Hi Dr. James. No magic:-) There will be lots of musicians who will watch this video and eventually become much better at doing it than I can. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
I closed my eyes through some of this and could swear it was really a guitar being played. What a fantastic illusion that this keyboard and your playing creates.
there should be WAY more of this type of tutorial available for us keyboardists...as you said, it IS learnable and can be taught, and you have to practice it to death to get better at it...emulating the nuances of other instruments is what I call a "hobby WITHIN the hobby"....
What You said is absolutely right....being a programmer, using logic pro x, I think tutorials like this will surely have impact on me in arranging songs.....
@@jintojimson33 unfortunately, we live in a current era where manufacturers of these instruments no longer have people out in the field, as in the "old days", giving first hand seminars and demo in the music stores to show the capabilities of these products. Today, they depend upon RUclips videos only.....back in the 80s, when I was constantly buying the newest gear, there would be a chalkboard up on the floor at Sam Ash telling you the schedule of when the various reps from Ensoniq, Roland, Korg, et al, were going to be at the store.....in addition to that, all of the floor personnel had intimate knowledge of every keyboard they sold.....not even vaguely so , anymore.
If yamaha's bass guitars sound as good as their six string guitar voices, my band won't need a bass player or lead guitar player, because I could do both parts using the keyboard if I get one. Nobody would guess it wasn't a guitar if you hadn't said it was a keyboard.
I've never been this impressed by a keyboard before. Congratulations, Yamaha, Sweetwater, & spectacular host. Great interview, perfect pick for it, phenomenal play, sounds, versatility, & combinatory options.
Best keyboard "How To" I've ever seen. I've been trying to rationalize a synth and Daniel just moved me several steps closer to a purchase! Super job!!
Holy shit !! I closed my eyes when he played at 2:19 and that's exactly how an acoustic would sound if you strum all the open strings. Fantastic control !!
I just bought the MODX8 and I'm waiting on it to come in. I had no idea I would be able to do this. You sir just opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. Thanks for the video!!!
That one note about voicing coming from the regular open tuning notes is brilliant, all other voicing needing to be above those pitches? Obvious, but brilliant ! That insight alone is worth a sub. Thankyou!
This is really the key to making any simulated instrument sound convincing on a keyboard. The sample/synth technology still has a ways to go, but technique makes a huge difference in selling the part.
Wang and chung!!! Hammer-ons and pull-offs!!! Power chords, dive bombs and more! Those guys have names for all that stuff, now I see them actually applied. Thanks! A+!!! Very handy! I wish I'd have found this much earlier in my learning keyboard. Now I have to do that stuff . . . while playing bass with my left hand. And singing.
Thanks for this. I've tried learning guitar several times but as a pianist it's so antithetical to how I understand playing instruments. This is super helpful.
Daniel never fails to hit the nail on the head. First video I've ever found that shows how to do guitar on a synth. This one shows off the new Yamaha and of course, Daniel's talent and skills. Wow. Great video, thanks!
Daniel - that was an intense tutorial worth I want to say $100 bucks. Since most of us are broke - 100 thanks - 1 for each that I apply. Aand I think I will - it is awesome and a solution to my question about songs versus solos. Added to my top ten musical priorities.
Things like this are why I buy all my music gear from Sweetwater. You guys go beyond just selling gear - you love it, and share that love with your customers. Keep setting the standard!
Thanks, Shouvik Sircar. I think you would enjoy my Synth Clips video tutorials. (Free! You don't even have to sign up:-) ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybYYaBCTcjxxKz1QmxytbIf -_Daniel_
Daniel Fisher's video's are so helpful and full of information. Every few months I'll be trying to figure something out with my keyboard when I end up watching a video he uploaded years ago that already had me covered. And every single time i remember I should have just looked him up first. Great stuff.
SOLD! another satisfied Sweetwater customer here,..I`m getting one of those now, the uncertainty has mysteriously vanished.... Great learning video,...Thank You for doing this.
I have always wondered about special guitar techniques on keyboards. It's good to see that there are all kinds of tricks to make the emulation sound more realistic. Brilliantly played as well. Thanks Daniel!
Wow, I closed my eyes on the 8 min playing and this was nowhere near to keyboard playing. If this was on a record I would never guess it not being a guitar. Pretty authentic.
After watching lots of music theory tutorials and so on to start learning basic stuff as a producer perspective, this is clearly the video giving me the best ways to learn. Having this weird constrain of a real instrument played on a simulation of another real instrument makes everything so relatable it gives sense to all the stuff i couldnt understand while learning strict music theory More than just learning guitars on keyboard i got way up in my theory basis. Thanks, thanks a lot
When playing guitar parts on synth, I actually love the fact you can go lower than standard tuning. Acoustic sounds played in the bass range are my favourite :)) Thank you for amazing video!!!
I'm a guitarist and can tell most of what you did, but you're def a master (8-9 min awesome), sir you nailed it. I use a gr55 guitar synth and can play some convincing jazz piano, key is you have to think like the instrument is really played - kudos
I learned a ton just watching this as a guitar player trying to play keyboard more it was pretty helpful to have a way to find the sounds I'm more used to. Thanks!
