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Part of the video series: Adapting Classical Music to Rock Instruments

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Summary: Roll Over Beethoven! Learn about the variations of the piano sounds from the classical music to modern-day sounds in this free video on how to play classical music on rock instruments.

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Scott Smith Scott Smith has been a professional musician since the age of fourteen. Throughout his career, he has been both a musician and teacher. Scott as played in sou... read more

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Classical Vs. Rock Piano Sounds

Hi, I'm Scott Smith here for Expert Village. Right now we're going to see how keyboards have changed very rapidly. Especially these electronic keyboards. In the master's days, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart when they had a keyboard it was all they could it was the only sound they had was coming from that keyboard. With today's instruments we've got a lot of changes that have gone on very rapidly in the last 20-25 years. Early piano sounds, I'm not going to play actual music but I'm going to do the same notes for each keyboard so we can hear the progression of change. The evolution of these sounds. Here is what a piano sounded like awhile ago. Sounds pretty good. That was maybe 20 years ago, they sounded like this, electronic pianos, synthesizers. Now here is a little bit farther along, this would be in maybe the mid 80's. A little bit fuller, a little bit more dynamic, but still not sounding like a real piano. Presently we have pianos that have sampled actual concert grand pianos and then with each note is placed on there as an example as a sample of these wonderful pianos. Whether they're Steinways or Baldwin?s or Bechstein?s or Bosendorfer?s. Here is a full size concert grand Steinway piano. I don't know if you can hear the difference, but it's very, much more dynamic. Now we can start adding new things to the piano. Such as voices over them, or violins, or we can add strings on top, but certainly we can add electric piano with strings, or guitar. Still it comes down to the basic piano.

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