My point is not how good the style is, or how you might edit it – but how do you make that same style more interesting. Not what the style is doing, but what are you doing to create. A style normally has four variations, and that’s a blessing. But what are you doing with your left hand and your pads – without using them the style will repeat and repeat and repeat. It is easy to tell, most of the times, that an arranger keyboard is being used.
By Donny:
I never get bored because I use my playing talents, mixing it up, never use charts as a crutch which makes it always the same & repetitive and use improvisation with all my music vocally and musically makes it fun and different every time..
Donny, Please tells us what your tricks are so that we may all learn --- that’s what this post is all about, sharing.
John C.
Well, first there is offcourse the pads... you can add them...
Then there are easy ways of muting channels live while playing..
You can do this on the pa4x using kaoss
With style modelling/launchpas on the ketrons
And there is a superb live knob on the genos and psr s series to quickly mute tracks..
Then there is offcourse how do you play your chords?
Fullfingered chords, allowing you to use the lefthand sounds for adding a counter melody,
Then there is an option that changes your volume when you play the chord hard or soft...
There is a chord sequencer on the pa4x.. this frees up your left hand to do all kind of things...
Also ketron has some styles with the riff feature..which can spice up things on the D variation..
And korg styles can be programmed to have different parts for different chord types.. you can have the guitarist play something totally different on a major and a minor chord..
Another option is using arpeggiators on top of the left hand (external instrument) lots of fun for creating for example your own guitar riffs live..
There is so many things your left hand dan do with a little training, its almost a shame to play single finger chords every 2 measures or so..
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