Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I'm glad that you enjoyed the song.
Dnj, I agree that the levels could have been mixed a little better, but I was trying to show what the Mediastation sounded like for the "non-tweaker". Of course I do lean towards that "in your face" kind of drums, a little on the loud side, and piano is always my primary instrument. I guess it's my comfort zone.
DonM, I don't know the song "On Eagles' Wings". I did a search, not sure if I came up with the same song or not. Do you have something I could hear or a link to it somewhere?
Spalding, the style was one that came with my Mediastation. I really tried to do it with an "out of the box" simplicity, but here are the changes I made:
1) Tempo was originally set to 52 bpm, I moved to 60 bpm.
2) I don't like busy styles at all and one sound(a gm piano) in one of the variations didn't fit the sound I was going for, so I turned it down. (push the volume button and move the corresponding slider)
I used my favorite giga piano as a lead instrument, all other voices were the ones orignally set in the style. No other changes were made.
Rikki, I played the left hand in a manner that would trigger the chords and hopefully
not sound like I was just triggering chords. That is the part I dislike most about all arrangers is that they force you to adapt your playing for chord recognition. I play a song one way on piano alone and a more subdued way with the arranger mode. It makes me think and I'd rather play free-er. But it's a good compromise.
This was the first song that I have shared with my SZ family thanks everyone for listening.
Richard
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