Electone: Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

My electone arrangement of the Bon Jovi classic 'Livin on a Prayer'

I play everything except the drums which I sequenced. My HX is midied to a Mac Mini running Midipipe and Reason 3

I hadn't played it for a while (been busy focusing on guitar recently) so I improvised in places.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Electone
• Yamaha
• Keyboard
• Synth
• Reason
• Mac
• Rock
• Bon
• Jovi
• Livin
• Living
• Prayer

[JDSoccer10]

Is your right hand chord b,e,f# for the intro? because if it is, you'd be the second one Ive heard play it right out of like 15 covers.. LOL it looks like you actually want to play it right instead of going "oh well its just for fun good job

[electonist]

@JDSoccer10 Yup it sure is! Well spotted! Yes, if you're going to do an arrangement of a song, it's important to get it right and that chord is quite distinctive of the original. Thanks :)

After quite a break I'm now teaching and also working on my own material, massively improving the sounds (especially drums!).

[ReiOn8]

Nice arrangement!! The best part of the performance is, you really do look like you are having fun and its a great song too! ^^ Can we make requests to you?

[electonist]

@ReiOn8

Thanks! Yeah, I love music and while arranging is hard work, it is fun, especially playing a finished piece (and tweaking things adds variety).

I'm happy to take requests, don't get much time to arrange these days but will do my best :)

[electonist]

Hey, thanks for the comments :)

Playing pedals feels strange at first, but it doesn't take long to get used to and play root notes. Once you start playing riffs it gets a bit more tricky and playing with both feet is really fun.

Compared to 'modern synthesisers' the biggest thing is control, you can do so much more with 2 keyboards and pedals. Sound wise I midi into Reason, but the on board sounds of the HX are very 80's. The EL/ELS and DDeck have far more realistic sounds.

[electonist]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[avgadget]

Dude I you just made the synth one of the coolest musica Instruments ever

[bobagoncheese]

absolutly AWESSOOMMMEEE,, you are rele impressive well done mate

Matt

[jfrodier]

Hey dude you're AMAZING !!! thats my favourite song and you did it very well !!! congradulation!!! I was wondering if its possible to you to give me the right hand (the melody) for that part (2:52 - 3:37)  please......... thanks :)

[mikosoft]

That was really fun to watch. There were some mistakes but the overal impression was that you really enjoyed playing it and it shows.

[maridiana02]

AAAMMMMMAAAZZZZIIIINNNNNGGGGG

[FenderrMann]

what were the chords you played during the chorus? left hand i mean.

[wakeup]

Electone looks so interesting. Hope I get to try one someday...actually I think they sell them in Asia, I'll definitely drop by a music store and try one then haha

Just wondering: how does the pedaling feel like for the left leg? Looks weird and fun =) How do these compare with modern synthesizers?