jordan rudess - classic

Roland VP-550
Dream theater jordan rudess - keyboard

[@KaslarProductions]

My ears have flown away to space..... Thank you mr. rudess

[@ratamahatahata]

one man band...amazing...

[@drumbassguitar]

thats so catchy i cant get it out of my head

[@DavideBertolazzi]

classical concept applied to modern technologies.... GOOD WORK RUDESS!!!!!!!

[@noobsmoke261]

@skifarterufa I felt this song in heaven, I literally live in heaven

[@Unexpaix]

loooooooooool for his voice

[@skifarterufa]

I felt like I was in heaven...

[@liheng89]

Music aside, anyone notice how little he looks at the keyboard while playing this? There's a lot of contrapuntal stuff going on and he's barely looking, but I guess that's what 40+ years of piano practice (at that point in time) does to you. This guy is truly one of a kind.

[@Adrianwut]

Man, this is awesome! I want more :(

[@spiral2012]

Both musicians are top 5 in the world at their instrument. JP is a god, and in my opinion the best all around guitarist alive, bar none.

[@Cestariarts]

Myung is far from being the best, dude cant even play Glass Prison anymore

[@thissignupisannoying]

This is straight up epic.

[@andreschneider__]

I just can't stop to watching this video... XD

[@jackeddemon]

finally someone who has some common sense. thank you

shivers !!

[@Kreeg0]

Genius !

[@TheSilentMadness]

don't you agree that he can do a sound track for a movie by him self with this stuff !!?? =D really astonishing!

[@jpalmerer]

i love hows theres no negitive comments, rare. who could say any thing bad about this guy anyways.

[@intthis]

jordan makes this thing look really easy to use... which, as someone who has spent far too much time working with the vp-550, i'll tell you that it's really hard to make it sound this good.

[@TheStrangevideos]

this song gets stuck in my head

[@carlosaglez1]

AMAZING!!!

[@MarioKurill]

i love it...

[@TheGraal]

AMAZING!

[@ImTheChopo]

Jordan makes me believe in god, because he is god

[@DTfanforever]

even though petrucci is absolutely amazing i think more guitarists could give him a run for his money than keyboardists could give jordan

[@wlplayback]

ooohhhhh my goooooddd

[@dreadbet]

very psychedelic this one... cheers

[@Heroman310]

omg, this is so beautiful!

[@Merczid]

His voice is beautiful without equipment, the gear is just to apply effects and stuff to the voice, vocoder microphone

[@Dylby94]

@Destroyer185 It's just dream theater, they're all just amazing!!

[@intensityxc]

this is so great :D

[@theflyingmusician1]

What an amazing guy :)

[@spiderstoner]

this is greaat!!

[@Doodle92]

Hot damn this is cool

[@damiano100]

wooow thats awsome :D

[@jeromeice]

Hey ! It sound like Enya ^^ Fantastic Jordan =p

[@wildnites558]

You guys should try listening to some of Mozart's orchestral masses. Listen to "Coronation Mass in C". Has some of the same melismatic phrasing that Rudess is using in this inspiring piece. In fact, you would probably appreciate a lot of Mozart Symphonies and concerti that use the same type of scales an haromonies heard here. Check out Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Prague Symphony, Symphony No. 40 in G min., Try 'em out!

[@freddieyin]

fantastico

[@SirSkuloiet]

That sounds pretty epic

[@Freemondo88]

So awesome :) and to think this is mostly improvisation :o

[@Joziaac]

@Vulturer Yeah, I figured, but I thought the question wasn't necessarily entirely rhetorical. Some could really be asking themselves that, so I answered.

[@cotfa]

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THIS SONG SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL. anybody know.

[@LucaSbaBabetto]

One-Man-Choir! :D

[@maximilianoo21]

wow

[@caiolug]

what is the equipment on his ear? this equipment make his voice so beautiful?

[@LottoDeath]

awesome oO

oh my god

[@Vulturer]

@Joziaac , I was being sarcastic. I dig Rudess, he's the man.

[@ustingnumber9]

@Theshamham agreed :)

[@BattleGer]

sensationell. will ich auch xD

[@dreadbet]

@Zakariah1971 good for them and what about you mate? cheers

[@laypyu]

Shit!! Orgasmic Goosebumps!!! :O

[@emilshere]

there is alot of bach influence here ... in the verse sections i will call them....the contrapuntal lines and the structure of his harmonies.. personally i think this is the best i've ever seen rudess play., i dont think this was improvised.

[@luckylanno]

For reason the chorus part reminds me of something I might hear in a power metal band.

[@concertoldham]

some one should transcribe a choir arrangement from this.

