Thanks for your comments, I really appreciate it. I'm looking to do 'Cinema Show' next, maybe within a couple of weeks. And that has even more ARP Pro Soloist madness!
Nice work,,,very interesting about the pitch bend,,I learned a lot,,very nice playing as well. I've been a Genesis freak since Apr 19,1974 when I was introduced to them live!!
Very great! I am a big Genesis fan for many years and listened "The Lamb..." album about hundreds of times. You did this solo very well and I am really shure that Tony played the beginnig of this solo with both hands too,as like you did (I saw it on an old concert movie of the former tour in 1975). Furthermore the typical howling sound of the Pro Soloist is very unique and I love it! Greets from Germany.
This really made my day! I was wondering what keyboards Tony Banks used in early to mid Genesis, and that brought me to you. I didn't know about the aftertouch technique for pitch-bending, thanks for that.
B3Keez1: Being the pretty good keyboardist you are and given your evident good taste-recommend a couple of CDs: Argent Cd: Circus, Greenslade CD: Spyglass Guest + Time & Tide , It Bites - Cd: Once Around the World + Eat Me in St. Louis. I'd be interested to know what you thought of these rather obscure Brit Proggy works. Also: PFM 'The world becomes the World' (Italy). All pretty amazing stuff if you havn't heard it.
@gazzo45 Thank you! Yes, there are plenty of modern synths out there that will let you route pitch to aftertouch, but you would be hard pressed to re-create that ARP timbre from the 2nd part of the solo.
splendid work :) Also very interesting to see how the aftertouch makes it possible to do all those wierd pitchbends and still play organ chords with the other hand!
Great work. You're much more talented than 99% of the synth performers I've watched on TH-cam. I AM "classically trained" AND I am someone who plays by ear (no reason you can't be both). I'm telling you, you did a GREAT job. I only HOPE it took you a long time to get this piece down. If you figured it out quickly, I'll have to hate you out of jealousy. Keep it up, man!
Lighten up, dude. I didn't post this video to be in some 'Riding the Scree' performance contest. I did it for fun. Yes, it does kick my butt every time because I'm a self taught musician who learns things by ear, and not classically trained like I'm assuming you are. I know I enjoy playing it, a lot of people commented that they enjoyed watching it, and I think I came pretty close to the original. That's all I care about.
Sound great! It's fantastic to be able to have the same exact synth sound. This is my rendering of my all time favourite Genesis song, The Lamia. It's all done with my Nord Stage 2, so some of the sounds are not extremely accurate The Lamia with Nord Stage 2
Blown away! Why oh why can't we have music like this today? Music crafted with heart and soul. Arrangements written over a period of months, not hours. Fleshing out a song's structure that results in something memorable.....something that is truly worthy of the word TALENT.
because less is more, such a complex structures and sophisticated compositions are obsolete and obscure for today listener who doesn't need to impressed anyhow to been affected
@@lownrgy Absolutely agree. Unfortunately music like this is seen by many as unappealing. Classic prog in the early seventies even then wasn't that popular in the UK at least. But we followers of the music were totally devoted and still are today. When I go to a 'The Musical Box' concert. The same old people are still there. Like me, they lost a lot of hair and what'a left is usually grey . . .
this is a year old...but HEY my boyfriend jackson can play ANY genesis song...hes the best keyboard player I've ever met - and the lad is only 21! he hasn't been able to ever find anyone to keep up with him to jam with! but we live in clarksville and thats like an hour away from nashville! my email is lexigoron@yahoo.com. MESSAGE ME IF YOU SEE THIS!!
Thank you for sharing - a great treat to see and hear the amazing ARP Pro-Soloist, which is, by the way, not merely similar, but is EXACTLY the keyboard that Tony used on The Lamb (which I'm sure you know - I'm just saying it for you as it was obviously a great coup to land one of these now significantly old machines!) Thank you, you did a great job!
Excellent! Also, congratulations on being one of few who are secure enough to admit it took several shots to get it right. I'm tired of reading "Don't judge this harshly; I pieced it together in 44 milliseconds." Genesis themselves made a few (albeit few!) mistakes on their albums & left them in (mostly because of studio cost/time), but it doesn't detract from the magnificence of it all. Lamb = best album ever.
Thanks for your kind words. Greetings from New Jersey to Germany! It was truly exiting to figure out how Tony Banks utilized those sounds on the actual instrument. I really want to do another one, maybe Cinema Show...
