New Order - Blue Monday (Live on Roland Juno DS-88)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A live attempt of one of the best studio masterpieces of the 20th century. If you like this, please consider donating so I can keep this music thing going. Any donations, no matter how small, would be massively appreciated. paypal.me/tommo...
Recorded entirely live, apart from the bass+drum loop I sequenced into the phrase pad beforehand, and a couple of vocal overdubs. The Juno DS is quite a powerhouse, especially for 80s stuff. All stock presets, too! Par the odd cutoff/vibrato. It's got a great sampling function too if you wanna go the extra mile for authenticity, which I unfortunately only discovered after filming this video haha!
It's a slightly different arrangement rather than a note-for-note recreation, which is inevitable being performed live by one person who didn't write the song, rather than in a studio by four people who did! That said, I did try and keep at least the vibe faithful to the original and I hope you enjoy it! It's also mashed up with a couple of other tunes, partially because I was vibing it, and partially to confuse the copyright police.
Blue Monday © Factory Records, 1983
I didn't write this song. Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner did. It'd be silly to claim that I had any involvement in composing Blue Monday considering how well known it is and how it came out 13 years before I was born. But you can't be too careful nowadays! T x
#RolandJunoDS #neworder #bluemonday
Serious thanks for everyone's support, didn't expect this to take off!
This was meant to be an equipment test for the Juno more than anything else, so I'm glad it's encouraged some of you to get a hand on this powerhouse of a workstation and delve into the phrase pad. I just wish I put in more on the performance side and picked a better bass sound haha!
A lot of questions to answer so I might do a runthrough video to help some of you out, so watch this space! But to answer some of them in the meantime:
- I'd definitely recommend this synth, particularly for 80s-style synth-filled music - which seems to be making a resurgence as of recent.
- That is a naughty Floyd solo in the middle (always take risks)! Keyboards aren't normally great at accurately replicating other instruments, but the clean guitar sound on this is fantastic.
- Unfortunately you can't record a mic input into the pattern sequencer - but you CAN plug your mic in and even use it as a USB audio interface, which more than compensates for it!
- We do have hamburgers and fries in England but we call french fries 'chips'.
If you like this video, please consider donating so I can keep this music thing going. Any donations, no matter how small, would be massively appreciated. paypal.me/tommonksmusic
Cheers again and catch you all soon!
T x
Привет из России. Живи долго и будь здоров! Я тоже большой фанат Roland, и не признаю другие клавишные инструменты.
He used a piece of Pink Floyd's The Wall!!! You Legend!! It fitted perfectly!!!
And Joy Division’s Love will tear us apart and the end. Very cool my friend ! Very cool !!
2:59 - Another brick in the wall part 2 guitar solo revisited :)
Very...very nice job man ! Congrats ! Great Pink Floyd lead...lol
The Roland Juno DS is an awesome, versatile, live workstation. Love the performance!
Wow. You need to get some blue and purple lights goin. I cant imagine how "cool" you feel performing this song. If I could pull this off w a voice like that.. Id have a bomber jacket, some stonewashed jeans, some gold cowboy boots and a pair o sic sunglasses..w the synthwave glow all around me, sensitive to the music..it be like a non stop joygasm..heaven even.. cheers mate. Just wow. Great job
Great cover. I was totally unaware that Stuart Broad was so versatile.
🤣🤣🤣 alas cricket is where it stops
Did you do what I think you did? Did you throw in a little David Gilmour jam in the middle of a New Order song? Maybe just coincidence, but man that was good.
Oh, he did it, lol.
Really cool 😎👍🏼. I just purchased the DS-88 yesterday. It is my first 88 Hammer action keyboard ever. I will incorporate it into my musical array of sounds and instruments. I actually do similar thing on my channel where I practice with the different gear instruments that I have and use the channel just to express my practice sessions. Cheers from California US👌🏼💪🏼
Well you're a better singer than Sumner for sure! Nice improvs, bit of Love will tear us apart, brilliant!
You sure nailed that song! Incredible. I bought the vinyl record a month after it was released brand new and played it hundreds of times and you really had all of the little nuances of the song. Brought back memories. Thanks.
#Xlent
Best demo and cover of the juno ds88 . I'm a guitar player and have the ds61 to do some easy backing for band . I was looking to upgrade to 88 semi weighted keys and tried other synths . All way to complicated for live gigging and twice as expensive . I like the simplicity of the juno ds 88 and simple sequencer at this price point . I also like the rs 2000 , way better piano but no sequencer or drums and twice the price . Any I ther recommendations . Tried the the korg nautilus and it took five minutes to boot up . Most likely going with ds88
I have a Juno DS but I can’t match many of the sounds that I’m hearing on yours. Did you import instruments? Either that or I’m not good at finding them. 😂
This is an absolutely banging recreation.
