How to Replicate an Instrument with Keyboards

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BEN ANDERSON: Hi. I'm Ben Anderson with Expert Village, and I'm here today to talk to you about replicating real instruments using a keyboard. The keyboard has many different functions with different voices, and by voices I mean different types of instruments that you can reproduce using artificial sounds. A lot of times, on most keyboards, they might not sound exactly like real instruments but it is better than--if for example you don't have that actual instrument, say you want to play a song that would normally have a violin or a cello in it, it's nice being able to at least have some sort of a string sound that sounds something like this. It doesn't sound exactly like real strings but it is very close to the real thing. Another important thing when replicating real instruments is you have to sit and think what does that real instrument sound like and how would that real instrument be played, and therefore that would determine exactly how you will play it on a keyboard and how you might even adjust your sound to make it sound a little more like the real instrument. For another example, the bass guitar; if you're playing bass guitar on a keyboard, you have to understand how the bass might be played in that particular song. If you're playing something much more rhythmic, you're going to need to be able to follow along with that unless you're playing something with maybe more sustained notes. There are many different ways that you can figure out how exactly you need to replicate that real instrument, but it's important to know what the instrument you're trying to replicate really sounds like in order to determine how you're going to actually play it on a keyboard.

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