I loved this!!!!! really got some info there!!! Always thought guitar patches were wasted, due to me not knowing how to use them!! today this man proved me wrong!!! They should teach this stuff in keyboard lessons!!
Just got a MODX. THIS is the video I was looking for; cause yeah...real guitar sound/feel is hardest thing to do. I see it was just me. OMG to "Eruption," on MODX keyboard. Hope everyone makes it to that part. World class!
@@kevinlemley5962 There's some truth to that. People like Rudess, Rick Wakeman, and a few others are on a whole other level of existence from us mortals, so not being able to play like them doesn't mean you aren't a fantastic keyboard player. 😂👍 It wasn't just that, I thought he was being a little too hard on himself in general.
Wow. Just picked up a MODX7. LOVING it so far. That was fun to watch and inspirational to try something I didn't consider. What a great overview and tutorial. Thanks for that Daniel and Sweetwater!
Fantastic video. So much to take away from this. Probably the best video on playing guitar parts on a keyboard on RUclips. Thank you so much for posting this! It would be great if you can show how to play rhythm guitar patterns on the keyboard.
Very cool. Also a trick is to find a keyboard that can be set to 'monophonic' which of course means it will only play one note at a time and not a chord. Now for example you choose a C chord C-E-G). Hold down the bottom note C and with your other fingers play the high G and let it go and then play the E note. What will happen is when you hit the G and let it go, the C note on the bottom will sound and then you play the E note and the C note will sound again. Play these two notes very fast while holding the C note. It gives the effect of a hammer on.
ABSOLUTE GOLD!!! Best video if it's kind on YT. Thank you so much for bridging the gap between keys and guitar. Wonderful crossover theories and implementation. I knew nothing of how guitar players made their sound before this. Again, thank you!
I was about to pull the trigger on an MODX after hearing those great guitar sounds that I can't get on my other keyboards. THEN, I remembered my 11 year old MOX8 collecting dust under my bed. Pulled it out, plugged in some headphones and....there it is. All those great guitar sounds and more. It has all the sounds he mentions, so it's likely the same exact AWM2 menu of sounds from the MOX8, just displayed differently on the MODX. Check out "saviour bee" tutorial on guitar sounds from his Yamaha PSR-sx900. It's that great Yamaha sound.
Thank you for your kind comments! -_Daniel_ Here are two good places to start: ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybYYaBCTcjxxKz1QmxytbIf ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=daniel+fisher+sweetwater&sp=CAMSAhAB
Wow...just wow. I googled replicating guitar on keyboard and this is what I found. Hugely impressed with instrument and even more so with the musician . Well done!
I could barely tell the difference. Especially with that distorted guitar. That steal guitar makes me want to eat some country fried steak for some reason!
I play keyboards for a living and do demos etc and this is bloody awesome ive always struggled with guitar. brass strings rhodes organ synths drums orchestral stuff are all fine but this has changed my life thankyou!
Whilst the MODX has some great sounds none-the-less your tutorial on sounding like a guitar is brilliant. This is something I’ve been concerned about for the last couple of years and this video has a feast of ideas to work with and to practice. I dare say nothing comes automatic and technique practice is the real deal...once you know the technique. Thanks Daniel much appreciated.
If you're trying to get acoustic guitar sounds from the Fantom, there's a 'trick' to it. On the 2 active sliders on the left hand side, the 1st one has a piano sound while the 2nd one has the guitar sound, so if both are "on" then it won't sound like a guitar; turn down the 1st slider. Not sure what Roland was thinking. This holds true for all the sounds labeled as guitar. There is also a "Mandolin" sound, but if you turn off the 1st slider it has a great Banjo sound.
that was truly amazing and highly instructive. My main instrument is drums but I find myself doing all kinds of synth tracks to emulate other instruments and the guitar parts are typically the least "lifelike". I feel like a veil has been lifted; you've opened my eyes to a whole different approach to guitar tracking. Thank you very much! ( your playing was excellent as well, don't sell yourself short...)
GRRReat lesson Daniel. You're a Pro Synthesist & entertaining too! Thanks for the very useful tips & technique AND for validating some of my own technique. Glad you're with the Sweetwater crew. Modern equipment and controllers have given music Synthesist performance new life! The 21st century musician can dream of any sound...and reproduce it. What a wonderful time to be alive! 🤘
This is a good video Daniel. I was a rock guitarist for many years, played bass and cello as a boy, and learned to play sax, before switching to keyboards in my 40's. One of the bigest issues that always bothers me when I hear other keyboardists playing other instruments on their keyboards, is that so many don't understand how the instruments they are attempting to simulate actually work and sound. This became a really good strength for my keyboard playing in bands, because I understood how to roll chords to simulate guitar chords, when I played something like the 12 string guitar fronm Hotel California, to understanding how to "crunch" root-five power chords with one hand, and playing a synth or piano part with the other, to back a guitarist when they are dropping their chords to take a solo. It's also important to understand how wind and string instruments work realistically. Being a former music professor, and now a classical music composer and orchestrator, I understand all the instruments of the orchestra, and their ranges and playing capabilities. It takes more than just "good sounds" to make instrument parts on a keyboard sound realistic....Peace!
