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@nic-farris 7 күн бұрын
🔥🔥🔥
@colersen 2 ай бұрын
I’ve been playing synth just in highschool band and I adore the Bluecoats I hope to join some day😂
@RealJoey 2 ай бұрын
It’s definitely a good time! If you have any questions about it, feel free to let me know!
@colersen 2 ай бұрын
@@RealJoey Well I never use any monitors or anything so I’ve got not no clue how to work any of that stuff🤣. Would I get immediately rejected if I don’t know that stuff? I’m hoping just since I’m pretty experienced on piano I could work something out
@RealJoey Ай бұрын
@@colersenKnowing about the setups is a plus, but I wouldn’t say that it’s a life or death type of thing. When I first auditioned, I didn’t know a whole lot about the setups. You’ve just gotta be willing and able to learn the stuff pretty quickly.
@sleepermann6550 2 ай бұрын
You and the xylo were so clean that it looked like you were playing his part.
@RealJoey 2 ай бұрын
That’s what happens when you’re next to the greatest Xylogod of all time!
@tommylikeschicken 2 ай бұрын
i tried to transcribe the solo cause i just loved it and for the life of me i couldn’t do it so thank you so much for this 🙏🙏🙏
@RealJoey 2 ай бұрын
There was free sheet music for the original piece online, but it seems to be gone now. I do have the original pdf on this google drive link if you still wanna check it out though! drive.google.com/file/d/1K7si9qVdtnSGw-moPb68J6QMmhRYxvIz/view?usp=drivesdk
@BraxtonS-mar1m6a 2 ай бұрын
I thought I liked the synth stuff with my show that year 🤣 WGI is always the best
@ghostlygelato 3 ай бұрын
how are you changing patches? just curious. Awesome video!
@RealJoey 3 ай бұрын
The synth performer next to me, Erin, was the one that ran Mainstage. (serious 🐐. Go check out her Crown cam from this past DCI season as well as her cam from this season!) She used the bottom two keys on her synth to change patches for both of us at the same time since both of our synths were linked to the same Mainstage file.
@bandkid1 3 ай бұрын
was united audio not syncing with vid just my vid or was it like that for everyone using flo lol. currently reuploading vid where i manually synced the audio
@RealJoey 3 ай бұрын
From what I’ve heard it was a Flo issue?? Not exactly sure
@sleepermann6550 3 ай бұрын
That Cap City synth solo was so beautiful. I love it when great synth players are featured.
@RealJoey 3 ай бұрын
Being a synth player is great, highly recommend. Also, the fact that bro went to play saxophone like 10 seconds later is crazy.
@stevensimmermon8802 4 ай бұрын
What does this mean
@RealJoey 3 ай бұрын
9 days later, I still don’t know
@CantEven 4 ай бұрын
Love the crisp Ben audio, as a matter of fact this is really clean audio of the battery as well - did you do anything special to this audio before uploading cause this sounds crazy crisp? Good stuff
@RealJoey 4 ай бұрын
Lmao nope. I think this is literally just audio straight from my phone with “stereo sound” having already been turned on in the settings. Not sure if that’s a default setting or not tho.
@sehyunjun251 4 ай бұрын
4:00 was that a real blindfold or a blindfold but you can still see though it blindfold? If it's real blindfold, that's some mad muscle memory.
@RealJoey 4 ай бұрын
It was a “blindfold but you can still see through it blindfold” BUT it did make it a little more difficult to see through since it was textured cloth/fabric/whatever.
@PT_911 4 ай бұрын
Never heard of this event, nor seen this style of performance. But bloody hell. Thanks for sharing bro. YT algorithm starting to send me fresh vids like this 🙂♥️
@DevonChJohnson 4 ай бұрын
Very cool! 👍
@johnnydasuper 8 ай бұрын
Thank you for this resource!
@blackqweenmars 11 ай бұрын
Do you like have a contract or something in blue coats or do you just stay and leave whenever?
@WaltzesMC 11 ай бұрын
all DCI groups in general use contracts
@blackqweenmars 11 ай бұрын
Y’all get a shield to keep you from the elements? That’s crazy they just have the sun beaming down on the front ensemble at my school.
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
Do you play everything by memory or do you look at your music during the show?
