Clavinet: Stevie Wonder's Superstition Deconstructed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Today we are deconstructing Stevie Wonder's Superstition using the Clavinet! Get the sound of the Clavinet on your music when you order the Remix & Production Package on Doctor Mix: www.doctormix....
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Hey everybody; how about, “great job Dr. Mix for approximating a multitrack performance live for our benefit!”
No kidding!
*Cover, Sound like Stevie Wonder live (done !) **th-cam.com/video/A__ePQHqZwo/w-d-xo.html*
Hear hear!
The inventor of the Clavinet is the grandfather of a friend of mine. He's 90+ and still inventing stuff. I'm hoping to meet him soon which will be amazing given that he invented an instrument that shaped the sound of funk and soul music so much.
Wow!! Video and pictures pleeeaze!!!
I worked for a music company years ago called Evans Music City in Houston. Stevie was doing a show there and came into the store. He jammed out for a bit and played this. Watching him play was definitely a gift.
that sounds like a dream come true!
WAY TOO MUCH DISTORTION!!!
I know, I know, sorry sorry. I messed up with the pre gain. But I decided to still publish the video. :) Hope you can forgive me!!
Doctor Mix no worries :)
Yah!
No distortion
I personally think it kicks ass!
He also recorded 8 tracks of it over a 16 track multitrack tape, which all play together, so no matter how great you are you ain't gonna recreate it with two hands. Not even if you're Stevie Wonder.
Yes I have also heard the 16 track ..8 tracks of clav
It's actually only 2 clavinet parts, but several tracks of echo and such
@@RockstarHealer Different pickups.
@@richsackett3423 - if you mean different settings on the two different tracks, yes. Absolutely.
I actually charted both out and figured how to more or less play both parts at once. I play with a Stevie Wonder tribute band ;-)
... And... your point is ...?
Once I heard you sing the difference between a son clave & rumba clave, "He knows his stuff" came out of my mouth. Clearly explained and well demonstrated. Viva music education!
Finally; someone who plays it the right way!
*Cover, Sound like Stevie Wonder live (done !) **th-cam.com/video/A__ePQHqZwo/w-d-xo.html*
No rings?! Unsubskriebed.
Hahahaha
Or his Africa necklace!
Dude you rocked it. Its the notes and the feel, not the dang sound. Later for the rest of those under me about to much distortion. The sound can be what ever you want it to be. The main thing is the notes and the funk feel. Great job!
No wonder this song has such a great 'get up and dance' feel. I had no idea it was based on 2/3 clave, but when it's pointed out, you can hear it easily.
Thanks for the video.
No rings?
*ledgend of the wristband*
And now a Full Cover with drums etc like you did with Thriller please 👍🏻🎧
Mind blowing ! No wonder I could never get this right . Thanks . Beautiful insight to a classic track.
"Don't ever use your right hand because it's never going to feel right." I didn't read the comment in a dirty way, but the idea cracked me up.
Stevie's clavinet playing on superstition was amazing. Billy Preston's outta space took the clavinet into the supernatural.
What an amazing instrument.
*Cover, Sound like Stevie Wonder live (done !) **th-cam.com/video/A__ePQHqZwo/w-d-xo.html*
After watching many tutorials, this was the one that finally unlocked the feel for me. Great job!
Maybe I'm wrong. I tend to listen to that song for sheer enjoyment rather than listening for the note-to-note analysis. But ... I've heard it said that that you can NEVER play it like it sounds on the recording because there are TWO Clav tracks on the recording.
I had to learn this for a band a few years ago, thought it was a bit hard but managed to get something that sounded reasonable, something similar to this though don't recall exactly... Then later saw a video demonstrating the TWO parts and thought "oh, that's why it was so hard..."
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THANKS for the posting. It's great to see what I wasn't hearing. :)
I believe the two Clavi tracks are also on Higher Ground
There are 8 parts.
Lol i just play it like this...
Keys: Riff in RH with ghost notes in LH. Sometimes ill double the bass guitar in my left hand and just hit 4 crotchets
Guitar: the funky strums
Bass: 4 to the floor
Its literally impossible to get it to sound exactly like it does on the original recording anyway
Danke, danke!!!! So cute! It helps me sooooo! Big greatings from Berlin/Germany
What an amazing way to show and teach people on how to groove!
Great !!! It almost like playing a funk guitar, you play the fundamental notes or riff but on the notes in-between you need to pluck muted strings .....with a lot of groove of course.
very cool...glad you posted this...and I found it 4 years later! LOL
This instrument has such a 70s funk vibe to it. Not perfect, but it was definitely educational to see an approximation of how this part was played. Great video.
