Ken, You started all this! Just hang on in there! I agree with you about the 'vocals'. I was not expecting that in a program about the 'piano'. When the pianist doesn't have to play the melody they just have to provide a 'backing' to the singing .. which can be none too clever. I have also noticed t...

JT, You ask: I'm wondering if there is some advantage in using Audio.com. I think Box.com is pretty good. Loads of advantages! For starters. what do you mean by, "I think Box.com is pretty good". Good for what? Letting you listen to the audio? Both platforms do the same. With audio.com you...

What I find interesting is the concept that there is a 'right' and a 'wrong' way to play something. Anything we play has to be an 'arrangement' done by somebody . I once knew a music teacher who invited me to go and listen to him playing in a pub. Not once for the whole evening did he have any 'musi...

Have watched Part 3 .. same LINK as I used for watching the 'catch-up' program, but this time had an option to watch it 'live' ie. I watched it on my laptop (with headphones on), not on the television. That was more like it! Had some amazing pianists this time (must be something to do with the Scots...

An initial topic explaining what audio.com was all about and how it is connected with Audacity is already up in the Forum (LINK below). There are also instructions in that topic on how to join, and how to get your music uploaded into this new 'cloud'. Do a right-click to open this up in a New Tab. h...

Another observation, which, if you haven't thought about it, I would like to draw your attention to. Do we need a 'left hand voice'? When I played my organs (I first had a Farfisa Balmoral, and followed that with a Yamaha AR80 .. which I still have) there was no question of not having a 'left hand v...

Ron, I think most of us play by following the dots on the lines and the chord symbols over the top. You, like me, having played in a band don't need to look up (or work out) the 'structure' of a chord. But as for playing the right sounding chord? When I listen to 'jazz' versions of a song I can't re...

JT, I have had a look at this site. Not impressed by the search box. It came up with hundreds of suggestions, none of which were the song I had typed in. Even when I typed in one of the songs they listed, that didn't come up in the top slot. If you do find a song you are looking for, it's great for ...

Ken, I have watched Part 2 now. Did you watch it? Not sure what to make of any of it. I'm not 'into' classical music (Chopin) so wouldn't know how well those pieces were played, or if they followed the work of the original composer. As for the others, when people put their own interpretation of note...

Comments on playing organs/pianos/keyboards Do you play an organ, a piano or a keyboard? Didn't get this question quite right! So don't say, "Yes!". I wasn't asking if you play an organ, a piano or a keyboard .. I was asking which of these you play! I am hoping in this topic to discuss so...

25/02/2023. I have updated this topic re: the Major 7th chord . When I started off in my 'teens it was called the 'natural 7th chord'. This is the chord formed by including the 7th note of the scale eg. Cmaj7 = C E G B (or inversions of same). Not to be confused with C 7th = C E G Bb (or inversions ...

Guitar and Saxophone This guitar and saxophone piece is played by George Turner on the Wersi OAX1. Just listen to the realism of that guitar! It's hard to believe that this is not a real guitar being played! Evergreen Do a right-click to open this up in a New Tab. https://app.box.com/s/nxycfi2jkohy...

And then there is one song that is deliberately sung 'out of tune'. (Must be very difficult to do that!) Desafinado - Slightly out of tune If you tell me I sing out of tune my love You should know it hurts me to the core, my love It’s just the very lucky few that have an ear like yours I have only w...

Glad we have picked up on this topic again. Here's another really interesting bit of research.

Are You Tone Deaf?

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Hugh

Nothing amiss with any of these songs then.

TONE DEAF SINGING?

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Further comments on PLAYLISTS . What is a PLAYLIST? It is like a FOLDER in an office filing system (or on a computer) ie. in the folder you would expect to find items with a common thread. When I go to my YouTube Channel page I see these 'tabs' at the top. The VIDEOS one lists all my uploads, includ...

Ken, I too thought the lady with the pink hair was the best pianist. When I hear music I like to hear 'harmony', and she ticked all the boxes for me. Not so keen on Harry, the 92 year old. His 'jazzy' chords weren't doing anything for me. Lang Lang was the one professional we got a taste of. Technic...