mmh. I learnt a lot about that very subject from starting to play an actual classical guitar after only ever having played keyboards before. I mean, I'm an atrocious musician, but it does make you stop and think about trying to use a keyboard which can 'sound' like other instruments and think about what that means. I think any keyboard player that spends a lot of time using non-piano or pure synth sounds should really take a look at other instruments. Don't need to learn how to play them well or anything, but just at least pick one up and take a look at what kinds of sound it produces, how it does so, what kind of range it has, and what kind of limitations are implied by it's design. I'm terrible at about 5 instruments. XD (one of those being the keyboard), but I at least understand how each of those functions... Recorder, ocarina, flute and guitar... 3 of those have a lot of overlap, for instance they're all monophonic, and you can do various things with your breath. The kind of Ocarinas I have don't even have a full octave of range either... But it helps a lot keeping the limitations in mind when trying to mimic various instruments. If people are serious about it, they should probably mess around with as many instruments as they can...
KuraIthys Thank You for this answer. (Sorry for my limited english!) You mention that several instruments have no overlaps but as a non-guitar-player I ´m looking for helpful hints imitating this on keyboards. (Several Yamahas plus a synthi) And I found out, that it might be okay to overlap guitarsounds when I try to imitate severals players playing different voices.... Keeping other limitations in my mind will be a good idea, even if the best keyboards have very realistic samples with extra articulation possibilities.
While the tips are good, there is no keyboard that can properly replicate a guitar. It works, sorta, buried in a mix, but never as a lead instrument. Anyone who's played guitar for a significant period of time can easily tell the difference, and even the layperson can here it on the bends. The keyboard immediately starts to sound like a synth if distorted, or a cheap pedal steal guitar, or even a clav at times if on clean patches. Keyboards will never properly mimic a guitar, and it's no closer than it was 30 years ago. The sounds in this Yamaha don't sound any more convincing than the ones in the Korg o1w I was using 20 years ago.
@@brianjones8432 I have to disagree with you on this. (sorry). I agree with the fact that never it will replace a (very very very good and great) guitar player (and i had the chance to have as a guest on some tunes of mine one of the best guitar player (who is as well one of the most recorded one), but you can be very very close with a lot of dedication. It's not easy to achieve, i agree, and it will not happen just by loading a preset on a yamaha keyboard or a 01w one (i know the one you're talking about from the 01W). It needs the right skills, the right instruments (not the one in the video above, i'm not talking about the keyboard but the sound), and knowledge. when playing a guitar part (i'm talking here about jazz / rock / pop lead guitars and chords/clean parts (not an other style, and not an other instrument (so i'm not talking about acoustic guitar) but the only way to achieve this is to act as a guitar player on the keyboard, and not the reverse ! Not thinking as a keyboard player who try to play guitars on it. I t's a matter of spending his life to listen to guitar player, playing and learning the instrument as well (I did that), doing transcription of guitar player, knowing their technics, their licks, how they think in term of sound, harmony, chords, solos, etc... analysing their playing note per note, how and when to use bend, hammer on, pull off, vibrato to give this small "realism" touch .. for example, how and when playing one note late or over an another one to simulate some specific parts and lead technics, when doing legato or not etc etc... it's as well not using "preset", but using Real guitar FX Amp etc... one of the best example of this is the tune from mitchel forman Wonderama ! why ? because look at the date this tune has been made ! ruclips.net/video/Hg1_POSDhP0/видео.html and this has been done with a Casio CZ-1 and a Rocktron Overdrive Pedal !! but i agree that it will never repleace a GREAT guitar player ! because the main important thing to emulate and which can't be done on a keyboard, is the "feeling" that a guitar player will provide while playing his instrument, the attack, the "action" of his finger on the string, the "way to do it". it's like Piano, Nothing will replace a real piano, but they are tricks, and we can get close, and depending of the circonstance, sometimes, the worst choice can be the better one. but i'm talking here about great and good player !
Dammmmm...Daniel! This is by far one of the MOST informative videos I've watched. Your techniques are amazing, and SO believable. Closing my eyes, I'd swear you're a guitarist. The Flamenco & Jazz riffs were amazing.
