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do you have a band? what about recording stuff for projects :D Me? I don't have a band right now, I just play and upload stuff to internet, like this video I did yesterday playing Star Wars haha! :) I'm a huge John Williams fan. Jens also plays a melody of "Jaws" in a Holy Solos live footage haha! ...

@Plisken I think I will try that Plisken! Thank you :) @mcv92 Yeah the guitar/keyboard battles are just amazing, like the Legions one. I liked also from "Holy Solos" live performances how Jens uses to do a much longer keyboard solo than Timo Tolkki's guitar one haha. Timo told me once "what could I ...

Ah i see, well you can record your AX7 in MIDI when while you are playing the solo, in any DAW like cubase or pro tools, etc. And just export the midi. that way you can import it in to programs like Finale. If you dont want to its cool =) Sorry, I don't have Cubase nor Pro Tools, and I don't either...

The keyboard solo intro from The Game Never Ends makes the following unison even greater, but talking about unison lines guitar & keyboard would take another whole thread :) @Plisken Thank you very much. I'm sorry I didn't write it in MIDI, specially because I don't know how to do it, I learnt it by...

@Texidor Yeah! that one is really cool too, how it starts and changes speed.

Jens should make more solo albums : P

The intro solo from "The Cage" (Sonata Arctica), made by Jens, it's also a really good one

That's right, Winterheart's guild solos are the best Sonata Arctica solos haha, too bad the current keyboardist is not able to play them live! Jens did an amazing job there, so great it's impossible to imitate. Find your own voice probably is the hardest Strato song to sing, but also the instrumenta...

Really nice stuff! I'll post some on the next record i hope :lol: What a honor that you read my post! Would it be too much if I ask you for your personal favorite ones? @Samovarius: Yeah man! Good choice, the solo from King of Nothing it's absolutely spectacular, and I love how he uses the distorti...

Thank you very much to both of you :) The keytar is a Roland AX-7 hand painted by a friend and me ^^ It's fun to play and even more if you play the great Johansson! It was hard to learn it tho. I agree with you, Empathica, Move the Mountain is also really great and expressive even it's not hard to p...

Hi everyone! Being a keyboardist myself, I must say Jens's skill to compose, not only incredibly fast, but very creative and expressive, beautiful solos is truly unique in the world. Definitely one major influence in me, he's a living legend. I'd like to know your opinion about which keyboard solos...