I've had the Pro Soloist for years, from a studio that was going out of business. You're absolutely right about the tempo near the end, but it took like ten takes to get it right, and my hands were getting tired! And it was done without a backing track.. In regards to the two hand technique at the beginning, I originally learned it with one hand, and then I heard one of their live performances of RTS, and realized there was no way that TB possibly could be playing that fast with one hand!
Actually this is almost 50 years old. I was a junior in college at the time so ‘74. It was about 3 years after that when I saw them live at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. This was before Chester Thompson started playing the drums on the road and BILL BRUFORD was with them. Hackett was still with them at that time. Incredible!
Hey I'm working on Willow Farm (closing section) into armaggedon (apocalypse) 9/8 on drums (acapella just straight drums for all you non-drummers to play along with) and I thought you might be interested in maybe doing some collaboration!
Very very cool. And you don't have to worry about it being a bit sloppy as you mentioned. Listen to Banks' own performance on the Archive box set and you'll hear that he couldn't get it quite right either--yours was better! (I've also got two Lamb bootlegs and he never quite makes it.) One thing that might make it easier (and it's what he did) is set the key priority to low and just hold the low note down during the opening part. Regardless, awesome, and you made me quite happy!
tony banks very often had used the "double-hand" tecnique to play his keyboards solo faster... like in the lamb lies down on broadway intro, the carpet crawler rmi piano or in riding the scree... exactly as u did!!
Hi! You did a great job with the Pro Soloist, that's really interesting, thanks. I'm also a big Tony Banks fan. I'd like to know what is the preset you used at the beginning? Is it fuzz guitar? I'm the owner of a Pro DGX, and I can't get the sound as you got. I know the Pro DGX filter is different, but I was wondering if it's so different, or my Pro DGX, is faulty, or i'm using the wrong preset... Thanks, Patrick
I actually met Robin Williams on the top of Whistler Mountain at a restaurant called Christines - really nice guy. Good work on your solo - Tony would be proud!
Hi! Thanks, my Pro DGX definitely has a problem with the VCF, that's why. The Pro Soloist and ProDGX sounds very similar, there are some subtle differences on some presets (for example banjo, tuba, trombone), due to the different filter I think. Anyway 2 analog synth from the same models may sounds different, due to difference of adjustments, components...
@B3keez1 Excellent! Have you learned the Cinema Show solo yet? Pretty fast stuff, but if you can handle the intro to Scree, you're fine. The Pro Soloist and Yamaha CP70/80 are Tony's trademarks, I would have to say. You're lucky to own a Soloist, but you've proven your worthiness!
@B3keez1 Excellent! Have you learned the Cinema Show solo yet? Pretty fast stuff, but if you can handle the intro to Scree, you're fine. The Pro Soloist and Yamaha CP70/80 are Tony's trademarks, I would have to say. You're lucky to own a Soloist, but you've proven your worthiness!
@Eldanoth oh, you mean "fascist" is a sensitive substantive - well, then let´s say "silly, unmusical folks",-to which i refered, as you maybe did not notice - i meant someone making fun of the technique of the player in the vid, what i find beyond the line of decency
by the way, B3keez, there is no other way than playing certain things with two hands, unless you have thumbs half a meter long. tony used "deep note - high note portamento", as also on slippermen or dodo/lurker for example. all those music fascists, impossible folk
Awesome Awesome job on the transcription/ synth settings, I really wish I had one of these! Where did you get yours? Be careful about the tempo...you were noticeably a bit slow on the triplets at the end. Are you sure he used both hands on the beginning part like that?
Hi! Thanks! Yes the fuzz guitar preset is identical (or very difficult to hear a difference, maybe a purist will do :-)), the telstar is very different... I think there may be a fault in mine. Some fixing to do....
@B3keez1 Thanks man. I recently cracked open the ARP Pro Soloist Service Manual online and I'm trying to recreate the sound with some software synthesis. We'll see how that works...thanks for your help!
thanks for the insight - always wondered about those pitch bend effects - loved your rendition - riding the scree is an awesome synth solo - you did a great job without any backing track, and hearing that wonderful ARP made it all so special - thanks a million for posting - great job.
Very nice!!
Thanks for your comments, I really appreciate it. I'm looking to do 'Cinema Show' next, maybe within a couple of weeks. And that has even more ARP Pro Soloist madness!
just a couple more weeks!
😂 "here I go!"
