Chords for Worship Central // Keyboard Tutorial

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Welcome to the [D] Worship Central [Gbm] Keyboards tutorial video.
My name [D] is Steve Harding.
I've had the privilege of _ playing keyboards [N] for Tim and Al
on the Worship Central events, the UK dates and the European dates.
Playing for Tim and Al has been a real experience for me,
_ both in terms of worship _ and because it's really easy.
They use four chords.
_ By the way, that's two chords each.
_ Right, so today we're just going to go through a few of the things
that I might do or not do in terms of playing keyboards in a worship time.
Okay, let's just take a quick look at the setup that I'm using at the moment.
_ It's a little bit stripped down because it's for travelling, _ _
but it consists mainly of this Nord [Ab] stage keyboard,
which has some great piano sounds on _ and is very light, _ very useful. _
So most of my sounds are coming from there. _ _
In addition to that, _ I'm taking MIDI information out.
_ _ Yeah, that was the MIDI plug.
_ _ Taking MIDI information out, _ which actually comes into my laptop,
and I'm running some pad sounds.
You can run potentially any sounds from a laptop,
but the way it's working for me is running [F] _ pads from my laptop.
So the MIDI information will come into this, what's called an audio interface,
and then out of the interface and into the computer.
So an interface, interfaces between a keyboard and a Mac.
There are a few things.
When you have a keyboard at church,
very often it might be _ just a simple basic keyboard that covers all the bases.
[G] So it will play piano, it will have a pad, it will have a string sound.
There are some things you can do to make them more exciting. _ _
Obviously, you don't want to sort of go too crazy on it
and, you know, rising platforms with smoke and _ et cetera.
But there are a few things in terms [Ab] of effects that you can do.
Things like reverb, chorus, _ distortion can be very helpful.
So on my keyboard _ here, which is a Nord, which is good because it's red,
_ _ _ it has quite a comprehensive _ _ _ section for effects and the like.
So I don't tend to use any external effects,
although I know a lot of people do use, particularly in the studio,
_ [G] will use guitar pedals, will use _ all kinds of studio equipment.
Some of the effects that I use during a normal worship service would be things like
maybe a little bit of [Gb] tremolo on [G] a Rhodes, which I'll just show you now.
_ So I hope you're getting that. _
_ _ [D] _ [G] So this is [C] without.
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And then a little bit of tremolo, which you can hear just wobbles the sound.
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would be one example.
Another thing that a lot of people use is _ a delay sound,
which will _ produce repeats of the sound after it.
Much like the Edge from U2, a great advocate of the delay effect.
So, _ for example, _ the delay, the piano sound on its own,
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_ and then with a little bit of delay. _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ You can do things like _ give it a little bit more drive.
I'll go back to the electric piano sound.
So _ quite a nice, pleasant sound.
It's a bit more of a rocky song.
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You can get a fair amount of, _ [C] you know, that's what [G] it's like.
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So I would say [Ab] do be sparing.
Don't do that.
_ So be creative, perhaps in rehearsal, _ in times when you're practicing.
Know your sounds and know some of the effects you can do.
When you're actually in the time, be sparing, be [G] musical as always,
_ _ so that it doesn't become distracting.
_ Just want to say a few words about a few different sounds.
_ [Abm] So first of all, we'll start off with the pad sound. _
This can be used either on its own as a bed for the rest of the band.
_ It's quite useful [C] for linking songs, which is something that we do quite often.
_ _ Sometimes that can be quite boring.
I've got a very simple pad sound here, which I'll just play for you. _ _ _
In terms of the voicing for some of these things,
I keep them, when the band is playing, up the keyboard.
It tends to be a bit muddy _ down here.
I think that might have been distorted slightly. _
Some of them are quite boring.
You can add a bit of personality with some effects.
So I've got [E] effects to make a pad sound slightly more exciting.
[C] So _ I'll just play a normal chord.
And then with my modulation wheel, you can hear there's quite a difference there.
Yes. Woo! _ _ _
So a pad will be used in a lot of the worship _ [G] _ that we play,
very often at Worship Central.
So the sound I would use most often would be a piano,
which many people will just have a piano, and it's [C] a great instrument.
_ Some of the other sounds, just for a bit of variation,
[Am] there is a Rhodes electric piano, sometimes called,
_ _ which are great for some [G] of the maybe more slightly funkier songs.
_ _ _ _ Then from then, really, in terms of basic sounds, _ _
the organ, the Hammond organ, B3, _ is quite useful,
which has _ [C] _ [G]
a_type_ sound. _ [C] _ Or you can use it in a_ We sometimes use it in a slightly more traditional setting. _ [F] _ _ [Am] So it's just [F] a different [C] style of playing. [G] _ Just _ _ a word on these. You wouldn't necessarily play a B3 exactly the same way as you [C] would play a piano, and likewise with the Rhodes as well. There is a different technique. _ A lot of the time on a B3, you'll slide up to a note, or something like [F] that. Which you wouldn't necessarily do [Em] on a piano. So listen to music that has [N] these instruments in. They are distinct instruments, [A] and sometimes it's good to differentiate between them in your playing style. _ _ Thanks for listening. Hope that made sense. [E] And see you next time on the Worship Central Keyboard Seminar [D] Tutorial Video Club. [Gbm] Amen. _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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