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This program features Matt Clifford, a brilliant keyboard artist who has toured with The Rolling Stones and Yes. After a detailed overview of synthesizers and their capabilities, he gives instructi...
This program features Matt Clifford, a brilliant keyboard artist who has toured with The Rolling Stones and Yes. After a detailed overview of synthesizers and their capabilities, he gives instruction on choosing a keyboard; notes and intervals; bending notes and vibrato; keeping time; scales; bass lines, left- and right-hand chords, melody lines, and rhythms; MIDI technology and sampling; using orchestral, classic rock, and synthesized sounds; building multitrack sequences; and how to improvise simple songs. The program concludes with a performance by Clifford.
Details
- Creator
- Espresso Productions
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2005], c1991
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (92 min.) : sd., col., digital
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780736587105
- OCLC
- ocn709668791
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on May 12, 2005.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Parts of a Minimoog Synthesizer (6:30) -- Dave Smith's Prophet-5 (2:07) -- Korgan One Synthesizer (3:22) -- Keyboard Techniques (5:41) -- Hand Placement on the Keyboard (3:49) -- Sections of a Keyboard and Chords (4:05) -- Minor Scales (5:02) -- Baselines on Left Hand (3:55) -- Patterns of Keys (3:55) -- Riffs (5:04) -- Accompanying Styles (5:53) -- MIDI and Sampling (2:32) -- Recording on a Sampler (2:17) -- Multi-Sampling (1:26) -- Orchestral Textures in Synthesizing (3:19) -- Performance Control and Velocity (1:45) -- Sampling Voice Sounds (1:51) -- Synthesized Sounds (3:49) -- Classic Rock Sounds (4:44) -- Rhythm (3:08) -- Sequencing (4:02) -- Optimizing the Keyboard (5:23)