Fender 'Rhodes' Rock Sounds

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In this clip we're going to be talking about when the right time is to play the electric piano. I mean if you have, you know, if you're in a live setting and there's only so much room on stage for one instrument, I think the electric piano is probably the best way to go. It's pretty versatile. You can approach piano sounds. You can get more pad type sounds you know. You think of a piano like an acoustic piano and it's more of an attacking kind of a percussive sound almost. You can get those kinds of sounds, depending on what your, you know, what your set up is and how you have, you know, the tone of the instrument set up. But you can also get a nice real pad sound, almost like an organ. Not exactly, but the same kind of idea, you know. Like I said before it's important to fit your instrument into the context of the whole band. What's going to fit? What's the right sound for this? With all these pedals and all the different kinds of sounds that you can get out of this you can really shape the sound to make it, you know, whatever you need it to be. It's a nice mellow instrument, you know, by itself, without any embellishments or any flourishes on top of it. So, let's look at what it sounds like by itself. So by itself you have a really mellow kind of kind of bell like sound almost. You can do all different kinds of things from it. From making it kind of minor sounding thing, to making it sound like, you know the theme song from "Taxi" Aor whatever. You know you can make it sound more mellow and more, a little bit minor and moodier. You know, and then when you add all these different things to it, you know. You add distortion to it, let's add distortion to it. You make it sound almost like; it could be an electric guitar sound almost. So you see, you can really use an electric piano in almost any setting. It's a unique sound. And to have a real electric piano is always a really cool looking thing on stage. So I would consider that kind of the rock and roll workhorse.

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