Borrowing chords part II
Check out the below video for another chord borrowing tutorial. This time we using two 7th chords in the same progression
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Learn how to use borrowed chords for R&B
Have you every tried to compose R&B music but you feel you are not getting the right sound? This is porbably because you are paying too much attention to standard music theory and trying to use chords that belong in a certain scale. Let’s take the C major scale for example, on the piano it
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SC2 on Ableton Mac
Firstly maske sure that the pluggins are in the correct location Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/ Then as per the video, make sure that “Use VST2 Plug-in system folders” is ON
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That funky Bass Jam
Check out the home page for downloads of similar chord progressions in both WAV and MIDI
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The best way to play solos
I remember playing solos by simply learning the scales and randomly shredding. Although this may look and sound impressive to many, I don’t really think that it is too musical. This type of soloing is very common with guitarists since they can hold the fret positions in a key and quickly shred notes, escpecially on
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July 17th Live event in Gizna, Tokyo
I am late posting this but we had a live event in Ginza on July 17th and it was a great turnout. We did 11 songs in total and one included a guest singer. My setup was my Nord Keybaord, Komplete Kontrol S49 MIDI controller, Steinberg Audio interface, AKAI APC40MK2 and a Laptop. The sound
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Live Show – July 17th Tokyo
I will be playing live in Ginza Tokyo on July 17th as a member of the group Mellow Tonin’. Mellow Tonin’ consists of myself on the keys and beats. Also a rapper from L.A. by the name of Geno. We have both been living in Japan for a long time and have done various music
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60 sec Tutorials Preview
As mentioned previously, I am working on a pack of easy to follow 60 second R&B / Neo Soul tutorial videos. These will hopefully be released sometime in June so do check back for updates. Also see below for the first sample video This is explaining how the 2-5-1 chord progression works. This is one
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Best Rhodes R&B VST
I normally use my hardware for playing the keys, I use a Nord Electro 5D. However, for a change of sound I often like to use a VST. My favourite is definitely the Velvet 2 VST by AIR Music Technology. For such a cheap price it has five electric pianos each with seventy awesome presets.
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