I thought I'd post something done on my keytar (an ancient Yamaha KX-5). Please bear in mind, this is VERY early days of getting used to this feature, so there ARE flubs (yes, I'm human!).

We just did something showing off the LH bass, here's the absolute opposite of it!

I set my keytar up to control my BK-7m. Couple of rock guitar patches (edited up a bit). The real trick is, I use ONLY the guitar patch to play the lead AND control the chord section too. Piano mode allows me to solo on up to two notes without re-triggering the chord, so I'm working on trying to do guitar stuff and still chord, all with one hand. The ribbon is critical here. All vibrato's done with finger rocking, not LFO's (makes all the difference!). There's not a lot of hammer on/off stuff here, but that's another thing that the ribbon only does.

A work in progress, but quite fun to do. There's one feature I might try next time, that holds the chord with a pedal, so I can get away with accidental 3 note stuff. Something for next time.

The tune is just something improvised, so the chords meander a bit, but maybe it's the start of a song, who knows?! It's just up as an exercise in what you can do with one hand only (who knows what the other hand wants to do!)


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Keytar slow rock.mp3 (143 downloads)

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