Vangelis - La Petite Fille de la Mer - The Little Daughter of the Sea (Cover)

Vangelis La Petite Fille de la Mer - The Little Daughter of the Sea A few minutes of Happiness and Peace... from one of the most beautiful pieces by Vangelis. Dedicated to my daughter. I decided to attempt to do a cover of this piece when I first bought a Yamaha Montage and heard how great some of the acoustic guitars were. I thought I could do a decent live cover with the acoustic guitar in the left hand and the electric piano in the right. But I later decided to do “a duet with myself,“ which worked out better, especially since there is more going on with the keys than I first noticed. There are a number of electric piano overdubs played higher with different panning. I tried to replicate this by having the upper notes of the electric piano panning differently from the lower, so that they would sound like they were coming from different instruments. If you stay with me until the very end, you may also notice that I layered some of the higher notes to double and play an octave higher... so you get the effect of an octave by playing just one note. This doesn’t work for most of the piece, but I was able to bring the effect in at the end nicely with a pedal. So what you get is really something like a live duet. On the Prophet, I was happy to get sort of a dreamy choir with triangle waves and then later bring in audio modulation with the modulation wheel, making it more like a string.