World in Action
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2011
- This music used to scare the living daylights out of me. Zepix and Gospel Spin - British 1960s current affairs TV theme. I used to spend hours and hours trying to coerce FM synthesisers and analog synthesisers to make a good electric organ sound and the sound I have here is better than I could ever have achieved. The RD 700 SX has a bunch of organ sounds which use the sliders as draw bars, but it also include a couple of organ samples which produce a sound way better than anything you can mix yourself. The Zepix is a melancholy 1960s sound but just short of higher frequencies which can be filled nicely with the Gospel Spin.
I've tried to give the video a 1960s feel of high contrast you would get from a black and white telly with scan lines you could distinguish from the other side of the room. 
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Nicely played sir... but you should do the fuller version with the slow melodic line (played at the end of the programme) - still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
Wow that is a scarey peice of music.
Yes. We might as well all just give up and go straight to hell.
Spooky! I miss those days where something as simple as a theme tune to a current affairs programme would scare the shit out of you! I play this a lot, especially to people of a certain age who will freak out! Nice tone in this by the way, that Roland is a beast ;)
Thanks philrob. World in Action along with ITV news at 10. Panorama. Mastermind. BBC news - they were all frightening.
I remember these theme tunes, some so different from today's minimalist leitmotifs. (Nothwithstanding the tortured fiddly themes of 'Universally Challenged', Avarice Roadshow and Only Connect)
Thank you for commenting. I have not owned a television for many years so I have lost contact with the trends in programme theme tunes. Music production has become the making of a selection from vast sound sample libraries. This has killed both the need to know how to play an instrument to make music and the expectation of the audience to ever hear music they could play their own version of.
I was a little young for World In Action, but I do remember its existence and this really driving, dark theme tune. Thank you for putting this up online :-)
Now, I can't help thinking how much the style reminds me of Philip Glass's music...
That theme always scared the willies out of me. It was the harbinger of the grimmest 70's news stories.
Yep, totally agree.
You nailed that one good and proper! Well done Paul! :)
Well done Paul!
That's one tune I recall very well when i was a kid. Looks like the key of D Minor too - it has a Bach Toccata and Fugue influence in there! ;o)
Best regards.
Thank you for commenting. Yes, it does look like I used the original key of D minor for this recording - although I tended to use whatever key was easiest around the time I was making these videos. All the best tunes have Bach in there somewhere.
Paul, the one that used to REALLY scare me from the seventies was the theme to Dr. Who. Even now, I still wake up screaming LOL.
@axeman3d absolutely - the anticipation built that the world was going to end in the near future
Awesome Paul and thanks for pointing me in its direction - not quite as raw as the original (not a criticism, just an observation) but I love it anyway. If ever a melody defined a brutal period of British history this is it - IRA bombs, power cuts, nuclear weapons at Greenham, war in the Middle East, and a constant cold grey fear that it was going to get worse!
You make it looks so easy
Thanks Geoff. The organ sound is so stirring that I can only honestly claim that it is doing all the work - and because it is one hell of a raw powerful riff.
@@paulwwells And that's such a powerful tune.
lol used to scare me too x
Nice slow video zoom out... That makes it even more theatrical.
Used to scare the crap outta me that
@ezekielthemack Dr Who's theme used to be more scary because the sounds it used (synthesisers) were not otherwise heard.
The DW theme didn't use synthesisers until 1980.
@@dunebasher1971 I'm absolutely intrigued by your comment. What was used before 1980?
Really good .. much better than my effort, but then I'm not really a keys player!
Descending double note sequence, little finger and thumb playing the same note an octave apart with the left hand and Dm with the right , more or less, nice to see it laid out this way, ive been playing it wrong all along, very helpful, ill get me keys out later for another go at this, hope i dont scare anyone
hi is there a midi file avalable anywhere so i can learn to play this?
I don't know how accurate this is, but here's the chords... chordify.net/chords/world-in-action-theme-tune-simjem
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