Neil's Temple Blocks
Lon Callis
I'm trying to simulate Neil Peart's temple blocks from "The Trees" on my
Roland TD7. Does anyone know how many he had for that recording and
what they were tuned to? Or better yet, does anyone know which pitch
settings on the Roland TD7 will give me those notes when applied to the
standard temple block sample?
Neal Prakash
I have a set of pretuned temple blocks made by "Om" in the late 80's
(they don't sell them pretuned anymore, i'm not sure why). Anyway, they
sound perfect when i play along to "the trees". I have 5, tuned to G, A,
B, D, and E. I think the A is 220 Hz.
You need no more than 5, although i think i saw him do it on 4 in a video...
It's been a while since i played that song, but if i recall correctly it
goes (the lower case and / denote flammed notes|):
GGAABBE
GGAABBE
GGAABBD
GGAABBD
GGAABBE
GGAABBE
GGAABBD
GGAABBD
GGAABBE, dB, B, A, a/G
EEDDBBA
DDBBAAG
DDBBAAG
As far as getting it the sounds on your td7--i didn't realize it has
temple block samples, if not, you probably want to try the
cowbells, agogo bells, and wood block sounds. maybe layer them together.
good luck!
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Hyam Ray Sosnow
In <323890...@IAC.net> Lon Callis <l...@IAC.net> writes:
>
>I'm trying to simulate Neil Peart's temple blocks from "The Trees" on
my
>Roland TD7. Does anyone know how many he had for that recording and
>what they were tuned to? Or better yet, does anyone know which pitch
>settings on the Roland TD7 will give me those notes when applied to
the
>standard temple block sample?
Authentic temple blocks are 5 in number, and they are tuned to a
pentatonic scale (piano black keys). The key doesn't matter.
cayenne
I know there were five, but I don't know the tuning.
Gnat Jobe
cayenne (lau...@sentex.net) wrote:
: I know there were five, but I don't know the tuning.
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread, but if there are 5 of them,
they are probably in a pentatonic scale, though I wouldn't know which
one. Probably what ever key the song(s) he uses them in is. Other than
that I would guess C
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