Jake - I'm delighted that you discovered my channel, especially given the "ocean" of excellent tutorial content that is on RUclips. Please let me know what topics would be most meaningful for you, what styles you'd like to learn AND if there are any particular keyboard riffs / licks that you'd like to learn more about. I recently posted a tutorial on Half-Step Bends: ruclips.net/video/-ppROFbfH1U/видео.html . Let me know if guitar- style keyboard playing is a topic you want to hear more about Thanks.
Hi @@jimprovmusic! I love the guitar series, and would definitely want to hear more. I've now watched both of them twice, and have jammed a bit to each. I appreciate the music theory-based thinking and language. ie, discussing modes, and/or finding the spots in a scale that contain half steps, and utilizing a half-step bend in those spots, plus a bit of thoughtful and intentional exploration into the tritone, etc. These tutorials take on a bigger life because your level of communication means that we can utilize these ideas in other keys and chord progressions. I'm excited to keep digging in to your other videos, which nearly all seem right up my alley. A few ideas that you don't seem to have covered: 1. Sax-style soloing. My band does What Would You Say by DMB, and on top of virtual sax being generally unrealistic, I have just struggled to match the level of interesting intervals and patterns that Leroi had on the original. 2. Using both Hammond and piano in the same song; either simultaneously, or alternating from Verse / Chorus. Bob Seger's Hollywood Nights, for example. 3. Playing piano in a more rock-ballad style. The piano part in Freebird, for example. It seems like you touched upon this slightly in the Broken Chords video, but I am hoping you have additional ideas to share in this vein. 4. Comping either piano or Hammond in the midst of a guitar-driven song to fill it out and provide interest without overdoing it. Cheap Trick's I Want You to Want Me, for example, I think I can imagine a Hammond line/countermelody that I could fit nicely in among all the guitars. I've started to flesh it out, but would love any insights you may have. 5. Deciding on which instrument/combination of instruments to use for a song based on the style/genre. With VSTs, I have access to Wurli, Rhodes, combo organ, Clav, etc., but I find myself using mostly Hammond, grand piano, and one or two synths. Although I'm in a rock cover band, I've taken a lot to Jazz and Blues in the last few years, and would love to be able to understand more about how to play in similar styles. If none of these suggestions spark interest in you, I am still getting a lot from your ideas, and will happily watch and play along with what you have coming. Thanks!
I'm more interested in how you achieved the keyboard sounds than what you're playing. Can you please explain. It sounds like a over driven sound. What keyboards are you using? Thanks.
Nick - Firstly, thanks for checking out my video. To answer your question, my lower keyboard is a Korg Kronos (Sadly, it's no longer manufactured) and it has the Korg CX3 "engine" as part of it's synth architecture. The flexibility of the CX3 combined with the multitude of onboard effects allows me to create organ patches that totally suit my taste; ranging from Classic whispery Hammond, to Keith Emerson's Prog Rock Hammond, to Jon Lord's over-driven "face-melt", and everything in between. I love it all, but the sound I used on this tutorial gets the overdrive from a chain of built-in effects; amp simulations, cabinet sims, and overdrive. It would take forever to properly detail all of the settings that I use - - the Korg architecture is so vast, and so flexible. Bottom Line: The Korg Kronos gets 90% of the credit, and i get 10% for spending a ridiculous amount of time experimenting with the possibilities.
If you are referring to the chord sequence that begins at 00:17, it is Am, Bm. CM, Bm....Am, Bm, CM, Em, DM. Otherwise, the intro backing track just stays in the Key of A Dorian.
Jim, your channel is filling a niche that I have hoped and looked for for many years now. Thanks for the walkthroughs and the *why* things work.
Jake - I'm delighted that you discovered my channel, especially given the "ocean" of excellent tutorial content that is on RUclips. Please let me know what topics would be most meaningful for you, what styles you'd like to learn AND if there are any particular keyboard riffs / licks that you'd like to learn more about. I recently posted a tutorial on Half-Step Bends: ruclips.net/video/-ppROFbfH1U/видео.html . Let me know if guitar- style keyboard playing is a topic you want to hear more about Thanks.
Hi @@jimprovmusic!
I love the guitar series, and would definitely want to hear more. I've now watched both of them twice, and have jammed a bit to each.
I appreciate the music theory-based thinking and language. ie, discussing modes, and/or finding the spots in a scale that contain half steps, and utilizing a half-step bend in those spots, plus a bit of thoughtful and intentional exploration into the tritone, etc. These tutorials take on a bigger life because your level of communication means that we can utilize these ideas in other keys and chord progressions.
I'm excited to keep digging in to your other videos, which nearly all seem right up my alley. A few ideas that you don't seem to have covered:
1. Sax-style soloing. My band does What Would You Say by DMB, and on top of virtual sax being generally unrealistic, I have just struggled to match the level of interesting intervals and patterns that Leroi had on the original.
2. Using both Hammond and piano in the same song; either simultaneously, or alternating from Verse / Chorus. Bob Seger's Hollywood Nights, for example.
3. Playing piano in a more rock-ballad style. The piano part in Freebird, for example. It seems like you touched upon this slightly in the Broken Chords video, but I am hoping you have additional ideas to share in this vein.
4. Comping either piano or Hammond in the midst of a guitar-driven song to fill it out and provide interest without overdoing it. Cheap Trick's I Want You to Want Me, for example, I think I can imagine a Hammond line/countermelody that I could fit nicely in among all the guitars. I've started to flesh it out, but would love any insights you may have.
5. Deciding on which instrument/combination of instruments to use for a song based on the style/genre. With VSTs, I have access to Wurli, Rhodes, combo organ, Clav, etc., but I find myself using mostly Hammond, grand piano, and one or two synths.
Although I'm in a rock cover band, I've taken a lot to Jazz and Blues in the last few years, and would love to be able to understand more about how to play in similar styles.
If none of these suggestions spark interest in you, I am still getting a lot from your ideas, and will happily watch and play along with what you have coming. Thanks!
@@jakehendriksen2841 - send me an email and we can discuss all of this. jimprovmusic@gmail.com
I've been looking for tutorial breakdowns like this for a long time, thank you
Thank You for discovering my channel.
Great tutorial, Jim - thanks a lot!!❤
Really well done ! Thank you.
I'm more interested in how you achieved the keyboard sounds than what you're playing. Can you please explain. It sounds like a over driven sound. What keyboards are you using? Thanks.
Nick - Firstly, thanks for checking out my video. To answer your question, my lower keyboard is a Korg Kronos (Sadly, it's no longer manufactured) and it has the Korg CX3 "engine" as part of it's synth architecture. The flexibility of the CX3 combined with the multitude of onboard effects allows me to create organ patches that totally suit my taste; ranging from Classic whispery Hammond, to Keith Emerson's Prog Rock Hammond, to Jon Lord's over-driven "face-melt", and everything in between. I love it all, but the sound I used on this tutorial gets the overdrive from a chain of built-in effects; amp simulations, cabinet sims, and overdrive. It would take forever to properly detail all of the settings that I use - - the Korg architecture is so vast, and so flexible. Bottom Line: The Korg Kronos gets 90% of the credit, and i get 10% for spending a ridiculous amount of time experimenting with the possibilities.
What is the chord progression here?
If you are referring to the chord sequence that begins at 00:17, it is Am, Bm. CM, Bm....Am, Bm, CM, Em, DM. Otherwise, the intro backing track just stays in the Key of A Dorian.