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Summary: In modern rock music, keyboards are typically used as backing instruments to help fill out empty space in a song. Learn more about using keyboards as support instruments in this free music video lesson.

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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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by jorjor55

this is all extremely helpful many thanks

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Tips for Using Keyboards as Backing Instruments

BEN ANDERSON: Hi. I'm Ben Anderson with Expert Village and I'm here today to talk to you about the role of keyboard as a backing or support instrument. Keyboard is mostly used in contemporary music today as more of a support instrument other than anything else. Keyboard is mostly used to help fill out the sound that would normally not be there. In the contemporary rock band, for example, most rock bands will have one or two electric guitarist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer. In a lot of time, that leaves a lot of empty space, so a keyboard's role for that example then would be to help fill out any of those empty spaces that would normally be there without a keyboard. There are many different types of sounds that you can use to help fill out that sound. Pad sounds, for example, are one of those important sounds that help fill out the space that would normally be left empty without a keyboard. There are other circumstances where a keyboard might not be more of a supporting instrument but in most cases, I mostly play keyboards for backing and support and it really helps to give the song a more fuller sound that wouldn't normally be there. And oftentimes I've been told with my band before I started playing with the band that there was something missing and then when I started playing, a lot of people had told us that the song sounded much more fuller and they seemed to make more sense to the listener's ear now that keyboards are there to help support the already existing instruments and the existing sounds that were in that song.

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