Keyboard guy here...I can't say why but no matter what I hear from good guys like Steve and even dudes he mentions at the start....and no matter how close I come myself to a guitar sound on my equipment, I always hear the immitation element. Dave Smith says that nobody should try immitate guitar on synth because synth is no guitar. I think he is correct. I love synth sounds that some top synths can generate but...the initial energy that is being used to generate the grequency vibration is mechanical vs electrical. This might be overcome some day. But I still prefer original guitar sound vs synth generated clone. Perhaps if there was one independent oscillator assigned to each key on the keyboard instead one oscillator per group of keys, that alone would or could change the dynamics of the synth. It's also interesting that some samples like piano samples can sound very natural on synths where same effect has yet to be accomplished on guitar samples.what puzzles me is both guitar and piano are string instruments. But perhaps the action of initiating the string movement is what the difference is. Piano string with vertical force of hammer vs. Plucking force from the side with infinite number of angles. I learned to stay away from trying to create a guitar clone sounds on my synths. However, I like the guitar immigration intro on the new Lost In Thought album Renascence where Zapatero uses that guitar patch very nicely and with purpose that fits their style of musical thinking. So most definitely, I applaud Steve for this video - even if I myself stopped trying to play like this. I am now learning the guitar in my advanced age. And I am really mad at myself that I did not do so when I was a young kid. But hey - it keeps me curious and feeling young at least.
mitsa nut I'm a keyboard and drummer as my two instruments . I get what you are saying and u can always tell a real drummer and drums over a drum machine or midi drums . But I dont think this video is trying to say that a keyboard player can duplicate an actual guitar player string for string. But there are reasons to do this when composing music and you dont have a guitarist sitting in your closet with a guitar in hand . So this tutorial really helps when I'm writing something on my keyboard and I fire up a vst to have a guitar part to play. I loved this video because I had no clue how to emulate a guitar as I don't play guitar
That's exactly what I'm looking for currently. Amazing presentation, very good advice (already the first one with the open notes = lowest notes) and well explained and presented. Thank you very much for this!
Another tip: On a keyboard, you have to lift your finger up in order to re-strike the note, this puts a short gap in between notes, where on the guitar, you can pick the note again without any gaps. So when you're sequencing your guitar parts (which is what I do) go into your event (MIDI) editor and lengthen the notes so they don't end until just before the next one starts.
I’ve never seen a piano player emulating a guitar player so well before. I’ve looked on RUclips. This is the best. Thank you!
It almost sounds like the ample Sound engine.
Look up the keyboard cover of The Best of Times guitar solo by R01. It's amazing
Finally, a competent man who is not full of himself.
It is much appreciated. I recently decided to try and get into all this again and I hate nearly every personality on RUclips discussing music.
@@ARCSYS4049 Make a video.
John Carwile Daniel Braun Guitar and Xole are alright
@@MikkeMan I'm not the universe:) the universe isn't a person.
@@MikkeMan God created the universe with a boundary
Daniel don’t sell yourself short. You’re a beast on the keys. Your articulations and dynamics are spot on. 👏🏾
This guy is doing some kind of black magic
Hi Dr. James. No magic:-) There will be lots of musicians who will watch this video and eventually become much better at doing it than I can. Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
I closed my eyes through some of this and could swear it was really a guitar being played. What a fantastic illusion that this keyboard and your playing creates.
there should be WAY more of this type of tutorial available for us keyboardists...as you said, it IS learnable and can be taught, and you have to practice it to death to get better at it...emulating the nuances of other instruments is what I call a "hobby WITHIN the hobby"....
Hi DrGagani. Here's a video I made teaching you how to emulate a harmonica on keys: ruclips.net/video/NOLNg0tl9KI/видео.html
@@sweetwater Any change of doing the same for Flutes, Saxophones, Strings?
What You said is absolutely right....being a programmer, using logic pro x, I think tutorials like this will surely have impact on me in arranging songs.....
@@jintojimson33 unfortunately, we live in a current era where manufacturers of these instruments no longer have people out in the field, as in the "old days", giving first hand seminars and demo in the music stores to show the capabilities of these products. Today, they depend upon RUclips videos only.....back in the 80s, when I was constantly buying the newest gear, there would be a chalkboard up on the floor at Sam Ash telling you the schedule of when the various reps from Ensoniq, Roland, Korg, et al, were going to be at the store.....in addition to that, all of the floor personnel had intimate knowledge of every keyboard they sold.....not even vaguely so , anymore.
So important! I hear so many keyboard “guitar” demos that sound NOTHING like a guitar.
Mad props brother
Thanks, Anthony, for you comments. They make this all worthwhile! -_Daniel_
Absolute brilliance! Daniel's method of teaching is excellent, with a perfect mix of theory, verbal instruction, and audio/visual demonstration.
If yamaha's bass guitars sound as good as their six string guitar voices, my band won't need a bass player or lead guitar player, because I could do both parts using the keyboard if I get one. Nobody would guess it wasn't a guitar if you hadn't said it was a keyboard.
He makes it look like too easy. Practice and talent at display. And the teaching skills are exceptional too.
I've never been this impressed by a keyboard before. Congratulations, Yamaha, Sweetwater, & spectacular host. Great interview, perfect pick for it, phenomenal play, sounds, versatility, & combinatory options.
Best keyboard "How To" I've ever seen. I've been trying to rationalize a synth and Daniel just moved me several steps closer to a purchase! Super job!!
Holy shit !! I closed my eyes when he played at 2:19 and that's exactly how an acoustic would sound if you strum all the open strings.
Fantastic control !!
I just bought the MODX8 and I'm waiting on it to come in. I had no idea I would be able to do this. You sir just opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me. Thanks for the video!!!
