[LAU] Piano and bass
david
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Dec 6 01:09:38 EST 2007
Simon Williams wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:17 -1000, david wrote:
>>
>>> Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while
>>> we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one
>>> of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think
>>> it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and
>>> a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love
>>> playing with real bassists! :-)
>>>
>>> The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played
>>> it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me,
>>> but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing.
>> true, but soullive do, and they have only keyboard bass (via a
>> pedalboard, actually).
>
> Does such a thing as a midi pedalboard exist?
I believe so. At least Google thinks so:
http://www.google.com/search?q=midi+pedalboard
MIDI pedalboards designed for real organs, Hammond B3s, etc, etc.
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David
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