I just want to remind everyone that this was written by a blind man at a time when this musical style was still nascent, as he was in the process of inventing it himself
And black and lived in the ghetto in the 50s AND he's the greatest living or dead musical savant so the odds were not stacked in his favor AND his music is catchy AND HIS MUSIC is clever AND HIS PRODUCTION AND DRUMMING SKILLS ARE ALSO AINT NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT ALSO HE WAS IN A MIND ALTERING COMA WHICH EVEN FURTHER UNLOCKED HIS SOUL TO SEE THE TRUTH OF WHAT MUSIC CAN BE AND WHAT IT CAN ACCOMPLISH LIKE IF A ALIEN CAME TO EARTH AND WAS DESTROYING A CITY AND STEIEVE WONDER WAS LIKE "We can stop this martian threat, we can stop him with the power of music!" IT WOULD WORK STIEVE WOULD WIN THEN HE WOULD SAY "I guess his species wasn't from Saturn" AND NO ONE WOULD LAUGH BRCAUSE NO ONE LISTENS SATURN OFF SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE EVEN THOUGH ITS A BEAUTIFUL SYNTHY SOULFUL TUNE
Probably the best guide I've seen on playing the actual riff PROPERLY! Thank you. I've seen this played incorrectly so many times (I include myself in that btw) - I even saw Prince play it at an after-show party; it was close, but not quite there. He managed to get away with it though ;)
Already been said below, but after watching a bunch of players give their best take on the clav parts, this is the first tutorial that 100% nails it. Thanks!
you are great! I even found the original tracks of the mix (3-4 clavs) and still it was messing my head to figure it out how exactly he does it. I believe you are 90% spot on. thanks!
I could listen to that riff for hours the way you have it going! Damn! Those are some excellent deductions, also, regarding why it sounds like more than one clav but isnt. That totally makes sense.
I love this tutorial, thank you so much. I'm a beginner piano player, and I'm practicing this. The timing is so hard, but challenging and FUN. I love this song! Greetings from Spain.
Strangely enough, Lenny Kravitz's 'Always on the run' has a similar pattern as part 1, regarding the two guitars playing interlocking sections of one guitar riff that has become legendary too. This tutorial made me take to keyboards: thank you so much, Jack Stratton!
This is fantastic, inspired me to learn it. I found one thing different, which is that Stevie clearly holds the octave Eb right before the right had crossover. And also, the ending of the riff rhythm is a bit different that what is done here although it does seem he mixes that up each time its played.
nice Jack, thanks for that , man . . . . such a backbone , its really not obvious what Stevie's doing . . . it really needs to be broken down and explained like that , in order for aspiring types to try and put the whole deal together . . . the nuances in technique in this piece, is a good example of how important it is for musicians to try and listen for what IS actually happening , and not just go with a version of what your brain thinks it heard . . . big difference . . .
Wow! I've never enjoyed electronic drums so much. What a pair it makes with your playing! It really hits me at 75% speed too actually :). Might I ask how you made the drum track?
This is the most accurate interpretation of "Superstition" that I've seen so far on YT. Good work! The ideas here match both the isolated clavinet tracks and the videos of Stevie Wonder playing the song live.
By the way, the right hand chord, the one you call "tapping", might also have a Gb on top some of the time. If you watch the clip of Wonder performing at the White House it's possible to see him playing those Gb's. Also, when I used the Snippz app to listen the the isolated studio track at slow speed, I thought I could discern the G flats on some of the chords. Your mileage may vary...
Ok duder ... This little tutorial, everything vulf for that matter... Definitely doing the most! Would love to hear your take on "Child of vision" supertramp!
Eric Camargo check Joey Dosik's TH-cam channel, he has a tutorial for game winner. The arrangement is slightly different from the arrangement on thrill of the arts but it lays out the chords.
