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    How About... Keyboard or Piano Jokes

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Q: What does a keyboard player use for birth control?

    A: His personality.

     

    Q: How many bassists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    A: None. The keyboard player does it with his left hand.

     

    Q: Why did Bach have 20 children?

    A: Because his organ had no stops.

     

    Q: What's the difference between an accordion and a trampoline?

    A: You don't have to take your shoes off to jump up and down on an accordion.

    Help: How many notes is Monty playing?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Jazz+ -

     

    It's hard to definitively say exactly what Monty's playing, even when using the lowest playback speed on YouTube (.25).

     

    Two things, though:

     

    1) It sounds like sometimes at the beginning of the passage, Monty is only playing a single note in the left hand, as he does in the first 7 bars of your transcription. (At a slow speed, the single pitches really jump out and they form a counter melody-line, as they naturally would when one is playing hammer-like fast repetitions. The minor 3rds are eventually added; or, they might be there all along, but buried under a prominent top left hand note.)

     

    2) To get that "complete" diminished 7th chord sound, it's crucial to have all chord tones represented. None of your proposed right hand voicings include the Gb. To leave that note out, you're really missing the characteristic stacked tritones sound of the chord.

     

    So, for example, if I was banging out a strong single note "A" in my left hand, I'd play (from the bottom up) Eb, Gb and C in my right hand, and so forth. Both hands would then be spelling out a full diminished chord (as a nice drop-2 voicing), with no missing chord tones.

     

    Of course, playing minor 3rds in the left hand throughout would sound fine. It's all about the rapid-fire rhythmic excitement created by the alternating hands!

     

    Monty Alexander - great pianist, and a really great guy. Turns out he was at one of my gigs here in NYC a couple of years back - thankfully, I didn't know it until after the set. He was very complimentary to me, and we talked for quite a while. He told me a funny story:

     

    I was asking him about the recording of "That's The Way It Is," a Milt Jackson record featuring Ray Brown, with a very young Monty on piano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_the_Way_It_Is_(Milt_Jackson_album)

     

    SWINGING record, trust me! Check it out, kids!

     

    It was the first time I had ever heard Monty, and I always had loved his playing on that record. And, it was a record I listened to a LOT, so I was very familiar with the tunes, Monty's solos, etc.

     

    Monty was amazed that I knew the record (though it's not obscure), and was really touched.

     

    He went on to tell me that Jimmy Rowles was supposed to do the record but was, ahem, "not in any shape" to do it. (Jimmy was known to hit the sauce in a big way.)

     

    I think that Monty was hanging around (or they rustled him up quickly) - but, that's how Monty ended up on the record!

     

    Straight from the horse's mouth!

    Did you Black Friday anything?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    u-he's Zebra 2 is on sale, very tempting...especially considering that will apply toward Zebra 3. But bottom line I have enough synths and probably lack the patience to really make the best use of a semi-modular like Zebra.

     

    However, I am probably going to get a choir/vocal Kontakt instrument, a guitar bundle, and a percussion "epic drum" style Kontakt instrument, all on sale. I like doing soundtrack-y type stuff so these should be a lot of fun.

     

    Edit: also, Galileo organs are/were on sale along with all the other IOS plugins by that company. 2.99, can't really go wrong to see if it can sound better than the MODX b3 organ.

     

     

    Lots of soft synths out there but none of them playback on stage monitors as well as Zebra.

    I heard on IMAX with the Diva Filters in the HZ version I also have.

    It was my first soft synth. I also use Omnisphere but more for samples and Keyscape.

    Tried many and none get that vintage hardware sound as well.

    Even the dual Oscillator glide makes mono patches very worthy.

     

    In case you needed a push thought I"d help out.

    Zebra 3 won"t be core locked like HZ, and the the filters are suppose to be as good as HZ/Diva and more numerous.

    If you don"t get 2.9, make sure you get 3.0.

    No need to drag along hardware but I still prefer my SE-02, thankfully it"s tiny.

    mkuterk86,; xc-c -0o XK,-k[]90o-p=[

     

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