The Mellotron Group

Yeah, well you're talking about a guy who played with his organ till it  
killed him.
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/26/2013 3:41:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
markpringnz@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
Well like Bach said, you only have to put the right finger on the  right 
key and the instrument plays itself!


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:38 PM, <_lsf5275@aol.com_ 
(mailto:lsf5275@aol.com) > wrote:


 
 
 
Depends on which ones you push and when.  I just recently discovered that 
the keys repeat. I found this out when I  couldn't find the keys of 'I' or 
'V' and so I looked it all  up
 
 
In a message dated 4/26/2013 3:35:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_markpringnz@gmail.com_ (mailto:markpringnz@gmail.com)  writes:

 
Different not better.


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 7:33 PM, <_lsf5275@aol.com_ 
(mailto:lsf5275@aol.com) > wrote:


 
 
 
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_ (mailto: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!!




From: Tony Moffett <_atm655@verizon.net_ (mailto:atm655@verizon.net) >
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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

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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 
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> Nice mellow piece
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> For Anzac Day 
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