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“’Estonia’ happened... I think it was because of its middle section, really, more of a technical and musical side than a lyrical side,
which is in fact the song’s most important thing: its message.”
“I was watching the This Strange Convention DVD and thought that the keyboard middle part was interesting
and also challenging to learn, though I felt it was possible to do it”
“When I thought of making a cover of it my plan was originally to play it live,
to make a live version of that song as a guitar duet or something like that, simple, including that arrangement.
And that’s how it came to be at the gallery. After all, my brother ended up playing keyboards, but he was in charge of the actual guitar arpeggio,
and the whole keyboard part was played by me, sung on top of it. Jorge, the rhythm guitar player, played 5th chords"
“And my brother played this arpeggio…
He played all that with a piano sound coming from the keyboard"
"I played everything note for note, the way it’s been shown at the beginning of this video,
and sung at the same time, which was kind of difficult but it worked out fine in the end”
“The thing with ‘Easter’ is that a general drum track and synth track before the guitar solo are needed.
You may hire session musicians for such a short video, but if you have a synthesizer that’s the better option. For instance, this Korg synth works for something like this.
Here’s a bank with drum sounds"
"Well, this take is recorded with the portable studio in its entirety. Then you can add the rest of the sounds you want.
It can be strings sounds to thicken up the overall recording. Yet in the special case of ‘Easter’ the pre-solo keyboard line trademark must be included,
which can be achieved with… this sound!"
"Then all of those recorded tracks are mixed with the audio-editing software in order to render a single track with every individual track."