Hello. Very kind and nice of you to share a great tutorial. Very close sound to the real track. Showing the sound is one thing, to teach how to play it is on another level. Thanks so much for your time and effort. Keep the good work.
Very good tutorial! Good detail. Great song for keyboard players to learn. I think David Foster had a big hand in writing and arranging the song. I also think a person by the name of Tony Smith did the DX programming for the song. A guy I New from Las Vegas in the late 70's.
This is very thorough - nice job! It does seem like you're playing multiple keyboard parts at once. My guess is that it's spread out between 2 or 3 players. Probably not quite as complicated!
Thank you for posting this. Nobody on RU-vid ever plays the synth parts, they just play the lyric and vocal notes for this song. Where did you learn to play the synth parts? I would love to know because I can't find the notes anywhere. You also didn't play the ending synth riff.
Can anyone helps purchased some Grand piano patches last night and im having problems trying to load theme have them loaded into User Bank U-G but when i play the keys for any of them there is no sound.
This is incredible.. my band and I are currently learning this and finding out how deceptively difficult it is. Is there any way of uploading this awesome patch onto a korg Krome??
Hey - thanks for the comment! Unfortunately, the majority of the sounds in here are created on a sound engine that doesn't exist in the Krome - If I HAD a Korg Krome, I could probably replicate it easily enough however I only had the money for the Kronos... And as much as I'm a gear head I also don't want to buy a Krome if I have a Kronos (the Kronos can do everything the Krome and Kross can, why duplicate?) If you end up trying to make it on your own, see if the Krome has access to some DX-7 sounds or DX-7 samples? A LOT of the sounds in this song were DX based, so that'd be a good place to start anyway. Good luck!
You are right there is a few 1985 Starship concert vids on youtube and I saw the Rhodes Chroma and DX7. I think they only used the Chroma on tour because the Chroma was blasting out a synth brass/lead sound that sounded nothing like the album.
Just like keyzones that span left to right, there are keyzones that span 'up' and 'down' meaning you can play softer or harder to get different sounds. Look at some of the programming for electric piano sounds that are already in your Roland, there might be something similar where you have a different sample being used when you play harder.
nice patches. I have the Kronos 2 now. love it! A few years back they used my Triton Extreme for their show where I live. They loaded their patches and kept them on when I got it back. Bonus!!! haha
As I said, very nice Tutorial, never the less, the keyboard on the upper right(from our point of view) is upside down, and it's very difficult to follow, Keith Emerson was able to play the Hammond upside down, but I can't. I would be much better (for us) if you put the 2nd camera behind you, looking at the keyboard and not looking at you.
Simple fix! download this video, download Wondershare. plop the download into Wondershare, crop the keys and then rotate/flip the video so you're looking straight down at the keys as if you were looking over his shoulder! This is what I did and it took all of 10 seconds.
Thank you I was able to learn this for our band from you great tutorial...would have been quicker/easier if you’d flipped the overhead camera so we can watch why you play from your view. Had to lay iPad flat and 180° it to see what you was doing lol!
No, I can assure you, it isn't only you. RU-vid IS a bunch of jerks (as evidenced by the recent events too) acting like this to everyone but the select few that make trashy content watched by hundreds of millions. The video's awesome though.
Really nice! I would say it's about 98% accurate, would have been cool if you mentioned the original keyboards used in the song. There is a lot of DX7 in there. And probably a Prophet too?
Thanks! 98% is great - what do you think could still use work? As far as the DX7 - I believe they didn't technically use the DX7 but rather the Yamaha TX816's which had the same engine but with either more oscillators or more operators. Either way, it was basically the same thing but stacked. Likely a prophet as well, or similar sounding 'phatty' synth... Great ear!
TX816's sounds probable, a lot of 80s bands used them. I believe you missed the final chorus which just repeats "we built, built this city", which differs from the main chorus a bit. It has more high pitched strings floating on top and a different progression.
Here you can hear the original synth parts isolated from a multitrack recording unless you haven't seen it already? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EAH_xHpW8wA.html
I have actually - I've gotten the original multi tracks. The problem (as with most of this 80's style music) is that there's no way to capture ALL of the tracks at the same time. Even live, they use 2 keyboardists so trying to get it all crammed into 1 keyboard means you have to sacrifice certain sounds, parts, etc.