Man I read this video title as "How to play superposition piano" as if that was some fancy term for the 2 hand playing where 1 hand is percussive, it's only when he mentions Stevie Wonder I'm like "oh man I think that reads SUPERSTITION" fun times
Some notes about the production: I can confirm that there are two and only two clav parts. They took a split signal from the clav to feed directly to the console and a guitar amp, with both a close mic and room mic on it. The delay is from feeding the signal from the repro head of the clav amp track to another track DURING recording (no reamping). The echo track was also monitored off of its repro head and fed back to the record head, to feed back on itself. There isn't much compression (if any) on it, but he plays pretty hard, which makes it more percussive. P.S. There's a lot of very WONG "how to" videos about this song on YT. Yours is the most accurate I've seen.
I think this is an excellent arrangement but I’ve being listening to a slowed down audio of the isolated Clav from elsewhere on TH-cam and I don’t know where folks are getting this idea that there are multiple Clav tracks. I’m not finished yet but I’m hearing possibly one track with a dotted 1/8 delay. I can’t yet play it though. I don’t think Stevie is playing as many keys as people think.
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So playing Superstition is very simple. You just need four hands, two clavinets, an impeccable sense of rhythm, and Vulf compressor.
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7 clavinet parts
Love this comment.
Don't be so superstitious.
I just want to remind everyone that this was written by a blind man at a time when this musical style was still nascent, as he was in the process of inventing it himself
😂
Sublime! What you say is The Magic. This is the best Tuto
Newton is to calculus as Wonder is to clav funk
And black and lived in the ghetto in the 50s AND he's the greatest living or dead musical savant so the odds were not stacked in his favor AND his music is catchy AND HIS MUSIC is clever AND HIS PRODUCTION AND DRUMMING SKILLS ARE ALSO AINT NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT ALSO HE WAS IN A MIND ALTERING COMA WHICH EVEN FURTHER UNLOCKED HIS SOUL TO SEE THE TRUTH OF WHAT MUSIC CAN BE AND WHAT IT CAN ACCOMPLISH LIKE IF A ALIEN CAME TO EARTH AND WAS DESTROYING A CITY AND STEIEVE WONDER WAS LIKE "We can stop this martian threat, we can stop him with the power of music!" IT WOULD WORK STIEVE WOULD WIN THEN HE WOULD SAY "I guess his species wasn't from Saturn" AND NO ONE WOULD LAUGH BRCAUSE NO ONE LISTENS SATURN OFF SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE EVEN THOUGH ITS A BEAUTIFUL SYNTHY SOULFUL TUNE
@@corncobjohnsonreal What
You've heard of slap bass well this is slap piano
Most clavinet playing in a nutshell
THAT'S THE MAGIC!
We did feet one pair through Tonto btw.
WOW i knew i was barely scratching the surface
Wow it’s really you!
@@Vulf missed him by 11 months. So close😆👍
@@Vulf Someone kinda isolated the clavinet tracks if it can helps:
th-cam.com/video/U5wsWeKbyYA/w-d-xo.html
Through TONTO for filtering?
Bill Hader have some serious clavinet skills
gfmgma hah
Nono, this is jewish legend Jack Stratton
Lmfao
I can't unhear it
shit now i cant unhear it
Probably the best guide I've seen on playing the actual riff PROPERLY! Thank you. I've seen this played incorrectly so many times (I include myself in that btw) - I even saw Prince play it at an after-show party; it was close, but not quite there. He managed to get away with it though ;)
Vulfpeck should cover superstition.
YES
God please
With Antwuan on vocals, this would blow my mind.
letMeSayThatInIrish and play it very slowly! that would be epic
they do it in some of their concerts
Already been said below, but after watching a bunch of players give their best take on the clav parts, this is the first tutorial that 100% nails it. Thanks!
you are great! I even found the original tracks of the mix (3-4 clavs) and still it was messing my head to figure it out how exactly he does it. I believe you are 90% spot on. thanks!
I understand exactly 0% of this but I can't stop watching
Only the booty can understand the funk! The mind cannot.
@Kasper Kleine Tank you good
Wow the sound is so amazing, almost feel like guitar chords ! Love it!
“The chicken pickin’ pickup”
I could listen to that riff for hours the way you have it going! Damn!
