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Hey y'all!!!
I hope this interests you as much as it interests me
It would be interesting to see who on this forum can make out the best keyboard solo
Actually I can't do this,becoz I'm BAD at playing solos
But I know there are some of you who knows how to make a kick-ass solo

well post a back-track and i'm sure people will record solos.

i play (mediocre) guitar but i love stratovarius, sonata arcticas, dream theater, rhapsody key solos. i say go for it anyone

i play (mediocre) guitar but i love stratovarius, sonata arcticas, dream theater, rhapsody key solos. i say go for it anyone

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I would like to see this competition. I can't remember who, but someone could play Black Diamonds solo, which is not that easy I bet.
But this topic must be advertised on the Strato discussions side as well.

Beast_Pete wrote:(1559+13)

I can't remember who, but someone could play Black Diamonds solo, which is not that easy I bet.

yeah. i also dont remember....
Btw, it's surely not easy but the real challenge comes with solos like those in Glory of the World or Learning to fly among all...if it took me 2 day (eg...i dont remember how much time i passed on this) to learn Black Diamond's solo on the keys....i passed 10 days on Learning to Fly or Glory of the world solos...

Anyway it is cool to be able to play a solo at a 90% rate accuracy...but it's MUCH fun and useful to find a personal solo and not try to copy exactly the original (nearby impossible in hard solos,,, Jens is unclonable!)

one thing i find truly amazing about jens (besides his skill, the bastard ), is his ability to coordinate with Timo, i mean check out holy light, speed of light and holy solos in VOE, talk about coordination, they improvise and adapt, beside the black diamond solo live is switched so i truly admire both.
btw way i find the learning to fly, know the difference and holy light solos harder than black diamond, i wouldn't know i only see the gp4 files but in my inexistent keyboard expirience i feel they are harder

Hmmmm i used to play keyboard many years ago...not sure i'd be the same now but i'd like to pick it up again..anyone selling a top notch keyboard???

Get a Yamaha. They're cheap and good, about £110 roughly...

stratoplayer wrote:one thing i find truly amazing about jens (besides his skill, the bastard ), is his ability to coordinate with Timo, i mean check out holy light, speed of light and holy solos in VOE, talk about coordination, they improvise and adapt, beside the black diamond solo live is switched so i truly admire both.
btw way i find the learning to fly, know the difference and holy light solos harder than black diamond, i wouldn't know i only see the gp4 files but in my inexistent keyboard expirience i feel they are harder

Yes....Jens and Timo are real Pros! With a lot of experience on their shoulders. Adaptation and coordination and improvisation came only with feeling between musicians, and a lot of technique

I'd love to hear someone play the intro to sonata arctica's "the cage". Jens is a monster.

Mattovarius wrote:Jens is a monster.

Rarrrr!!!

Grooooaaaaaar!

About keys solos....here you can listen to one solo of mine made with a Kevin Moore's lead emulation ( i'm working on that in this period ).

FabTake

Enjoy.

i think that the problem is not " play jens solos" i think that is the easy part... te problem is compose solos like jens ones... i want to see you trying, you should always have theory and techinque in the same level !

We should have a threat like this but for guitar solos!

khamael wrote:About keys solos....here you can listen to one solo of mine made with a Kevin Moore's lead emulation ( i'm working on that in this period ).



Enjoy.

wow, great solo i would love to have a keyboard player like you in my band!

i think that the problem is not " play jens solos" i think that is the easy part...

Hum, and yet the easy part is not so easy....if your fingers dont work or have enough "skills", they dont work....
If i remember exactly in the old forum, once Jens said that he is at the point that he play solos...following a basic track but always improvising.

He said something like:

"Dont need to remind all the solos live because i can create on the moment beautiful and suitable solos as the originals every time i want" eheheheheh


Btw Aresius....thanx for your nice words.

khamael wrote:

i think that the problem is not " play jens solos" i think that is the easy part...

Hum, and yet the easy part is not so easy....if your fingers dont work or have enough "skills", they dont work....
If i remember exactly in the old forum, once Jens said that he is at the point that he play solos...following a basic track but always improvising.

He said something like:

"Dont need to remind all the solos live because i can create on the moment beautiful and suitable solos as the originals every time i want" eheheheheh


Btw Aresius....thanx for your nice words.

ç

Yeah jens rulz.. i saw that he does that live but sometimes i miss the original solo anyway he uses the same scale so its fits in the song

I know that you need skill.. in the guitar is the same!! techinique and theory must be equal.. and there is another thing.. IMAGINATION!!!

no problem about the coments!

Btw Aresius where are you from?

khamael wrote:

i think that the problem is not " play jens solos" i think that is the easy part...

Hum, and yet the easy part is not so easy....if your fingers dont work or have enough "skills", they dont work....
If i remember exactly in the old forum, once Jens said that he is at the point that he play solos...following a basic track but always improvising.

He said something like:

"Dont need to remind all the solos live because i can create on the moment beautiful and suitable solos as the originals every time i want" eheheheheh.

He also said something like

"Typing 'regeggdsfdegfhhgbdfvdgtreytr' once is easy, but trying to type it exactly a second time is very hard (without using copy&paste)"

regeggdsfdegfhhgbdfvdgtreytr

regeggdsfdegfhhgbdfvdgtreytr

Well i managed it ok

htcdude wrote:regeggdsfdegfhhgbdfvdgtreytr

regeggdsfdegfhhgbdfvdgtreytr

Well i managed it ok

So we have two possibilities :

1) You used copy & paste and you're a cheater

2) You typed it obviosly not as fast as Jens' solos

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khamael wrote:lkhvlkfhvlogjòaojgaoihgòrojgòàeojglbhfibhoògih-irghlgnl-ighkfkobhfl-gbjfilbhoibnflbnlòognrignreilgnrbnrjenbiengoòniopjoòngihbioòboònbrnbo-fiobhpqprognqerngqerhgilqeinbgioeqgobjhopbjhoibq-oreivn-qern-qeirng-qeirng-qeing-qeoignr-qginr-gqilrhgi-qirngiowerhgbfihbfilbhdlfkhdlfkhgldkfhgldhkfgldhglairhliqhril-giqhrilghilfghdflghelrgeilrghl-eighi-rfghifl-ibhdfl-ghrlghil-rqhgl-righqrhigerhigoeq-irhg-erihgol-qirhgrjglejioglqioj WHOA YATTA!

THAT was one hell of a kickass solo

A great vocal-drum-rythm-typing solo

Have any of you guys heard Vitalij Kuprij or Richard Andersson? If you like Jens you will like their playing.

Speaking about Jens...

Here another take of mine with my JensLead emulation (made using only a Karma/Triton)

SOLO


enjoy.

Seems like Khamael is in the lead of this competition.

What about that dude from Yes? Rick Yates or Yateman or whatever he's pretty kool

Wakeman.....