How to Prepare for a Multi-Rig Synthesizer Performance

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Part of the video series: How to Use a Multi-Component Synthesizer Set-Up

Summary: Learn how to prepare for a multi-rig synthesizer performance in this free music video on playing keyboards.

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Ben Anderson Ben Anderson has been playing piano, keyboards, and synthesizers for almost all his life. He took lessons as a young child and took easily to music. Performi... read more

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How to Prepare for a Multi-Rig Synthesizer Performance

BEN ANDERSON: Hi. I'm Ben Anderson with Expert Village, and I'm here today to talk to you about adding intricacies to pieces using a keyboard. These can be done by a number of different ways. It depends on what you are already starting with. If you are starting with by playing a couple of chords, for example you are playing these chords. So, you're playing with something like that. One thing you can do is sit down and decide, "Well, what's the rhythm of the drums?" "What's the rhythm of all the other different instruments?" "How could I do more to this while still keeping the same sound but making it still sound slightly different?" And one way that you can do that is with different rhythms. So again, by playing those chords, I could do something totally different, still using the same chords and still keeping the same rhythm. I can play something like this. That's just one of the many different examples. And if you're following along with another piece, say, you're holding down a D minor chord and you're sustaining a D minor chord, depending upon what the other instruments are doing, the one thing that you could do is something like this 'cause all those notes still fall along in the D minor chord, so you're still emphasizing that chord but playing it in a different manner that's more appealing to the ear, and there are many other different things that you can do. Flourishes are very similar to intricacies 'cause they help add a little more to what's already there, and that's really the whole main purpose of adding different intricacies to songs 'cause it really helps add on a lot more to what's already there.

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