The Mellotron Group

did you guys know that if you put your fingers on the keys and kinda do,  
like, every other key and sometimes a black one here and there you get a 
better  sound than when you push down a bunch that are right next to each other 
all at  once?
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2013 9:53:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
markpringnz@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
 
Simple chord theory isn't difficult, and for popular music at least you  
don't need to know much, you could probably harmonize most popular music with  
2 or 3 chords, 4 if you want to sound sophisticated! There are loads of  
tutorials available on the net. 

My limited knowledge came from "The  Pocket book of piano chords for 
dummies" which covers nearly every chord you  could think of and "Music 
Composition for Dummies." 

Once you get used  to the various chord shapes on the keyboard you can 
improvise without thinking  about what chords you are actually playing. I'm a 
bit like Fritz I often don't  know what chord I am playing but probably for 
different reasons! However it  does help to know what key you are in but even 
that is not  essential.


There are rules but they are made to be broken. J S Bach did absolutely  
astonishing things with harmony which should sound dreadful, and admittedly do 
 when I play them, but in the hands of a good player they sound  wonderful.



Mark



On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM, R l <_bluesrock77@hotmail.com_ 
(mailto:bluesrock77@hotmail.com) > wrote:


 
 
 
Chord construction...it sounds good for a non-musician like  me...could you 
please ellaborate?
tks



 
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From: _tomdcour@amnh.org_ (mailto:tomdcour@amnh.org) 
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:04:29  +0000
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying  Day.


 

My daughters piano teacher recently gave me a "refresher" course on  chord 
construction- very interesting really, think I wrote like 15 songs  right 
after!!




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Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:56  AM
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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The  Dying Day.




 
Bernie I think it's holding down more than one key at a time.
Some arbitrary names were assigned to them by folks in the "way back  
times".
It's my guess, I could be wrong.


Tony


On Apr 25, 2013, at 6:43 AM, "tron400" <_tron400@yahoo.com_ 
(mailto:tron400@yahoo.com) > wrote:



What are these "chords" you speak of?

Bernie

--- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> Thanks. This is a bit embarrassing, I am not certain of the  chords as it 
was a live improvisation. I think it started in e minor and  it's mainly a 
mixture of descending 5ths and 4ths, it wanders around in F  for a bit then 
ends in C. The sound is a mixture of the Mark II violins  from Redtron and 
the tremolo strings preset from the Synth 1 VST. I  recorded it using Reaper 
and added some extra reverb in Audacity.
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> Very sweet. The  opening chord and sound reminds me of In the wake of 
Poseidon...what are  they?
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> Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
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> For Anzac Day  
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