The Mellotron Group

Alas still tronless, if anybody knows how to do glides
in m-tron please let me know.

And just a little bit off topic, does anybody know
exactly what is going on in the song, I've never been
quite sure

Mark
--- MAinPsych@aol.com wrote:

>  
> I believe glide is what's accepted, although glide,
> slide, who cares, we all 
> know what you mean.
>  
> I pulled up OTBJ on YouTube and gave a listen
> through headphones.  It depends 
> . . . if you want to play it live it appears doable,
> but you'll have to omit 
> any cello/double bass part because 1) it remains
> constant in pitch while the 
> upper strings simultaneously have the upward glide,
> and 2) you don't have 
> enough hands to play lower strings on a different
> keyboard and still play upper 
> strings and use the pitch control at the same
> time!!!  If you're thinking of 
> recording it, then the obvious answer is . . . use 2
> tracks!  I think a Mellotron 
> could do the song right, but what do I know?  Good
> luck with that descending 
> run at the end of the song.
>  
> Frank Samagaio
>  
> In a message dated 11/20/2007 1:30:23 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> Knowing how much you all love country music I
> thought
> I would share these thoughts with you. The other day
> my ipod decided it was about time I heard Bobby
> Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe, I hadn't much noticed
> much
> before but it has a quite simple string accompniment
> with some nice slides. I know at least some of you
> are
> probably old enough to remember this song.
> 
> Anyway my thoughts are:
> 
> 1) Could you play the string part on a tron with all
> the slides?
> 2) Would it sound better or worse?
> 3) What string parts on well known songs would sound
> better on a tron?
> 
> some more examples
> 
> Ride a white swan by T-rex ( another group favourite
> I
> would expect)
> Need your love so bad Fleetwood Mac, obviously not
> the
> original Little Willie John version.
> 
> Mark
> 
> PS is the correct term for slides on a tron pitch
> dives?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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