LETS TALK KEYBOARDS
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2021
- What keyboard or keyboards do you have? What do you use them for?
I meet so many people who don't have the money for some of the more expensive instruments. Just know that there are a lot of less expensive options out here trust me. Just do your research. Also consider what you're trying to accomplish with the instrument. What are you using it for? Production? Performing? Songwriting? Practicing?
Last but not least there are places like Americanmusicalsupply.com that allow you to purchase instruments on a payment plan.
Don't you lose your home out here trying to purchase the most expensive gear lol. - Розваги
"This keyboard has a testimony y'all.. it's been thro' the storm n' rain. But It's still here.. IT'S STILL HERE!"😂😂😂😂👏👏👏Kevon is just nuts!
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TESTIFY!!!
Let's not forget that Mr. Carter has such immense music knowledge and talent to make an 25 year old Casio sound magnificent!
I'm glad we have similar outlooks on this. I used the same $300 keyboard for 10 years (88 fully weighted keys with a good piano sound, and just four other sounds). It worked great the entire time. I finally upgraded to a $500 keyboard a few months ago. Don't break the bank unless you know you're going to stick with it and use it on a regular basis.
And also make money out of it especially for people who need it for more professional stuff
I started learning guitar 13 years ago on a 150$ piece of garbage. It wasnt til I was 9 years in that I bought a nice guitar. But I do have to say, my first guitar was so bad I had to really be accurate and perfect to not let it sound like shit. When I upgraded I couldn't believe how hard I had to work with the crap one. But it made me better. Having to struggle for awhile.
“They don’t know it’s a little cheap keyboard. But they don’t have to know.” 🤣
I remember the time I first played piano at church when the wind blew so hard and blew my notes, and the drumbeat started playing in the middle of a worship song. It was an old Casio piano, that still rocking to this day.
I love how he throws these informative videos in between the comedic ones
Which ones are not comedic? 😂
@@mckaylahephzibah8045 I know right 😂
That Yamaha DGX is really a decent keyboard. I've had one of those for about 20 years and I actually used to perform with it back in the day..🤣 I approve this message.
Yeah a lot of times, its the person behind the instrument that sounds amazing and not necessarily the instrument itself. I taught a younger kid to play the drums years ago and now that young man can run circles around me with LOL with a lot less on a drum set. Makes me proud!
I use a Yamaha YPG 225 at home..AND it can stack strings with piano and split bass…And I love it. I’ve never been impressed by overspending. I use a Motif at church and it’s a really nice board, but truthfully I only use three different tones on it, and I haven’t figured out what what all the other buttons do. 😂😂
True talk. Start off with the something that will get you going. When you start making extra money from playing then go purchase a more expensive keyboard. 😂
As a Nord owner, the light weight was the most appealing. I’m tired of lugging around a 49lb keyboard
Them Yamaha's don't die! I have mine from about 30 years ago. Still works. Also the one i bought about 20 years ago is going strong. Paid less than 500 for both.
Same for guitars people...same for guitars :)
I splurged on a Macbook for Mainstage. Now I can play any cheap piano with a USB port and get amazing sounds. I don't really want expensive keyboards now. I just want a million low end weighted keyboards so I can have one everywhere and never have to pick up another keyboard again. I'm married so the days of impressing the ladies lugging a keyboard around with one arm are over, haha.
Yamahas are great value. The key (pun intended) is to play music and keep improving! You may get to play with expensive equipment later but you don't need it to practice, practice, practice!
This keyboard had a testimony 😂
We had a PSR-740 in my house. I learned a lot on that instrument. I gave up piano lessons as a kid, but gradually started messing around on this keyboard and began to understand the relationship between chords and keys and got so much back into it that a few years later I went back to piano lessons and became a professional musician! Thanks to the PSR-740. Those speakers sound great!
Wow.
Thanks for the wisdom. Sometimes I feel like even with an Anointing for music, other musicians can make you feel inadequate if you don't have their "standard" or an elaborate keyboard. I am glad to hear an anointed and skilled musician such as yourself confirm my truth.
*Dang, dude. Now you're gonna encourage all the churches (especially the storefront churches) to get these Best Buy keyboards for their musicians. 😆😆😆*
😂🤣 Listen. My church is looking for a new keyboard. The budget just dropped!
This entire channel is a testimony. Keep on, my man!
Bro the part about the drummer is too true 😂 I use to see that all of the time growing up, and your right about the high end keyboards as well. I still have my motif es from 2005 and run mainstage.
Yep. We have a teenage drummer at our small church, which has a simple drum set with only a the snare, high hat, bass drum and couple of cymbals and floor toms. But WOW, he does a lot with just that. He is so creative!
This message is timely and is for me!!!
