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Here’s a bit of amazing solo keyboard work from Jordan Rudess in his big hair days.

Rudess is all over the keys and all over the place in this six minute synth jam.

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This video captures a great Jordan Rudess synth jam, live in Italy, that combines some great atmospheric synth work and some more straight-ahead prog wailing.

Note: The music starts about two minutes in. Read more…

Majic Conner doing an impromptu version of his song Bach Rock on his Roland AX1B.

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Sunday Synth Jam: This synth jam, Synth Blues Improv with Alesis Micron, is “is a blues jam obviously inspired by Vangelis Blade Runner, but it isn’t a cover. It is to show the Micron’s amazing capabilities.”

Nice, but watch out for the abrupt ending…..

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The sounds are custom, and I’m especially proud of the brass patch.

In a while I’ll start doing some more rythmic pieces like jarre and such, for now I just wanted to master this synth, so here is a relatively simple improv. Enjoy!

David “Fingers” Haynes rocks the Korg NanoPad at the 2009 LIMS show.

Haynes is using the NanoPad to control Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0. Read more…