Thank you very much for taking the time to listen and comment. I wanted to record this as straight out of the Tyros2 without adding any effects so others could hear a sample of how it sounds out of the box.
jam on,
Terry



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Tony,
Thank you too very much for the listen and comments.

Sorry that I have missed your tunes to reciprocate, but I quit going to the GA side after my last experience there with negativity coupled with the amount of digressive negative posts by some.

I did not use a score for this, as I only read enough music to not hurt my playing. Originally I learned it from a score when taking lessons though.

This tune actually started for me many years ago. I was taking violin lessons (classical of course)and heard this tune for the first time and fell in love with it's simplistic repetitive arrangement.

The guy I was taking lessons from Stephen Warren had a small quartet that played around town and they did a great rendition of it. I have been hooked on the tune since then and have gotten many renditions of it with many different instruments.

I kept fooling and practicing with it over the years and finally decided to record it with the Tyros 2.

BTW I really sucked at the violin much to my dismay, because to me some of the most beautiful music in classical and jazz I've heard are done on a violin, just never on mine.
jam on,
Terry



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Tony,
One other thing about the no comments. That is very odd to me common courtesy wise and I liken it to doing a live gig and when the song ends, the audience just stares at you silent.

Terry

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jam on,
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Bebop,
The reason there was a problem is because I had my board set that one had to be a member to d/l an attachment. I will in fact most likely revert back to that again, so it would not do any good for you to post links to any of the tunes, as they will not work once I do that.

So why do I do that? The reason is simple bandwidth usage = $.

This tune now has had well over 100 d/ls and very little response. In most cases my thoughts are if one does not want to hear a tune bad enough to become a member, then that's ok with me too.

Now and again as a help to others though I like to post things like this so those out there trying to decide whether or not they should spend 3 large on a board can hear what it sounds like in the real world and not the demos done under the optimum conditions by pros right down the line.

Thanks for the thought though.
jam on,
Terry



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Hi Terry,
This is another classical piece you share with us! I'd never listened to the whole Pachelbel's Canon. Thanks for sharing. Exellent playing.
In my opinion the strings voice is really bad. I expected much better strings on a $3000 keyboard.
I think this was the reason why people did not react to your recording.
I am pretty sure that you can make this piece sound much better. If I were you I'd play full chords on the clavesin (harpsicord).
That's my piece of constructive criticism.
Regards,
George

Thanks for the input George.
jam on,
Terry

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George, Just so I have a point of reference here, what strings do you believe would sound so much better than these if any? Or are you speaking against a real live orchestra?

thanks,
Terry

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[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 01-21-2006).]

Terry, you're right
I could not help comparing the T2 strings to a real orchestra because the other voices sounded so perfectly.
I am aware that a keyboard cannot reproduce the strings exacltly. There are many articulations the real strings can play - once I was a violin and viola player, too BUT:

I noticed that each note the strings voice played was stressed. Each note standed for itself and thus was spoiling the melody.

It is possible also that you may have picked a wrong voice. You could try to play the same piece with an ordinary strings ensemble voice, or with separate violin, viola and chello voices. Or replace the strings with completely different instruments like the Block flute family (T2 should have a good selection of these).

Regards,
George

[This message has been edited by George V (edited 01-21-2006).]

George
Thanks now I have a better feel for your original comments. I understand what you are saying. As a guitar player, any keyboard guitar I hear sounds off to me.

Therein lies a problem as well, I'm a guitarist and not a keyboardist. So I am sure that someone with a far better technique could do much better than I have with it.

The demo here though was meant to be more of a showcase for those who may want to hear what they can expect out of the box and especially as I say from a non-keyboardist.
Terry

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jam on,
Terry
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Ok, what am I doing wrong?! I've been trying to download Terry's song for several days with not luck. I clicked on the link and then Quicktime Player within Firefox opens, but nothing happens. I also tried right clicking the link to save the song to my desktop, but nothing happens either.

Scott