Chords for The Mellotron In Action

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[C] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[F] _ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _
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[Dm] Hi and welcome to Dr Mix, today we've got a Mellotron, this is the M400 version, I cannot
wait to show it to you, that's _ _ coming _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] up. _
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[Bb] _ _ [Eb] Ah _ _ _ _ _ yes, yes, today we're gonna have a lot of fun because I'm gonna show you how _ _ _ this
is so innovative, but before I do that, please subscribe to this channel and hit that bell
button so that you can help us make this channel bigger and better for [N] you. _
The Mellotron was originally _ built in _ 1964, this is a British invention, right?
And you can consider this as a _ sampler in a way, because _ _ _ _ this is an actual flute player,
[Gm] and these are string players, _ _ [Eb] _ _ and these are actual vocalists.
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[N] So how does this work?
I'm gonna show it to you. _
_ _ There you go.
So this is the internal mechanism, as you can see there is this big rotor here that
spins a long capstan across the keyboard, just underneath a series of pieces of tape.
Each key has a pinch roller, and every time you press one of them, _ a piece of tape rolls underneath [F] it.
_ _ You see? _ _ _
_ Let me show it to you from a different angle. _ _
So _ _ _ here are all the pieces of tape, and see what happens when I press [G] a key. _ _
_ _ _ [E] See?
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_ _ _ The pinch roller presses against the capstan and the tape [Bb] gets pulled up. _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Eb] And since each key has a different pinch roller, it will pull a different piece of tape. _ _ _
[Bb] And of course there's only so long that the note can go for, because at some point [N] it
will reach the end of the tape. _
And then it will go back.
So it's a very simple mechanism.
_ It's a little bit temperamental sometimes, but hey, it sure sounds great.
So back to the top panel, the way you change the sounds is by moving this control here,
which moves the head across the tape.
So in this position you have choir, in this position, see how that moved?
You've got strings, and in this position you've got flutes.
This knob changes the speed of the rotor.
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_ _ _ _ And here you've got the tone control, _ _ _ which makes it brighter or darker.
_ _ _ And of course, volume.
So there's the Mellotron for you.
I know I'm going to play this baby for a long [Bb] time off [F] camera today, and I hope you got
a little bit of inspiration from this.
And please share the video if you liked it, and keep on making great music.
See you next time. _ _ _
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