Kabrowiskibby Haha. Only now since I'm familiar with The Lamb do I get that.
evel knievel, you got nothing on me!
Nice work,,,very interesting about the pitch bend,,I learned a lot,,very nice playing as well. I've been a Genesis freak since Apr 19,1974 when I was introduced to them live!!
11 years later it's still sounds great.
Tony Banks !!!!!!! The most " UNSUNG " Keyboard player ever !!!!!!!!!!
12 years later, if you're going to have only one video up on your channel, this is not a bad one to have :) Happy new year everybody! 2022!!
With that, I just added another video... :)
@BaronvonCase Thank you! The Lamb is also happens to be my favorite album too!
I always tense before playing a Genesis cover video, but no need! Makes me wanna accompany you on drums. Lovely job.
Here I go!
7 people were too jelly to appreciate this
Very great! I am a big Genesis fan for many years and listened "The Lamb..." album about hundreds of times. You did this solo very well and I am really shure that Tony played the beginnig of this solo with both hands too,as like you did (I saw it on an old concert movie of the former tour in 1975). Furthermore the typical howling sound of the Pro Soloist is very unique and I love it! Greets from Germany.
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing it!!! I´m working in The Battle of Epping Forest!
Excellent, thanks !!
This really made my day! I was wondering what keyboards Tony Banks used in early to mid Genesis, and that brought me to you. I didn't know about the aftertouch technique for pitch-bending, thanks for that.
Thanks for this. Really interesting.
Super !!! Muy Bueno !!!
Great playing!!!!
Really nice job, I am also a huge Genesis freak, I saw them do that live with Gabriel and also the selling England tour. You did an admirable job!!
Very good! Congrats!
That was amazing man, congrats! that solo is really hard to mimic
Cool cool, man!! Although the In the Cage solo is my absolute FAVE, Riding the Scree is incredible, as well. Great job!!!! :-D
Great work man!
more!
B3Keez1: Being the pretty good keyboardist you are and given your evident good taste-recommend a couple of CDs: Argent Cd: Circus, Greenslade
CD: Spyglass Guest + Time & Tide , It Bites - Cd: Once Around the World + Eat Me in St. Louis. I'd be interested to know what you thought of these rather obscure Brit Proggy works. Also: PFM 'The world becomes the World' (Italy). All pretty amazing stuff if you havn't heard it.
@gazzo45 Thank you! Yes, there are plenty of modern synths out there that will let you route pitch to aftertouch, but you would be hard pressed to re-create that ARP timbre from the 2nd part of the solo.
So. Much. Portamento!
splendid work :)
Also very interesting to see how the aftertouch makes it possible to do all those wierd pitchbends and still play organ chords with the other hand!
Great work. You're much more talented than 99% of the synth performers I've watched on TH-cam. I AM "classically trained" AND I am someone who plays by ear (no reason you can't be both).
I'm telling you, you did a GREAT job. I only HOPE it took you a long time to get this piece down. If you figured it out quickly, I'll have to hate you out of jealousy.
Keep it up, man!
I'm embarrassed to say I just saw this. Thank you so much, I learned this one strictly by ear.
It didn't kick your butt that time. good job!
you're playing great, please post some more solo playing. I wanna see you playing cinema show :D
Lighten up, dude. I didn't post this video to be in some 'Riding the Scree' performance contest. I did it for fun. Yes, it does kick my butt every time because I'm a self taught musician who learns things by ear, and not classically trained like I'm assuming you are. I know I enjoy playing it, a lot of people commented that they enjoyed watching it, and I think I came pretty close to the original. That's all I care about.
@BaronvonCase I'm thinking that might be my next video.
sounds just like the album
Just wow!!! How in the hell do you and Tony Banks do this??? I wish I could play this well....
Sound great! It's fantastic to be able to have the same exact synth sound. This is my rendering of my all time favourite Genesis song, The Lamia. It's all done with my Nord Stage 2, so some of the sounds are not extremely accurate
The Lamia with Nord Stage 2
Does anyone know what an ARP pro soloist would cost and where I could buy one.
The lamb IS one of the best albums of all time. it is my straight out fav no exceptions.
I enjoyed that! Need to adjust something at about 1:06. The rhythm is there but there weren’t any horny wolves on that track.😅
Tempo, tempo, tempo.
I'll remember for next time.🙄
I so prefer analog Tony 2 digital Tony
"Analog Tony 2: Digital Tony"
You need to overlap your playing to the song. You sound great!!!!! MOREEEE!!!!
