Re: Smooth Chords (Full Tutorial)

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This is me playing around with Starling Jones' funky chord progression aka "Smooth Chords".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Starling
• Jones
• smooth
• chords
• roland
• rd-700sx
• 700sx
• keyboard
• electric
• piano
• funky
• jazzy
• jazz

[SoulThriveBeats]

How do you make it where u can have headphones on and still have the music coming through the video directly instead of through speakers? nice playing btw..keep it up

[bryceguy72]

@SoulThriveBeats I plugged a splitter into the keyboard's output. Google 3018-HDSPLGRN to see what I mean. So now I have two two plugs. My head phones go into one plug, and my computer's AUDIO IN goes into the other plug. I used the computer's built-in audio digitizer to capture the audio, so it was never analog... never played through speakers. It's digital-to-digital so that's why it sounds clean and crisp. Then I combined the audio and video from the camera in iMovie.

[MelvinShakeshaft]

Great. I like it even more that you added something new to the progression at 1:15. Could you share those chords with us like Starling Sounds did, please? :-)

Thanks!

[bryceguy72]

Sure. I just added annotations for those mystery chords so they'll show up if you view the video.

[gmanjam]

i like the way that you were able to change that tone generator on the fly. a lot of keyboards have a feature something like that, but the one on that keyboards drastically changed the original sound... and without degrading the sound quality. what keyboards is that?

[bryceguy72]

Roland RD-700SX. It's a great pro-level keyboard but expensive: Around $2100 if you buy it new. I got mine at a pawn shop for $700... barely used and like-new condition.

[gottenjet]

I really like 01:07 thats got something in there that's really tight

[thejaybeez]

haha, that's sick! nice groove man.

[epistrophy99]

What makes the first notated chord nice (Gmin9 root position) is the addition of the b7(F) at the bottom creating a nice dissonance in the form of a Maj 2nd. Then you have a C13 b9 #11 , which I really like. This goes to a nicely voiced FMaj9

[fede4real]

nice feel

[bangkoknigel]

@bryceguy72 Great sound. How about chords/notes for the first part - please!

[yoda1914]

1:41 I was waiting for a run in there somewhere...I just felt it in my spirit!! HAHAHA lol

[yoda1914]

@delaghetto17 Man who you tellin ROTFLOL x be like "Dag why did I break up with him??" and then I am like see you could have been my groupie!! Sike naw lol

[K3anuPlaysP1an0]

@delaghetto17 LOL 7th video down in the "Related Videos" He shows the chords

[delaghetto17]

I just want to learn 1 chord like that , show off in front of some folks(including an X) and then just walk away.