Excellent work. My favourite part is that little transition at the 2:30 mark that takes the bridge back in to the main riff.
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SUPER AWESOME!!! It makes me wanna try more funky sounds on my playing, I never heard anything about those ghost notes, damn that makes a huge difference
Terrific job! I long for a cleaner, undistorted clav sound but this guy nailed it.
Thank You @Doctor Mix .... This would have to be the MOST not correctly played pop song on any keyboard instrument. First thing is that the LEFT hand is playing the motif, the RH is comping/ghost-noting as you point out. THEN we have "a whole other, secondary Clavinet part going on, as well" as you mention. The rest is all about "note durations", landing on "the pocket" and .... "variations". "Easy" but "very very difficult".
On the TH-cam Pianote channel, Victoria explains all chords (she and Stevie Wonder) used. This looks different from your breakdown. She uses her right hand to play the melody and only kind off bass note with her left hand. Even sheet music is available on Pianote.
No one knows the secret keys of this song, except Stevie and his 4 keyboard accompaniments.
We have the multitracks.
Stereotype Lord of the Rings Comment, 😉 great Job 👍
To my hearing your rhythm's off, you're swinging a bit too much which makes it twee instead of funky. That said, I can't even play the bass line right, so what do I know.
Wowowo HOLD ON what's with all that distortion!?
I know, sorry... ! My preamp betrayed me this time!.. Nothing I could do about it. It's life :( Shit happens. I still decided to post this.
@@Doctormix haha don't worry... Still amazing video 😉
Doctor Mix it didn’t sound bad, it just wasn’t the same tone in the recording. Which isn’t possible, anyway.
@@Doctormix next time redo it....you have an audience that fill your pockets too.
Stop being lazy and get her done right
In a spell of UK factory work a few years ago it did my aging heart good to see some young black girls dancing beside the conveyor when Superstition came on the radio.
@Doctor Mix Please Pleas Please do more keyboard tutorial videos like this! You're such a good keyboard player and there's so much we can learn from you. No one else on TH-cam is really doing much keyboard tutorial content right now so it's defiantly something you could expand on. Thanks for the video! 👍👍🎹🎹❤❤
Is there a reason for keeping your fingers so flat? Is it helping strike multiple keys or something?
Something worth to mention is that the timing is in 24th (six-tuples) rather than 16th, and that adds to the grove. Like playing mini-triplets
True that. But it's also correct to call it 16ths swung.
According the visual on the video you have brilliant and high engaged, medium and soft off, and D and B for pickup settings (first 2 switches down, last 4 switches up). I believe a closer setting is brilliant, high and medium engaged, and C and B for pickups (first 3 switches down 4th up, 5th down, 6th up), no damper. I think that you will find that this is closer in sound than your settings.
Great as always, I didn't think of the underlying beat coming from Rumba to help give the full groove... Interesting! Keep up the good work :)
Feel accounts for so much when you're trying to wrap your head around a player's style. For example, I learned years ago the trick to John Frusciante's guitar style can be learned by watching him strum a guitar. It's all alternating up and down, generally steady, rhythmic strumming and he makes the notes he wants by being able to play and mute strings with his left hand. That's where his funk comes from. He plays Scar Tissue live by strumming up and down, not plucking. It's all jamming on all the strings, almost banging on the guitar to express the rhythm.
Im so in love with this channel, thank you for the consistent work and great explanations. I will remember to disable my adblock before watching.
Thanks!!!
No no no thank you !
I"ll never be able to do that lol, I started way too late but AWESOME video!!
Groovy Doc, i watched a short clip on you tube of how he managed to record that tune from his album Songs In The Key Of Life, he had assistance from 2 blokes who made this enormous sound machine, it was like a gigantic Moog System and it was invented by one of the guys that were helping him out..
Stevie heard the synthesizer album Zero Point by Tonto's Expanding Head Band, and wanted to work with the electronic musicians who made it, Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, and their custom behemoth synthesizer TONTO. "The Original New Timbral Orchestra" was the first, and still the largest, multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer in the world. All three are featured on Isley Brothers records as well. Read the Wikipedia articles and enjoy!
Tonto. The machine resides in my hometown in the National Music Centre. One of the inventors came and demonstrated it’s capabilities a few years back.
First thing I ever bought.forty five record at Kmart.it skipped.cOVERed it here at YT..using STEVIES BASS AND DRUMS TRACKS I found isolated !! I play all the clav parts ..fun!
Wow, Dr. Mix, I see you have your Doctorate in Funk as well as EDM and a bunch of other styles.
The instrument (Hohner Clavinet model D6) is fantastic too, I don't think its been well emulated yet.