Ken, Thank you for posting that. From a Google Search it appears that one can watch Channel 4 as 'catch-up' on a laptop. To get the quality I shall listen with headphones rather than the laptop's 'tinny' speakers. This is the LINK to where the program actually is: Do a right-click to open this up in...

Ron, Your setup is like playing an organ. Two separate sets of keys with a different Voice on each .. so jump down/up from one to the other. Back to my 'out of tune' piano in R3. So you can hear what I heard, click the DEMO of this, below. Ambient Piano in R2 and 'out of tune' Ambient Piano in R3 (r...

Thought I would play something on my Tyros 4 with the keyboard split for R3 . It is definitely more difficult to 'jump across' from one voice to another on a keyboard whilst playing a song. With the AR80 organ one voice is directly below the other (one on the Upper manual, the other on the Lower man...

Saxophone Don Wherly has played this on his AR80 organ. They say that the voices on these older organs are not up to much, but you could have fooled me! I can't find a Saxophone on my Tyros 4 that sounds anything like as good as this one. Just listen to the breathiness of those lower notes. And of ...

JT, Here is another version, in F. This was in a book JohnT had. The PDF should show below. If not, 'refresh' the page (maybe a couple of times). Different chord structure to the D version above. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/ValiantBe.pdf Or, click this direct LINK to the music. Do a right-click to...

Making an AUDIO recording on Tyros 5

Tips on (AUDIO) recording on Yamaha Tyros 5 - with special guest Daniel Watt.

Making a MIDI recording on Tyros 5

How to do a quick (MIDI) recording on Yamaha Tyros 5 - David explains.

JT, Loved the harmonies in this, and the sound you had. The video was quite a challenge as in one section of the video I wanted to replace the 'black areas' on either side of the 'portrait' clip of the person walking down the boardwalk with coloured 'autumn leaves'. You can read how I did this here:...

More on this! Now, as the part with the 'autumn leaves' replacing the black areas had worked out so well, I decided to make this a 'double clip' in the video I was doing. So instead of getting the person walking along the boardwalk with the 'black areas' on each side followed by the one with the au...

Our televisions and cameras originally used to show pictures in the ratio of 4:3. Over a long period in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the computer industry switched from 4:3 to 16:9 as the most common aspect ratio for monitors and laptops. So when taking mobile pictures in 'landscape' mode it is b...

Tony said, above: Clicking the above gives what I assume is Vaughan Williams original arrangement of what is in essence an English folk song. I would probably simplify it a bit! Food for thought! Seems to me that if you take a 'classical' piece (you can include Folk Songs and Hymns in this) which is...

JT, You have brought up something I find very interesting. First, you have produced a script with the melody written as notes on a stave. There is no indication of any harmony. You have asked how to put chords (ie. harmony) to the melody. Then Tony has given us an 'arrangement' with notes written on...

The song is about a man who's talking by telephone to the woman he loves, when he realizes that another man is with her. Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone Let's pretend that we're together all alone I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low And you can tell your friend there ...

Den,

Love your photos! Great scenery right on your doorstep.

Hugh

John, Yep, MP3, WAV and others as well as directly onto a CD! Hate to tell you, but that last option is a no brainer. Can't even give my CDs to anyone these days. No one has a CD player any more . You can't even buy a laptop with a DVD/CD player in it. Even cars no longer have CD players .. just USB...

George, Thanks so much for posting this. The video lasts for 37 minutes. The sounds he gets are truly amazing. Somebody in the comments said that they needed to get some lessons from him to help play like him. Well, watching how he is playing, it is no different to how most of us play. What we need ...

John, What a fascinating story! At least you got a Wersi in the end. Glad you didn't get the Ringway. I think you would have been disappointed. Now ... I am presuming that unlike the Yamaha AR100 you used to have (which recorded to floppy discs), the Wersi will record to WAV or MP3 for you to put on...

Feelings . In the videos below, when the advert appears, click the X in the top right hand corner of the rectangle to remove it. zAc-i3VzuM8 Haven't followed the lyrics of the song with the video clips as the words are utterly miserable! It's by Morris Albert. CyBcHUe4WeQ Wikipedia says this about ...