I have 2 questions for other keyboard players?

Question

1. I tend to use only 2 or 3 sounds on my roland sound module (JV1010). There are literally 100s of sounds there but I keep going back to these same 3...how can I break out of this habit....does anyone else have this problem ?

2, I play in a band and although it's going well tend to play in the 2 octaves above and below middle C on the keyboard. This works OK as the pitch seems to be below the lead guitar and above the bass guitar but I wondered if there is any other areas on the keyboard to play that don't conflict with these instruments or where I can experiment with ?

Thanks in Advance

Andy

Answer 1

I tend to develop a habit of playing very similar sounds for certain projects... just try to break the style up a bit... I like to play a lot of bassy funk stuff, and then some pads, and some funky leads... and then there is the very experimental crazy stuff that I get from the Nord Modular... yummy

suggestion: try going through stomp boxes (fx) or rack units... there is SO many ways to mutilate your sound and get unique characteristic sounds from the sounds you like to use a bunch.

Answer 2

Stop playing video games you four eyes, you'll get blind that way!