A cover version from Rocky IV

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    • March 15, 2008 at 9:45 am
    Rick Graham
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    Hey Guys

    Here’s a video cover version of the track ‘Training Montage’ from the film Rocky IV
    that I recorded for my Album Re-Invention.
    Check it out and let me know what you think:

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xHjC27YvM

    🙂

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    • March 15, 2008 at 11:32 am
    Pavel Denisjuk
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    Impressive 🙂 Really cool stuff and i love the guitar sound on that! Great job m8!

    EDIT: just listened to it 2 more times – they should put it in the movie 🙂 Btw. what synth samples did you use if it’s not a secret?

    • March 15, 2008 at 11:38 am
    Rick Graham
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    Cheers Pavel!

    I do like the way this vid turned out and some of the syncing between the music and the
    scenes seem to work really well. I especially like the scene where rocky is punching the speedball as it is
    in perfect sync’ with the music. All by accident tho’ 😉

    Here’s the original

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kg_w-0y_w&feature=related

    • March 15, 2008 at 12:02 pm
    Pavel Denisjuk
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    Ok so you basically took the original audio and added guitar and piano where you wanted to re-new it?

    Anyway – turned out really great 🙂

    • March 15, 2008 at 12:34 pm
    Rick Graham
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    Member

    No, we completely rerecorded it, every part: drums bass keys synth guitar etc.
    We wanted to keep it close to the original but give it a more modern twist.

    • March 15, 2008 at 12:48 pm
    Pavel Denisjuk
    Pavel Denisjuk
    Member

    You definitely succeeded in that 🙂

    I guess you missed my question before: what samples did you use for synths? It sounds really great i can’t find anything similar 🙁

    • March 15, 2008 at 12:50 pm
    Sean Conklin
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    That is awesome stuff Rick. You gave it such a cool sound. And man I love that theme music! I just love those simple yet memorable melodies.

    • March 15, 2008 at 2:03 pm
    Rick Graham
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    @Pavel Denisjuk 1241 wrote:

    You definitely succeeded in that 🙂

    I guess you missed my question before: what samples did you use for synths? It sounds really great i can’t find anything similar 🙁

    Thanks a lot Pavel!

    I used this:

    http://www.roland.com/products/en/XV-5050/index.html

    Great unit, plus I added two expansion boards.

    Thanks Sean! I’ve always loved the music so It was great when we finally finished it. We got a great response from the original composer, Vince DiCola, too which was amazing. I used to train to this all the time when I was into bodybuilding back in the mid-late 90’s. Havent trained for ages and have put on far too much weight recently so I need to get my ass into gear and get back in the gym.

    Oh, the other thing I forgot to mention is that my brother played all the synth and keys parts in real time with no sequencing.

    • March 16, 2008 at 9:49 pm
    Bill
    Member

    Great version of that song!! I used to do martial arts and loved training to that song haha but seriously Rick you did an amazing job re-creating the feeling of that song the Guitar sounds fantastic in it as does all of the instruments played… fantastic work!!

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