Me and Sarah Jane by Genesis - Tony Banks keyboard cover and tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- An authentic transcription and performance of the keyboard parts played by Tony Banks on Me and Sarah Jane as performed by Genesis on the 1981 tour and Three Sides Live. Played with a Yamaha CP80, a Sequential Prophet-6, and a Behringer Odyssey.
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Another great job Matt! Along with 'You Might Recall" I always think of "Me and Sarah Jane' as the last truly great Genesis song. Harmonically dense, complicated and idiosyncratic and at 4:10 one of THE best Banks chord changes!
Awsome work.. one of my favourite Tony Banks song
4:53 Hope reigns, fears rule.
I may be crazy but I'm not such a fool.
...no such fool.
I had to look that up, I don’t know his solo stuff. You’re right. Also reminiscent of the pre chorus to My Girl.
Takes something to impress those dogs!
I know I’m late to the game here but that right hand syncopation in the beginning was impossible for me to play. I started learning this song back in the early 90s and gave up. So kudos to you!!
This is one of Banks' weirdest harmonic endeavors. But I love the song. And your transcription is great! It sounds so odd in parts, but when all the other band parts are added, it really makes all sense...
I have loved the arpaggiator section of this song forever!!! I have never been able to duplicate it however. I think you are close but I hear three different things going on in the recording. I am not sure of course and I think you are close. But I am not 100% sure there isn't a third arp going on layered in this section... I wish I knew for sure... lol
Matt?? You are theee TRUE Tony Banks God. I hate to say it but as a player (and a HUGE Tony Fan) The Lamb, Firth and Cinema Show sound and are easy to play compared to this.
So sooo thankful for your talent and opening up the Holy Grail of Tony Banks.
Thank you EVER so much.
Bravo!! I just really started getting into this song only using piano sound one keyboard for now but always loved listening to it wasn’t until recently didn’t realize how fun it is to play just thought it was very complicated to create though Tony Banks was good at making something like this. Just like how it carries itself!
Do you have the sheet by chance? Thank you and great cover
My second of your videos to watch. Again what a joy to sing along to and wonder at the music
Thankyou so much
Ah its a vocoder... There is a vocoder going on as well... You Blew it Matt!!! lol total failure. No I am only kidding. I love your videos and I am amazed how much work you put into these videos. Great job.Thanks for all the great music and great instruction. Now if I can play even half as well as you and Tony Banks I would be happy.
You are slacking, we already covered the missing vocoder part and on the live version and which band member covers it in the comments below! 🤣🤣🤣
@@mattthomasoverdrive4514 Too funny. I suck... Ill get better! Thanks for all the great videos!!!
Hi. that was perfect! What is the gadget on top of the novation impulse on the left please? 🙂
That is the Prophet 6 module.
Awesome video Matt....it never ceases to surprise me how much of what sounds like keyboard is actually on the guitar...this birds eye view takes a lot of the mystery away from how the heck they produce all that sound live.
That is the hardest part about learning this stuff. The overlap in instrumentation and sounds. Definitely one of the factors which makes the band unique.
amazing !
everlasting song for me :)
thanks for the vid brother ....
I really love your work Matt! I can't seem to figure out the Prophet for the last part of this song. I know it's based off the organ patch and the cutoff, but the ADSR seems to be different at the end. What exactly are you changing when you get to that last chord progression?
Same with No Reply. That's definitely the Prophet organ with some detuning, but I can't seem to get the overall sound right.
Yes, it’s the same organ patch with a different envelope that is set to “wow” the filter more, and I have it as a separate preset which you see me switch. This is something I’m not 100% sure about, I’m just matching what I hear on Three Sides Live. On the studio version there is also a strings patch doubling, but I haven’t heard it on any of the 1981 live recordings.
No Reply is probably a Prophet harpsichord/clavichord/electric piano patch that’s tweaked. I can’t remember if I referenced the original patch on my video.
holy sh*t. Not sure how i stumbled on this video but you are amazing. This aint no Taylor Swift song... I was captivated watching this. Love it.
Awesome
Excellent as always.
It caught my attention, i've seen a Korg/Arp Odyssey in your set, now it's the Behringer model. Did you change it for any reason?
I guess the Behringer's capability of saving patches and having an arpeggiator is really nice.
Thanks. I still have the Korg Odysseys. They’ll appear soon. If you’ve seen my other videos you’ll see I’m organizing these by amount of gear I can fit into frame and mixer inputs! I’m aiming to finish Three Sides Live over the next couple weeks and I’ll show how the Odysseys work together to create the Quadra lead section. Behringer cannot save patches though. Sound of it and the Korg versions are identical, but the MIDI out, full size keys, effects, and arpeggiator/sequencer give the Behringer the edge.
@@mattthomasoverdrive4514 Oh i see! Damn i thought the Behringer could save patches, i guess neither the korg nor the behringer are good good for live use, as tony changed patches quite a lot. Thanks for replying!
Great ! Thanks. I'm wondering, which output(s) you take for the CP80 ? XLR I assume, 1 or both ? Cheers
Only one XLR output from the CP80 (since I’m not using the piano’s stereo tremolo mono is fine), and the Boss CE-1 chorus is in the stereo effects return of the mixer.
Flawless! Love it!
My favorite song from that album!
What a piece! Amazing how you pick it all out & give it!
1:23 that hands crossing lines always make me think of The Lamb. :-)
3:50 and at this point I think there's also some vocoding. In that case, I think he only used the vocoder section of the VP-330 here and on the last section of Duchess (on Genesis albums), right? His most obvious use solo is on By You, from The Fugitive.
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Yes, on the studio version of this song. It’s also on the Abacab title track. Live vocoding only on Duchess (I do that in that video). Interesting thing about this live version: Phil sings one of Tony’s keyboard phrases. The more subtle thing is that for the vocoder part you mention, Mike plays those chord rhythms on guitar.
@@mattthomasoverdrive4514 yeah, I like that line sung by Phil. I haven't heard other live versions but that line sounds very integral to the song. Everytime I hear some Genesis live songs where Tony couldn't play a line, I can imagine it anyway :p
@@MrHermanRinger Also on Thirty-Three's, This Is Love and Say You'll Never Leave Me.
thanks for this great pleasure 🙂
Bravo! Even as a non-musician, I learned a lot here. So great to see how Tony played this. One of my favorite Genesis songs.
excellent version! Weird, I always thought the section starting at 4:19 was doubled with the piano as well. Just went back to the studio version and it ain't! go figure... :-p
I always learn the live versions for my band, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he played piano throughout on the record. This song definitely belongs in the same category as Mad Man Moon, One For The Vine, and Burning Rope. Probably composed on piano, which was the live tracked instrument with the band, synths overdubbed. Then, live versions of OFTV and BR pare away the piano parts.
@@mattthomasoverdrive4514 The drum machine was a CR78, right?
Herman Ringer yes, CR78 on this and Duchess. I have the Forgotten Keys 3rd party library for Kontakt, which is essential for learning how that box worked. Hint: that is not a delay on Duchess, but unaccented 16th notes.