You can check out my ukulele cover if you are so minded
Top Job Tom
I’ll pay you good money to show me how to do this! Can do a zoom meeting. I recently got this keyboard and I love it
I already had been tempted for this to be my first ever piano/synthesizer. I’m a guitar player for about 13 years and looking for into full fledged music recording. Your another brick in the wall solo in this totally convinced me. I ordered one and it’s on the way in 3 days
Ian N how do you like your DS88?
Are you happy with it?
Amazing cover. Just superb
Wow dude... That's impressive. Nice work
Love the brick in the wall solo at the end...
Amazing keyboard work! Great vocals! Just FAB! Well done, Tom. I really love the nod to the band's roots in Joy Division as well - Genius :)
Amazing Man ❤ can you share basetrack ?
so fucking delicious hear this, man!!!
Wow! also have the DS-88 and this just makes me want to get on it even more! Excellent work man!
Same😂
I think Hooky would be pleased.
Rad! can all this be done on the 61 key version too?
haha, made me laugh! well done son!
so you can record and play complete songs with intro, verse, bridge, and chorus with this beauty?
In theory, yes you could with a lot of songs! Although it'd ultimately depends on how complex the song's structure is, being limited to 8 different parts with a max of 8 bars each.
So songs that are based on a bass/drum/chord loop, yes definitely! Which paves the way for a lot of famous songs. But something like Good Vibrations or Rhapsody in Blue might be a different story haha
What an awesome cover. You’ve really mastered that pattern sequencer
Very clever! I have the same keyboard and I can't make it do all that stuff, lol!
Professional one man army. 🙂
What are you using for sound ?
Learning on my Juno 61
John 14:21
John 14:21
noice
wow
love it 2023
Hey Tom! You are WICKED, man!!!! Greetings from Melbourne, Australia!!!
That's how you use a keyboard workstation! Great!
very cool
Great Work. Thupms up.
EXCELLENT job! Thanks for sharing!
This is really impressive
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That was great! I'm here because I'm getting a juno ds so I'm happy it can sound this good. Do you still do this kind of thing? If you did weekly. Content you'd probably do well.
Fantastic! Great job!
Hey i just got the juno ds and was wondering if you could find a way to record your vocals into a pattern sequence with the mic input? Also could i plug a guitar into the input and record that?
dont plug your guitar in but Vox yes
@@stephkirwin1898 How do you record the vocals on to a pattern pad?
@@zacharybaldwin9022 Great question. Don't know if it can be done. Tom?
Brilliant.
I was wondering why the algorithm suggested this video for me (ok, had watched some synth-videos, that must be it) but I'm definitely delighted I watched this. Excellent one-man-band action that had all kinds of interesting happening all the time. I also definitely liked the Pink Floyd-part played in - bravo! And on top of everything your vocals sounded excellent! You sure have a earned a like and I will check your other stuff as well...
Awesome, bro!!!
Wow! Bravo!
Me likey
Right on bruthu!!!
Serious skills! Well done
Whats the best workstation keyboard .. This one or the Roland FS 6 / 8 ? , Great cover .. you have talent ..
Mindblowingly good! Guaranteed vibez every time!😅
Wow! Good sounds choice. Good sequencing. Good voice. And last but not least a good tecnique! It wss a song very popular when i was a little boy
Hey mate. Any chance you could let me know which patches you used? This is fantastic
So good! The programming and interludes are fantastic
Genial eres genial y un exelente teclado juno ds profesional.
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I got the Juno 88 because I loved the piano e piano sounds but you made me consider also how to use the phrase pad more effectively nice work.
Wow, Pink Floyd and .... Joy Division at the end
Did I hear the polyphony ran out at around 0:59? Nicely done.
also love will tear us apart riff at the end..........
The wall solo is beautiful! great job !great sound 😉
One of the greatest cover on this song!
I'm thinking about picking one of those keyboards up.... Would you recommend it?
Good question .... honest review coming up! It really depends what you need and what kind of genres you play. It's great for synth-type stuff, a true powerhouse in that aspect. And perfect for cover bands especially with the split and sampler function, and even Richard Tandy from ELO uses one live!
But if you do jazz, blues etc and require realistic piano and hammond sounds, I'd honestly advise looking into other options. Those ones in it and in the expansion packs are more than enough to get by in pubs and small gigs, but anything bigger than that, the 80s/90s-ness of the sounds became a bit too noticeable for my liking. That's where this keyboard honestly didn't suit my tastes and needs in the long run (unless using as a controller for MainStage etc), but if I had continued with the 80s/cover band route it would have been perfect.