I learned the solo by ear. That's how I pretty much teach myself everything.
It's not the playing, it's the inventiveness. Tony had that in abundance. Well done!
His solos are the 9nly examples of the portamento being used properly.
This sound melts my heart.
Blown away! Why oh why can't we have music like this today? Music crafted with heart and soul. Arrangements written over a period of months, not hours. Fleshing out a song's structure that results in something memorable.....something that is truly worthy of the word TALENT.
because less is more, such a complex structures and sophisticated compositions are obsolete and obscure for today listener who doesn't need to impressed anyhow to been affected
@@lownrgy Absolutely agree. Unfortunately music like this is seen by many as unappealing. Classic prog in the early seventies even then wasn't that popular in the UK at least. But we followers of the music were totally devoted and still are today. When I go to a 'The Musical Box' concert. The same old people are still there. Like me, they lost a lot of hair and what'a left is usually grey . . .
@@lownrgy Get out with that BS, music today is complete cr ap, 69-77 is the most glorious period of music in maybe a century
I'm impressed. Excellent job on one of my favourite keyboard solos of all time
Great job, man!! That was on the money! Wish I knew more keyboard players here in East Nashville that liked jamming classic Genesis like this.
TheDailyVinyl LIVE! Thanks! I wish there were more people in Northern New Jersey that I could play this stuff with, too!!
Me
this is a year old...but HEY my boyfriend jackson can play ANY genesis song...hes the best keyboard player I've ever met - and the lad is only 21! he hasn't been able to ever find anyone to keep up with him to jam with! but we live in clarksville and thats like an hour away from nashville! my email is lexigoron@yahoo.com. MESSAGE ME IF YOU SEE THIS!!
Thank you for sharing - a great treat to see and hear the amazing ARP Pro-Soloist, which is, by the way, not merely similar, but is EXACTLY the keyboard that Tony used on The Lamb (which I'm sure you know - I'm just saying it for you as it was obviously a great coup to land one of these now significantly old machines!)
Thank you, you did a great job!
Excellent! Also, congratulations on being one of few who are secure enough to admit it took several shots to get it right. I'm tired of reading "Don't judge this harshly; I pieced it together in 44 milliseconds." Genesis themselves made a few (albeit few!) mistakes on their albums & left them in (mostly because of studio cost/time), but it doesn't detract from the magnificence of it all. Lamb = best album ever.
This is actually the ring tone on my phone now.
Thanks for your kind words. Greetings from New Jersey to Germany! It was truly exiting to figure out how Tony Banks utilized those sounds on the actual instrument. I really want to do another one, maybe Cinema Show...
I've had the Pro Soloist for years, from a studio that was going out of business. You're absolutely right about the tempo near the end, but it took like ten takes to get it right, and my hands were getting tired! And it was done without a backing track..
In regards to the two hand technique at the beginning, I originally learned it with one hand, and then I heard one of their live performances of RTS, and realized there was no way that TB possibly could be playing that fast with one hand!
WOOOOOOOOOOOO the most difficult synth to play... amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice. Tony Banks never did get the recognition that he deserves for the " Genesis " sound.
That kicked the aforementioned ass!
Excellent video and playing!! Now that's some musicianship. Very interesting to see how that was played with the aftertouch. Super!!!
Thank you! (as you can see I don't check this page too much these days)
Friggin awesome dude 👏
NICE!!! digging the Poly800 love too. So... you up to "Three Sides Live" version of 'In the Cage" to show us hacks how it's supposed to be done? :-)
You are so cool being able to play this. This song rocks
Nailed it.
thanks for playing, bye!
I was searching for my first synth and this lead me to you, recall it from early 80's
ImPRESSive
Awesome ...
Nice....
Love it
Even at 40 years this solo still stands the test of time. Great job dude.
Actually this is almost 50 years old. I was a junior in college at the time so ‘74. It was about 3 years after that when I saw them live at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. This was before Chester Thompson started playing the drums on the road and BILL BRUFORD was with them. Hackett was still with them at that time. Incredible!
Hold on to that Arp Pro, it is a legendary keyboard. Well done.
Nice
Hey I'm working on Willow Farm (closing section) into armaggedon (apocalypse) 9/8 on drums (acapella just straight drums for all you non-drummers to play along with) and I thought you might be interested in maybe doing some collaboration!
