How To Play 'Blow Your Mind' (Jamiroquai)

[zsomalino]

These joints are greatly missed...! Great job!

[bean9seventy]

very much a riff like dexter wansells the sweetest pain,,

[tomogradymusic]

@bean9seventy

Yeah, I know what you mean - I love all those classic Wansel albums!

[snolan1990]

Perfect playing and literally the sweetest set up ever Rhodes 88 + Clavinet D6 both looking prime. Put's my lowly Pianet T to shame :P but you certainly inspire me and I'm sure many, many others to put in more practice.

Thanks for sharing this.

[tomogradymusic]

@snolan1990

Thanks for the kind comment - hey, Pianets are cool! They're great with effects pedals aren't they - a bit of fuzz wah :D

[Mogadoodledoo]

Legend..... I've spent so many nights over the years with my phones on, listening to this great solo over and over, wishing it was me playing it. I always felt it wasn't loud enough in the song, considering the sheer genius of it....please tell me you didn't work this out, that would make me sick (with jealousy!!) and that there is a score out there for this? Nice work man, a pleasure to watch. All hail Toby the Great!!

[tomogradymusic]

@Mogadoodledoo

Thanks for the comment man, yeah - hail Toby the Great! I agree - the solo should be louder in the mix; Toby's Rhodes sounds so great - it's definitely a mid- to late- 70's suitcase. At the risk of making you sick, I'm afraid I did work this all out myself - I've got perfect pitch which helps, but I also spent a long time listening again and again to get it just right! When Toby left Jamiroquai I would have loved to have joined, but those are big shoes to fill...

[burnout8488]

This just started my morning off right. Amazing! :)

[vangel64]

Congrats Tom!... made me realise what a great solo Toby played there!!!..

[tomogradymusic]

@vangel64

Hey Nick, thanks man, it means a lot to hear that from you! Yeah, Toby is a really special player, I wish he'd done more of this type of music but I'm glad he at least did the stuff he did with you and Stu back then. I still laugh about the story you told me at the O2 about hitting that m&m (or was it a skittle?) from across the studio floor!

[pozzillone]

How much do you want for the transcription? :)

[AndrewNCook]

AHH!! Get to the Clavinet!

[willdill]

how much would a rhodes like that cost..approx??

[tomogradymusic]

@willdill Hey Will, that's a difficult question to answer! Mine of course is priceless :D

The value of a Rhodes is dependent upon its production era and how well it still functions. When I got mine it had hardly been used and it had been kept in new condition. If you find a beat-up one with grooved hammer tips, a dead action and a selection of mis-matched replacement parts from different eras then obviously it's going to be worth much less....

[tomogradymusic]

(cont)... here in the UK, the most common model is the mk1 Stage model with 73 keys. You usually find the 'Rhodes' pianos from 75 onwards as opposed to the pre-CBS 'Fender Rhodes' models manufactured up to that point. Stage pianos in good condition typically go for £800 here in the UK. A suitcase model like mine with 88 keys is extremely hard to find and even for one that's seen better days you might be looking at £2000. As I said though, mine is priceless :D

[JohnnyJohnnyJohnny]

@willdill When I was in college, a friend tried to sell me his for whatever his month's rent was ($400-500, if I remember correctly). I wanted to do it even though I'm no pianist, but then I'd have to probably sell a guitar to pay for my own rent!

Anyway, fantastic playing. Luvvit. 

[benji6b]

Woaw ! :o

[Keyboardman88]

I really like your sound. Nice sounding Rhodes. I first became aware of the Rhodes at my local music store in Michigan back in the sixties. My first Fender Rhodes was a 73 note silver top, then a 1970 Fender hodes 73 note stage, 3 different 88 note suitcases; a 1975, a 1978 and a 1979 which I hated. I now have two Rhodes'- a 1976 73 note stage and a 1977 73 note suitcase - both of which I'm restoring to some degree. Can't wait to get the suitcase up and running.

Rob

[tomogradymusic]

@Keyboardman88 Hey Rob,

That sounds great - two Rhodes! I'd love a second one that I could gig, keeping this one in the studio. I'd do it up with a plexiglass case :D Did you like your 75 mk1 88 suitcase when you had it? That would have been the most similar to mine, and my Rhodes is definitely my favourite of all the Rhodes pianos I've ever had the opportunity to play.

Tom

[Keyboardman88]

@tomogradymusic

[JoeTheAssassin]

Well I can tell you're a very talented musician. That Rhodes sound man ... it's so damn sexy.

[tomogradymusic]

@JoeTheAssassin Hey Joe, thanks for the kind comment, I'm always pleased to find other people who love the Rhodes! It floored me when I first heard a Rhodes - it might well have been this track in fact - and then I went on to discover Headhunters. I haven't looked back since then :D

[a1ienz]

whoa man you are really good! that was great!

[canovakey]

Great man. This is The original Jamiroquai Spirit..

RIP lol!

[fasteez]

man, jay kay should've locked toby ( and stuart ) at any price ..

[vibravibra]

@fasteez AGREE

[voidalist]

corrrrrrrrrect!!!!!!!!!

[AregSiravyan]

nice!!

[extsource]

Nice gear here!!!

[Beathop]

RESPECT !!!!

[ouf2funk]

Awesome !!!!! The Toby Smith work are amazing, the groove is present, and you guy you have a gift. I'll support for others video.

[Galv1nBass]

Wow, thats awsome. Great sound! exactly the same as in the song!

[darnpoul]

I will definetly try that! I'm gonna write back, if I succeed :-)

[darnpoul]

I am truely jealous! I have a Mark I ´73 from 78. I', putting it through a Jazz Chorus, but it sounds dirty! I like your clean sound. But, I'm also gonna tune my Rhodes. Hopes that it helps it a little!

[tomogradymusic]

@darnpoul Hey man, you can sort out your Rhodes relatively easily (the Jazz Chorus is a nice amp to go through too!) I got help with this because I'm rubbish but I intend to work on it:

Pick-up side: (one screw for each note). Use these to adjust how close the pick-up is to the tine. You can level the volume on all the notes this way.

Harp side: you can now affect the timbre by adjusting the tone-bar screw (the one furthest away from you of the two) . Finally, tune it and repeat these steps!

[lobit12]

@darnpoul try taking the output right out of the rca jack on the inside of the rhodes that's a cleaner source. or you can go one degree harder on your hammer tips.

the reason those early rhodes brighter is the harder/heavier hammers and slightly different tines. and of course setup goes a long way as tomogrady said

[darnpoul]

Nice playing man! And I love that Hohner on top ;-)

Just curious, what are you playing through? What amp? Cause that sound is so nice!

[tomogradymusic]

@darnpoul Hey man, thanks for the comment - glad you enjoyed it. As for the sound, it's pure Rhodes, I'm just lucky I've got a great one! With mid '70's suitcase Rhodes like this one, when you record you can disable the cab speakers by sticking a jack into the headphone socket, and then there are two direct outputs from the amp (1 & 2 for Left & Right). I took the output direct from those, and recorded in Logic.

Tom