Rick Wakeman Keyboard Transcription: Yessongs Starship Trooper
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- A little bit of fun ahead of Christmas - 51 years after the event. Audio comes from Ian Hartley, here:
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The time signature should really be 4/2, but Sibelius just made a total hash of the justification and it would have taken too much to tidy it up otherwise.
The tremolo/demisemiquaver instances CAN be heard when the track is slowed, and Rick is certainly capable of that kind of dexterity, but semiquavers would probably work just as well if you’re going play it. For all I know it’s a wobble in the Moog sound anyway. Portamento setting is pretty fast.
In the heat of live performance Rick is sometimes very slightly ahead of the beat, so I’ve taken the liberty of visually quantising it, and it sounds just fine on MIDI playback.
HE IS AWSOME!
Excellent transcription!
Thank you for transcribing this. It's one of my favorite solos from him. Wonderous Stories and Revealing Science of God have great solos from Wakeman also.
Hard to understand now, just how mind blowing Wakeman was in 1972 bringing these sounds onto stage. George Harrison's experimental Electronic Music album came out only 3 1/2 years before this.
Tony Kaye was/is a great Hammond player, but Rick - apart from being a virtuoso player - was right on top of the technology too, and knew how to get the best out of it. The brightness and attack of the Moog through a big stack of speakers remains an astounding noise even today.
@@sigil5772 - Tony Kaye had a style that Wakeman, despite his obvious skills, never replicated. Kaye was never a real organ soloist like Wakeman, but I still like his style of playing. Listen to how Kaye plays his own unique choppy and purcussive organ style on stuff like No Opportunity Necessary or Then - the band needed Wakeman to push forward, but Kaye was great at what he did know how to do.
I agree - much of TK's playing on the first two albums is absolutely on point, but The Yes Album's a disappointment apart from (for me) the piano on A Venture. IMO he just stopped pulling his weight when the band were really starting to expand the boundaries of what they wanted to do.
I think Tony Kaye was great on the Time and a Word album. I like the sound he got too. The intro to The Prophet is 👍. Astral Traveler has some nice playing from him. I wish there was some good sounding live recordings so you could hear Kaye's organ without the orchestra taking up some of the space.
@@frankjackson6241 - if you want to hear good Time and a Word music without the orchestra, check out Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969-1970 which was released in the late 90s. The second CD is the band playing Then, Somethings Coming, Astral Traveller, Every Little Thing, etc .... Kaye is filling in the the orchestra very well. I am sure you can find this and other live recordings from this era on RUclips, but my CD came with a long essay from Peter Banks (his essay is a little bitter, but I think he was responsible for compiling a lot of the music on the CD) and a poster.