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Salsafy Your Sound!
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Salsa (Spanish for “sauce”) is a broad commercial
term used to describe danceable Latin music. There are no specific chord
voicings or progressions
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Jazz Arranging for Keyboardists
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Keyboard players are naturally good arrangers. We do it
every day while we’re writing, tracking, putting chords to melodies, and
mixing our music.
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Tracking Analog Synths That Have No Presets or MIDI
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Now that real analog synths are back with a vengeance, producers have to contend with—gasp—no
programmability. Many of the best analog beasties
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Be the Bass With These Left Hand Techniques
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Picture this: You got the gig and you’re excited about the
music. You get to your first rehearsal and the bandleader wants you to
play “bass” on a
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5 Ways to Play Like Regina Spektor
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I’ve lived in New York City’s East Village for nearly 20
years, and have followed Regina Spektor’s career from its early
beginnings at the Sidewalk
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Get That Vintage Arcade Game Sound in your EDM Tracks
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From electro to tech-house and everything in between,
countless electronic dance tracks have made use of vintage-style arcade
game leads as their
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Synth Soloing Portamento Master Class
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In the last two columns, we’ve explored the difference
between single (legato) envelope triggering and multiple triggering, and
the performance
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5 Ways To Play Like Dave Brubeck
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Dave Brubeck, who passed away in December 2012, just a day shy of his
92nd birthday, was one of the most influential jazz musicians of all
time.
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Add Impact to Your B3 Bass Lines with Percussive Pedal Techniques
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A powerful technique used by most modern B-3 organists is to tap
rhythmically on a bass pedal while playing the actual bass line on the
lower
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Use Hardware Synths Like Soft Synths in Ableton Live
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Good hardware synths have a presence—in regards to both
sound and tactile experience—that software instruments don’t fully
duplicate. However,
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Synth Oscillator Tuning Tricks
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A world of possibilities opens up when you tune two or
more synth oscillators in various ways, relative to one another.
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Secrets of Samba Piano
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Growing up in Brazil, I listened to a lot of Samba, which
is Brazil’s most popular style of music. To illustrate how to play
Brazilian Samba
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That Minimal Techno Sound
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Minimal techno is a genre that constantly percolates just
under the radar of mainstream, but is a huge influence throughout the
worldwide
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You Know More Voicings than You Think!
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When I wrote my first textbook Jazz-Rock Voicings for the Contemporary Keyboard Player,
I included some common “shell” voicings that I heard on
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5 Things I've Learned About Recording Keyboards
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It’s always funny being asked questions like, “How did you come up with your style?” I didn’t really know I had
a style. I’ve simply tried to work
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