What was the first song you learned on your first synth?

stf-ran · Post by **stf-ran** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:50 pm

Axel F on my friend's Juno 106. First cover tune I picked out on piano when I was 8 was "Evil Woman" by ELO. Not the whole song just the main bit. I was very proud of myself, needless to say.

MOS-FET · Post by **MOS-FET** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:57 pm

"seperate ways" by Journey on a Yamaha DX11.

Aaron2 · Post by **Aaron2** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:35 pm

"Magic Fly" by Space, played on a Korg Poly-800. Not the whole thing, of course, but just the melody.

And this wasn't in 1986, either. It was 2013.

Sheherezadeh · Post by **Sheherezadeh** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:56 pm

My first "proper" synth was an Alesis Ion, and I'm not positive, but it was quite possibly a sloppy version of the dotcom modular solo from Dream Theater's "Octavarium," because it came out right around the time I bought the Ion. It was also my first programmed sound, I believe.

Bitexion · Post by **Bitexion** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:56 pm

Yeah darn that Rudess, buying a huge dotcom modular, setting it to a simple lead sound and leaving the settings for 2 years ^^

Sheherezadeh · Post by **Sheherezadeh** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:12 pm

Yeah, and Richard Lainhart did a similar thing with his Buchla, though the routing matrix on it sort of allowed for presets.

BritSynths · Post by **BritSynths** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 6:18 pm

Are "Friends" Electric on the Korg M500SP

Then later a duet of Mr X on the Korg and a Yamaha CS-5

Post by **vicd** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 9:54 pm

Never ever did that through a whole song, and never wanted that (someone else's arrangement, meh - am I that stupid? why?). Replaying/citing short licks/riffs was totally acceptable, but replaying someone else's melody/song as a whole would be a total loss. You needed to improvise, at the very least.
So the first probably were the really basic riffs from Bobby O's Desire and Passion on a Faemi-mini using different base chords, and then the ones from Rock Me Amadeus on a Maestro.

nvbrkr · Post by **nvbrkr** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:19 am

I learned "Give In To Me" by Michael Jackson when I was 14, but I played it on my uncle's Technics keyboard. I was really impressed by the electric guitar sound on it and completely overlooked that he had a goddamn CS-80 in the other room at the time, hah. Don't really remember what was the first one I learned to play on the Kawai keyboard I had myself (the keyboard sounded a lot like the Adlib soundcard for PCs), maybe it was "Yesterday" by The Beatles. I was playing with one hand only up to the age of 15, I think. I was allowed to play a very good piano in high school later on and improved a lot as a result of it.

Re-Member · Post by **Re-Member** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:23 pm

vicd wrote:Never ever did that through a whole song, and never wanted that (someone else's arrangement, meh - am I that stupid? why?). Replaying/citing short licks/riffs was totally acceptable, but replaying someone else's melody/song as a whole would be a total loss. You needed to improvise, at the very least.

I felt the same way when I first starting playing as a teenager. I would throw on old 70's punk records that had no keyboard or synth sounds and learned my way around the keys by coming up with new things to add on top of the music. It was sort of like imagining I was a "new member" in the band, rather than trying to mimic someone else.

Post by **Ashe37** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:11 am

SeventhStar wrote:
Ashe37 wrote:the terminator theme, on an SHS-10
Typed in Terminator Keytar on youtube and found this, kinda funny..

Not me but yup thats it lol

recordingpianoman · Post by **recordingpianoman** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:57 am

Oh L'Amour by Erasure on a Yamaha V50 with the 8-track sequencer and unquantized drums before I knew that they could be more in time... Ah, youth.

ranzee · Post by **ranzee** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:41 am

Riders on the storm - The Doors

Played on a Roland XP-10 (my first synth, all that I could afford)

Thunderkyss · Post by **Thunderkyss** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:54 pm

recordingpianoman wrote:Oh L'Amour by Erasure

Oh the memories that brings up... thanks.

ppg_wavecomputer · Post by **ppg_wavecomputer** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:15 am

Bitexion wrote:Yeah darn that Rudess, buying a huge dotcom modular, setting it to a simple lead sound and leaving the settings for 2 years ^^

What´s wrong with that? Emerson has become a great hero that way. Everybody thinks Emerson is God -- and God never changes presets.

Kraftwerk: Antenna on a borrowed Korg MS-10 in 1987.

Stephen

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