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Other Playing techniques

Started by davenshaven, November 01, 2005, 02:45:43 AM

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davenshaven

Do you know some more playing techniques?
I tried playing on the tuning forks,...

If you know some more, are this different techniques bad for my rhodes?

hrees

Unscrew the harp at the bass end and push it away from you about 1". Boost the treble as much as you can.

tnelson

Hold a comping chord open with your left hand while you play lines with your right hand. The undamped tines will ring sympathetically as you strike related notes in your RH lines. It's a very musical drone that you shape. Hank Jones does this a lot on acoustic piano---holding notes open without actually striking them, so they just ring sympathetically. You need to be playing above a certain volume for this to work with the Rhodes, and you need amplification/EQ that keeps harmonics clear and distinct. Forget it if you're into the muddy bark & blat sound. It probably helps to have the harp cover off, but I don't do that.