That one note about voicing coming from the regular open tuning notes is brilliant, all other voicing needing to be above those pitches? Obvious, but brilliant ! That insight alone is worth a sub. Thankyou!
im already sold by the 3:00 mark when you talk about how to play the open guitar notes, God bless you i love you
I like the humility of this guy
I never saw something soo perfectly explained!
This is really the key to making any simulated instrument sound convincing on a keyboard. The sample/synth technology still has a ways to go, but technique makes a huge difference in selling the part.
Wang and chung!!! Hammer-ons and pull-offs!!! Power chords, dive bombs and more! Those guys have names for all that stuff, now I see them actually applied. Thanks! A+!!! Very handy! I wish I'd have found this much earlier in my learning keyboard. Now I have to do that stuff . . . while playing bass with my left hand. And singing.
Thanks for this. I've tried learning guitar several times but as a pianist it's so antithetical to how I understand playing instruments. This is super helpful.
Daniel never fails to hit the nail on the head. First video I've ever found that shows how to do guitar on a synth. This one shows off the new Yamaha and of course, Daniel's talent and skills. Wow. Great video, thanks!
Fantastic emulation. Thank you!
Very talented musician, thanks for sharing your gifted knowledge bro
This is so far the best and most concise video covering this topic. Thank you for your service.
Daniel - that was an intense tutorial worth I want to say $100 bucks. Since most of us are broke - 100 thanks - 1 for each that I apply. Aand I think I will - it is awesome and a solution to my question about songs versus solos. Added to my top ten musical priorities.
Really beautiful…so many years of hard work put into a single video…thank you for your generosity and way of teaching…👏👏
Thank you so much, Swapn Deep. I had been wanting to do that video for a long time. -_Daniel_
Things like this are why I buy all my music gear from Sweetwater. You guys go beyond just selling gear - you love it, and share that love with your customers. Keep setting the standard!
😊👍
Wow! I feel like I just watched a great artist paint a picture. Awesome!
Wow. Thank you so much. I had the day off and decided to search for a video like this. And I found it! Going up stairs now to experiment. 👍
This guy is a born teacher! 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks, Shouvik Sircar.
I think you would enjoy my Synth Clips video tutorials.
(Free! You don't even have to sign up:-)
ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybYYaBCTcjxxKz1QmxytbIf
-_Daniel_
Daniel Fisher's video's are so helpful and full of information. Every few months I'll be trying to figure something out with my keyboard when I end up watching a video he uploaded years ago that already had me covered. And every single time i remember I should have just looked him up first. Great stuff.
Nice tips. You guys should definitely make this a series!
SOLD! another satisfied Sweetwater customer here,..I`m getting one of those now, the uncertainty has mysteriously vanished.... Great learning video,...Thank You for doing this.
Daniel, you killed it! :-)
I have always wondered about special guitar techniques on keyboards. It's good to see that there are all kinds of tricks to make the emulation sound more realistic. Brilliantly played as well. Thanks Daniel!
Wow, I closed my eyes on the 8 min playing and this was nowhere near to keyboard playing. If this was on a record I would never guess it not being a guitar. Pretty authentic.
My brain says he's playing a guitar even though i can see him playing a keyboard.
All companies can learn a thing or two...or three from Sweetwater. Thanks for your stellar "customer service" and tutorials...
Man this was so helpful!!!!Thanks
Wow! This is exactly what I've been looking for. The best instructional on the subject. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I have another on how to play Harmonica on Keys:
ruclips.net/video/NOLNg0tl9KI/видео.html
-_Daniel_
I’ve been looking for this kind of video for MONTHS, and now that I wasn’t even looking, it showed up 😭🙌🏼 thank you so much!!!
Hi TheOneMFA. When you're ready, check out my Harmonica for Keys video:
ruclips.net/video/NOLNg0tl9KI/видео.html
-_Daniel_
After watching lots of music theory tutorials and so on to start learning basic stuff as a producer perspective, this is clearly the video giving me the best ways to learn.
Having this weird constrain of a real instrument played on a simulation of another real instrument makes everything so relatable it gives sense to all the stuff i couldnt understand while learning strict music theory
More than just learning guitars on keyboard i got way up in my theory basis. Thanks, thanks a lot
This guys is brilliant! Talented and and sharing hard earned skills, Thanks Daniel this guidance is priceless
Hi kevinski1966. I appreciate that! Thanks for watching! -_Daniel_
When playing guitar parts on synth, I actually love the fact you can go lower than standard tuning. Acoustic sounds played in the bass range are my favourite :)) Thank you for amazing video!!!
What a wonderful lesson! Thanks Daniel.
I'm a guitarist and can tell most of what you did, but you're def a master (8-9 min awesome), sir you nailed it. I use a gr55 guitar synth and can play some convincing jazz piano, key is you have to think like the instrument is really played - kudos
Wth I didn't even know people like you exist. Nice work man.
Thanks, TBCS! Here's some more, if you want:
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=daniel+fisher+sweetwater&sp=CAI%253D
-_Daniel_
This was craazzy! Good demonstration of what this keyboard can do and the proper techniques to make it sound believable.
