ROCK SCHOOL - Series 2 - Episode 4 (part 2 of 3)

[Jcahalane]

Think about your fingering.

[andymkay]

Jan Hammer looks like a synth beast! If there is any envy it ought to be from the guitarists.

[mclarenv12]

i wanna improve my fingering.

[Soleilfreak]

3:28 - The only "real" emotion I've ever seen from him... :D

[Bluplirst]

I love Jan, but I'm sure you can do all that on guitar. There is one thing you can do with guitar and not with his keyboard, though; Look cool.

[tonyrome67]

@Bluplirst

Yeah, but who gives a shit about looking cool? It's about the music, not a bunch of tossers who are posing with their guitars!

[Bluplirst]

@tonyrome67 Hey I love Jan esp. with jeff beck and mahavishnu. But let's face it, he has guitar envy and looks ridiculous.

[LukeBerto]

YOU HAVE TO PRACTISE SOME SKILL!!! 3:28

Lovable programe, very very 80

[mufkatar]

Dude, he said "scales" XD

[crispiegee1]

He said "practice some SCALES," ya goof.

[locobeis]

jan is using a sharp sound with no release and full sustain trough a guitar amp.

[Okitobox]

He is playing a Yamaha DX21, Casio CZ1 and a Roland JX10. Kann Hammer Was playing on a Yamaha KX-5, but that is just a midi keyboard controller so it wouldnt have been the KX-5 actually making the sound.

[folkyphill]

hay dude, don't suppose you know what effects jans using to get THAT sound? mayby an anoloque lead?

[Okitobox]

I have no idea really, but around 04:27 he does sort of tell you how he gets the sound. It doesn't sound like a particularly complicated sound though.

[armalyte]

jan's sound was made up of an oberheim xpander AND minimoog in those days. Although the kx-5 probably had a preset that was called guitar lead or whatever, and he probably hsoved it thru a pedal. The rest is all about playign technique. Until i heard his stuff, my soloing on scoring stuff was a bit anodyne, so long live Jan Hammer! :-D

[gmaildotcom]

What Yamaha synth is he playing at 01:30?