Those are some excellent deductions, also, regarding why it sounds like more than one clav but isnt. That totally makes sense.
Everyone seems to have their own little way of playing this tune, I definitely borrowed a little something from this
I love this tutorial, thank you so much. I'm a beginner piano player, and I'm practicing this. The timing is so hard, but challenging and FUN. I love this song! Greetings from Spain.
Strangely enough, Lenny Kravitz's 'Always on the run' has a similar pattern as part 1, regarding the two guitars playing interlocking sections of one guitar riff that has become legendary too. This tutorial made me take to keyboards: thank you so much, Jack Stratton!
'Always on the run', such a great funk-rock song. Kind of forgotten one, but every time I listen to it I'm like uoooouh this is heavy, this is awesome
Vulfpeck's nearly square aspect ratio makes me nostalgic for the turn of the century and I didn't even know that was possible.
Oh. My. God. Fantastic breakdown, Brother Vulf. FINALLY!!! MAGIC!!!
Thank you! Helpful as always :) Really appreciate you guys taking the time out to do these things for the fans.
Thank you so much fr this. I'm 68 years old and have been doing bastardized versions of this forever and finally with your tutorial I've got it right.
This is fantastic, inspired me to learn it. I found one thing different, which is that Stevie clearly holds the octave Eb right before the right had crossover. And also, the ending of the riff rhythm is a bit different that what is done here although it does seem he mixes that up each time its played.
Awesome! Extra thanks for showing how you're coming up with the sounds, I was drooling over the tone.
THAT'S THE MAGICCCC
Great video, thank you! "That's the magic, THAT'S THE MAGIC!"
d-did I just buy and download NI scarbee clavinet? it all happened so fast please send help
haha! ur an pupperino :) :)
Oh yes. IMHO Scarbee has the best Wurli A200 and Rhodes MKI around too. Except for maybe Keyscape..?
I was looking for good way of playing it and my beloved Jack Stratton is here to help !!! Vulfpeck is the shit !
THEYAAAETS THE MEYAAAGIC
Wow! Stevie is a real genius.
nice Jack, thanks for that , man . . . . such a backbone , its really not obvious what Stevie's doing . . . it really needs to be broken down and explained like that , in order for aspiring types to try and put the whole deal together . . . the nuances in technique in this piece, is a good example of how important it is for musicians to try and listen for what IS actually happening , and not just go with a version of what your brain thinks it heard . . . big difference . . .
Thanks, this tutorial was simple, straightforward and great!
Wow! I've never enjoyed electronic drums so much. What a pair it makes with your playing! It really hits me at 75% speed too actually :). Might I ask how you made the drum track?
This is the most accurate interpretation of "Superstition" that I've seen so far on YT. Good work! The ideas here match both the isolated clavinet tracks and the videos of Stevie Wonder playing the song live.
By the way, the right hand chord, the one you call "tapping", might also have a Gb on top some of the time. If you watch the clip of Wonder performing at the White House it's possible to see him playing those Gb's. Also, when I used the Snippz app to listen the the isolated studio track at slow speed, I thought I could discern the G flats on some of the chords. Your mileage may vary...
Thank you so much Jack! I'm getting ready to play for a Halloween concert and this song was so hard to figure out. Great tutorial :)
WOW you are geat for discoverng the way the tune was composed by the genIUS.i THANK YOU SO MUCH DON
THAT'S THE MAGIC !!! :)
I love the enfasis *Thats the MAGIC!*
Ok duder ... This little tutorial, everything vulf for that matter... Definitely doing the most! Would love to hear your take on "Child of vision" supertramp!
Almost sounds like a reggae guitar rake. Cool use of a ghost note, Stevo!
Thank you ! That helped me figure it out after all these years!
instructions unclear, stared at sun with telescope to become blind.
Well Stevie is blind so that's a good start.
lol i gouged an eyeball and tried to sell it online
that's step one done
Man, u are funky! Nailed it.
Such expressive hands.
omg thank you. been trying to figure this out forever.
Awesome video and playing brother, thanks!!