Very nice demo.
GREAT TUTORIAL --- EXCELLENT DANIEL FISHER!
I would add as an owner of the KORG PA 1000, I can look forward to incorporating Daniel Fishers techniques, Thanks
I learned a ton just watching this as a guitar player trying to play keyboard more it was pretty helpful to have a way to find the sounds I'm more used to.
Thanks!
Excellent how to use the Bender for the guitar voice on the keyboards. Very good Demo Cheers Best' Wishes 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Wow. Already off the bat that first tip about notes not being able to go lower is excellent.
I loved this!!!!! really got some info there!!! Always thought guitar patches were wasted, due to me not knowing how to use them!! today this man proved me wrong!!! They should teach this stuff in keyboard lessons!!
Daniel Fisher - that was AWESOME, brother! Thanks for posting this!
You are most welcome, Steve. Thanks for watching!
Just got a MODX. THIS is the video I was looking for; cause yeah...real guitar sound/feel is hardest thing to do. I see it was just me. OMG to "Eruption," on MODX keyboard. Hope everyone makes it to that part. World class!
This dude is awesome and very humble about it😂
Don't sell yourself short, Daniel. You are a fine keyboard player. 🎹👍
Saying that you aren't as good as Jordan Rudess isn't exactly selling yourself short, though. Lol
@@kevinlemley5962 There's some truth to that. People like Rudess, Rick Wakeman, and a few others are on a whole other level of existence from us mortals, so not being able to play like them doesn't mean you aren't a fantastic keyboard player. 😂👍 It wasn't just that, I thought he was being a little too hard on himself in general.
Very clear and informative. Covers a lot of great information. I would certainly watch another of this by Daniel Fisher. Great job, bravo!
The guitar sound on this synth is amazing. Nice demo.
Wow. Just picked up a MODX7. LOVING it so far. That was fun to watch and inspirational to try something I didn't consider. What a great overview and tutorial. Thanks for that Daniel and Sweetwater!
Fantastic video. So much to take away from this. Probably the best video on playing guitar parts on a keyboard on RUclips. Thank you so much for posting this!
It would be great if you can show how to play rhythm guitar patterns on the keyboard.
Very cool. Also a trick is to find a keyboard that can be set to 'monophonic' which of course means it will only play one note at a time and not a chord. Now for example you choose a C chord C-E-G). Hold down the bottom note C and with your other fingers play the high G and let it go and then play the E note. What will happen is when you hit the G and let it go, the C note on the bottom will sound and then you play the E note and the C note will sound again. Play these two notes very fast while holding the C note. It gives the effect of a hammer on.
Love this guy. Asa keyboard player with very little guitar he Has taught me a lot.
Amazing, thank you 100 million times for showing us how to simulate guitars techniques on a synth. Hugely greatful
ABSOLUTE GOLD!!!
Best video if it's kind on YT.
Thank you so much for bridging the gap between keys and guitar. Wonderful crossover theories and implementation.
I knew nothing of how guitar players made their sound before this.
Again, thank you!
I was about to pull the trigger on an MODX after hearing those great guitar sounds that I can't get on my other keyboards. THEN, I remembered my 11 year old MOX8 collecting dust under my bed. Pulled it out, plugged in some headphones and....there it is. All those great guitar sounds and more. It has all the sounds he mentions, so it's likely the same exact AWM2 menu of sounds from the MOX8, just displayed differently on the MODX.
Check out "saviour bee" tutorial on guitar sounds from his Yamaha PSR-sx900. It's that great Yamaha sound.
wow, I am going to watch all Daniel Fisher youtube video for sure, great technic
Thank you for your kind comments! -_Daniel_
Here are two good places to start:
ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybYYaBCTcjxxKz1QmxytbIf
ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=daniel+fisher+sweetwater&sp=CAMSAhAB
@@sweetwater thank you, so sweet
Wow...just wow. I googled replicating guitar on keyboard and this is what I found. Hugely impressed with instrument and even more so with the musician . Well done!
You can play guitar on a keyboard better than I can play the actual guitar lol!!!
likewise
I could barely tell the difference. Especially with that distorted guitar. That steal guitar makes me want to eat some country fried steak for some reason!
Exactly!
You’re in good company. Let’s just don’t quit practicing those diddly-doos
butt now they got midi guitar now guitar players can play Keyboard lol
Ah that final Eruption solo... kudos!
I play keyboards for a living and do demos etc and this is bloody awesome ive always struggled with guitar. brass strings rhodes organ synths drums orchestral stuff are all fine but this has changed my life thankyou!
Whilst the MODX has some great sounds none-the-less your tutorial on sounding like a guitar is brilliant. This is something I’ve been concerned about for the last couple of years and this video has a feast of ideas to work with and to practice. I dare say nothing comes automatic and technique practice is the real deal...once you know the technique. Thanks Daniel much appreciated.
