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Titolo: pareri pareri...

Cercando info per rispondere a il palazzo guardate che cosa
ho trovato: direi proprio niente male. *Voglio* sentire almeno
Tramannoni e gli altri vecchi in merito in merito... idee moooolto
estreme o no?
E' sempre il tastierista degli Stratovarius dal suo sito.
What I fucking hate 
There are lots of keyboardists out there, playing lots of nice stuff.
But when it comes to improvising, they mostly suck. * Most of them
seem to have a total disregard for the things and aspects of
improvization that I find important! And because I'm the center of the
universe, not to mention this web page, I take this as a personal
affront! So without much more ado, herewith a list of what I'm sick of!
(Note — not of much interest unless you're a rock keyboard player and
actually play keyboard solos. Pretty narrow audience here. Sadly
enough.)
Things that should be outlawed
When playing a keyboard lead. In my fucking opinion. Sorry! 
     Pitch bending without aiming for a note on the scale. 
     Pitch bending without aiming for any note. 
     Using the modulation/vibrato control. If you use that abomination,
the mod wheel, you should have a really good reason. Playing
     a physically-modelled acoustic patch qualifies in my book. But if
you're playing an electronic-sounding lead sound, and you reach
     for that masturbatory joystick, you may ask yourself. (Please! )
How do I lock these pitch changes to the tempo? How do I lock
     them to a harmony on another track? The answer is: You don't. The
LFO determines the phase, of course. You may ask yourself:
     What pitches am I actually generating here, and are they on the
scale? Is a three quarter-tones up and a three quarter-tones down
     from the fifth actually on the scale? Of course they aren't, moron.
Not unless you're in North India. Use the pitch wheel instead.
     (Steve Hunt doesn't abuse the mod wheel! If this particular shoe
fits you, check him out.) 
     using 
          weak (or no!) melodic ideas
          weak rhythmic ideas, or NO rhythmic ideas
     Whatever happened to ideational content!? What the fuck!? Has the
whole world gone mad!? Some advice: Let your ears do the
     thinking for you, not your fingers. If your mind and ears are not
clear on what your actually playing, but your fingers are, chances
     are you're what is known in technical parlance as "a wanker".
Muscle memory has its place, of course, in the hands of some
     lunatic (Yngwie or Shawn Lane, say) that's actually bothered to
practice more than, say, five lame finger patterns. On keyboards,
     there's really no mechanical limit on how fast to press the keys
down in sequence. But which keys? Therein lies the rub. Anyway,
     the speed issue leads me to: 
     I'm sick of people trying to play 20 notes/second without getting
the joke (the mechanics of the cochlea has the last laugh on you!)
     (When I talk about 20 notes/sec I'm talking sequentially or
"horizontally", here, of course) ...it just becomes a blur. 
     Horrible lead synth sounds. What's this about spectral content? Do
we need harmonics in the range above 8 kHz? Are a lot of
     dogs going to listen to your solos? No idea what I'm talking about?
Listen carefully to some real instruments. (If you've had to mix a
     record or two, things become clearer, in both senses!) 
     Using a sequencer and passing it off as a real playing. Please! I'm
sick of it! You're not fooling anyone! This joke died in 1985. It
     was replaced by this, much funnier, one: "Q: how many keyboard
players does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None!
     They have machines that do that nowadays." As someone who built my
first (software based) digital sequencer in 1982, I
     should know this: fiddling with your solos is a dead end. You won't
be any happier. And neither will the poor listeners. And you won't
     be fooling anyone. Hey, least of all me. 
     Playing in the wrong scale. I'm sick of people playing in the wrong
scale!! It's very sad that this is even on here. But I'm sick of it.
     I'm not talking about playing outside the scale in some jazz sense,
I'm talking about wanking canned licks in the wrong (modal)
     scale when it's obvious the rest of the music is in another (modal)
scale and the "wanker" quite obviosuly is too much of a wanker
     to actually intend this, and tone deaf enough to not hear the
difference. 
     Using a lame Hammond patch. This ought to be outlawed as well. All
"Hammond patches" by definition basically suck eggs. If you
     never played a real one for a while you'll have a hard time getting
it right. Actually, I might extend that to: if you never carried a real
     one around on a whole tour you'll have a hard time getting it
right!!

potrebbe nascondersi dietro Jordan Rudess (IMHO the best) quel tastierista..

E' sempre il tastierista degli Stratovarius dal suo sito.
Estreme ma giuste!
Ciao


Altro che potrebbe, DOVREBBE!
Parla di scale in 20nt/sec, provate a sentire i suoi assoli nei lavori delgi
Stratovarius, tutte scalette a 20nt/sec. Parla di non usare sequencer per le
prestazioni live e mi pare lo faccia abitualmente invece. Parla dei vari
vibrati sui suoni lead, cosa che aggiunge sempre ai suoi suoni..
Ma per favore..
Hamish

 vibrati sui suoni lead, cosa che aggiunge sempre ai suoi suoni...
Infatti! Vedo con piacere che qualcun altro lo ha notato!
Ciao
Francesco

 E' sempre il tastierista degli Stratovarius dal suo sito.
Da quando in qua conta pure l'opinione di Jens Johansson (o come cavolo si
scrive)?
gli Stratovarius fanno una musica che era obsoleta già 15 anni fa (quando
gli Helloween la facevano meglio) e campano riproponendo sempre gli stessi
schemi triti e ritriti, che però ai ragazzini di oggi piacciono, dato che
non li hanno mai ascoltati
Insomma, è come se il chitarrista dei Gazosa parlasse di chitarre e stessimo
ad ascoltare la sua opinione, per quanto mi riguarda gli Stratovarius fanno
musica per ragazzini esattamente come i Gazosa o i LunaPop
--
Augh
SIMO
www.meridianozero.net
www.zetha.com

 musica per ragazzini esattamente come i Gazosa o i LunaPop
Sembri il chitarrista dei Gem Boy... hehehe :)
Ciao
Francesco

 Sembri il chitarrista dei Gem Boy... hehehe :)
Spero sia un complimento dato che non conosco il suddetto gruppo (hai da
farmi ascoltare qualcosa??)
e poi sono un tastieristaaaaaaaa!!!!
(dico così perchè tutti appena mi vedono mi chiedono se sono un chitrrista
metal, dato che porto i capelli lunghi!!!)
Ah, e scusa la mia "politically scorrettness" ma il caldo si fa sentire e
non ho voglia di cercare parole edulcorate per esprimermi....
Augh
SIMO
www.meridianozero.net
www.zetha.com

 metal, dato che porto i capelli lunghi!!!)
Beh... Jordan Rudess non è pelato. E nessuno lo scambia per un 
chitarrista... ;) ghigno ghigno...
Ciao
Francesco


(Per rispondere rimuovi _ dall'indirizzo).

Infatti mi sono perso un sacco di verità assolute fino ad ora ^_^
Ma hai letto tutto il sito? Credo, avendo letto il resto, che quelle
affermazioni, come il 99% delle cose che stanno su quel sito, siano
ironiche.
Riporto l'URL per i curiosi:
http://www.panix.com/~jens/


 Francesco
ciao
--
Gerolamo