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Keyboard riffs that changed the world, you should know them
Hi, i havn't posted anything in a while and i decided i'd do a "my favorite"
on solos intros, and riffs.
i've been out a decent computer since october and havn't had anything decent to play on or record with in a way that would let me make a mp3 out of, but somehow i managed,
1)Kraftwerk - Pocket calculator
Why i think its neat: They used a toy keyboard to play this riff, it was called the Beegee's Rhythm machine and amounted to little more then a hunk of plastic with less then 2 octaves, the only thing i know of more limited then that would be a stylophone.
2)The Beatles - In My life, "Harpsichord?! solo"
Why i think its neat: if you believe that part was played on a harpsichord you've just been trolled. it was actually a PIANO recorded half speed then played back at full speed thereby making it SOUND like a harpsichord,
the reason? the keyboardist simply couldn't play at the tempo the song was recorded at, if you don't believe me, open the song in audacity and slow that part to 50% and you'll be tripping out.
3)Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (intro)
Why i think its neat: this is probably one of the most recognizable intros of all time,
4) a simple version of blues in C
Why i think its neat: theres like, literally hundreds of songs based on this simple progression, learn it, then learn to transpose it around the keyboard, you'll be able to fake you way through a lot of songs.
5) the Beatles - Strawberry fields Forever
Why i think its neat: this is one of the first songs to use a mellotron, a keyboard that can be described as a primitive sampler that uses prerecorded tapes as a tonebank, its also trippy as hell :P
6) The Who - We wont get fooled again
Why i think its neat; originally recorded using a Lowery deluxe Berkshire TBO-1 using a gating effect to "chop" the sound (applied by a EMS VCS3 synth) he wasnt smashing the keys to play it like chopsticks, he was holding chords and letting the VCS3 chop it,
7) The Buggles - Video killed the Radio Star
Why i think its neat: this was the first song to play on MTV, (when it was'nt shit) it ushered in a new era of music videos and awesomeness.
R.I.P MTV, 1981-1996 your dearly missed.
8) Del Shannon - Runaway
Why i think its neat: this may well be the FIRST synth solo in history,
it was played on an instrument its owner called the MUSITRON which was really a circuitbent CLAVOLINE, this may be the first case of circuitbending in history too, but that term wasn't used then,
9) Ozzy Ozbourne - Mr Crowley (intro)
Why i think its neat: if i had a chance to give any song in the world the rating "best intro ever" i think i'd give it to this song, i think its truly epic in every way.
i played everythign you hear here, but i wont claim to have nailed it, or played it to the best of my abilitys, this was just something i did to get an idea of what songs are out there, and an idea of why their cool.
so there you have it, these are my favorite keyboard riffs of all time,
i just learned how to play "in my life" today between 7:00Pm and 12:00AM
thank god for toy casios and their tiny little keys, :D
if you have any suggestions as to what your favorite riff is, please comment, i'd love to hear them, I'm dreadfully bored and have nothing else to do.
as you can see, i like a wide range of musical styles, but im not into most modern stuff, since you can slap a hit Rap song togheter in 5 minutes using frootyloops, but it took hours and hours when people still used tape.
thats just my personal opinion though, you go on and listen to whatever ya want, no matter how bad and plastic it is :-P
if you try to play any of these, heres my advice:
get a program that can edit midi files, or VSThost
find the midi for the song your trying to play and mute all channels but the one your want to work on,
either look at the midi notes in the editor and figure it out, or play it back at a slow tempo on a vst pluging in vsthost and watch the keys,
this is my method and it works most of the time,
if you can read sheet music go ahead, but to me it looks like an ink monster sneezed, if your serious, go find someone who gives lessons,
dont just say, "oh i'll never be able to play that" TRY ,if you have a passion for music, you should at least have somthing to DO with music in your life.
P.S.- the font in the thumnail is from a NES game called Willow.
i copied it pixel by pixel in ms-paint, then made a TTF font out of it :P
so im the only one in the world with that font if ya want it.
All songs (C) their owners, duh.
on solos intros, and riffs.
i've been out a decent computer since october and havn't had anything decent to play on or record with in a way that would let me make a mp3 out of, but somehow i managed,
1)Kraftwerk - Pocket calculator
Why i think its neat: They used a toy keyboard to play this riff, it was called the Beegee's Rhythm machine and amounted to little more then a hunk of plastic with less then 2 octaves, the only thing i know of more limited then that would be a stylophone.
