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Alan Brookes
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Posted 8 Mar 2009 11:28 am |
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Instant keyboard, or how to give everyone the impression that you can really play it... 
Like many of you, after I've recorded the steel part, I add the other instruments in the background. Now I'm primarily a guitarist, and I'm okay on the keyboard in C, Amin and Eb, the easy keys, but if I have to put parts in in some other key, for instance F#, I can't remember which notes go into the key. I can work them out, obviously, but it doesn't translate to fluent application. 
To save a lot of time and effort, I came up with the idea of sticking strips of masking tape on the keys. 
Yes, I know it's cheating, and it would make most keyboard players throw up, but it works, and I'd rather put in time practising on those instruments I know than learning an instrument which I'll never be any good at.... 
For those of you a lot smarter than I, look at the strips in the photo and tell me which key I was playing in.   |
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John Steele
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Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 8 Mar 2009 11:55 am
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Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 8 Mar 2009 7:41 pm
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You've also got the notes there for playing in A.
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Dave Van Allen
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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 7:22 am
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| I don't see any difference between this and a newbie putting a strip of tape with the chord names at each fret on a steel fretboard. you do what ya gotta |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 10:54 am
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| Back in the 1800s a piano builder designed a piano with a sliding keyboard. If you wanted to play in D, for instance, you would play in C, using all the white notes, and slide the keyboard two clicks to the right. It worked. Nowadays, with electronic keyboards, it would be easy for the manufacturers to add an 11-way sliding switch.... |
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Ron McLaren
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Buckinghamshire, UK
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 11:10 am
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Most decent electronic keyboards have a 'transpose' function that enables a player to play in any key using the chord fingerings they are familiar with Alan.
Regards Ron Mc 
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Bo Legg
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 11:12 am
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I know a guy who just selects a key like he selects other setting and this way he plays everything in the key of C on his keyboard and it comes out whatever Key he selects. The PSG not being a midi instrument is not capable of this. Shucks!
Sorry Ron I didn't see your post when I wrote this. |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 11:34 am
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| .. and it comes out whatever Key he selects. The PSG not being a midi instrument is not capable of this. |
But in fact the PSG can be played this way. |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 11:37 am
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| Didn't ET do most of his songs in the key of "C"? |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 11:50 am Re: Instant Keyboard
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| For those of you a lot smarter than I, look at the strips in the photo and tell me which key I was playing in. |
It's ambiguous since there's no D or D#, but I'd guess F# minor.
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chas smith R.I.P.
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Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2009 4:05 pm
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| It could be E6,9, or A maj7, although I wouldn't expect to see the natural 4 in either of them, so I vote for C#-7. |
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