[@Joziaac]

@masterd000 I'm very much the same, sometimes I wish all my improvisation was just automatically recorded. Not that all of it is great, not at all, but sometimes I really impress myself and then can't reproduce it. It's saddening. =(

[@lefterisfred]

Dmin-A-Dmin-Gmin

[@zammygo]

All Hail Dream Theater.

[@Destroyer185]

I think that JP does have a tendency to show off at times and I wish Jordan would try to do the same. His spots in Octavarium and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence are simply amazing. Hopefully the new album will have equal parts of awesomeness. How about some love for John Myung?

[@VincenzoAvallone]

the vocals are actually jordan voice curved by the keys...a one man choir XD

[@kaloxe]

simply autonomy

[@Destroyer185]

Wow this song gets really intense, its so amazing. The sad part is that he is just messing around and most people cant even write something that good if they tried.

[@Joziaac]

@Vulturer Those who want appreciatable, loyal fans.

[@dannicron]

well i agree with you on most points, but i don't think the comparison to bach is outrageous either. another spanish dude commented in a similar way.

[@PalidFingers]

Hahaha! Nice :D

[@motorhead9999]

Does anyone know if this was a cover of something, or was this something he just made up specifically for the demo? Either way, its badass, I would just like to get an mp3 of it

[@Zakariah1971]

Best keyboardist in the world is J.S. Bach!! That German is untouchable! The best living American keyboardist is Kevin Moore while the best key shredder is Vitalij Kuprij!!

[@juglaresco]

@caiolug he probably compose that minutes befor he record the video :D

[@BlacksmithVRS]

@FireRagnarok if you want to take it to this level, type "Jordan Rudess Continuum spectacular" in the search bar and see the first video that comes, and look for my comm.

[@adamolx]

this Roland is not so expensive!:) can someone write the lyrics? i cant understand what he's singing:(

[@goustune]

Why I didn't start the piano first!

[@suspiciousdoge9yand104]

Why won't Jordan do this on Dream Theater?

[@rafiscoolerthanyou]

so this is how he gets the choir on BCSL

[@caiolug]

what is the name of this song?

[@jackeddemon]

prolly

[@t3hgir]

How is he not cracking up?

[@felbohyt]

His hands look like some kind of trained spiders on that keyboard!

[@dannicron]

like who? who's your "enya" in comparison to bach? i know bach very well, i've been playing pieces by him for about 11 years now. do you play an instrument? by the way, in "keyboard wizardry" rudess mentions bach as a a great influence. and i can clearly hear the reference in this piece. where does he mention "enya"?

[@AndyJanssenMusic]

damn.with synth you can sample everything...^^ thats a lil frightening..

[@BlacksmithVRS]

We should seriously encourage him to change his name to "Jordan Charles Ruless"...

[@fredrik.larsen]

1:00 sounds like nightwish..

[@SageofTalos]

sheet music plz!

[@Cray0on]

Golden sun O.O

[@Vulturer]

@Destroyer185 , Who needs to compose good songs when you can get rich by being an attractive semi artist performing for Disney?

[@tony.guitarplayer]

It's keyboard from God.

[@Warmachine12435]

I heard now you know its true in part of it.

[@RandyLott]

Yet Jordan seems to take it above and beyond. Gregorian chant was monophonic. Jordan's piece is polyphonic.

[@dannicron]

sounds like bach.. genius

[@adamolx]

how much is this stuff ?

[@t3hgir]

XD!!!

[@styvensafar6302]

How to be like you

[@leonardthecow]

You are correct. But there's no need to correct him like that. I can understand why he would think as such because he does manage to retain some of the aspects of a certain Gregorian-like sound. Besides, the concepts of polyphony and contrapuntal melodic structures are only present here in bare form - look up some of his other work that isn't improv, where he really displays his talents, using complex polyrhythms and other musical concepts I'm sure you, being a smartass, would love to point out.

[@embroisured]

Petrucci is Petrucci, a powerful being that is way more powerful than god.

[@NewDnYboy]

Does someone know if Jordan actualy singing? And what kind a fuction this is? Or does he doing this, to show that he got control over the sound?

[@DSPalyo2]

Sounds a lot like the chorus on "Don't say a word" from Sonata Artica. Not it's a bad thing.

[@sussycoco]

haha classic

[@donottakethisname]

It doesn't have a name, it's just a demonstration :P

[@hympa30]

excellent. i bet mozart would dig that.

[@gimpyjwilliams]

is this a real song and if so what song is it?

[@SharmaYelverton]

Can you get soft synth equivalent?

[@Croix1]

it seems to be a simple vocoder, so you just google "vocoder vst"

[@Croix1]

actually im wrong, it uses something similar to autotune, but controlled by keyboard. it seems to be quite close to the harmonizer used by jacob collier live. I think it's possible to control autotune using a keyboard, but i dont think it does polyphony. eventide has a plugin called octavox which seems to do something similar

[@dannicron]

what do you mean, bach bah?