Jazz Piano Cafe » ms-2000 http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano Learn, play, and enjoy jazz piano. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Heartbeet – Live improvised synth & acoustic piano with drum samples http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/heartbeet-live-improvised-synth-acoustic-piano-with-drum-samples http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/heartbeet-live-improvised-synth-acoustic-piano-with-drum-samples#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:09:03 +0000 admin http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/?p=491 My friend Marcus dropped by today for a visit, and we recorded an improvised performance of synthesizer and piano. It’s called Heartbeet. We named it this maybe because we both really like to eat beets, (yum!) and so therefore “heart” them, as well as because we were wanting to play on the concept of the pulsating bass drum that sometimes goes out of time from the piano, much like a heart beat will continue its own rhythm oblivious to the other rhythms around it.


The video is also available on Blip.tv and the Mp3 file for the song is available here.

Visit Marcus’s Knobb.ca music blog for more interesting ideas and videos. Also produced in cooperation with Birds in the House Productions.

]]> http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/heartbeet-live-improvised-synth-acoustic-piano-with-drum-samples/feed 0 Afternoon in New York by Geoff Peters – electronic synth music http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/afternoon-in-new-york-by-geoff-peters-electronic-synth-music http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/afternoon-in-new-york-by-geoff-peters-electronic-synth-music#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:20:42 +0000 admin http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/?p=373 I had a fun afternoon playing around with my synthesizer (Korg MS-2000) and composed/recorded a new song. It is called Afternoon in New York.

Afternoon in New York by Geoff Peters
Listen:

Download the song (free): Mp3

It features a really simple hip-hop style bass drum/snare (thanks to the Garage Band Hip Hop Synthesized drum kit and a bit of dynamics compression), a synthesized choir patch from my Yamaha P90 keyboard, a soft pad from the Korg, a few notes of an acoustic piano patch from my Yamaha, and a lead synth line from my Korg (with a bit of cutoff filter controlled during the performance to vary the tone). I recorded all the tracks in layers, live & individually along with a metronome. I also used a Volume automation envelope to vary the volume of the lead line and the choir patch.

I don’t know very much about mastering, but the track sounded pretty good on my Macbook laptop speakers, my Behringer studio monitors, and my Creative Labs computer speakers.

Hope you enjoy it! And please let me know your comments, I would really appreciate them!

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