Posted by: shueymusic
Arranger keyboard to the rescue! - 05/17/17 06:27 PM
Today I had a "theme" gig at the local retirement community. It's cruise week and today we were in the Caribbean. The gig paid well for an hour of entertainment. I'm normally a duo but my wife was working her day job.
I took my normal set and modified a few of the songs I normally do into Latin styles. The Korg Pa4X did a great job! I played "Let's Twist Again" with the Mambo Party style... single finger chords in the left and steel drums in the right. Worked like a charm!
A classic cha cha for "Under the Boardwalk." Even "My Way" got the Latin style treatment!
I worked the rest of my normal songs into the "cruise" theme ending with "God Bless the USA."
I normally sequence everything… Play them back as an MP3 and play piano over top while singing. Using the style is now a tool for me to use when I need to come up with something quickly.
I took my normal set and modified a few of the songs I normally do into Latin styles. The Korg Pa4X did a great job! I played "Let's Twist Again" with the Mambo Party style... single finger chords in the left and steel drums in the right. Worked like a charm!
A classic cha cha for "Under the Boardwalk." Even "My Way" got the Latin style treatment!
I worked the rest of my normal songs into the "cruise" theme ending with "God Bless the USA."
I normally sequence everything… Play them back as an MP3 and play piano over top while singing. Using the style is now a tool for me to use when I need to come up with something quickly.