New Tricks
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Here is my keyboard player. He has perfect timing and plays exactly what I tell him to.All I have to do is hit him at the right time. He also plays horns, sings choir backing etc and he never forgets a part.
Most of the music we play has keys but I am able to break the parts into segments a few measures long, record them and simply trigger them with my left hand.I'm no keyboardist but I can figure out and play a measure or two at a time and clean them to perfection with recording software.
It's an expense and a learning curve but it works well.
To deal with those issues, I recorded all the parts myself (which makes it more personal) and I break everything into segments so we are not playing along the entire song. There are plenty of times where I just run a couple different loops and we can be spontaneous with the duration of the song, or I can simply shut it down and pick back up where it appropriate. When it's playing though, it is God and we must be spot on and follow it. Like I said, it's a learning curve but completely doable.
I named mine Kramer, after my burned out ex keyboardist
Most of the music we play has keys but I am able to break the parts into segments a few measures long, record them and simply trigger them with my left hand.I'm no keyboardist but I can figure out and play a measure or two at a time and clean them to perfection with recording software.
It's an expense and a learning curve but it works well.
A keys backing track is certainly a solution, although a limited one, it does not (or less) allow for spontaneous changes/add on or small improv, and it's less personal too.
To deal with those issues, I recorded all the parts myself (which makes it more personal) and I break everything into segments so we are not playing along the entire song. There are plenty of times where I just run a couple different loops and we can be spontaneous with the duration of the song, or I can simply shut it down and pick back up where it appropriate. When it's playing though, it is God and we must be spot on and follow it. Like I said, it's a learning curve but completely doable.
When I bought my 1st dat machine, I walked around introducing it to people as my new keyboard player.
I named mine Kramer, after my burned out ex keyboardist
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