Hi everyone.
I feel after all the sillyness these last few days on SZ it's about time we all got back to making music.
After my first song Hero (also known as boring arranger ballad style if your names Fran) I'd post something different.





This is more uptempo Fran, maybe a bit too modern for you being from the 80's but something different by my all time favourite group. It is MY own version of it so don't expect a Bryan May note for note rendition which would be impossible on a keyboard.
As usual all done in one take, no SMF, no MP3, no faking, no overdubs, just hit record and play and post it as it should be.
http://rapidshare.de/files/31366170/Craig_-_Break_Free.mp3.html

Craig . . .

Bravo! Terrific auto accomp style & fantastic live keyboard guitar emulation played with emotion, passion & fire.



Freddie Mercury LIVES ! . . . thru your music!

Scott

You are the champion, my friend

Craig,

This is excellent, man.

You are a fine player with lots of feeling in your music, and you can certainly do a terrific guitar emulation.

The synths were killers as well.

A superb recording.

Ian the Impressed

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Love that song.

I'm glad you posted it. Thanks for that.
The 80's Rock style is great for that song.

Great job.

Eric

Alrighty, my honest opinion.. While I'm a big fan of this song and ohters by this artist...., to be honest this version didn't do it for me. Sorry, but that's my honest opinion. There's some timing issues with the guitar in several places. I also didn't care for the drums (felt they were a bit weak, and the backing guitar sounds very--how should I say--obviously done on an arranger keyboard but hey--thanks for posting it.

Squeak

I have no problems with Artists using backing files providing these simple rules are followed.
1. The Artist has recorded the backing.
2. The Artist plays everything that is physically possible for him to play, with the backing being used to add authenticity to the performance.
3. The Artist tells the audience that he is using a recorded backing.

Like the song and performance, but the electric guitar sounds very artificial. (However bear in mind that I regularly listen to live electric guitar, and so deficiencies do stand out)
Enjoy whatever you play

Bill

The first guitar, I didn't care for but the second one sounded pretty real!

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Bill
Yamaha PSR2000

Thanks for all your comments.
Obviously the T2 can't and never will sound like a live guitar (especially one played by Bryan May). The first guitar sound has no distortion effects on it so more feeling can be heard in the song using this, the one for the solo and ending has been edited with slightly more reverb and distortion and I have to be spot on timing wise when swapping to this guitar so the effects don't still sound from the other creating a thud sound.
The drums sound far better and more upfront on the 45mb WAV version of this, doing a MP3 does lose quality. The style is an 80's one off the IDC site available to purchase.
Not sure what you mean by timing issues Squeak but I played it live in one take (Think you said you were a guitarist a while back so you'd play these parts far different to me and a guitarist should be able to get nearer to the original than a keyboard player). If I wanted it to be perfect I could overdub it until the cows come home but then you'd lose the live feel to it with any imperfections included.
Well thanks once again.
I think I'll re-record it later but this time using sampled sounds on the T2 as well as internal, a custom style I've been working on (again using sampled bass and guitars) and then I'll play live over the top. This would show you all what you can do with sampled sounds as I think Donny wanted to hear a while ago.
My memory has been returned to Kingston at the moment (T2 memory that is before any comments lol) as I think it was faulty so until I get a replacement I can't load anything back into the T2 so stay tuned

I would think that style would also work quite nicely for U2's With or Without You.

Wouldn't that be cool if you found a nice sample of Brian May's Red Special to import?



-mike