How to Add Intricacies 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 adding intricacies to pieces using a keyboard. This can be done by a number of different ways. It depends on what you're already starting with. If you're playing--if you're starting by playing a couple for chords, for example you're playing these chords (plays chord progressions) so you're playing something like that. One thing that 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 (plays same chord progression in a different rhythm). 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 and one thing that you could do is something like this (plays a passage in D minor) '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 a lot more to what's already there.

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