Very very cool. And you don't have to worry about it being a bit sloppy as you mentioned. Listen to Banks' own performance on the Archive box set and you'll hear that he couldn't get it quite right either--yours was better! (I've also got two Lamb bootlegs and he never quite makes it.)
One thing that might make it easier (and it's what he did) is set the key priority to low and just hold the low note down during the opening part.
Regardless, awesome, and you made me quite happy!
Finally, after decades of muddling thru, I learned about that synth. Thank you!
tony banks very often had used the "double-hand" tecnique to play his keyboards solo faster... like in the lamb lies down on broadway intro, the carpet crawler rmi piano or in riding the scree... exactly as u did!!
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Hi! You did a great job with the Pro Soloist, that's really interesting, thanks. I'm also a big Tony Banks fan. I'd like to know what is the preset you used at the beginning? Is it fuzz guitar? I'm the owner of a Pro DGX, and I can't get the sound as you got. I know the Pro DGX filter is different, but I was wondering if it's so different, or my Pro DGX, is faulty, or i'm using the wrong preset... Thanks, Patrick
I actually met Robin Williams on the top of Whistler Mountain at a restaurant called Christines - really nice guy.
Good work on your solo - Tony would be proud!
Hi! Thanks, my Pro DGX definitely has a problem with the VCF, that's why.
The Pro Soloist and ProDGX sounds very similar, there are some subtle differences on some presets (for example banjo, tuba, trombone), due to the different filter I think. Anyway 2 analog synth from the same models may sounds different, due to difference of adjustments, components...
Nailed it! Took me right back to hearing the album.
@B3keez1 Excellent! Have you learned the Cinema Show solo yet? Pretty fast stuff, but if you can handle the intro to Scree, you're fine. The Pro Soloist and Yamaha CP70/80 are Tony's trademarks, I would have to say. You're lucky to own a Soloist, but you've proven your worthiness!
@B3keez1 Excellent! Have you learned the Cinema Show solo yet? Pretty fast stuff, but if you can handle the intro to Scree, you're fine. The Pro Soloist and Yamaha CP70/80 are Tony's trademarks, I would have to say. You're lucky to own a Soloist, but you've proven your worthiness!
@Eldanoth
oh, you mean "fascist" is a sensitive substantive -
well, then let´s say "silly, unmusical folks",-to which i refered, as you maybe did not notice - i meant someone making fun of the technique of the player in the vid,
what i find beyond the line of decency
by the way, B3keez,
there is no other way than playing certain things with two hands, unless you have thumbs half a meter long.
tony used "deep note - high note portamento", as
also on slippermen or dodo/lurker for example.
all those music fascists, impossible folk
Awesome Awesome job on the transcription/ synth settings, I really wish I had one of these! Where did you get yours?
Be careful about the tempo...you were noticeably a bit slow on the triplets at the end.
Are you sure he used both hands on the beginning part like that?
Hi! Thanks! Yes the fuzz guitar preset is identical (or very difficult to hear a difference, maybe a purist will do :-)), the telstar is very different... I think there may be a fault in mine. Some fixing to do....
@B3keez1 Thanks man. I recently cracked open the ARP Pro Soloist Service Manual online and I'm trying to recreate the sound with some software synthesis. We'll see how that works...thanks for your help!
I think you are better than Tony Banks, sir..! But that's just me...;c)
Fantastic! Always wondered how those bends were possible...aftertouch!
@MoveOverCasanova
what are you saying? music fascists? ifly is a passionate musician! Calm down, man and try a little to think before speak
the first bit is a little mad with the 2 hands but the latter half is more authentic than ifly65 and i prefer it - job well done
thanks for the insight - always wondered about those pitch bend effects - loved your rendition - riding the scree is an awesome synth solo - you did a great job without any backing track, and hearing that wonderful ARP made it all so special - thanks a million for posting - great job.
P.S. - You have to do Colony of Slipperman after the "supersized backbird" line! Then segue it into Afterglow please. ;)
Can I Use this to do a drum track for upload to my channel for a drum keys duet??
Two hands? Yes, the difference between playing the part right, and being a show off. ; )
Incredible Cover. ARP Pro Soloist , it's my favorite Synth!
Awesome Bill, you have so much talent , now a subsciber
This IS progressive rock as far as I'm concerned.
Brilliant! F**king brilliant!
I'm in the Book of Genesis, a Genesis tribute band in England. Excellent demo!
Impressive. I'm jalous, actually.