Why was the Seinfeld theme played on a keyboard?

d8g3jdh · #1 05-09-2006, 08:02 PM

I'm curious as to why this theme was played on a keyboard, since the sound is similar to slap bass. Why couldn't Les just slap it out?

ibz · #2 05-09-2006, 08:04 PM

Not sure, but I'm still surprised by how many people think that it was played on a bass and the thought of it being played on a keyboard never occured to them.

Slater · #3 05-09-2006, 10:18 PM

Maybe cuz the guy who wrote and played it (Jonathan Wolff) is a keyboard player...

Dropkick · #4 05-09-2006, 10:22 PM

Oh my, I didn't know this!

dancehallclasher · #5 05-10-2006, 04:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Zoltok

I'm curious as to why this theme was played on a keyboard, since the sound is similar to slap bass. Why couldn't Les just slap it out?

What would be the point of that?

superbassman2000 · #6 05-10-2006, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scott Zoltok

Why couldn't Les just slap it out?

If les was in charge of the seinfeld theme it probably would have sounded more like the robot chicken theme...

anyways, if the guy who did it wanted the sound that he had on his keyboard, whats the problem? just be glad people can identify that as a bass...

Peter McFerrin · #7 05-10-2006, 09:04 AM

TV scores have been almost exclusively MIDI for a good 20 years now. It's fast, cheap, and composers can do it at home, rather than having to rent out a studio ($$$) and hire session musicians.

The husband of one of my fellow PhD students is a TV and film composer. He does everything on MIDI out of their living room. She often jokes that he made more on 60 seconds of music last year than she did working 40-hour weeks as the assistant director of one of USC's research institutes.