To my ears in addition to the Clavi sound there is a beautiful crunch and distortion coming from the pickups/preamps that give it such bite and growl. I have been looking for a Clavinet for years here in Australia, but they are VERY expensive here in Australia!
Shit, I was doing just the right hand stuff...and I allways suspected that there were somethig wrong with it. Great video, as allways!
Thank you for taking the time to go into such details for us all :)
I think you oversimplified it, but the part about it being a salsa-like groove was interesting.
Stevie’s recording is two keyboard tracks. (Some say 3!) so basically it literally can’t be played! Hence why every cover you listen to, you kinda go “yeahhhhh, that ain’t it...”
What moderately priced keyboard has a good clavinet sound?
There are at least 2 main parts of clarinet playing together as anyone with ears may hear: the one with bass and ghost notes that you play PLUS another one with a lot of notes with the right hand - this second part is even funkier - it would have ben great to understand have they go together so well
Can you make backing tracks for original songs? The reason I'm asking is because I need some advice on a musical project I'm working on I've been working on it for 24 years now it's entirely experimental and I really wanted to do this when my grandmother was still alive but unfortunately she and some other people that inspired me have all passed on now so now this is more like a memorial project now😔
Where did you get a working Clavinet -- and, in such great condition?
Amazing how one instrument can define a whole song.
or one instrument can define a whole decade.
Clavinets area such a 70s thing. I noticed a lot of them on 70s music and it seems like after 1978 or so you hardly heard them at all anywhere
Indeed. Michael McDonald's "I Keep Fogettin' " was one of the last "pop" songs that featured a true and bonafide Clavinet, played by multi-keyboardist extraordinaire Greg Phillinganes, I believe. That song was mixed so extremely well, that the sound of Greg's Clav, McDonald's Fender Rhodes, Porcaro's drums and Johnson's bass...all playing in sync...created even further, a sound that made that whole song sounded like ONE BIG GIGANTIC instrument!
Those types of recording, engineering, mixing and techniques of creativity are, oh so, very long gone today. "Sampled" indeed, but nearly impossible to re-create. And so beit.
BCRadio
Great job done here, Sir! Congrats and thnk u for sharing!
Great stuff thx doctor !
Nice! And ultra 'pedagigical' ! Love your vídeos!
Delay, not a spring reverb ))
This is awesome, that you dissected those parts!
Somebody, that is actually trying to play it correctly))
no tiene ninguna relacion el riff de superstition, con las claves de salsa ya sea 2/3 ó 3/2 no se porque la comparacion, tratar de ¨poner en clave¨ eso es como cuantizar la novena sinfonia...
It was originally a guitar part. Stevie wrote this tune for Jeff Beck, who played on a few of his records up to Talking Book. Their friendship ended when Stevie decided to do it on his own record. The right hand has to be stronger.
Later, Stevie wrote "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" for Jeff, which probably went a long way towards patching things up.
He waited for Beck to release his version first though.
SvenTviking - did he?
@@jiminycrint Yes, but Beck's release was delayed for some months and Stevie's management wanted a hit for Talking Book so they used it. It was huge for Stevie, his first big hit since Fingertips. Who knows whether it would have been for Beck. One wonders whether Stevie discussed it with him first. See Wikipedia entry for Superstition (song).
Great video. You're right Stevie Wonder possesses an infinite amount of groove
so much so that he got a harpejji.
You should do a proper cover of the first verse to the 2nd with the gain fixed. Really cool! The whole clave rhythm was great! Very inspiring.
Two words. THANK YOU!!! :)
I like to see you do the song "Fanfare for the common man". Besides that synth is a Yamaha, what model is it? The music video of them playing in a snow covered football or baseball arena.
awesome lesson here! thanks, your playing and teaching at the same time is wow.
hey, mix doctor, please. what's that keyboard used in the 60's by don ho?
Great explanation. But, you can never sound like the actual record because what you hear on the recording is actually eight separate clavinet tracks mixed together to create a unique thick texture.
Nice work. I did pause the video and watched a live recording of Stevie Wonder playing this track and then came back to finish watching so I had a point of reference. :)
Apart from being a super musician, Claudio makes an equally super teacher
Ok now how about deconstructing trampled under foot on the Clavinet?
Yes! Awesome idea! Or i was thinking "Nutrocker" by ELP, that would also be great!
Great video. I appreciate you sharing what you know even admitting not being able to completely copy the original. Thanks Claudio.
Claudietto hai spiegato benissimo GRAZIE
You got it! That's pretty much it. Well done Dr. Mix.
Sounds rad dude but I wish you had riffed on it and jammed for a little bit. Maybe with funkier lighting..
your videos are gold!!!!
I’m a new subscriber and I am loving all of it. I grew up with the vintage synths and keys.
