If you look at the guy's face when he opens it, you can tell it was tongue-in-cheek. It has a tape on the head stock with the name Gibson on it. Also, if you follow some of the links in the video, it brings you to his blog where he talks about ordering the Uke he used.
What I don't know is how he gets the backing percussion track to change with the different riffs. There were lots of different backings and lots of styles used. If he recorded it and changed as the percussion changed, that would be amazing. It does seem he starts the different riffs before the percussion starts so I don't know.
This video is so much fun.
Seems to me that all the backing tracks were done in advance as you can see Garageband on the screen of his computer in the background (fat colored horizontal lines and one of the built-in effects in a large blue rectangle with silver knobs beneath it are kind of a give away if you've used any newer version of Garageband)
Possibly ALL of the audio was recorded in advance of the video, and then he has that audio piped into the camera and then just mimes the playing for the video recording part...just like nearly ALL the videos on MTV are the players miming and/or lipsynching to the recording while the camera rolls...
Most people cannot tell the difference, but if you've edited enough video, you can see the slight lag or out-of-synch nature of the video vs. the audio, it's not much, maybe less than 100ms, but if you watch again, and know some of these riffs, his fingers do not move exactly when the sound comes out...
...it's either that, or YouTube has introduced it's own artifacts that manifest as slight synch issues, which has happened to me MANY many times after uploading a video to YT. Play perfect on my computer, and then after upload, something is 'off'.
In any case, none of the video production process details in any way degrade the significance of this video.
If I had to guess, this 9min33sec video, took about 100 hours of effort in the creation of the audio tracks (he might have got some pre-made MIDI or other backing/karaoke tracks and just imported and/or tweaked them, which would cut down on the time), the shooting of the actual video with 2 different camera angles, and then the editing process of putting it all together...
In my 10+ experience of working in this industry, video editing is a HUGE black hole time-sucking and life-sucking chore (most of the time), regardless of which software or platform you use.
Some are less painful than others, but they all will take you 5-10 times MORE time than a lay-person might imagine, and this is even with a super-fast, latest-and-greatest computer editing workstation....
I did both camera work as well as extensive editing work for two different video companies and saw analog tape go away and the coming of digital non-linear systems come into vogue. Digital is SO MUCH better and faster, but still a PITA and say goodbye to wife and kids for a week or two if you are on assignment. Deadlines are always right at the edge of possible/completely-impossible.
So a video like this is not just what you see in the end result, it is all of time and effort of the pre-production and post-production that goes into it, which is seldom appreciated by the viewer. This is one reason why Wedding Videos and similar always seem so expensive to the uninitiated, never-mind broadcast work - Super Bowl ads can cost millions of dollars to create and for good reason.
anyway...I digress...sorry for the off-topic...please forgive me...:shaka:
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