Time for another of those country numbers you simply must know, this time Tammy Wynette’s signature song.
In this video, I will duplicate Pete Drake’s pedal steel part as best as I can.
This is a replacement video for an earlier video uploaded last week that will have to be deleted because the copyright holder did not agree with my notice of dispute.
This was the message from Youtube today regarding the result of my notice of dispute:
"The claimant has reviewed their claim and confirmed it was valid.
You may be able to appeal this decision, but if the claimant disagrees with your appeal, you could end up with a strike on your account."
The copyright holder is EMI Music Publishing, remember these bastards, people. I'm not having EMI making revenue off my video so the first video is going to be removed to be replaced by this one.
This video has undergone extensive editing so as to avoid, if possible, triggering the automated checking mechanism of Youtube for copyright content.
I have done this drastic edit because based on previous experience, a video just merely playing the chords and signature guitar licks to a song could possibly trigger Youtube’s nervous mechanism.
I'm hoping this time it won't because there is basically nothing left in the audio to compare with the original commercially released recording and thus offer nothing to flag.
If Youtube's checking mechanism can detect the bass part and realise the underlying chord progression matches that of Stand By Your Man and thus flag it as copyright content, I would be very impressed.
With that copyright bollocks out of the way, I can continue.
And a very tasteful pedal steel part it was from Mr Drake, never overwhelming and perfectly complimenting Tammy’s fabulous vocal part.
The very end of the song posed some problems as I couldn’t really hear from the recording if there was any pedal steel part mixed in. Despite that I decided to make a best guess as what would be the most suitable part to put in as the song ended.
This is the first video that I’ve used the Amplitude Fender suite of amp simulators for recording the audio for a video. I’m using a '65 Fender Twin simulation. Settings as follows:
Bright switch: on
Volume: 5.1
Treble: 4
Mids: 1
Bass: 5.9
Reverb: 3
Speed:not applicable
Intensity:not applicable
On the cab, I’ve chosen a dynamic 57 microphone which I presume emulates the Shure SM57 microphone.
Previously in my videos I used the inbuilt amps in Logic Pro X, mainly choosing the bass amps, or using a Boss Fender 59 Bassman pedal direct input into the audio interface. I was never satisfied with the tone I got.
For the first deleted video, I recorded a backing track with drums, bass, acoustic guitar and an electric guitar with tremolo. In this replacement video, I have retained just the bass to pin down the chord changes.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Great care and effort has been expended on trying to ensure that the steel part is accurate. However there is always a risk that what I am demonstrating could be wrong in terms of note, in terms of position of the steel bar, in terms of which strings are plucked. I could have been suffering from slight deafness on the day of recording or I was feeling off because the wife was nagging me again. This video represents the best that I could do after researching the original recording and any available footage. Unless I was standing right next to the player and videotaping the performance, there’s no way I can accurately say for certain that what I play is perfectly accurate to what the original player did. Do not assume my demonstration as the final word, cast in stone-like. I could be wrong. Nobody is perfect, least of all me. Viewers should exercise caution when watching the video and they would be well advised to check for themselves against the original recording and any associated footage. I may be playing it wrong but you may be playing it right. Isn’t this fun, learning things together?