2)The Beatles - In My life, "Harpsichord?! solo"
Why i think its neat: if you believe that part was played on a harpsichord you've just been trolled. it was actually a PIANO recorded half speed then played back at full speed thereby making it SOUND like a harpsichord,
the reason? the keyboardist simply couldn't play at the tempo the song was recorded at, if you don't believe me, open the song in audacity and slow that part to 50% and you'll be tripping out.
3)Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (intro)
Why i think its neat: this is probably one of the most recognizable intros of all time,
4) a simple version of blues in C
Why i think its neat: theres like, literally hundreds of songs based on this simple progression, learn it, then learn to transpose it around the keyboard, you'll be able to fake you way through a lot of songs.
5) the Beatles - Strawberry fields Forever
Why i think its neat: this is one of the first songs to use a mellotron, a keyboard that can be described as a primitive sampler that uses prerecorded tapes as a tonebank, its also trippy as hell :P
6) The Who - We wont get fooled again
Why i think its neat; originally recorded using a Lowery deluxe Berkshire TBO-1 using a gating effect to "chop" the sound (applied by a EMS VCS3 synth) he wasnt smashing the keys to play it like chopsticks, he was holding chords and letting the VCS3 chop it,
7) The Buggles - Video killed the Radio Star
Why i think its neat: this was the first song to play on MTV, (when it was'nt shit) it ushered in a new era of music videos and awesomeness.
R.I.P MTV, 1981-1996 your dearly missed.
8) Del Shannon - Runaway
Why i think its neat: this may well be the FIRST synth solo in history,
it was played on an instrument its owner called the MUSITRON which was really a circuitbent CLAVOLINE, this may be the first case of circuitbending in history too, but that term wasn't used then,
9) Ozzy Ozbourne - Mr Crowley (intro)
Why i think its neat: if i had a chance to give any song in the world the rating "best intro ever" i think i'd give it to this song, i think its truly epic in every way.
i played everythign you hear here, but i wont claim to have nailed it, or played it to the best of my abilitys, this was just something i did to get an idea of what songs are out there, and an idea of why their cool.
so there you have it, these are my favorite keyboard riffs of all time,
i just learned how to play "in my life" today between 7:00Pm and 12:00AM
thank god for toy casios and their tiny little keys, :D
if you have any suggestions as to what your favorite riff is, please comment, i'd love to hear them, I'm dreadfully bored and have nothing else to do.
as you can see, i like a wide range of musical styles, but im not into most modern stuff, since you can slap a hit Rap song togheter in 5 minutes using frootyloops, but it took hours and hours when people still used tape.
thats just my personal opinion though, you go on and listen to whatever ya want, no matter how bad and plastic it is :-P
if you try to play any of these, heres my advice:
get a program that can edit midi files, or VSThost
find the midi for the song your trying to play and mute all channels but the one your want to work on,
either look at the midi notes in the editor and figure it out, or play it back at a slow tempo on a vst pluging in vsthost and watch the keys,
this is my method and it works most of the time,
if you can read sheet music go ahead, but to me it looks like an ink monster sneezed, if your serious, go find someone who gives lessons,
dont just say, "oh i'll never be able to play that" TRY ,if you have a passion for music, you should at least have somthing to DO with music in your life.
P.S.- the font in the thumnail is from a NES game called Willow.
i copied it pixel by pixel in ms-paint, then made a TTF font out of it :P
so im the only one in the world with that font if ya want it.
All songs (C) their owners, duh.
Category Music / Other Music
Species Unspecified / Any
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File Size 2.79 MB
this was really cool and informative! thank you for sharing :D
i'm hoping to get doremimania (sim of keyboardmania, a keyboard music game) running soon and if i do i'll be sure to load in some midis of these songs
also that font is pretty rad and i'd love to get a copy of the ttf :3
i'm hoping to get doremimania (sim of keyboardmania, a keyboard music game) running soon and if i do i'll be sure to load in some midis of these songs
also that font is pretty rad and i'd love to get a copy of the ttf :3
you have no idea how long i've been wishing there was a guitar hero style keyboard game with a real keyboard, i must try that!