@WaltzesMC 11 ай бұрын
memory
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
Is it confusing to work with that keyboard? I play a more basic synthesizer with a cart and speaker and it has dozens of buttons and I don’t know what half of them do but the synthesizers I see in the cams always have so many buttons and computers. Do you have to like click the computer screen or something while you’re playing? And do you got to do like sound changes and adjustments while playing or do you like barely touch buttons that aren’t like sound buttons? What are the computers for? Our band has Malik carts, and they use iPads, but I don’t really see them touching them at all, and they only really touch the buttons on their stations. Is it like that for you or do you have to be programming computers while playing
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
What’s Blue coats? I constantly see people recording cams and stuff. Where is it located? Also, did you audition for synthesizer or were you put there because it best fit the ensemble?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
it’s an ensemble called a drum corps. the bluecoats are from canton, OH! i auditioned specifically for synth
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey oh
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey I never thought that synth roles were chosen lol I just thought that people usually only used since when there was a need for them and chose the best piano players from the band to play at least that’s what they do in my van and that’s what I’m synth
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting some love on underrated instruments like the synthesizer
@LuckyOwI777 Жыл бұрын
As a synth player in wgi, I love seeing a synth cam with the music and everything with it. so cool! Very well done. I'm going to do a synth cam when we go to States next month, but I'll have to use my phone, since I don't have a camera or go-pro to use
@SaneTheBro Жыл бұрын
Could you give a pdf of the music?
@blastervlogs2173 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact we are transcribing this song
@majesto8487 Жыл бұрын
What controls when the sound the synth makes changes? love this video
@blackqweenmars 11 ай бұрын
He said he uses a pedal to change sounds
@majesto8487 11 ай бұрын
thanks!@@blackqweenmars
@LandonLaCross Жыл бұрын
Now i just need to learn how to read piano sheet music
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
It’s easy
@TylerDunphy Жыл бұрын
Are you switching patches with a hand off camera, or are they automatic/controlled by someone else? Curious! Love this stuff, synth was my first thing I ever did in indoor percussion!
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
I switched patches using a pedal! I had the sustain pedal on my right and then I had a second pedal on my left that we programmed to switch patches in MainStage!
@TylerDunphy Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey That's very useful actually. I bet it's not hard too, as you can have midi controlled functions in mainstage which I LOVE.
@JacobieHumphrey 3 ай бұрын
@@RealJoeyWhen I play synth I have to use the midi pads on the synth to switch, pads, so I wised I had something as convenient as a second pedal.
@ryansmallwood3601 Жыл бұрын
W performance, love how youre not just standing still, while playing synth, thats a skill I need to work on, huge props to you bro
@aidanbirmingham7566 Жыл бұрын
I freaking love synth cams and I will now love you forever for providing sheet music that is so awesome!
@blastervlogs2173 Жыл бұрын
Thanks joey
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
You're welcome Blaster vlogs
@mattb.1146 Жыл бұрын
I was wondering all season how that trumpet loop time modulation worked. SKILL
@jburbygo Жыл бұрын
Everything I wanted, and more...the man included the names of the patches, what a LEGEND! I assume the "Taming the Dragon" pad was custom made for the show? I noticed that your part mirrored that found in the song, but I had no idea that the patch itself was also custom-catered to it. And why did the sample leading into part 3 (4:48)--as awesome as it is--need to be split where you had to press 2 keys?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
The Taming the Dragon patch was actually a synthetic patch that we found in either Mainstage, Omnisphere, or Alchemy. Throughout the season, we toyed around with the patch until we got as close as we could’ve to the original source/song because it sounded nothing like it at first. We did the same thing with the “no attack piano” patch in the beginning of The Garden! When it came to the samples at the end of Part 2, we originally only had the first patch, but it was really hard to time that with the entrance of the battery on its own, so we added a second sample to make the transition into the battery/voice feature a bit more seamless
@jburbygo Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey Oh wow! I'm primarily a marimba player with just an interest in the electronic side in shows, and normally what goes on behind the black box is just that. It's really cool that it sounds like you were able to have some input in finding and toying around with a patch until it sounds right, makes it feel really integrated as a performer I'd imagine. This is wonderful insight, thanks again!
@anthonytrivisonnojr Жыл бұрын
No fucking way!!!! TY!!! If only I had the synth 2 sheet and the mainstage file, I would go nuts!!
