Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Blechta" <rick@...>
To: "Mellotronist's List List" <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] sheet music for the mellotron...


> Attached to this e-mail is the transcription of "Watcher of the Skies"
> that I did up for the people who attended the Tronto MkII workshop in
> 2001. If you want to be authentic to Tony Banks playing live, then you
> should start out playing the bass clef part with your right hand on a
> Hammond organ (bass pedals, too, if you have them!), and your left hand
> playing the treble clef part on the mellotron. At the Moderato section,
> use both hands on the mellotron.

Only after he replace his MkII with the M400 - otherwise, all MkII.

> I watched Messr. Banks play it a few times live and this is the way he
> did it. If you want to do a studio version, then go totally nuts with
> overdubs and added octaves. Somebody on the list has said that Banks
> used a mellotron bass accordian sound in the studio version but I don't
> recommend doing that because of the tendency for it to cause the piece
> to break out into a polka -- which would be a very shocking thing
> indeed!

Albeit amusing. :-)

Andy T.