I can tell you that all the original tracks have what appear to be the original reverbĪnd delay's used along with them,which means they were recorded right to tape. You can hear the notes played as well has what effects they've added to the insturment. Hearing them in isolation, or without the main vocals playing It's interesting to hear guitar or keyboard parts that were always there in the song but That you can control the volume/balance of the tracks or mute them altogether. The same is done with vocals,backing vocals, bass, guitars, keybaordsĮtc.so each group has it s own sub mix than you can control with one fader on a console.ĭepending on which version of the song you buy, you will get the instrument as 1-2 tracksĪnd the rest of the instruments on another backing track. You would have say 4-8 channels/tracks for each part of a drum kit that are mixed down For those who aren't aware of the termĪ stem is a sub mix of a group of instruments or microphones in a mix. These versions allow you to separate the vocals from the backingīasically, the songs are broken down into stems. He must have thought that that there was only one round of the G#m-Bm-F#m-Am-B section 2nd time round, instead of the repeat and he goes to the wrong chord half way through – a G#m7 instead of repeating the sequence, and as a result quickly fluffs a note going back in on the G#m once he realized the error.OK so I installed Jammit and purchased the vocal versions of And You And I and
Another interesting point is, there is actually a bad flub by Rick in the electric piano part of the ‘I get up, I get down’ section. The interesting point here with CTTE is, there are extra overdubs in the keys stems that are not on the final mix – particularly in the ‘void’ section in the middle. I challenge those who say I am not playing all of Rick’s parts on CTTE, because I have studied them in great detail, and can assure you that they are all there, and more importantly performed live (some have suggested that I am using backing tracks which is pure nonsense). In the case of the reverse mellotron string effects in CTTE, I assign these to a couple of peds - the timing is quite tricky as it alternates between 2 bar patterns, one on beat 4 and the next bar on off beats 3 & 4 to coincide with the bass slides and drum accents. The same case applies to ‘Roundabout’ where I got the reverse piano samples in Em and C from the intro – again in isolation. I can therefore sample individual sections without spill from other elements, which is often the case when you try to obtain these from a stereo recording. Hence, I have clear forensic detail of many of the keys parts.
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Musos will know what I mean here! I was fortunate enough to download the isolated keys stems for CTTE from Jammit some years ago along with many other Yes songs, before its demise. These include the reverse mellotron strings in the verses and also the ‘ding ding ding’ after the diminished 5ths cascade at the end of the moog solo, prior to the minimoog 5ths interval section in unison with the guitar. This is triggering my pre-mapped samples in an AKAI S5000/6000 – still one of the best units for this purpose in my opinion. In summary, I use the Roland PK6 midi bass pedals to control a number of samples on this particular song (and many others). Again I pointed out that the original studio version does not have those arpeggios, but instead those mellotron stabs, which Downes reproduced 100% faithfully.Gentlemen, your observations on my CTTE performances are absolutely 100% accurate. Then some people started posting videos of Wakeman playing the same part, where instead of the stabs he plays some arpeggios, and saying Downes was just too lazy to properly learn the parts.
I went on to explain that he was triggering it with his foot and it was actually a pretty elegant way of doing it. Someone posted it as "proof" that he wasn't playing at all, it was all programmed. There was a video in YouTube which showed Geoff Downes during one of these mellotron stabs in CTTE and his hands were nowhere near any of the keyboards. That reminds me of one time when I had a big argument in a Brazilian Progressive Rock forum about that.