i detest games like guitar hero simply because they use an interface thats nothing like the real world equivalent, this is a refreshing change from that it looks like :]
i detest games like guitar hero simply because they use an interface thats nothing like the real world equivalent, this is a refreshing change from that it looks like :]
yeah, I agree with you about guitar hero; its easily one of the worst rhythm games as far as emulating anything real. You should definitely look into doremi/keyboardmania, I think it even has doubles mode that uses two octaves instead of just one. :3
also thanks a ton for the fonts! :D
also thanks a ton for the fonts! :D
your damn lucky i sent those when i did,
later last night when i was recording a song my computer died on me,
it wouldn/t reboot, today i dind out that my hard drive crashed >_<
there goes: need for speed 3 + a ton of customized extra cars
Half-Life, a ton of music and porn, >_< crap,
the only windows install disk i have at the moment is for XP pro, and though the Aero-theme based on vista looks pretty, i cant use my customized direct pad pro controller to play games (a ps2 controller on the parallel port) i cant use a bunch of midi stuff, shit, ARRRGH!
i managed to get that game yesterday and tried it before my drive crashed, and i'll need a newer computer to use my oxygen 49 with, too bad newer likely means no isa slots, thus no SB16/Opl3 fm synth soundcards...
why cant i have anything that would have been considered remotely nice 8 years ago >_<
hold on to those fonts for me, i may need a copy of them back later on :/
i had no startup disks, or windows 98 disks, thank god for this pirate copy of xp i found laying around an abandon house :D
later last night when i was recording a song my computer died on me,
it wouldn/t reboot, today i dind out that my hard drive crashed >_<
there goes: need for speed 3 + a ton of customized extra cars
Half-Life, a ton of music and porn, >_< crap,
the only windows install disk i have at the moment is for XP pro, and though the Aero-theme based on vista looks pretty, i cant use my customized direct pad pro controller to play games (a ps2 controller on the parallel port) i cant use a bunch of midi stuff, shit, ARRRGH!
i managed to get that game yesterday and tried it before my drive crashed, and i'll need a newer computer to use my oxygen 49 with, too bad newer likely means no isa slots, thus no SB16/Opl3 fm synth soundcards...
why cant i have anything that would have been considered remotely nice 8 years ago >_<
hold on to those fonts for me, i may need a copy of them back later on :/
i had no startup disks, or windows 98 disks, thank god for this pirate copy of xp i found laying around an abandon house :D
I may seem a little strange to some, but one day i can go from listening to music from the 50's and 60's to listening to grunge, 80's or hip hop the next, I appreciate the music itself, regardless of any meaning the lyrical content may have, So if a song has lyrics that have more poetic content then shakespear it'd mean nothing to me if not sung over music that was equally well thought out,
HOWEVER, on a song that has scat vocals, harmonys, or where something is just plain acapella, i will take the time to put that into consideration, since many such songs have no music, or the music is made with someones mouths, ...who would have thought there was a similarity between a barbershop quartet and a guy who can beatbox?
This is part of the reason you never hear me add vocals to my tracks :P I just like the music, and if i need to, i'll play the vocal notes on an instrument.
Part of the fun for me is trying to figure out WHAT made a particular sound, and finding out HOW i can reproduce it exactly, If i were to try and describe the sound of the keyboard used in Runaway, i'd say it sounds like a rectangular/trianglular waveform passed through a series of filters, and an amplifier with a tremolo effect (similar to the guitar on crimson and clover, For what its worth by buffalo springfeild, or even green day's "Boulevard of broken dreams" for those of you who have no idea what im talking about) I also notice that it's monophonic, that it can only play a single note at a time, Just like a minimoog or a TB-303....
Can you imagine using a sonovox with a distortion effect added? a crybaby? how bout a phaser or flanger?
this is the kind of complex stuff i think about when i hear a unique sound, I think to myself, How could i take that sound and make music with it...
I not only appreciate the arrangements, i also appreciate the time it took someone to get that sound, and how much effort they put into getting it... Like when the first guy figured out "accidenly"bumping a tape real could produce a flanging effect, so someone spoke up and said "Hey that sounds pretty cool, lets use it in a song!" BAM Suddenly your listening to Visions of Matchstick men, Or imagine the time it took to do this: The intro to "Money" pink floyd, Someone had to go out there, Record each of those sound effects, Splice them into a tape loop, then figure out a way to suspend that loop from the studio ceiling, Time it right, and then do it all without accidently erasing the tape, getting it dirty, or maiming it...
