
Hope to hear back from you. Please direct me to your website. Peace brother.
fall in love with guitar adi
This piece has a hypnotic feel to it, if you are feeling a bit sleepy, well, that's you gone..... Baritones, just a bit fab, er?!
Hi,
Would this guitar function tuned to a low spanish E type tuning (BEBEGsharpB) and work well for slide? Also it it possible to avoid the octave strings whilst finger picking, and if necessary remove them or would the 6 string version be a better option?
Sorry for all the questions but it is a 3 to 500 mile trip try one.
Wonderful music by the way, it really moved me. You looked as though you were really enjoying the sound.
Regards
Chris
I don't know that tuner, but it should work. Is the problem that it doesn't detect the lowered notes, like the low C in the tuning I use on Amazing Grace? You could try to play the 12th fret octave when tuning, getting it an octave up, which might make the tuner work better
Wonderful playing. Is this kind of guitar suitable for all kind of fingerstyle picking?
This song really brings out the best in the guitar. Great playing and style.
Dear Sir,
Is there any way (or place on the internet) where one can find out how you programmed the Zoomhn4 for this recording? Its gorgeous...
Kind regards,
Pascal
Doug, how do I adjust my FT-800 chromatic tuner so it's able to capture the correct notes without straining my strings?
I remember trying to tune my guitar for Amazing Grace and it just didn't work out. perhaps it's the wrong strings? wrong guitar? for Shenandoah I can play perfectly(thank you for that amazing piece) but please answer soon
Beautiful music, expertly played. Congrats! Excuse my ignorance but could this not be done with, say, a Taylor 12 string Leo Kottke (for instance) with some strings removed and tuned down?
This is realty cool, is it perhaps the ideal compromise between the ordinariness of a standard six string and the excess trebbliness of the 12....
Now if they'd just make it something remotely like affordable (the guitar). Mahalo, Doug! Malama Pono!
mito bom
Hi, ive ordered your book yesterday..but this song doesnt attach in it..could u please share the tabs?? Thanks so much!
Hmm, I'm not sure what that feature is for. But I just tune to the "real"notes. So if on a baritone, I'm tuned down to B, I just leave the tuner at the 440 setting, play the 1st string, and make sure it reads "B", and is tune, and so on. You just have to know the notes you're really tuned to. I usually mostly tune using relative pitches, and just use the tuner to verify that I'm not sharp or flat - then touch up by ear, as well.
Really nice! I am on the hunt for a baritone... but this one is not in reach budgetwise :'-(
I'll give away my 12-string---well, one of them for this beauty. What's the tuning? I think I might know.
On a standard scale guitar, it would be CGCGAD, but here, tuned down to AEAEF#B
So what key are you playing in here?
I have a small problem... What is the difference between a normal acoustic guitar and a Baritone guitar????
if there is ever a rainy day and you have nothing to do.. can you please tab this song on a six string? i would be very happy to buy it. :)
You have great finger placement, a nice smile, and a great intonation. But slow down, dude! Let the music flow from bar to bar. Adding little jogs here and there will really allow the spirit of ki ho'alu to speak through the playing.
Great video! Record more :)
A baritone guitar is designed to be tuned lower, down to B or A instead of E
Really want its tabs : ( looking for 4 years almost
@NylonStrungGirl I assume from your handle that you play nylon string, so the steel 8-string may sound a bit brash to you. I liked the sound, and liked the tone better with a thumbpick than without. I don't really hear the tune or the sound as "clunky". Sorry you didn't care for it.
You could tune a guitar lower, but baritones typically have a longer scale - 27.5 inches in this case, that make the low notes work better. They also tend to just be designed for a lower voice, to resonate at lower frequencies. Think of a baritone singer. A soprano might be able to sing low notes, but they won't have the deep voice of a real baritone.And of course, this particular guitar has 8 strings!
Can't we convert a normal acoustic guitar to a baritone guitar????
oh wait, this won't work for 6 stringed guitars, huh?
Is this a hapa song?
Wassup with da tutorial?
What tutorial? This is just a performance video
Sorry, thought you knew what I meant,
Can you make a tutorial?
@@hiwahiwakaheaku3853 Ah, I'll put that on the todo list, glad you enjoyed the tune
The combination of wanting this guitar but the knowledge that I'll probably never get it is sickening... Excellent playing, though
Why would you use a thumbpick on a song this delicate? I would understand if it was useful in bringing out the octave strings, but the tone that you are getting from it is really clunky and distracting. I hate to be one of those punks, but come on, if you are a teacher and you represent one of the leading guitar magazines you should be more conscious of this kind of thing.
Beautiful Doug!