If you're trying to get acoustic guitar sounds from the Fantom, there's a 'trick' to it. On the 2 active sliders on the left hand side, the 1st one has a piano sound while the 2nd one has the guitar sound, so if both are "on" then it won't sound like a guitar; turn down the 1st slider. Not sure what Roland was thinking. This holds true for all the sounds labeled as guitar. There is also a "Mandolin" sound, but if you turn off the 1st slider it has a great Banjo sound.
Brilliant, Daniel. I always wanted to play those Guitar notes on PA4X, and now I know how to play them. Thank you ever so much. God Bless you.
This is EXACTLY what i was looking for, thank you
Hey Daniel, thanks for this. You’re quite a player and a class act. Much appreciated.
This was great! I have MODX7+, so have to try your tricks.
that was truly amazing and highly instructive. My main instrument is drums but I find myself doing all kinds of synth tracks to emulate other instruments and the guitar parts are typically the least "lifelike". I feel like a veil has been lifted; you've opened my eyes to a whole different approach to guitar tracking. Thank you very much! ( your playing was excellent as well, don't sell yourself short...)
GRRReat lesson Daniel. You're a Pro Synthesist & entertaining too! Thanks for the very useful tips & technique AND for validating some of my own technique. Glad you're with the Sweetwater crew. Modern equipment and controllers have given music Synthesist performance new life! The 21st century musician can dream of any sound...and reproduce it. What a wonderful time to be alive! 🤘
This is a good video Daniel. I was a rock guitarist for many years, played bass and cello as a boy, and learned to play sax, before switching to keyboards in my 40's. One of the bigest issues that always bothers me when I hear other keyboardists playing other instruments on their keyboards, is that so many don't understand how the instruments they are attempting to simulate actually work and sound. This became a really good strength for my keyboard playing in bands, because I understood how to roll chords to simulate guitar chords, when I played something like the 12 string guitar fronm Hotel California, to understanding how to "crunch" root-five power chords with one hand, and playing a synth or piano part with the other, to back a guitarist when they are dropping their chords to take a solo. It's also important to understand how wind and string instruments work realistically. Being a former music professor, and now a classical music composer and orchestrator, I understand all the instruments of the orchestra, and their ranges and playing capabilities. It takes more than just "good sounds" to make instrument parts on a keyboard sound realistic....Peace!
mmh. I learnt a lot about that very subject from starting to play an actual classical guitar after only ever having played keyboards before.
I mean, I'm an atrocious musician, but it does make you stop and think about trying to use a keyboard which can 'sound' like other instruments and think about what that means.
I think any keyboard player that spends a lot of time using non-piano or pure synth sounds should really take a look at other instruments.
Don't need to learn how to play them well or anything, but just at least pick one up and take a look at what kinds of sound it produces, how it does so, what kind of range it has, and what kind of limitations are implied by it's design.
I'm terrible at about 5 instruments. XD
(one of those being the keyboard), but I at least understand how each of those functions...
Recorder, ocarina, flute and guitar...
3 of those have a lot of overlap, for instance they're all monophonic, and you can do various things with your breath.
The kind of Ocarinas I have don't even have a full octave of range either...
But it helps a lot keeping the limitations in mind when trying to mimic various instruments.
If people are serious about it, they should probably mess around with as many instruments as they can...
KuraIthys Thank You for this answer. (Sorry for my limited english!) You mention that several instruments have no overlaps but as a non-guitar-player I ´m looking for helpful hints imitating this on keyboards. (Several Yamahas plus a synthi) And I found out, that it might be okay to overlap guitarsounds when I try to imitate severals players playing different voices.... Keeping other limitations in my mind will be a good idea, even if the best keyboards have very realistic samples with extra articulation possibilities.
While the tips are good, there is no keyboard that can properly replicate a guitar. It works, sorta, buried in a mix, but never as a lead instrument. Anyone who's played guitar for a significant period of time can easily tell the difference, and even the layperson can here it on the bends. The keyboard immediately starts to sound like a synth if distorted, or a cheap pedal steal guitar, or even a clav at times if on clean patches. Keyboards will never properly mimic a guitar, and it's no closer than it was 30 years ago. The sounds in this Yamaha don't sound any more convincing than the ones in the Korg o1w I was using 20 years ago.
Professor please use spaces for readability.
@@brianjones8432 I have to disagree with you on this. (sorry). I agree with the fact that never it will replace a (very very very good and great) guitar player (and i had the chance to have as a guest on some tunes of mine one of the best guitar player (who is as well one of the most recorded one), but you can be very very close with a lot of dedication. It's not easy to achieve, i agree, and it will not happen just by loading a preset on a yamaha keyboard or a 01w one (i know the one you're talking about from the 01W).
It needs the right skills, the right instruments (not the one in the video above, i'm not talking about the keyboard but the sound), and knowledge. when playing a guitar part (i'm talking here about jazz / rock / pop lead guitars and chords/clean parts (not an other style, and not an other instrument (so i'm not talking about acoustic guitar) but the only way to achieve this is to act as a guitar player on the keyboard, and not the reverse !
