A Piano is a percussive instrument, so you would play it that way on your keyboard, with deliberate 'presses' on the keys.
Mentioning Breath, don’t forget a Clarinetist has to breathe regularly. So when you use that voice on your Keyboard you should also ‘take breaths’. One way of perfecting this is to take a breath as you begin to play a phrase, and as you let it out see how long you can maintain it before you have to take another. This should help you to lift your fingers from the keys at appropriate points, especially at the end of phrases in order to allow the Clarinetist to 'take a breath’.
As for breathing, that's something that keyboard players often don't let their wind and brass players do and the results can be artificial - and you have a dead virtual player who hasn't breathed during the whole song! So think phrasing here. If you have lyrics in the music, follow them and they'll tell you where the natural breathing points are. If there are phrase marks, these will do the same. One possible exception is when you have a wind player who is adept at circular breathing - think Kenny G on sax, for example. You can then have really long solo sax lines, but don't tire the player out completely!
I play a Tyros 4 and always have the "Initial Touch" ON. This I think enables the player to play more expressively. I do try to play voices as they should be (perhaps not always as good as they should be, but I try).
I play a Tyros 4 and always have the "Initial Touch" ON. This I think enables the player to play more expressively.
The Clarinet is virtually unused on keyboards these days so a refreshing change to hear it in such a nice song. I think people would be hard pressed to know this clarinet was a keyboard, its got just the right bends and reverb etc.
I play a Tyros 4 and always have the "Initial Touch" ON. This I think enables the player to play more expressively.
I can see where Arthur is coming from with this. When he plays the saxophone note with 'attack' it has a very dynamic sound; but when he plays it 'softly' it is very 'quiet' sounding, which is very evident on certain notes. That change of emphasis gives realism to the saxophone being played.
The Touch setting can be changed in the Main Menu. I have mine on Soft 2. On the Tyros we have "voice set". This is where we can change how a voice sounds .. Effects, Reverb. Delay, Release etc. which then can be saved into a user area.
I have changed the E.Q. settings from the default which I think gives an overall improvement in sound quality.
Electric organs are fun, but there's no substitute for the epic sound of a real pipe organ.
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This is my first real play on my button accordion with the Tyros4 as a backing band.
Listening to this, what I find really interesting is how a real accordion sounds. Although keyboards can get the 'sound' your accordion makes they can't get the intonations where you push/pull the bellows .. and that is part of the overall sound.
I always say it is the same with a piano. A keyboard will never get the sound of a real piano because ... when you put your foot down on the 'loud' pedal of a real piano it takes the 'dampers' off all the strings. This means that other strings will vibrate in sympathy with notes of the chord you are playing and give a far richer overall sound. Yes, it also 'sustains' the note, which can be replicated by the keyboard, but that is only half the story with regard to the overall sound. So a chord played and 'held down' on a real piano will sound different to the same chord played with your foot down on the 'loud' pedal.
I'm sure the same applies to any instrument played on a keyboard. The player of a real instrument will create twists in sound as they play which the keyboard cannot replicate. Although having said that, keyboards do very well these days at getting authentic sounds for musical instruments. Eg. The Clarinet sound I have on my Tyros 4 sounds so much better than the one I have on my Yamaha AR80 organ.
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