I really Dig Prince on the Keyboards. What Songs have some of your Favorite Keyboard chords and solos? Any Keyboardist on here can Funk Up the Keys like Prince did?

Right On! You also play keyboards?

I do. His keyboard playing and layering is genius!

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The entire 1999 album. especially DMSR and 1999. The chords are technically simple but the way he voices and layers the sounds makes them sound so complex!!!

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Also the way he does these really funk "horn" parts on keys..... I still can't quite figure out how he does it. There are these very "squiggly" stabs like on the extended version of Let's Go Crazy during the instrmental break..... similar ones on the Glamorous Life extended /album version.

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Then there are just INSANE synth parts on the solo of Cool....or the live version of DMSR ("Gimme some horns")..... or on Chocolate.

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Or extended version of Kiss! (I've been trying to recreate those in lately..... not sure if I'm doing it right)

I've played piano and keys since I was a single digit aged boy.

Took orchestra in school so I learned to read music early on, but started playing piano on my own before that.

My warm up song for a long time was "The Arms of Orion" or "Raspberry Beret."

GaryMF said:

I do. His keyboard playing and layering is genius!

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The entire 1999 album. especially DMSR and 1999. The chords are technically simple but the way he voices and layers the sounds makes them sound so complex!!!

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Also the way he does these really funk "horn" parts on keys..... I still can't quite figure out how he does it. There are these very "squiggly" stabs like on the extended version of Let's Go Crazy during the instrmental break..... similar ones on the Glamorous Life extended /album version.

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Then there are just INSANE synth parts on the solo of Cool....or the live version of DMSR ("Gimme some horns")..... or on Chocolate.

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Or extended version of Kiss! (I've been trying to recreate those in lately..... not sure if I'm doing it right)

Cool. How do you rate your Keyboard playing on a Scale of 1-10?

You are so correct on "Then there are just INSANE synth parts on the solo of Cool....or the live version of DMSR ("Gimme some horns")..... or on Chocolate."

I am going to have to go back and check out Chocolate and extended version of Kiss.

Love the Live Version of Kiss he did at Paisley Park back in 1999.

TrivialPursuit said:

I've played piano and keys since I was a single digit aged boy.

Took orchestra in school so I learned to read music early on, but started playing piano on my own before that.

My warm up song for a long time was "The Arms of Orion" or "Raspberry Beret."

Awesome. Are you in a Band? How do you rate your Keyboard playing on a Scale of 1-10?

Astasheiks said:

Awesome. Are you in a Band? How do you rate your Keyboard playing on a Scale of 1-10?

I'm not in a band, although I did play with a band at a church when I first moved here.

My one regret in life is not pursuing songwriting and playing when I was a teen. I never wanted to be a singer (I can't sing). I just wanted to write songs for people, and be a touring musician.

My playing isn't what it was years ago. I used to play and practice all the time. But lately, I haven't.

When you said, "when I first moved here"...Where you move from?

I hear you on the playing part... I'm sure you still got some Skills even though you say (My playing isn't what it was years ago.)

I play Bass guitar as my instrument. Love alot of Prince Bass Lines.