"That's the magic! " 👍
That's the MAGIC!
"that's the magic!" ~ Vulf
That wood case is dope‼️
Can't stop watching this.
Thank you so much. I always played it wrong :-) you're amazing
This makes total sense. Thanks man.
MMMMMMMMMMM, Crunchy.......
where is my vulf sans what is this blasphemy font
The original recording is done in 2 tracks guys, relax
that's the magic ..... THAT's the MAGIC!
you just read my heart insides
May the tan bomberjacket last throughout the ages!
Thanks! What a riff!
Spot on. Jack is da man
Awesome tutorial
May I ask what model you are playing ?
You played this better than Stevie did on the original record!!!
How do u learn all these funky Rhodes and keyboard parts
That's the magic!
You are real clav virtuoso. Which VST clavinet u use? if it is not secret?
could u please do one of these "how to play it" videos on game winner?
really hope so
thank you
Eric Camargo check Joey Dosik's TH-cam channel, he has a tutorial for game winner. The arrangement is slightly different from the arrangement on thrill of the arts but it lays out the chords.
Very Good! lesson perfect!
What you say is correct. The original keyboards tracks should be found on the net. For what i remember there are 5 or 7 different parts....
In the studio he would probably have a loud amp for the attack.
I knew it was complex, but um. Damn Stevie!!
Turn that gulf compressor on before playing, remember
love that chirp
Man I read this video title as "How to play superposition piano" as if that was some fancy term for the 2 hand playing where 1 hand is percussive, it's only when he mentions Stevie Wonder I'm like "oh man I think that reads SUPERSTITION"
fun times
LOVE THIS!!!
this i s so good fella!
Mutton bi phase and tape delay
I love what your doing , could you make me a midi file. I would deeply appreciate
That's the magick!
DANGEROUS ATTACK! Oh Jack and 5 years later I am laughing about it. IMMORTAL!
that's the magic!!!
Vulf compressor working extra hard on this one...
I knew Stevie was an early adopter of Vulf Compressor
ótimo tuto!
i think this is my favourite video on youtube
Can someone recommend me a good online drum machine or software to work with? Just for practicing time and jamming?
nice research work man !
For anyone attempting to learn the first part off this tutorial try slowing it to about 0.5 speed, that helped me tremendously
awesome
Can you do a tutorial on "You Haven't Done Nothin'"?
Some notes about the production: I can confirm that there are two and only two clav parts. They took a split signal from the clav to feed directly to the console and a guitar amp, with both a close mic and room mic on it. The delay is from feeding the signal from the repro head of the clav amp track to another track DURING recording (no reamping). The echo track was also monitored off of its repro head and fed back to the record head, to feed back on itself. There isn't much compression (if any) on it, but he plays pretty hard, which makes it more percussive.
P.S. There's a lot of very WONG "how to" videos about this song on YT. Yours is the most accurate I've seen.
Do I know you? I personally recorded this material with Malcolm Cecil. It’s close but I don’t think it’s totally there :-)
This is pretty funny to watch if you slow it down to 0.5 speed, haha.
Anyhow, thank you for da magic, Jack.
Amazing!!
that's the magic !!!!! hahaha
these are great, can we get some bass tutorials??
I don't know how many humans you must sacrifice to play as well as Joe Dart, but I'm sure TH-cam wouldn't allow it.
Luv it👍🙂 Plus how the hell dya get David Lynch to narrate the video?
I'm pretty sure the altered B chord is repeated in the A chord: meaning A7b5: or at least that's what the horns do
elkeism you’re right it is
which midi keyboard is that, a fellow keys player paintedfoxes wants to know
1:55
I think this is an excellent arrangement but I’ve being listening to a slowed down audio of the isolated Clav from elsewhere on TH-cam and I don’t know where folks are getting this idea that there are multiple Clav tracks. I’m not finished yet but I’m hearing possibly one track with a dotted 1/8 delay. I can’t yet play it though. I don’t think Stevie is playing as many keys as people think.
the magic is so god damn hard to achieve!