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Video..Keyboard Solo Tips and Tricks from thesoundtestroom
This shows you some great and fun soloing techniques I've been using since I was sixteen, which goes to show you that I'm not that good and anyone can learn these tricks. You can apply this method to so many different things it unbelievable.
I hope you find this entertaining and useful but above all fun.
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/keyboard-solo-tips-tricks/
Comments
Just getting ready to watch this but I noticed your micro station, Almost got one two years ago but ended up going with the M50. The vector joy stick really is great! I am looking forward to trying some of this later on!
The Microstation is great, and it works as a midi controller too, all Korg stuff is great though, I'm a big Korg fan, have been for years. I hope you find the video fun, the video should have been called "The biggest keyboard solo secret revealed" lol
Given our ages you could call it Mysterys of ancient keyboard solos revealed. Yup the M50 is my iOS controller when I am near the PC. If I am lounging around another room I just use the carbon 49.
"... impress your friends and family!"
Reminds me of a friend who's been playing honky tonk guitar in these parts for a thousand years and insists his playing is based on half a dozen 'tricks'. Which may be the case, as with you Mister Doug also, but you boys have fingers that can fly...
Honestly, they are just tricks, I've been playing that riff for so long it's more like muscle memory
I'm a guitarist and the Blues scale has been a staple since I began playing. Yet every time I've tried to play a keyboard I tend to play diatonically. So what I'm trying to say is this is helpful for me as a non-keyboardist to guitarify and Bluesify my albeit mediocre attempts on the keys. Thanks again Doug.
I'd more call it a scale than a riff, but you nailed it good! I taught myself a little guitar and realised through that that huge numbers of guitar solos are based of either the pentatonic or blues scales, and that you can just do the same on keys. Another nice one on keys is to alternate between a fixed note (say a G in the C scale) and notes from this scale - very easy if you are using a monophonic sound - and it sounds like you are playing twice as fast as you really are!
Nice one, Doug. Thanks.
@pangolin Here's a tutorial I had bookmarked that may be useful to you.
How to play guitar parts on a piano keyboard: http://jensensamples.com/tutorial1.php
Thanks so much for the insight, Doug. Especially handy for us guitarists who stare at the white and black keys and go, "Where are the fret markers?"
Thanks @telecharge for the link, it is helpful. The piano layout is so simple and methodical yet it does my head in.
As an adjunct, on guitar I still like to play a close-voiced Am9 chord from an Allan Holdsworth book, it's easy for keyboard players (put G in the bass and you've got 4 consecutive white keys) but on guitar it's a stretch.
(Low E string) 5th fret - A note
(A string) (not played)
(D string) 5th fret - G note
(G string) 4th fret - B note
(B string) 1st fret - C note (the stretch)
(high E string) (not played)
I wonder how many views this video is going to get. I got very excited thinking I was going to be able to watch a vid a turn into a Doug virtuoso! I don't mean to spoil it for people that haven't seen it yet, but having talent & lots of practice helps too. No talent here, but now I know your secrets!
I find guitar quite difficult because I'm left handed and I never learnt on a left handed guitar, I've tried one but its even worse now, although if I air guitar it's always left handed
Thanks for that, Doug! For years I've been using that riff and secretly hoping no-one would notice I was cheating. Now I feel a lot better about it.
One if its great attractions is just how easy it is to go from slow blues to full on shredding, invisible fingers and all. Add in the magical combination of an S-550 Alto Sax, DEP-5 long hanging reverb, and KX-5 controller with that excellent ribbon pitch bender, and you get this (sax comes in at 1:13):
what's up with that huge SC display? Sorry for that. How do I get just the wave strip at the bottom?