Nice video about this keyboard legends home video..




Watched it and from his comments it was obvious there where some instruments he actually never used.. espescially his comments on the Roland top model made me think..

I wish he would demo the Tyros 5 !!! maybe then kids would be interested in it.

From what I've seen of how he uses synths and arpeggiators, I don't really think there's an arranger made he would go for.

I'll bet he would do things on an arranger that would blow your mind....just sayin'

If paid enough money, I am quite sure he would..!

But let's face it... Jordan can afford any keyboard he wants, and has probably played everything there is (he is a NAMM regular).

Ever seen him use an arranger on stage?

One of the best performance of piano playing on youtube is the well known time crunch composed and interpreted live by Jordan Rudess. Strangely there isn't any cover findable in youtube , why ? Because there is no actual score or sheet music nor midi file of this song. The eventual artists that would like to cover it will have to make it by ear ...
This song is the first track of the popular Rhythm of time ( 2004 ) by Jordan Rudess. The cover is performed by myself , Julien Hanck , 15 years old, though this is my eleventh year of keyboards. I play a YAMAHA W7 workstation , a KORG R3 vocoder and synthesizer , a Casio CTK5000 professional arranger keyboard. The sound effects and drum backing track are triggered using Propellerhead Reason 4 . I play two solos in the song !

Reading the blurb under the video, is this video actually JR playing or is it by this 15-year-old Julien Hanck? It's almost ambiguous from the statement. I was sort of hoping JR's goatee would dip into the top of the frame, just to confirm it was him.

Like Diki, I doubt Rudess would bother much with arrangers, not his bag at all. In that league of ability, and playing arranger, look no further than Marco Parisi.

I remember an interview with rudes that states that sometimes using an arranger when looking for new ideas..... But all this might have chnaged after he got acces to karma on his oasys

Agreed. Some top guys no doubt use an arranger just for 'sketching' purposes, but that's about it.

It's worth posting this again . Here is rudess playing " arranger style " . We talked about this here http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/291906/jordan_rudess_arranger_style

Question : what do you think he would be capable of doing with a real arranger with styles he customised himself ?

The truth is we have not really even begun to explore the capabilities of arranger keyboards. We have seen the incredible performances by marco parisi . But I'll bet if he really wanted to let loose with an arranger it would blow our minds . It's all about the creativity of the musician and to a much much lesser degree the limitations of the instrument .