[video:youtube]http://youtu.be/_xj1ncF5hSY[/video]

Regards

Great, I love this song..

I've been performing this one down here since I arrived. I have a fantastic style for the song if you are a Yamaha user. Be glad to send it to anyone that wishes.

Gary

Gary ... would love to hear your version with that style ...

Those guys did a heck of a job on that song, including the guitar solos ...

BTW ... the guy in red - the guitar - IS going through a vocoder, correct ?!? ...

I dont know Tony, but now that youve mentioned it, theres that possibilty. First intance of listening its kinda weird and wonderful at the same time..

Ky

Here's a link to the Yamaha style for this song for anyone that wants it. Hotel California

Enjoy,

Gary

And here’s the rub that pastes the arranger as a less than professional instrument, in that users are prepared to play along to someone else’s work, rather than creating or playing their own. (Until this practice stops, arrangers will never be taken seriously) It’s also probably why the term Karaoke Player came about.

Bill

This is a terrific style, Gary and one of a group of excellent mega-voiced song styles available a few years ago. Thanks for sharing the link.

Also, if one wants to add a bit of variation and more of their own take on Hotel California, the style Contemporary Pop Ballad, which is on Tyros2/3/4 (and perhaps Tyros5 and PSR-950/750/910) will work exceptionally well.

This style is also available for free for those with Yamaha arranger instruments not listed above, at PSR Tutorial in the Yamaha Styles section.

http://psrtutorial.com/sty/yamaha/index.html

Ian

Bill, you don't play along with the style, you play using the style. Karaoke it ain't! What is the difference between using this modified style and a factory style? Obviously, NONE!

Cheers,

Gary

Big difference, everybody that uses the factory style will sound the same as everybody else, whereas the modified style is unique to you, thus you stand out and become in great demand, whereas those that use standard styles are viewed by the general punter as karaoke players which are available at 50 a dime.

Bill

As long as I am enjoying performing, the audience is enjoying the music and dancing, and I'm even getting paid well to have fun, you can call me a Karaoke player. However never once have I ever heard that from an audience member. The comment I usually get is "It's amazing the sounds you get out of that keyboard"

Regards,

Jerryghr

Thank you for sharing Gary..
Keep well
Ky

Have two piano players, one a beginner, and one more advanced, play from the same piece of sheet music (same exact arrangement/accompaniment...same piano)) and it's highly likely that you will be able to tell one from the other.

In fact, have two pro piano players play from the same exact piece of sheet of music and invaruiblky there will be didtinct differences.

Arranger performers (those who actually play the instrument) using the same style will more than likely sound different...sometimes even quite different...even on identical instruments.



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Wow, Bill, you know the craziest audiences.


Ian

Actually, Jerry, in all the years I've been using an Arranger Keyboard, I have never been called a "Karaoke player" either...not even once.

One thing for certain...being able to adapt my playing style to the arranger Keyboard really added to the work I was already getting as a sideman and/or a solo piano player, not to mention the instrument's incredible usefulness as a studio tool.

Someone playing a simple melody lines over commercial SMF for the duration of their gig, might be construed as a "karaoke player", but not a player who is playing full piano parts over a midi file (especially of their own making) or, a performer using a well chosen and appropriate accompaniment Style (and the proper chord changes) and playing melody lines that make good use of the Arranger's many instrument emulations.

When you think of it, an Arranger performer playing chords with the left hand and soloing and/or adding embellishments over the changes with the RH isn't much different than what the keyboardist in a band is doing throughout a gig.

We just give the drummer, bass player, guitarist, and string and horn players the night off.

Ian

Without pay too.

Regards,

Jerryghr

I would really like to hear those styles, to compare them to different styles on my Pa900 ...

Tony, I'll try to record it for you this evening.

Gary

Tony, the inner parts of the Tyros2/3/4/CVP/PSR Contemporary Pop Ballad are very similar to the Hotel California style that Gary shared...Variations A, B, C, work exceptionally well for the verses and Variation D is perfect for the chorus.

Of course, the Contemporary Pop Ballad's intros (and endings) are different (even among the various Tyros and CVP-PSR), but they really work nicely with the tune and can even be repeated throughout the song to provide some tasty interludes/breaks.

Ian

Here ya go, Tony. A bit of overdrive when I recorded, just something I forgot to do when recording.

Hotel California

Gary

Nice job Gary .........
was hoping you'd kick in the VH on the chorus?

... yes, Gary ... nice job ... that is a good style ...
I am trying to put something together on the Pa900, but it will not be as close as that, especially the ending ...

Tony I forgot now, but there was a style on pa800 that is almost the same..I forgot what it was called.It's a factory style..

... hmmmm ... ???

thanks mirza ... maybe another Pa800 player will know ...

Hey Tony,

Go to SONGBOOK and look for Hotel Golden State. that's what I discovered on my rental PA 600.

God Bless,
Don

Don ... thank you , but when I select that on my Pa900, I get a style called "Horror Movie' or 'Weird Movie' - I am not sure right now because the KB is waiting for me to unpack it from my gig ...
Can you tell me what style gets called up on the Pa600? ...
Perhaps DonM can tell me what style comes up on his Pa900 ...

Guys

Hope you can use these..... Courtesy of www.createsongstyles.com/forum

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109406909/aaaadonation/Hotel%20California%20Yamaha%20.zip

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/109406909/aaaadonation/Hotel%20California.%20PA3X%20STY.zip