I've got a gig next Friday and it's my first time as a keyboardist, I'll be sat down. Is there anything I can do to "enhance the show"?
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Songs:
The Beatles - Drive My Car
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Sit backstage and let your bandmates work the crowd. You just play the songs.
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:v:
do what that guy from dragonforce does
[QUOTE=TheChantzGuy;33654828]do what that guy from dragonforce does[/QUOTE]
What does he do?
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I bet you didn't know Iron Maiden has a live keyboardist.
[QUOTE=Thoughtless;33654062]Sit backstage and let your bandmates work the crowd. You just play the songs.
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:v:[/QUOTE]
I have big parts so I need to do something. At most I can worm about and stomp my feet :v:
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Master race, it's just a shame I'll never be able to afford one.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;33656830]I have big parts so I need to do something. At most I can worm about and stomp my feet :v:[/QUOTE]
Wear a cape.
Breath fire!
Why not stand up? Or even better stand up when stuff gets good and kick your chair away like Jack White does in that one film.
Next time choose songs in your setlist that have keyboard solos.
Tell the band to extend the bridge or some part or more for you to improvise over. Really when there's a keyboardist there's nothing much to do other than play the stuff and show off a bit, kinda like the drummer really. When your solos do come, just be natural. Whether you're a guy that performs the whole thing with a straight face or pulls really cheesy heads and bops his head and feet everywhere, you'll look like a badass if what you're playing is really good.
The only "tricks" you could so is doing what Keith Emerson does by jumping over the keyboard and playing upside down temporarily.
I don't think you want to ruin your keyboard by pulling an Emerson. :v:
[QUOTE=kirderf;33677637]I don't think you want to ruin your keyboard by pulling an Emerson. :v:[/QUOTE]
Knock over keyboard
Throw knives at drummer
Rock N' Roll
[QUOTE=Mr._N;33661426]Next time choose songs in your setlist that have keyboard solos.[/QUOTE]
Roadhouse Blues has a solo, you dolt.
There is only one man who you can turn to in your time of crisis. One man who is so good at piano, that he is the only man to play a face melting guitar solo on an unplugged MIDI keyboard. One man who can bring upon world peace with his playing, or choose to destroy us all.
That man, my friend.
He is Andrew WK.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccfbPQNMbg[/media]
[QUOTE=Thoughtless;33654845]What does he do?
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I bet you didn't know Iron Maiden has a live keyboardist.[/QUOTE]
he's being the cheesiest person on earth
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Q2HofgAKI[/media]
it's entertaining to watch though, ill give him that
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