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Keyboard Player Is a Piano Player

#161
-Asdfgh- said:
The Hammond has MIDI out so why take an extra MIDI keyboard? Does he have a Wakeman-like three keyboard set up. Does he have a cape?
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Probably because the Hammond has a waterfall style keyboard vs the hammer action piano style of the Yamaha. Not to mention drawbars.

Personally, I usually use a Roland Juno DS-88 weighted key keyboard with a Studiologic Numa Organ 2 with waterfall keys for organ sounds. Though I admit, I don't always take both to practices and sometimes just use the organ sounds off the DS-88 for practice even though the keys aren't the best for organ. However, I could see where some people would prefer not to do that.
 
#163
TheBassPreacher said:
Probably because the Hammond has a waterfall style keyboard vs the hammer action piano style of the Yamaha. Not to mention drawbars.

Personally, I usually use a Roland Juno DS-88 weighted key keyboard with a Studiologic Numa Organ 2 with waterfall keys for organ sounds. Though I admit, I don't always take both to practices and sometimes just use the organ sounds off the DS-88 for practice even though the keys aren't the best for organ. However, I could see where some people would prefer not to do that.
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I meant more why take the Hammond and the E-MU, but I can see that if the Hammond doesn't have aftertouch and so on, that could be problematic. You can get a Hammond drawbar unit. I can see the logic of having a Hammond that looks like a Hammond but doesn't weigh eleventy tons for shows in which a keyboard, module, drawbar unit and enough cables to reach to the moon to connect them might look messy...
 
#165
If you want a good gigging keyboard that won't break the bank or your back, the Roland VR-09B is the way to go. They are designed for live performance and their organ emulation (and the Rhodes and Clav) are great. It also has a great transistor organ and physical drawbars. I have a friend (who runs a piano shop) who has been playing a Hammond B3 since the 60s, he thinks the B3 emulation is excellent.
 
#167
-Asdfgh- said:
I meant more why take the Hammond and the E-MU, but I can see that if the Hammond doesn't have aftertouch and so on, that could be problematic. You can get a Hammond drawbar unit. I can see the logic of having a Hammond that looks like a Hammond but doesn't weigh eleventy tons for shows in which a keyboard, module, drawbar unit and enough cables to reach to the moon to connect them might look messy...
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If you have never played one, you can't understand.

Far too much to explain in several paragraphs.
 
#169
Hi folks, this is my first post...Been lurking a while...great forum.
I am a piano player / keyboard player...Classically trained, but have played in Blues bands (also in churches) for decades, Roland 700's pianos, and now also a Nord Electro. (Had a Hammond SK3c before).

As for the left hand sonic interference between keys and bass guitar, I solved that in 2 ways. With the Roland playing piano, I split the keyboard and turn down the volume on the left hand. The split point is super easy to start and to change on that board. No menus, just press a button while pressing a key where you want the split.

Result, all the muscle memory of decades of playing is left intact, (sorry), without any sound created so no sone interference with the Bass or anyone else playing down there.

I also can play while literally sitting on my left hand, such as doing high note piano fills in a slow blues (all Right hand stuff anyways), but sometimes when cooking the old style of playing both hands is strong, so killing the left hand sound works.

On the Nord playing B3, the key layout is like a piano, but that is where the similarity ends. Waterfall keys, endless sustain, Leslie effects, etc. equals a style of not only physically playing a different instrument, but also what to play. All totally different. All this I had to learn from scratch on the Hammond and then the Nord, so unlearning the Left Hand style from the piano was not much of an issue.

Once again, great forum!

ps...and then there is the situation in reverse when the Bass player doesn't show up, so the BL leans over my keys and says, "this is the bass line...play it"...Happened during a big festival show during Bike week...Bass player was stuck in traffic, I played the whole first set of tunes, at least one of which the band never played before, it was fun!
 
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#173
Terraplane 8 said:
Hi folks, this is my first post...Been lurking a while...great forum.
I am a piano player / keyboard player...Classically trained, but have played in Blues bands (also in churches) for decades, Roland 700's pianos, and now also a Nord Electro. (Had a Hammond SK3c before).

As for the left hand sonic interference between keys and bass guitar, I solved that in 2 ways. With the Roland playing piano, I split the keyboard and turn down the volume on the left hand. The split point is super easy to start and to change on that board. No menus, just press a button while pressing a key where you want the split.

Result, all the muscle memory of decades of playing is left intact, (sorry), without any sound created so no sone interference with the Bass or anyone else playing down there.

I also can play while literally sitting on my left hand, such as doing high note piano fills in a slow blues (all Right hand stuff anyways), but sometimes when cooking the old style of playing both hands is strong, so killing the left hand sound works.

On the Nord playing B3, the key layout is like a piano, but that is where the similarity ends. Waterfall keys, endless sustain, Leslie effects, etc. equals a style of not only physically playing a different instrument, but also what to play. All totally different. All this I had to learn from scratch on the Hammond and then the Nord, so unlearning the Left Hand style from the piano was not much of an issue.

Once again, great forum!

ps...and then there is the situation in reverse when the Bass player doesn't show up, so the BL leans over my keys and says, "this is the bass line...play it"...Happened during a big festival show during Bike week...Bass player was stuck in traffic, I played the whole first set of tunes, at least one of which the band never played before, it was fun!
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Classically trained pianist here. I do a keyboard split, and put the left hand territory into a different instrument; right hand might be electric piano and left hand organ, transposed UP a couple octaves. Really makes it fun.
 

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