In short - the sounds can be (in my opinion) a little dated, albeit charmingly so, and if that's what you're after, it's the best! It's capable of a lot too. Just listen to as many demos as you can, especially of the sounds you plan on using.
Bestest with your keyboard ventures!
Seriously Awesome Dude! You Rock!
Great version and great vocal. Bravo! :)
What reverb used?
Waves RVerb, great for 80s stuff!
@@TomMonksMusic cool... ...
Brilliant!
this was fantastic👍👍👍👍🥰
Good job!! Blue blue blue!!💪💪
dang - serious 1 man band alert
Nice one, I was looking around to see what people are doing with Junos cos I'm considering one and that's a good demo of the things they can do just as a performance instrument but there's a lot more to them of course!
Just go and get yours. You won't be disappointed. Is an amazing machine for the bucks.
Awesome!!!
Fantastic jam! Incredible talent, skill, and improvisation. I assume you were not running your vocals through the Juno mic input? Nor was there any Juno processing on vocal? I liked the little trick of playing two Juno voices (instruments) at the same time by holding a drone chord, then switching to the second voice and soloing with it. Kool :) While in pattern sequence mode I assume you cannot use a performance layer on the keyboard, thus you used this trick/hack/?
Thank you so much! Seriously kind words, means a lot. Apologies for the delay in response, wanted to get the chance to type a proper one!
So I recorded the vocals with a seperate audio interface, mainly to have a bit more control over gain, mixing and any necessary overdubs in post. But the mic input really does come in handy, I don't use it so much for vocals as the gain knob is quite small and fiddly, but it's hella powerful for the vocoder function and such - even Richard Tandy from ELO uses it for that nowadays which is a great thing to see.
And great observation with the drone notes! It's one way to work around being confined to patches in the sequencer, rather than full performances that you can control nearly every aspect of the sounds behaving and interacting with each other. One tricky thing is that I'm used to deactivating the sustain pedal for certain patches in performance mode, letting chords or drones sustain with the pedal whilst having non-sustained freedom with the leads and such, if that makes sense. So in sequencer mode I have to break that force of habit. But if Roland allowed performance modes on the sequencer in future firmware updates, it could open a lot of doors, we're only blessed with so many hands haha!
@@TomMonksMusic My new JunoDS61 arrived and now I have a Juno in my studio again....again because I had a Juno bought new in the 1980s, but had to sell in hard times 15 years later. The new Juno is sooooo easy to understand, and after a few days I know it quite well. I purchased it because of the vocoder and pattern sequencer...a vocoder because I don't have that wonderful vocal you do, you really have a rich vocal timbral that could be a favorite of a million music lovers. Maybe you are already famous and I don't know it....I don't get out much :) .....oh except wilderness treks....I do spend many hours a day in wilderness :)
Very cool
Amazing
Chicks dig it!
WOW! Bravo!
This was incredible
Great job..!!! Cool.!!
What John Shuttleworth would sound like if he was talented.
This is going on my CV 🤣
so much talent
This is good man
Great job!
So Good
Awesome! What kind of headphones do you have to connect to it?
Thanks so much! I used AKG K90's in this video which were brilliant, but also quite fragile and unfortunately eventually gave in. Sounded great tho! Nowadays I use Sennheiser ATH-M40x's. I'm no headphone connoisseur but they definitely serve my purposes!
Omg!!! Amazing
Awesome!
Amazing!!
Man. There any way you can break down how you build stuff like this? I've got the same keyboard and I'm so lost with the thing. It's my first time playing with something like this.
Cheers Paul, this is definitely something I'd like to do. Watch this space!
Man, I'm the same! I've had mine 6 months and I didn't even know it could do all this stuff, lol! The manual is next to hopeless.
It takes some practice to got the grip on the sequencer, but is not that hard at all. I recommend that you check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/lsr5p08LrDs/v-deo.html
I know I’m late but could you tell me what the name of that patch you played in your right hand at 1:36
Never too late! That's the Jump Brass patch, it's number 92 in the Brass tab. I adjusted the vibrato of the patch in the Part Edit section to Rate +6, Depth 47 and +Delay +15 to get that wobbly effect. Hope that comes in handy!
@@TomMonksMusic thanks so much
Excelent !!!
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Richtig gut!!!
this is really great. to show how juno ds can work to performing high level of synth masterpiece Music. you are a great singer to. please do a cover of tears for fears mad world
Супер!!!👍👍👍