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10-19-2010, 02:55 PM
| | | | HOW does one play Baba O Riley live?!
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hey guys.
im stuck here.
my band REALLY wants to play baba o riley at a local high school bonfire but we can't figure out how.
We have the real track, and the track with only synth.
Whenever we try to play with the track thats only synth, we get out of time. Its simply too hard to use that crazy synth as a metronome.
But we would rather not play with the real song in the background because the drums clash sometimes.
How do you play baba o riley live using the synth? |
10-19-2010, 02:58 PM
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10-19-2010, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Maryland, USA | | | Why don't you use a sequencer to play the synth part? You can trigger the sequenced part with a MIDI pedal board just like Geddy does.
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10-19-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by GeneralElectric  It ended poorly when my boobs got stabbed and I sprayed pink water all over myself, the audience, and the bass. | |
10-19-2010, 07:18 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | My buddy does it live, but he plays the synth part on piano. |
10-19-2010, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: St. Louis, Missouri | | | I do it in a 5 piece band with 2 guitars and no keys. ONe of the guitars plays a sixteenth note pattern of 1-1-5-5-8-8-5-5 to fake the key part in the intro and the other guitar and I do the hits. Doesn't sound perfect but people recognize the song immediately. Sometimes I double the part and it sounds pretty cool. Obviously once the song kicks in then we just drop the synth part till the breakdown/guitar solo-thing.
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10-19-2010, 07:39 PM
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10-19-2010, 07:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: AZ | | | Why don't you play to a click track? Or at least have the drummer play to a click, and have the sample play simultaneously?
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10-19-2010, 07:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | Here's a better way and you can pull it off with no synths...just a lot of PVC pipe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Y26JNd3g4
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10-19-2010, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DreadRaver | that's pretty awesome. |
10-19-2010, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Zooberwerx | That is pure awesomeness...
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10-19-2010, 08:54 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | Actually, it's not that hard to do if you have a tremolo pedal. Set the depth a little more than halfway, and adjust the speed to your liking. Then just play root-fifth-octave-fifth. Let each note ring to it's fullest.
Tab would look like this (in D)
E --10------------
A -----12-----12--
D --------12-------
G -----------------
For the quick little run, you do a III-IV-V with the root as the bass note. Something like this.
E -----------------
A -----------------
D 12--12--12------
G 11--12--14------
Strum up and down to mimic the fast run of the synth.
Last edited by jive1 : 10-19-2010 at 09:04 PM.
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10-19-2010, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Zooberwerx | They have what, four percussionists, plus the blue men? And still can't even come close to Kieth Moon.
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10-19-2010, 09:04 PM
| | | | Van Halen did a great live version with no synth. |
10-19-2010, 09:22 PM
|  | The Dominator | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Vero Beach, Florida | | | My band does it similar to Pearl Jam with the synth part being played on guitar. We had one guitarist doing the root-5th-octave part and another guitarist doing the little trills. If you only have one guitarist, it sounds perfectly fine without the trill part.
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10-19-2010, 09:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Townsville, Australia | | | Mr. big did a live version of it years back. One guitarist. Perfect excuse for the fiddle solo on bass!!! |
10-20-2010, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by lowdownstu Mr. big did a live version of it years back. One guitarist. Perfect excuse for the fiddle solo on bass!!! | check my post earlier in the thread...
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10-20-2010, 09:11 AM
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10-20-2010, 09:26 AM
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10-20-2010, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Zooberwerx | Best show in vegas!
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