Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Producing Piano Covers

Introduction
Every day we find a  plethora of musical creations & songs composed, which are catchy, soothing, enchanting and we get associated with it.  Each individual either would like it either for listening or singing or dancing or reproducing it on a musical instrument. 
I like to share how I perceive to execute the same using a Yamaha Keyboard.

Process 

  • Listening the composition repeatedly till I am able to memorise it to a reasonable extent 
  • Memorise individual components in a stanza 
    • A stanza comprises in most cases with:
      • an introductory tune 
      • first verse 
      • voices used in it 
      • middle music and
      • back to verse 
    • Relate each of the above component in terms of which sound reproduced in the keyboard will suite best. For example:
      • male and female voices can be selected by flute, harmonium, violin, saxophone, musette, theatre etc
      • background music needs to be identified with which theme it is associated, like:
        • classical
        • pop
        • disco / modern disco
        • dandiya
        • indy dance
        • Rajasthani
        • kawali
        • bhangra
        • goan pop etc
      • identifying the tempo of the background
    • Combining all slowly and reproducing each component separately and then collectively in combination
    • Try and achieve perfection to each individual combination.
Example of "Jag Ghoomya"  camouflaging such ingredients:



Complex compositions
Subsequent blogs will elaborate more on some extensively complicated compositions, chords and approach to reproduce them. 

Gaush2011 
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