Coker Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 Well, it seems like the sax and guitar players got all the dates! 1 Quote CA93, MODX8, YC88, K8.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgoo Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 I'd listen to (a little) less Wakeman and a LOT more Corea. My mostly diatonic brain could've used a lot more stretching. 1 Quote Custom Music, Audio Post Production, Location Audio www.gmma.biz https://www.facebook.com/gmmamusic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpl1228 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 I'd buy Tom Oberheim a drink and explain to him all of the future reasons not to sell to Gibson. Then we'd have some more drinks and then go egg Uli Behringer's house. 1 2 Quote Roland RD-2000, Yamaha Motif XF7, Mojo 61, 2 Invisible keyboard stands (!!!!!), 1939 Martin Handcraft Imperial trumpet "Everyone knows rock music attained perfection in 1974. It is a scientific fact." -- Homer Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
16251 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 I first used a reel-to-reel to slow down solos for transcribing, then it was cassette with the Marantz, which was a huge step up. The first computer app I had was the Amazing Slo-Downer and now I use Anytune Pro+. Apps changed everything cause they keep pitch (another huge step forward.) I wish I had all the learning tools I have today to make the tedious work of hearing and learning music. Besides the ability to slow down, having all real books on iPad, all the play along apps, YouTube, etc. This leads to my second wish, taking more seriously the importance of transcribing (whatever music you are into.) 2 Quote AvantGrand N2 | ES520 | Gallien-Krueger MK & MP | https://soundcloud.com/pete36251 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PianoMan51 Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Turning 73 this year. After coming back from Covid I made some changes to my musical projects. But I made one vow, to religiously follow Jaco’s advice to his bassist students… (I paraphrase) “Learn the song. Inside and out. Be able to play the melody, the chords. Memorize the form completely.” I realize that I tended (and tend) to push myself over that learning hump until I can I can play the song well enough to satisfy myself. But once I got there I rarely went back. Never Relistened. Relearned. Rethought. I have a set of big band gigs coming up. Consider the ‘old me’ method of getting good at playing the piano chart in front of me. The ‘new me method’ means learning each song as a song. Melody, harmony, structure. Then memorizing the whole chart. Where everybody else plays. Then listening to recordings to hear how the real cats solved the puzzle that each arrangement posed. And then at the performance being ready to make it my own. I know I made this seem onerous. But for each one of you who winces when Mustang Sally is mentioned, go back and listen to the original. I personally would be very happy to present something as hip yet simple to an audience. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Lessons, lessons and more lessons. With a teacher who gets playing live rock / jazz / pop 1 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthaholic Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 For me it's not about playing as much as exercise, proper posture, and other self-help to counter decades of playing while standing for 5 or 6 sets a night, 5 or 6 nights a week. I did none of it, and it has taken its toll in my hips, my back, my right shoulder, my neck. 1 Quote The fact there's a Highway To Hell and only a Stairway To Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic numbers People only say "It's a free country" when they're doing something shitty-Demetri Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 Study subtractive synthesis and audio mixing for a month, instead of GASing for three decades. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delaware Dave Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 At one time I wished I never sold my vintage instruments (D6, Wurli, Rhodes, CP70 and B3/leslie). I purchased another B3/leslie years ago but never repurchased the others. Hindsight now being 20/20 I'm glad I didnt; I'd never keep up the maintenance/tuning, they're heavy and large. With the digital emulations that Crumar/GSI has come out with I really dont miss them since I get the vibe with the right keyboard controllers .... 1 Quote 57 Hammond B3; 69 Hammond L100P; 68 Leslie 122; Kurzweil Forte7 & PC3; M-Audio Code 61; Voce V5+; Neo Vent; EV ELX112P; GSI Gemini & Burn Delaware Dave Exit93band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose EB5AGV Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 Thank you all for your contributions. I think some of the lessons I could get is to work more on technique and general piano playing and sheet music reading, keep playing on a band, even if the other musos level is lots better than mine, learn to use the instruments I have instead of succumbing to GAS..and, overseeing all of these, enjoy the process! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrythek Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 On 12/23/2023 at 8:43 PM, PianoMan51 said: Turning 73 this year. After coming back from Covid I made some changes to my musical projects. But I made one vow, to religiously follow Jaco’s advice to his bassist students… (I paraphrase) “Learn the song. Inside and out. Be able to play the melody, the chords. Memorize the form completely.” I realize that I tended (and tend) to push myself over that learning hump until I can I can play the song well enough to satisfy myself. But once I got there I rarely went back. Never Relistened. Relearned. Rethought. I have a set of big band gigs coming up. Consider the ‘old me’ method of getting good at playing the piano chart in front of me. The ‘new me method’ means learning each song as a song. Melody, harmony, structure. Then memorizing the whole chart. Where everybody else plays. Then listening to recordings to hear how the real cats solved the puzzle that each arrangement posed. And then at the performance being ready to make it my own. I know I made this seem onerous. But for each one of you who winces when Mustang Sally is mentioned, go back and listen to the original. I personally would be very happy to present something as hip yet simple to an audience. Wise words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 On 12/23/2023 at 5:43 PM, PianoMan51 said: ... I know I made this seem onerous. But for each one of you who winces when Mustang Sally is mentioned, go back and listen to the original. I personally would be very happy to present something as hip yet simple to an audience. Those who wince at Mustang Sally will have a hard time producing anything dope. Both Hall & Oates and Mick Hucknall found gold in that groove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AROIOS Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 8 hours ago, AROIOS said: Those who wince at Mustang Sally will have a hard time producing anything dope. Both Hall & Oates and Mick Hucknall found gold in that groove. Speaking of the Mustang Sally groove, Bruce Springsteen's song makes for a perfect mashup and great fit for the occasion. Merry Christmas, Sally .mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou_NC Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 I wouldn't change a thing about my brief musical "education" (learning to play "keyboards" by taking lessons on a Wurlitzer spinet organ in my parent's living room). However, my first organ *purchase* would have been considerably different.............In hindsight, I would have borrowed the $500 in 1981 to be able to buy the used Hammond B3/122 combo I looked at for $1700, rather than buying the used Farfisa Professional Duo for $1200. 🙂 What a dope I was......... Lou 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnH Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 I would get a metronome. Although I was doing cover band gigs for four years and playing a long time before that, when I got in a cover band gig on ships my timing was not good! It did get better later as I got into making my own sequences, but has really only gotten a lot better in past 10-12 years as I use metronome apps alot. I still rush sometimes, but, at least I can now count. I started doing drumming stuff in the gym in the late 90's until 2023 , that was a huge help for counting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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