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#412873 - 12/10/15 06:12 PM Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger
Torch Offline
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Here is a retired university professor playing his electronic accordion. I know him personally and I live about 2 hours from him. I use his programming in my accordion,too. Every sound is from the accordion itself and every part is played live. No sequencer or backup involved though I heard people say that the accordion may be considered as the first arranger because you press one chord button and it can play major, minor, diminished, or in some rare cases augmented chords.

I don't contribute much here because I am not much of an arranger player but I like hanging around here because members seem to be very knowledgeable in various areas and also pretty level-headed even in heated religion/politics discussions. I hope you enjoy the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1iMEilCPY&list=R
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#412876 - 12/10/15 06:45 PM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: Torch]
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I've seen him on YouTube many times before. I really like his musicality. He's very good. I have a weak spot for his "Autumn Leaves":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG10nxA0Tvk
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#412878 - 12/10/15 06:57 PM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: Mikem]
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Excellent musician! Thanks for calling my attention to his music.

God Bless,
Don
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#412881 - 12/10/15 09:54 PM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: KORG80]
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Great music, simple arrangement, but works just perfectly for the song...


But, i dont see much auto accompaniment inthere..


However, many times to much is just overdone, so this is a great interpretation of one of my christmass favourites..
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#412887 - 12/11/15 06:11 AM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: Bachus]
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Registered: 01/27/08
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I believe he is using his Roland BK-7M with this. Really sounds great.
Makes me wish I had kept mine- I didn't know how to get my midi controller
setup with it correctly so I sold it.

Deane

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#412896 - 12/11/15 09:33 AM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: Bachus]
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Originally Posted By: Bachus
Great music, simple arrangement, but works just perfectly for the song...

But, i dont see much auto accompaniment inthere..

SNIP


If you are referring to Richard's rendition of Sleigh Ride, as I had mentioned in my post there is no arranger, sequencing, or backup involved. Every single sound is from the Roland accordion and every part is played live by Richard.
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#412897 - 12/11/15 09:40 AM Re: Sleigh Ride on A Primitive Form of An Arranger [Re: Mikem]
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Originally Posted By: Mikem
I've seen him on YouTube many times before. I really like his musicality. He's very good. I have a weak spot for his "Autumn Leaves":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG10nxA0Tvk


Thanks for the link. For some reason, I have never seen this video before. Without saying too much of someone else' personal stuff, I don't think he ever played a job with the BK7m. This was more of an experiment for him with the BK7m. Yet, I enjoyed watching this video clip. He wasn't fighting the arranger but letting it work for and with him - some advice that I heard from an arranger player.
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