@JosephKimAudio Жыл бұрын
I forgot that you actually play music
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
Honestly, me too. What did I even do for 3 months?
@SJdrumz Жыл бұрын
How hard is it to get into synth for bloo?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
It kinda depends. I’ve been playing piano for about 10 years now and it wasn’t that bad to read the exercises. The hardest part was fitting in with the rest of the ensemble during audition camps.
@SJdrumz Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey how old were you when you started piano? I played for a few years when I was younger but I haven't played in years and when I graduate I want to play synth for a corp. Is the music difficult?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
@@SJdrumz I started when I was either 10 or 11 years old. The music that I got wasn't too difficult to begin with, as it was a "placeholder" part that the electronics coordinator and I rewrote throughout the season. By the end of the season, the music was enough of a challenge without being too uncomfortable
@ryansmallwood3601 Жыл бұрын
RILEY!
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
Synth buddy of all time
@jburbygo Жыл бұрын
Bloo Synth is the most captivating thing to me, I swear...and you absolutely nailed it my dude. It almost feels wrong to say that some of the biggest earworms for me are stuff like the pre-show audio, the sample at 6:10, and the textures of the patches you play (like 7:12, and 7:35, which I think is an accordion...? and the Electric Counterpoint bit in the BoBP lot tune), since it feels to me like a disservice to all of the performers on the field if I say that...but I guess there's a talented team of audio engineers making sure those sounds give it that quality that's unmistakably Bluecoats. And a fantastic performer to pull it off as well! (I also stan your part under the keytar section, so dream-like and energetic all at once)
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
Yeah making all of the patches fit in took a lot of time throughout the season to get it to feel perfect lmao. Thank you so much man!! I really appreciate it!!
@eron279 Жыл бұрын
bro has immaculate grooving
@Mjas0000 Жыл бұрын
This was really cool to watch! I'm planning on auditioning for synth at Blue coats (and possible another corps) this season. Do you have any tips that might help prepare me?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
Sorry that this is late haha. Definitely get your hands on audition packets as soon as possible and start working on the exercises. Build up the tempos gradually and do what you are most comfortable with. Depending on the audition requirements, look for a solo that best shows your playing abilities. For reference, I'm using a piece by Sibelius for the upcoming camp. Overall, just bring a friendly and positive mindset for the audition camps! Let me know if you have any other specific questions!
@zboy_hanna 2 жыл бұрын
How do you like the Keylab MkII keybed?
@RealJoey 2 жыл бұрын
It was really nice to play on!! The keys were heavier compared to what I was expecting, but it felt somewhat like an actual grand piano. My only complaint would be the pads on the left side of the keyboard... they got very finnicky as the season went on.
@akup6354 2 жыл бұрын
How many synth spots will there be in '23?
@RealJoey 2 жыл бұрын
There will be one spot open!
@blackqweenmars Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoeyy’all only got one synth?
@RealJoey Жыл бұрын
@@blackqweenmars nah. i was returning and then there was one more spot, making two spots
@JosephKimAudio 2 жыл бұрын
How am i just now seeing this this is so dope Great looking cart
@keldmore 2 жыл бұрын
yeah but do you got games on the computer?
@blub8924 2 жыл бұрын
lmao
@RealJoey 2 жыл бұрын
i’ll get talking ben on there next time 😤
@borj_1 Жыл бұрын
funny seeing you here
@keldmore Жыл бұрын
@@borj_1 oh my goodness is that jackson hall
@mattbrayman1453 2 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered how the narration is played, like is it pre-timed or is each segment of the narration recorded separately and a front ensemble member 'plays' each segment in time?
@RealJoey 2 жыл бұрын
The narration was spliced into separate samples. The other synth player, Riley, triggered those samples at specific times throughout the show so that it could line up with certain musical moments, such as the “Are you gonna say something to that guy” sample with the battery.
@mattbrayman1453 2 жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey Ah very cool. Great work this season!
@dizdawgjr34 2 жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey so are there other major differences by how the 1st and 2nd parts are written outside of the narraration?
@RealJoey 2 жыл бұрын
@@dizdawgjr34 It's mostly just musical moments that fit in with the narration, such as in the beginning of the Nautilus movement with the first loud bass note that lines up with the "It got my blood boiling" line.
@blastervlogs2173 Жыл бұрын
@@RealJoey where did they get the audio samples or did they record them there selfs