To think, someone went through that much effort just to put some sound effects into a song... I love that.
Oh and tape echos, their lovely manchines... Just think, without them, thered be no Fly like an eagle, no cheesy sci-fi film echos, or such... Reverb tanks are cool, drop one and you get thunder... :D
anyway, i appreciate all the effort that goes into making the listener amazed at what he hears.
Then again, i have a habit of overanalyzing things, just one of my quirks... Such as typing too damn much... :P
HOWEVER, on a song that has scat vocals, harmonys, or where something is just plain acapella, i will take the time to put that into consideration, since many such songs have no music, or the music is made with someones mouths, ...who would have thought there was a similarity between a barbershop quartet and a guy who can beatbox?
This is part of the reason you never hear me add vocals to my tracks :P I just like the music, and if i need to, i'll play the vocal notes on an instrument.
Part of the fun for me is trying to figure out WHAT made a particular sound, and finding out HOW i can reproduce it exactly, If i were to try and describe the sound of the keyboard used in Runaway, i'd say it sounds like a rectangular/trianglular waveform passed through a series of filters, and an amplifier with a tremolo effect (similar to the guitar on crimson and clover, For what its worth by buffalo springfeild, or even green day's "Boulevard of broken dreams" for those of you who have no idea what im talking about) I also notice that it's monophonic, that it can only play a single note at a time, Just like a minimoog or a TB-303....
Can you imagine using a sonovox with a distortion effect added? a crybaby? how bout a phaser or flanger?
this is the kind of complex stuff i think about when i hear a unique sound, I think to myself, How could i take that sound and make music with it...
I not only appreciate the arrangements, i also appreciate the time it took someone to get that sound, and how much effort they put into getting it... Like when the first guy figured out "accidenly"bumping a tape real could produce a flanging effect, so someone spoke up and said "Hey that sounds pretty cool, lets use it in a song!" BAM Suddenly your listening to Visions of Matchstick men, Or imagine the time it took to do this: The intro to "Money" pink floyd, Someone had to go out there, Record each of those sound effects, Splice them into a tape loop, then figure out a way to suspend that loop from the studio ceiling, Time it right, and then do it all without accidently erasing the tape, getting it dirty, or maiming it...
To think, someone went through that much effort just to put some sound effects into a song... I love that.
Oh and tape echos, their lovely manchines... Just think, without them, thered be no Fly like an eagle, no cheesy sci-fi film echos, or such... Reverb tanks are cool, drop one and you get thunder... :D
anyway, i appreciate all the effort that goes into making the listener amazed at what he hears.
Then again, i have a habit of overanalyzing things, just one of my quirks... Such as typing too damn much... :P
Lots and lots of reading. Probably more then is healthy for me. Sometimes I hear a song, and i hear something i've never heard before, And i get on Google and just research the hell out of every recording i can find of said part looking for documentary quotes and such about equipment and usage. I guess its all a quest to "Get that sound" I even look carefully around music videos to see what they were playing and see if i cant ID it.
I don't claim to be 100% accurate even though i may sometimes spout off like a know it all. But i do try to be as accurate as possible in my descriptions. After all, for me, nothing is more frustrating then not knowing how someone has accomplished something. The will to learn is strong here.
A poem to describe the mindset of me, Made up on spot by this creative Kitty.
When i was a child, I was that boy,
who always mangled and broke his toys,
To find out how they'd work. I'd look inside,
and watch the movements jerk.
Sometimes I'd fix them,
Sometimes I'd be unable.
If all else failed I'd toss it in a box
Sometimes years later I'd pick it up again
and get it to tick and then tock.
I don't claim to be 100% accurate even though i may sometimes spout off like a know it all. But i do try to be as accurate as possible in my descriptions. After all, for me, nothing is more frustrating then not knowing how someone has accomplished something. The will to learn is strong here.
A poem to describe the mindset of me, Made up on spot by this creative Kitty.
When i was a child, I was that boy,
who always mangled and broke his toys,
To find out how they'd work. I'd look inside,
and watch the movements jerk.
Sometimes I'd fix them,
Sometimes I'd be unable.
If all else failed I'd toss it in a box
Sometimes years later I'd pick it up again
and get it to tick and then tock.
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