This is great!!!
you inspired me!! THX Dr.Mix! :)
You explain this well 👍🎶🎶🎶🎶
WOW! Very nice deconstructing, as always! But yes, I agree that´s a little to much distortion (as I hear it on the record). But that is just a detail ;)
course, this is digital, and if it was pingponged/overdubbed the tape would warm it up.
How do you tell the Guitarist NOT to play your part and to do the alternate counter-part?
0:45 That and he did multiple tracks in the recording.
Wonder è un genio del funk/soul!
i miei compari del gruppo mi dicevano: "eh, ma non lo fai come si sente nel disco"...
gli ho fatto vedere le tracce separate originali di questo brano (si trovano online con google): un multitrack, tutto rigorosamente in mono, di 12 o 16 tracce (non ricordo esattamente) delle quali 6 o 7 sono sovraincisioni di clavinet!!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂
così ho potuto rispondere: "nemmeno lui dal vivo la fa come sul disco!" 😂😂😂😂😂
BUON ANNO!
Sounds great. But I couldnt get what notes you played in the left hand... guess this video is for more advanced players Too bad I would have liked to know the left hand part
Who is this ringless imposter?!
Jk thanks doc!
Mad love and respect! "A living piece of funckness" yessir my brother!
I really do not like to correct people that know more about any topic than I do, even if I have a long trajectory of engaging in the same profession of hobby. So Doctor, i will say very humbly that there is possibly a part where Stevie is using an echo machine to play the main riff set to the bpm of the song with one or two repeats. Then is another part where Stevie plays the riff through the echo machine set at 1/3 of the song bpm with 7 or 8 repeats. Something very much like what Dave Gilmour did when recording "Run like hell", so he gets a very rhythmic interplay in a dense layer of the same riff.
Thanks for sharing, I think you got it in the bag. There's abit to it cos it might
seem simple but nope you gotta get the foundations right otherwise its off :)
oh, i think Shannon used this instrument for LET THE MUSIC PLAY, right???
Wow, I didn't know Tom Morello played clavinet as well. In fact, I didn't even know such a thing as clavinet existed.
クラビネットの音色がたまらなくスキです。いつも聴いていたい。
Very good video, but if you see him live, playing this song, he uses the vintage vibe vibanet, and NO distortion
And some short delay/reverb, as well...
I adore this song (and many others) and I love how you analyze them! Thanks for great video. With or withour rings, you're still THE LORD OF SYNTHS
Stevie only has his right hand flat and the left hand more of a standard style, this would make your version a little cleaner imo.
Nice job looks like a laminated flooring keyboard
Your the best bro. ❤🎉
Really good videos lately! Keep it up.
Omg yes more clavinet videos please
PLAY TRMAPLED UNDER FOOT WITH THE D6 SOLO ! Nice video 👍
now that you've got your very own Clavinet - play it again, Sam, give us the audio, Claudio xD
Stevie Wonder is the best clavinet player ever! He's been using this as instrument ever since he recorded "Shoo-Be-Do-Be-Do-Be-Do-Da-Day" back in 1968 (on his early hits such as "Fingertips" and "I Was Made to Love Her", Stevie's main instrument was the harmonica, he was playing keys ever since his career began, but it was "Superstition" that really established his keyboard playing, whereas "Fingertips" and "I Was Made to Love Her" mostly showcase his harmonica playing). I said it once and I'll say it again; Stevie is the best clavinet player ever and it's virtually impossible to think of the clavinet without thinking of Stevie Wonder "and" without thinking of "Superstition". Not to change the subject, but the first song to feature this instrument was "Let Go of You Girl" (1967) by a band called The Left Banke, played by Michael Brown. The first single to feature the clavinet was "I Thank You" by Sam & Dave (1968), where sources seem to differ about who the performer there was; some sources say it was the co-writer/producer/arranger, Isaac Hayes, while other sources say that Isaac Hayes played organ on "I Thank You", while Booker T. Jones performed the clavinet part. The first known usage of the clavinet with the wah-wah pedal is "Up On Cripple Creek" by The Band (1969), played by Garth Hudson. Ike Turner (better known for his guitar playing, but he was also proficient on keyboards) played the clavinet on the Ike & Tina Turner hit "Nutbush City Limits". But aside from Stevie Wonder (and this is just my opinion) another one of the best clavinet players would have to be Billy Preston, who played the clavinet on his instrumental "Outta Space" (alongside the Hammond B3 organ, playing both instruments with a wah-wah pedal) and on The Rolling Stones funk-oriented single "(Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo) Heartbreaker". I highly recommend the clavinet parts of "Outta Space" and "Heartbreaker".
Love this guy.