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#471774 - 06/26/19 01:32 PM
Re: Nothing wrong with Arranger keyboards....
[Re: cgiles]
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Registered: 04/13/05
Posts: 5126
Loc: USA
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....if you can play. Yeah, I know that most of you already know about this guy but every time I listen to him it just re-enforces Paul's signature note, "It's not the keyboard, it's the musician" (or words to that effect). Forget the usual complaints; "it sounds too robotic", or "it's too repetitive", etc., etc. Nothing robotic or repetitive about this performance. As someone pointed out earlier, there's nothing wrong with a rock-solid precision beat; YOU can supply the syncopation that gives it it's 'groove'. The lesson here, as far as I'm concerned, is, in every performance, put the emphasis on what YOU'RE doing, not on what the Arranger is doing. Make what the Arranger is doing a STARTING POINT. YOU add the 'special sauce'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJr0hklTjwchas WOW!! Now I wonder why my Pa4x doesn’t sound like that when I play ( never mind I know why)
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#471830 - 06/27/19 09:29 AM
Re: Nothing wrong with Arranger keyboards....
[Re: cgiles]
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Registered: 12/01/99
Posts: 12800
Loc: Penn Yan, NY
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I'll never be an "arranger keyboard player" I'm a musician/singer/entertainer, and I sometimes use arranger keyboards as a tool to provide accompaniment for my show. I also use many other instruments, like guitar, banjo, uke, sax, Rhodes, and real pianos ... "arranger player" is just not the right way to describe what I do. The kb is just something that I USE, not something that defines me, or my style. Rant over. (whew)
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#471835 - 06/27/19 09:42 AM
Re: Nothing wrong with Arranger keyboards....
[Re: Uncle Dave]
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Registered: 09/21/00
Posts: 43703
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I'll never be an "arranger keyboard player" I'm a musician/singer/entertainer, and I sometimes use arranger keyboards as a tool to provide accompaniment for my show. I also use many other instruments, like guitar, banjo, uke, sax, Rhodes, and real pianos ... "arranger player" is just not the right way to describe what I do. The kb is just something that I USE, not something that defines me, or my style. Rant over. (whew) That's all well and good Dave but there is in many circles an underlying bad vibe "shame stigma" within pro musicians that never goes away, ....mentioning that someone is an arranger kb player is becoming almost as bad as saying the K-Word ... I don't agree & appreciate all art forms especially music. Maybe we need an Arranger KB Pride Day!!!
Edited by Dnj (06/27/19 09:53 AM)
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