Hi

Does anyone know where I can find a PSR style for the song "Lemon Tree" by fool`s garden ?

I tried searching for styles online but could not find a nice swing style that has the Pizzicato intro.

My keyboard(PSR S950) has some good swing styles that can be used for this song but I feel the one which is close to the original song would be great.

I have uploaded some sounds from the S950 on my soundcloud channel My sound cloud Although most of these are first takes, they do show some of the sounds and styles on this keyboard for those interested. Thanks

Jez

Personally, I'd recommend a rumba style ... haven't heard the original in quite a while, but that song always says "latin/island" to me.

I use a Calypso style.

I can't believe this song is known outside of Germany... Fool's Garden was a German band from Stuttgart who sang it in the 90s. For the verse maybe you should stop the style and manually play pizzicato strings left hand.

Thanks Dave and Donny. Rumba, Calypso..never thought of trying these style genres out for this one. Definitely, it can give a new feel to the song. One of the best part of arranger keyboard playing is how quickly one could cover the same song in different genres

On some more web surfing, I came across these styles in a PSR yahoo group => Lemon Tree psr style

The style files are very much usable but just need some minor adjustments to make it sound better.

Regards,
Jez

Ok. This is another song with the same name which I was looking at



Donny, I am aware of the older song you posted too...

Kind of fun to play the song "Lemon Tree" by Fools Garden using rumba and calypso style genres. Will post it sometime in the future.

This song was a hit in the mid 90`s and I still like this song.

Thanks guys !!

Best Regards,
Jez

Yes, when I read 'Calypso' I thought there must be a confusion with a different 'Lemon Tree' than Fool's Garden's one...

I assumed it was the Trini Lopez song also. Some of us old people haven't heard the new one. Thanks for bringing us more up to date.
DonM

There's a new one?

Give the Movie Swing style a try with a tempo of 162 - not perfect, but with some massaging using the onboard style creator program you can make it work pretty good.

Good Luck,

Gary

For the chorus, you need a acoustic strumming guitar with the swing. In the BK-7m there are adequate styles in the acoustic/unplugged section I think, maybe there is something similar in the PSR.

After having a quick look into the PSR S950 style list, I would try all the 'shuffle' (or 'shfl') styles in the rock/pop, swing and other sections.

It really doesn't strike me as a great tune for a style. It's a weird combination of modern instrumentation with tuba and pizzicato strings in certain sections. Some of the Schlager styles would work OK for the happy chorus, but it's probably unlikely to find anything that works for the verse OOTB. Maybe a polka style and play the pizzicato stuff yourself?

Things like this seem to cry out for an SMF.

Don't forget the magic that Markers can do for you in SMF play. Yes, the plus in doing these songs in Style Mode is that you can totally mess with the structure if you want to extend it, shorten it, throw in a few more singalong choruses. But that's EXACTLY what using Markers in an SMF can now do for you too. Jump ahead OR backwards to any spot in the song seamlessly.

Trying to force a style onto something as quirky as this is seldom a good fit (or a lot of work if you want the whole deal right), and often an SMF can be found or created that suits it better.

Oooops - a different tune! Sorry, mate!

This was covered by a number of artists.

That's a nice song Jez. Sort of reminds me of Sting from The Police.

Yes, they just took the arrangement of "Englishman in New York" and changed it a bit. In the 90s it was successful in Germany, but nowadays the song is more hated than loved here, even in the Stuttgart area where the band was from ;-)

Nice one Nigel. Seems like a re-mastered one.. pretty good recording for an old song.

Thank you all for your suggestions.


Best Regards,
Jez