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-- Whiz Kid --
The image here is a twelve-year-old boy wonder such as Stevie once was, seated at the organ, rocking out with the help of the rhythm-and- |
blues combo programmed into my Yamaha PSS-480 autochord keyboard. I MIDI-recorded the way that the auto-accompaniment |
ensemble in the keyboard played I-IV-V changes, then manually went through that MIDI recording to part it out to is component |
instruments, each of which went to its own track in my MIDI file. The "style" selection was style 32 on that keyboard, which is named |
"swing organ." So after that, I had proof of what the instruments were doing, as with the one guitar which is playing a "dee-dot-doo; |
dit-to-do, dit-to-do" rhythm over and over again. This and about four other components were then manually written out with my |
mouse over a set of chord changes I wanted, and the backup was laid down that way. Once this was cloned out into a rather long |
number of choruses, my virtual "Kid" could then play his improvised leads, and I did improvise them, in order, from beginning to end, |
just as if I were playing them, but I was actually just imagining them and writing them down. So there IS a real "Whiz Kid," |
except that I'm not black, I'm not blind, and I'm ESPECIALLY not young. But I AM rocking out, and you can, too, if you listen in. |
Key: D Time signature: 4/4 Tempo: 128 Length: 160 measures Time: 5 minutes, 03 seconds |
Instruments: Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Resophonic Guitar, Bass |
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File size: 80.4 KB |