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| A relative of mine has gotten an early Christmas present -- a Lowrey digital organ. I didn't give it to them as I would never be able to afford it.
I did some noodling around with the instrument and it is interesting how a digital organ "interprets" a guitar. IMO, it sounds less like a guitar and more like an organ reproducing a guitar sound. I have to admit that the home organs have come a long way since our family had a Thomas organ in the 1970s.
Even though I grew up with an organ in the house, I never learned how to play one. Yesterday I was noodling around, trying to figure out what chords sound good with what notes on the keyboard.
The really odd thing about noodling around with the organ is that it has made me want to noodle around more with the guitar. I had been in a playing slump (again).
I had been thinking about taking keyboard lessons, but I think I should just stick to concentrating on guitar. I am finding out that I am just as uncoordinated at playing the organ as I am at playing guitar.
If anything, the organ will provide an interesting beat box to jam to. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
IMO, it sounds less like a guitar and more like an organ reproducing a guitar sound. um... Isn't that what it's supposed to do?
If you want a keyboard to produce a 'more realistic' guitar sound you have to go to a synth or sampler. |
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| I thought that some of the home organs nowadays had a synth in them. I guess not. I guess I just learned something.
I really wasn't expecting it to sound just like a guitar, but was surprised that it didn't sound a lot closer to a guitar than it did.
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I have noticed that my creativity level goes way up when I mess around with a keyboard. I think it's because I realize I don't know how to play one and just make interesting sounds. Then when I pick up my guitar to find out what I just played I usually find out it was only a minor 7th or something. But the MELODIES that come out are usually interesting and I have written quite a few songs by finding a melody on the piano, then transfering to guitar and filling in the chords.
What's funny is when I mentioned this to my friend Marty, who is a fantastic jazz pianist, he said the same thing happens to him when he picks up a guitar. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | I'm looking forward to getting my Condor guitar and Synth working.
That should be interesting!!
All I need is the damn cord between the guitar and synth unit.
There must be one somewhere!!! :rolleyes:
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Location: closely held secret | AJ, try Keller or Al. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | As a kid, took piano for 2 1/2 years and learned notes. When I picked up a guitar, I learned chord progressions. A little of each helped the other.
I would think that it would be more difficult to go from guitar to keyboard. But I guess it really comes down to learning on a bench or a stool... |
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| Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
I had been thinking about taking keyboard lessons, but I think I should just stick to concentrating on guitar. I am self taught on guitar and am happy with the result. If I'd taken lessons, I probably would have quit after about the third one. If I'd taken keyboard lessons, I wouldn't have returned after the first. |
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| Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
[QB] I have noticed that my creativity level goes way up when I mess around with a keyboard. I think it's because I realize I don't know how to play one and just make interesting sounds. Then when I pick up my guitar to find out what I just played I usually find out it was only a minor 7th or something. But the MELODIES that come out are usually interesting and I have written quite a few songs by finding a melody on the piano, then transfering to guitar and filling in the chords.
Alison,
I have found the same thing about creativity. I have discovered that if I play a C chord on the lower keyboard and play C-D-E notes on the upper keys, it sounds "right" because I'm still in that "little box" on the scale, so to speak.
My teacher taught me that if someone is playing say the third position of C maj pentatonic and you jam along with them using notes in that "little box", most likely it will sound right.
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | noodling
That's a funny word :) |
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OT: An organ is not a guitar