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What synths do you use in your live rig?
Dave Number Four replied to J.F.N.'s topic in The Keyboard Corner
I've got a Sequential Take 5 on top of my YC88 for a jam band, some fusion gigs, and increasingly some regular cover band gigs. I usually just bring the YC88 to rehearsals, and approximate the synth stuff with the (pretty limited) YC88 synth samples. But as I get a little better at tweaking the Take 5, I find that I miss it more at rehearsals. Does this mean I need to buy a nord stage to have a decent VA synth at my rehearsals? I'll go ahead and break the news to my wife. -
I do what reezekeys and El Lobo described, for those kind of gigs where I'm not in the pa. Typically the speaker facing the band is hardly giving me any direct sound, and the other speaker is enough to the side of me that I can give plenty to the audience without blasting myself. Obviously not a perfect stereo image but it seems to work. Also I always feel like it's just a wild guess on how loud to make the speaker tilted toward the band.
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+1 for making quick charts on musescore. Mine tend to be overall form + chord changes + any important keyboard parts. The 20 minutes or so or effort making the chart leaves me understanding the song much better than if I took somebody else's chart. I probably have 400 or 500 of these now, but when I take on something new and get a song list from the leader, I still usually only have a few songs where I already have a chart.
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Numa Compact 2X through a Leslie
Dave Number Four replied to Radagast's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Thanks for this. I was going to start a post like "what's the best value Hammond clone to use with a real Leslie?" I have a chance to use a real Leslie for some gigs, and don't even have to carry it or keep it at my house. I normally use a YC88 with extra controller for both AP/EP and B3 duties. I could set it up with B3 panned to one side and everything else to the other and use it with the Leslie. But I usually have piano in stereo, so that's not a great option. I already own a NC-2x but never took the organ (through its internal Leslie sim) seriously. But maybe I have my answer based on this video. -
OT - What are you listening to right now?
Dave Number Four replied to Philip Clark's topic in The Keyboard Corner
Brings together a few KC topics: - "greatest pianists of the ___ generation" (Aaron Parks was on the You'll Hear It millennial list, which is why I ended up watching this) - Barry Harris concepts. It's cool to hear them discussed and demonstrated by a young, accomplished, modern-sounding pianist. He goes deep! - metronome practice. I haven't seen a good argument about this on KC for a while, maybe because IMissRichardTee isn't around. Aaron talks about a fun version (metronome at 60 bpm, divide it into 3 beats, then play in 4/4 at that tempo so the click keeps changing to a different beat). - Casio stage piano with very shallow action. He makes it sound amazing, of course. Overall a nice interview for us jazz piano geeks. -
Anybody following these guys? Brilliant stuff ...
Dave Number Four replied to Tusker's topic in The Keyboard Corner
I love their stuff, including the whole album from last year I saw them live recently, and it was just Louis and Genevieve duo plus tracks and video. I think that's part of their stripped-down postmodern shtick, but I'd love to hear something more like the full acoustic band vibe like those house videos. But it was still nice to hear Louis play drums live. -
2nd Tier Stand that height adjusts very low?
Dave Number Four replied to D. Gauss's topic in The Keyboard Corner
This one: On-Stage KS7365EJ Pro Heavy-Duty... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002F6JH6?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Can go as low as you want. (I don't use it that low, just put it like that to illustrate). It's not great in the set-up/teardown/carrying department, but I'm getting used to it. And I'd say it is very stable. -
"Six on the Fifth" Barry Harris ... what's the point?
Dave Number Four replied to BluMunk's topic in The Keyboard Corner
I think the point is just that: -you learn a bunch of cool harmonic movements (6ths alternating with diminished 7ths, drop 2, and more advanced things you can do with those) -those movements are built around a 6th voicing like GBDE if you're playing in G major. -now you're playing a C maj 7 chord and want to emphasize the maj 7 (B) and 9 (D). Instead of learning new material around a 7th or 9th voicing, you can just play the stuff you learned for the G6 chord over your C root and it sounds great. Hence you're playing your 6th chord bag on the 5th note (G) of the scale (C maj). And there's an equivalent relationship between minor 6th movements and dominant 7th chords. It's not really a theory thing, just a simplification trick. -
Thinking about a YC73 but have a keybed question
Dave Number Four replied to Paul Henry's topic in The Keyboard Corner
I got my YC88 in Aug 2022, and it already had the OS version with the improved Leslie. Since then there's been one more OS release (with Hamburg piano etc) and that was an easy upgrade. -
What piano sound do you use live?
Dave Number Four replied to The Piano Man's topic in The Keyboard Corner
YC88, C7 sample for jazz and anything else "pianistic", CFX sample for rock piano. Previously I used garritan abbey road CFX on a laptop for live gigs for a couple years. I still miss the more detailed and realistic samples of the Garritan, but I sure don't miss dealing with the laptop on gigs. -
Hal Galper's Forward Motion has a central idea that I think is pretty interesting and missing from most of the jazz theory books I've read. Maybe it didn't need to be a whole book, but still worth checking out.
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What are the most iconic "looking" (not sounding) keyboards?
Dave Number Four replied to RABid's topic in The Keyboard Corner