Mellotronists

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From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:55 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] new tricks for old progs?


Jon

> I had a sudden and nearly painful burst of inspiration I'd like to
> share with you all!  Some of you may have noted that I have a lot of
> fun programming my beloved little Korg X5D synths with homebrewed
> Mellotron patches, with compulsive attention to detail.
>
> In the last two weeks, my band has debuted our arrangement of Led
> Zeppelin's "The Rain Song" and it is a pretty faithful reproduction
> of the studio version.  I built a Multi program in the Korg with my
> fake 3-violins in the left hand and my fake cello in the right hand,
> and volume control via my CV pedal.
>
> I'm extremely proud to say that the arrangement is stupendous, and
> the crowd response thus far has been largely one of stunned amazement.

I don't know exactly what it is, but does your guitarist know that Page used
a different tuning for the song, avoiding some of those tortuously, er,
tortuous chords?

Andy T.