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#350839 - 09/10/12 01:14 PM Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4
Tostie Offline
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Quick recording during lunchtime. My DSLR is not moved yet (to my room on campus), so I recorded the video with my iPad.

Enjoy!




Best Regards,

Joost

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#350916 - 09/11/12 08:17 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Very good, as always! You are an exceptional musician and have great command of the Tyros 4.

Dick

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#350924 - 09/11/12 09:50 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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WOW! clap clap clap
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#350928 - 09/11/12 10:11 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: travlin'easy]
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Beautifully played and presented ...

It may just be me, and I understand that this was improvisation, but I have to say I had a difficult time hearing Oh Danny Boy in the improv ...

That did not take away from the performance, however ...
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#350930 - 09/11/12 10:19 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Nice Job Joost...keep em coming !!!

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#350935 - 09/11/12 11:18 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Joost, you have the "touch"...excellent playing and very creative arrangement.

Ian
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#350965 - 09/12/12 12:01 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Thank you all for your comments :-)

Best Regards,

Joost

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#352677 - 10/12/12 11:16 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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WOW !!!!

Thanks for sharing.

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#352680 - 10/12/12 11:34 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Bill,

Take a look and listen and inwardly digest, remember and compare with the demos you have posted, I am not on anything or taking anything but I would consider this demo to be man and machine in perfect harmony, close your eyes and it don't sound like a Yamaha KB, this is the kind of works that gets appreciation and some jealously on SZ., the latter is no bad thing, it will make you play better, if you really do play and your are able to judge.
Tostie Brilliant
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#352724 - 10/13/12 12:51 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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I could listen to this over and over again, Tostie is a true master of the keys. clap clap clap

Like Ian says, a very creative arrangement.

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#352730 - 10/13/12 01:22 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Very nice. As always, Tostie shows us how it can be done.

About the only thing I'd say to help would be, have you ever considered a footswitch unit or MIDI switches..? That's a lot of button pushing, at times. I can only imagine what you could play if you NEVER had to lift either hand from the keyboard!
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#352732 - 10/13/12 01:44 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Diki]
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There is always just something not right for you Diki, hells it must be grand to be perfect.
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#352754 - 10/13/12 07:58 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Now that was a really nice performance
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#352764 - 10/13/12 09:45 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tony Hughes]
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Originally Posted By: Tony Hughes
There is always just something not right for you Diki, hells it must be grand to be perfect.


Oh, good Lord! Pot to kettle... message received.
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#352767 - 10/13/12 09:47 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Diki]
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But was it understood Diki, that's the most important bit, I doubt it was and ever will be.

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#352771 - 10/13/12 10:17 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Sorry? What was that? Did you say something..?!
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#352775 - 10/13/12 11:18 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Diki]
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#352777 - 10/13/12 11:32 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tony Hughes]
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Originally Posted By: Tony Hughes
There is always just something not right for you Diki, hells it must be grand to be perfect.


Actually Diki's post was not at all negative. He was simply suggesting that footswitches could make live performance easier. It was a constructive suggestion.

Though some of the best keyboard players I have seen live have played the control buttons during live performance as flawlessly as they played the keyboard and has been a real treat to watch.

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#352779 - 10/13/12 11:54 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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I liked how Tostie handled the buttons...it was pure "choreography of the hands".

Personally, I only use a sustain and volume pedal, and I prefer activating fills and changing registrations via panel buttons.

Whatever floats your boat.

Ian
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#352780 - 10/13/12 12:03 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: ianmcnll]
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Originally Posted By: ianmcnll
I liked how Tostie handled the buttons...it was pure "choreography of the hands".


I agree !!!

( though do you think that "Whatever floats your boat" was best supported by an image of the Titanic?? laugh2 )

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#352782 - 10/13/12 12:18 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Nigel]
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Originally Posted By: Nigel
Originally Posted By: ianmcnll
I liked how Tostie handled the buttons...it was pure "choreography of the hands".


I agree !!!

( though do you think that "Whatever floats your boat" was best supported by an image of the Titanic?? laugh2 )


Ha Ha! I suppose it is a Freudian slip...sometimes, especially on the General Arranger Forum, it's "sink or swim", Nigel.

And sometimes it best to think for a few minutes...and then, not take the bait...Ha Ha!

Ian
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#352786 - 10/13/12 12:58 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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I guess it comes from all my years as a live band player. I tend to want BOTH hands playing something all the time!

I simply feel that there is potentially more opportunity for a mistake if you have to lift your LH off the chord, press a button, and come back to play another chord. Particularly with song sections where the chords change rapidly (and this is often turnarounds), having AT THE SAME TIME to be made to do some complicated button pushing as well makes the task more difficult than it needs to be. You end up often having to compromise, either in one direction or the other.

We spend a lifetime learning to go seamlessly from one chord or line to another, then we have to unlearn all that to allow our hands to move from the natural playing position to do chores easily accomplished with a footswitch. Whatever floats your boat, by all means. But when a simple solution exists to make life easier, why not take it? Isn't that the whole POINT of an arranger?
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#352787 - 10/13/12 01:21 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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That's the wonderful thing about having choice...if you so wish, you can use pedals to change certain parameters, but many, including those of us who have been playing arrangers since they were first introduced, have become accustomed to the finger/hand choreography of moving between switches/buttons/sliders/wheels and simply like (and enjoy) the way things seem to just flow, can't imagine any other way, nor, speaking for myself, would want to change.

One person's "easy way" may not always be good for another, and may even be a drawback rather than a benefit; i.e. some people play while standing, and just find pedals far too much to deal with...fortunately, our arrangers give us that choice.

But, I couldn't possible live without my trusty sustain pedal (an old Roland one, by the way...the one with the rubber heel flap) and my Yamaha FC-7 Volume/Expression pedal...so I draw the line there.

But there appears to be no set "right" or "wrong" way...gee, there are players like Donny (Dr. Quickfinger wink ) , who do not use ANY pedals whatsoever...so, again, having that freedom of choice, and, being able to use what works best for the player, is still the bottom line.

Ian

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#352797 - 10/14/12 04:38 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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Joost that was an incredible impromptu !! Really impressed with your musicality. This is just anotehr example of why an arranger in the right hands is a truly unique instriument and is so flexible. If that was an impromptu what the hell would you do if you could prepare a 30 minute set !!

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#352877 - 10/15/12 09:45 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Diki]
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Originally Posted By: Diki
I guess it comes from all my years as a live band player. I tend to want BOTH hands playing something all the time!


I totally understand your viewpoint Diki.

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#352881 - 10/15/12 10:11 PM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: spalding1968]
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Originally Posted By: spalding1968
Joost that was an incredible impromptu !! Really impressed with your musicality. This is just another example of why an arranger in the right hands is a truly unique instriument and is so flexible.


It has been my recent experience, Spalding, to see arrangers taking the place of workstations in three professional recording studios.

Today's arrangers, from all manufacturers (including pioneers Yamaha and Casio) certainly have come a long way since the early days of 20 or so voices/sounds and 10 boom ticky ticky styles, evolving into advanced instruments with capacities for thousands of styles (that sound ultra realistic and very impressive), well over 1500 sounds, and are now being used by some of today's top notch players/performers/entertainers.

Eat your heart out, workstation users.

Ian
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#352886 - 10/16/12 05:16 AM Re: Oh Danny Boy/You Raise me Up Improvised - Tyros4 [Re: Tostie]
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This boy is the best.
Greetings.
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