'81: How to Play the Synthesizer

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Take a single oscillator
 Producing a drone
 Send it to the wave shaper
 Altering the tone
 This can be a triangle
 Sawtooth or a square
 Modulate the pulse width
 Nobody will care
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 Now go to the filter bank
 Low, high, band or notch
 Fiddle with the cutoff point
 Pour yourself a Scotch
 Modern filters oscillate
 All by themselves
 It sounds like you're torturing
 Little metal elves
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 Nextly, shape the envelope
 AKA ADSR
 Attack, delay, sustain, release
 Which means how loud you are
 One millisecond to the next
 Whether you pluck or lurch
 Or ooze like an organist
 In a Venusian church
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 Now you play the synthesizer
 Don't be lazy now
 Make it hiss like rattlesnakes
 Or moo like a cow
 Crash like a hundred marbles
 Smashing on the floor
 You can make a thousand sounds
 Never heard before
 This is how to play the synthesizer
 This is how to play the synthesizer

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Duration
03:06
Key
5
Tempo
130 BPM

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