Hello everyone, I uploaded 2 MP3s I play in my Tyros2, I hope you like them, One is known as Little Boat (Barquito), a Brazilian bossa, and the short novelty Monster's theme from the 60's.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/381288/b5ff1919/sharing.html

Im sitting here with a mild breeze in my face as I write this listening to your song......
Oh Man I wanna go to RICO BABY!!!!!!
You really make the T2 shine .....Great style....those Guitars are simply amazing, every little nuance is captured...........your playing is so smooth & really gets the feeling flowing to the listener with mucho gusto!!!

Thanx for sharing my friend.....hope to hear more in the future..

That Barquito is the best instrumental I have heard on SZ..
The guitar work sounds like you used a midi guitar to play the part..Is there a guitar mode on the Tyros2 ,I am not aware of?

Manuel: Loved your polished sounding T2 rendition of "Little Boat (Barquito)", one of my personal Jobim favs. I assume this song was produced exclusively on the Tyros2 alone, utilizing the T2 sequencer and playing the SA guitar & sax parts live on the Tyros2 kb in 'auto accomp' mode, right? If so, beautifully executed and performed. Hope you might share production & recording details. My only wish is that your songs were available in a far less compressed format, such as 192kbps or greater, as 64kbps not only compromises the fidelity, but severely reduced your original 'playing expression' which I know gets lost (as quantization) due to the extreme compression. Manuel: Looking forward to hearing more terrific music from such a talented musician as yourself.

Scott

Manuel,
congratulations for your rendition of "O barquinho/El barquito/Little boat" by Roberto Menescal. Beautifully arranged and played!
I didn't know the other tune ("Monsters") but enjoyed it as well.
Felicitaciones!

Excellent rendition...I hope my friend "CHICO BRAZIL" get a chance to hear it, I'm sure he would love it also....great
job....do more....thanks for sharing...
TR

Andrea: Oops sorry. Thanks for the correction. You're right. This one was NOT written by Jobim.



Strangely enough, my The REAL Vocal Book "Fakebook", as evidenced above, incorrectly(?!) credits Imo Schmortz, not Roberto Menesacal, for this tune. So much for fakebook accuracy. - Scott

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Scott..the fakebook is correct..

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,467328,00.html

Oh, where is that Marguerita!!

Very, very nice. Thanks for the Lead Sheet guys, I need to do this song for my Saturday Poolside gigs.

Very nice indeed

Al

Bravo!! Wonderful job on "O Barquinho." I love that tune! You play that with lots of finesse. One of my all time favorites.

And yes I remember Theme from the Munsters and Herman Munster use to watch that show all the time when I was 10 or 11 years of age.

Munsters TV Show



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LOOOOOOVED it !!!
t.

... you do mean that YOU played these right?!? ...
t.

Great song, great playing, great KB

Thanks for sharing..

Eric

Beautiful rendition, Manuel! Great playing.

In the intro it sounded like the band was down a corridor somewhere. Then, as the bass, etc. dropped in, it was as if I'd walked through the door into the room where the music was playing. So, apart from the musical sense, that intro was very apropos in another way, too.

It was difficult to tell if they were real guitars or not. But please tell me the T2 has more creative basslines than the 'doomp doomp-doomp' pattern that Yams have been using for the last 185 years.

Thank you for listening and your coments too, Thank you Dnj.
Fran there is not a guitar mode, what I always try to do, is play with the logic that as an example the acoustic guitar should be play, never more than 6 notes simultaneosly, with a slide arpeggio either asending or desending but never like a piano could, all notes at the very same time....so I tried to play it like that.
And yes, Scott, I first recorded in the T2 the intro-chord secuence using a stock(factory style) only a little manipulated and saved in my registration banks, then I play in real time the right hand, well, I use both to enable me to do what I did.
Dreamer thank you, you are also one of the best players I heard so far, thanks Tony Rome, I hope to see you in Can Cun, I did worked there but it was in 1976-1977, a very long time.....Thanks kbrkr, Stephenm52, Tony mads (and yes,I did played) , Eric B, renig for your kind words.
Scott Yee, let me know what program do you use to convert the wav to MP3 at resolution you said 192 kbps. I have the original wav, because I did also use the Tyros2 HD recorder, then I exported into my PC, so perhaps, I can re-coverted and replace the current uploaded version.

Renig,
the problem with bossa nova styles is that the bass player usually plays behind the beat (at least he does so if he is really brazilian... ), whilst in those Yamaha styles the bass is always dead right on the beat and this kills that relaxed feeling a real bossa nova should have.
Besides, I hate the T2 bass sounds and I wish that Yamaha had included the beautiful acoustic bass of the Motif ES instead...
Another thing: I usually mute the string track in all bossa nova styles because it tends to give a corny feeling. Sometimes I leave it, but with a vocal sound instead (like a Hmmm choir).
In general, I like more the bossa nova styles in the PA1 X pro: they seem more "on the money".

Dreamer,

"Besides, I hate the T2 bass sounds and I wish that Yamaha had included the beautiful acoustic bass of the Motif ES instead..."

The Tyros and the Motif share the same sound engine. The T2 has 30-40 Bass Samples to choose from. The Acoustic Bass on the T2 is astounding.

Al,
sorry but I was unable to find, among all the T2 bass sounds, one that fits well in a bossa nova style. The problem is that in a real bossa nova the bass is very subtle, almost unaudible. I have found a partial solution to this problem using a pick bass and lowering the volume of the bass track.
Every other bass I have tried (inclujding the acoustic, like in the style used by Manuel) sounds "too much" to me.
The Motif ES acoustic bass is completely different from the T2 acoustic bass, just like the Motif ES lacks the SA voices.
Ciao!
A.

Lovely song played with loads of feeling from an accomplished player. Well done m8, not heard the song before either

Bravo

My kind of music, I will save this one for sure.

Lovely guitar playing, and excellent timing on the guitar licks. A must for me to learn and add to my quest to play guitar on the ty2.

Bravo

pose

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I am playing this and I am loving this munster's theme! This is cool! Good job! That would be a crowd favorite!

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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000

Thank you all!!......I will post more songs in a few days....Today I got a new SUV...a HOnda Element to enable me to carry my stuff and also save some money.....you know, this gas prices, I traded my Chevy Astro (6 cylinders).
More music to came soon.

Thanks for sharing these songs. Great guitar work. Sounds wonderful to me.
DonM