Not thinking as a keyboard player who try to play guitars on it. I
t's a matter of spending his life to listen to guitar player, playing and learning the instrument as well (I did that), doing transcription of guitar player, knowing their technics, their licks, how they think in term of sound, harmony, chords, solos, etc... analysing their playing note per note, how and when to use bend, hammer on, pull off, vibrato to give this small "realism" touch .. for example, how and when playing one note late or over an another one to simulate some specific parts and lead technics, when doing legato or not etc etc...
it's as well not using "preset", but using Real guitar FX Amp etc... one of the best example of this is the tune from mitchel forman Wonderama ! why ? because look at the date this tune has been made ! ruclips.net/video/Hg1_POSDhP0/видео.html
and this has been done with a Casio CZ-1 and a Rocktron Overdrive Pedal !!
but i agree that it will never repleace a GREAT guitar player ! because the main important thing to emulate and which can't be done on a keyboard, is the "feeling" that a guitar player will provide while playing his instrument, the attack, the "action" of his finger on the string, the "way to do it". it's like Piano, Nothing will replace a real piano, but they are tricks, and we can get close, and depending of the circonstance, sometimes, the worst choice can be the better one.
but i'm talking here about great and good player !
Don't Faux Wit Dan. One of tha greatest Sweetwater assets. Thankx Dan.
amazing advice! Great video
Great demonstration!
Absolutely invaluable. 🤘
Dammmmm...Daniel! This is by far one of the MOST informative videos I've watched. Your techniques are amazing, and SO believable. Closing my eyes, I'd swear you're a guitarist. The Flamenco & Jazz riffs were amazing.
Keyboard guy here...I can't say why but no matter what I hear from good guys like Steve and even dudes he mentions at the start....and no matter how close I come myself to a guitar sound on my equipment, I always hear the immitation element.
Dave Smith says that nobody should try immitate guitar on synth because synth is no guitar. I think he is correct.
I love synth sounds that some top synths can generate but...the initial energy that is being used to generate the grequency vibration is mechanical vs electrical. This might be overcome some day.
But I still prefer original guitar sound vs synth generated clone.
Perhaps if there was one independent oscillator assigned to each key on the keyboard instead one oscillator per group of keys, that alone would or could change the dynamics of the synth.
It's also interesting that some samples like piano samples can sound very natural on synths where same effect has yet to be accomplished on guitar samples.what puzzles me is both guitar and piano are string instruments. But perhaps the action of initiating the string movement is what the difference is. Piano string with vertical force of hammer vs. Plucking force from the side with infinite number of angles.
I learned to stay away from trying to create a guitar clone sounds on my synths.
However, I like the guitar immigration intro on the new Lost In Thought album Renascence where Zapatero uses that guitar patch very nicely and with purpose that fits their style of musical thinking.
So most definitely, I applaud Steve for this video - even if I myself stopped trying to play like this.
I am now learning the guitar in my advanced age. And I am really mad at myself that I did not do so when I was a young kid. But hey - it keeps me curious and feeling young at least.
Sorry, I meant Daniel instead of Steve
mitsa nut I'm a keyboard and drummer as my two instruments . I get what you are saying and u can always tell a real drummer and drums over a drum machine or midi drums . But I dont think this video is trying to say that a keyboard player can duplicate an actual guitar player string for string. But there are reasons to do this when composing music and you dont have a guitarist sitting in your closet with a guitar in hand . So this tutorial really helps when I'm writing something on my keyboard and I fire up a vst to have a guitar part to play. I loved this video because I had no clue how to emulate a guitar as I don't play guitar
@@mitsanut5869 also imitation is the highest form of flattery. I just want to play as close to the original as I can. Many of us only want that.
@@pierretaylor7011 absolutely.
That's exactly what I'm looking for currently. Amazing presentation, very good advice (already the first one with the open notes = lowest notes) and well explained and presented. Thank you very much for this!
Excellent set of tips!
Very cool, man! Thanks a lot!
Another tip: On a keyboard, you have to lift your finger up in order to re-strike the note, this puts a short gap in between notes, where on the guitar, you can pick the note again without any gaps. So when you're sequencing your guitar parts (which is what I do) go into your event (MIDI) editor and lengthen the notes so they don't end until just before the next one starts.
Only if it's the same note, there will always be a small gap between notes or it will sound mechanical.
Sustain pedal can do the job I guess
This is exactly what I needed :D
This video taught me more about about guitar playing than any other guitar practice video I came across!
brilliant skills...made me want pick my guitat up again.
Ha! Whilst I was watching this video my father in law phoned me and his first words were "who on earth's playing that great guitar?" Good one, Daniel!
This is awesome! Love Sweetwater even more for this.
Excellent 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you very much ...
ONE love 🌍❤️
geeez Daniel... THANK YOU! Your're Awesome!
@ 5:15, a really great advice on chord voicing since the bass player has already covered the Root and the fifth. Absolute gold. Thank you.
Incredible tutorial! You playing is great... your teaching ideas are so helpful. Thanks so much!
Superb & rather unique content !
amazing lesson
Fabulous. Thanks for sharing. You are very talented. Exactly what would be expected from Sweetwater.