Types of Rock Keyboards

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In this clip we're going to be talking about the different kinds of keyboards that you can use when you are playing rock and roll keyboard. The instrument that I've been using here is an electric piano, specifically; it's a Fender Rhodes, which is probably the most famous of all electric pianos. You can see here that it looks the same keyboard as a piano, a little bit shorter but you typically plug it into an amp. It's basically like an electric guitar as far as how you get sounds out of it. You can see up here that there are some different pedals on the top so you can get different effects out of it like you get your regular clean tone that's just this going straight into that amp. Then you can add some distortion to it. I actually used a bass pedal which is a bass distortion pedal because the way that the signal works for a keyboard is more like a bass than it is like a guitar. So this actually works real well for it. So this is without it...... So if you're doing like a lead part, you know, like you want to roll into a solo, you're doing...... And then you'd pop into this and it's...... So you know, it's a nice effect for that. This is another example of a distortion and you know, play with different kinds of pedals and see what works. This one is a real nasty heavy one. This one is a little bit, you know, it's got a little bit of different tones to it. And then this here is a phaser which just gives it a little bit more of a spacey sound. You know you could speed that up. And it gives you a little bit of that Stevie Wonder kind of vibe, you know? Not that, that makes it's sound more like a space alien. The second kind of keyboard you can use is just a classic piano. You can't go wrong with that. You hear that in all different kinds of recordings, even today. And you know, rock and roll piano is kind of a mix of blues piano and country piano I guess you could say but there's a lot of room for that. It's got a really unique sound to it compared to an electric guitar and a bass and drums, I mean it really becomes more like a percussion instrument, you know, because it just cuts through. Classic piano, you can't go wrong with it. Sometimes you can but a lot of times you can't. The third kind of keyboard that you see in rock and roll all the time is the Hammond organ. There's a number of different kinds. This is one of the classic ones; it's called a C3, which is just like a B3 with different legs. The Hammond organs give you a completely different sound from either the Rhoades or the piano. And you can get kind of a nice growly sound, you know, so that can even become almost like another electric guitar, depending on what you want to do with it. You know, it can be a high, there's so many different sonic pallets you can use between all of these different instruments that you really can get the mood you want depending on what you're trying to do

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