Re: [LAU] Piano and bass

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 13 2008 - 08:52:49 EET

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:17 -1000, david wrote:
>
>> Definitely. I play keyboards in my church's band, and for a long while
>> we didn't have a bassist. So I played bass using the keyboard, using one
>> of the keyboard's bass voices. The tone was good enough, you might think
>> it was a real bass player who was at the level of knowing the scales and
>> a bit of rhythm - but it wasn't anywhere like a real bassist. I love
>> playing with real bassists! :-)
>>
>> The Doors used a keyboard bass in live performances. Ray Manzarek played
>> it, using a separate small 1-2 octave keyboard. It sounded fine to me,
>> but the Doors didn't do a lot of fancy bass playing.
>
> true, but soullive do, and they have only keyboard bass (via a
> pedalboard, actually).

That would be much more convenient for playing keyboards.

-- 
David
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