Disintegration, by The Cure: keys / synth cover
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- A fun one to play, and good practice for how to start learning to play a bit with both hands since the changes happen slowly and are easy. At the end I play snippets of the song with my patches only, so you can hear what they sounded like live on their own. I use a Korg Triton, and amazingly my old floppy still has all the sound mapping (sequences, in Triton-speak).
I co-founded a Cure tribute band about 15+ years ago called Fascination Street, based out of Seattle, WA. We loved playing The Cure's music and stayed together for about 8 years. I then moved on to my current band, Nite Wave (new wave 80's cover). I haven't played these Cure songs since then, but I want to share the patches and sounds I used as the keyboardist of the band (I'm mainly a bass player, but love keys too), and I thought it would be fun to play along with the Disintegration album since we did every song on it.
All credit to Robert Smith and the members of The Cure for crafting such an amazing song and album for the world, thank you guys!
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PS: Nerd Alert! Some of you out there might see I play the left hand part shifted a half note. I had to do this to get it to fit on the keyboard. At the end I play that part and the same part up on the strings in the real key so you can see the difference; physically a half note off but pitch shifted to work out right. The left hand part isn't really in the song, but with the bassist doing his part we felt the song was thin at the bottom and needed some rounding out; it fits pretty well even with the real track. Thanks for listening :-)
Most beautiful painful song. Based in reality while the sound is etheral. It's the life we live with the abstraction we apply. Two people going their own way. Each person having a different experience. The beginning, during and the end. Suffering and misery from someone so beautiful.
I'm a novice keyboard/synth player and these vids have helped me learn some of my favorite songs...you rule!
Awesome, thanks! That's what they're for, as well as fun :-)
I really enjoyed this. Thank you. I popped big time when you put up the 3! Three cheers for you, sir.
ha ha, thanks, that was fun, good catch :-)
Did you transpose the deep synth sound you used for your left hand? When I play those keys it doesn’t match, but when I go a half step down it seems to march. Did you do that so you could play a lower note with your first c?
Hi, yes, sorry for the super late response -- Yes, I transposed it to make it all fit when it goes low in the middle of the song.
As I'm not a Triton user I'm not aware how it really works, but the bell sound is really similar. Did you sample it or is it programmed?
Thank you :-). It's a combination of stock sounds and effects (programmed). It's mainly a piano with lots of delay and chorus.
The Korg Triton is such an ugly but very capable synthesizer.
I don't mind its look; it looks pretty sleek. Doesn't have all the knobs/sliders an analog one has, which are pretty cool, but it at least has a very clean layout that's pretty intuitive for most of its functions. Only thing I hate about the synth is it's sequencer record/edit mode -- it's definitely NOT intuitive. But i never use it now, so no big deal.