This guy is naturally funny lmao…good points tho💯
This applies to other things too like beat making. U dont need expensive vsts to make good sounding beats. I learned this a long time ago. Thanks for the reminder.
Nice!! I don't play but appreciate you sharing 😃 your talent and the information.
I bought a second hand piano(yamaha prs e303)and only cost me 60€. I've been Practicing for 3 months now:). I know how to play guitar so i have some idea how to do chords and some other stuff. I hope one day i can give glory to Him with my other instrument🙌🏼
This is so good. So helpful! Thank you so much Sir Kevon
Ahhh thanks so much for this video. Just about to get me some new keys and was thinking of getting one of those expensive ones, but now I realize it might not be that needed
I wanted a Roland so bad, then I started playing guitar lol
Lol😂😂😂💔
Been using an 88 key $300 Casio workstation for years. It was instant creativity when I first sat down at it. I've spray painted it several times to give it a new look for different gigs.
This dude is a trip. 😃 The only people hating are other musicians. I was gigging with Yamaha and Casio for years. Some musicians were surprised when they heard my $100+ keyboards after I got through layering and connecting to my iPad for more sounds. If you are not doing serious piano playing like classical or something those Yamaha and Casios rock. Especially when the drummer don’t show up. 😃 Auto accompaniment can go a long way. I’m right now waiting for just the right cheap keyboard to use. I got rid of my main Casio not too long ago for a midi controller. In some ways I miss it.
I agree with you. Good job bro
You are so awesome and funny Sir!!😂😂👏🏾👏🏾
Amen!!! Good preachin', Kevon.
"HaH" "I Felt That" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember I had an old PSR
No pressure sensitive keys
No layering
A few sounds
No midi !!!
Good times 😭😭😭😂😂😂
Upgraded to a newer model 🙌🏽
I had the DGX-205 for 8 years, and I used the heck out of that keyboard. So much in fact, that the Db3 key is super sensitive, and can't even press it without it blaring. I still have my 16 custom sound presets on there, but outgrew it, and am now using the Roland Juno. It's great! But had I got it as my first keyboard, my parents wouldn't have been able to pay the car note. There is a set time for everything. We just have to tap into that time that God set for us and roll with it. Like an armadillo.
That intro! Whoooo! Mmmh! Got me all up in here!
When our main keyboard player retired he was nice enough to sell me his old board for less than half the original price. 600$ board for 200$. It’s been a great asset in my journey and continues to serve me well!
That yamaha DGX 220, THAT'S the old faithful I tell all students to get when they're learning piano. It lasts them for some time before I ask them to get a weighted keyboard...
That 2nd keyboard you brought out, my sister has that exact one lol
My first keyboard was a Roland VR09 Combo organ... $800.00, still got it. Two years ago, I upgraded to a RD-2000, and I'm certain it will be the last board I will ever need.
Sir thanks for Passing this message across the start with the essentials and possibly easily affordable, even if it's an early Alesis
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That's how I began
Real Talk!!! I’ve seen some guys take that same board and a Mac book pro and run Main Stage and was killing!!!
All so true! I'll add to the argument with a little experience of mine: I've been playing acoustic guitar for a bit over 10 years now and I got some ease to compose, but I felt like the guitar was limiting me into some arrangements (not enough fingers! I guess I was the limiter haha), so I got a used keyboard for about 70 USD. Spent 6 months with it. Basically never played it. I guess it wasn't the time, I wasn't putting up enough practice for many reasons, so I eventually sold it for the same 70 USD. Recently I got into virtual music production (using Cakewalk by Bandlab) and I can finally express what I wanted on the keyboard through the virtual keyboard. It's been working wonders for me, and I know I'll eventually get another keyboard once things get better post-pandemic and give it another try. Always start cheap, friends. You never know.
This is definitely what I needed to hear 😂💯🙌
Preach Kevon!
I had one of those PSR-540’s around 2007. That was my baby.
Amen, preach it brother 😎
Preach!! I felt that
Preaches my life and then pulls out my keyboard!?
100% Fuh me!🔥
That's a moxf8 😅 not motifx8 - motif costs more than twice the price of this one. Twas discontinued, was kind of replaced by modx8
You betta tickle those ivories. #IFeltThat
Hallelujah. Its still here
This is wisdom right here.
This reminds me of when a professional jazz trumpet player sat with our class one night, and our lead chair asked what mouthpiece he used and the dude was like "7C" and it floored the guy. Everyone expects you need to have fancy equipment but it's when you master the craft with cheap equipment is when you know someone's got talent.
And yes, that was an indirect compliment. :)
I’ve been spending too much on used keyboards and synthesizer gear lately, but I stick to the one bass guitar I got off Craigslist 10 years ago. I don’t know if it’s a bad instrument or not, but I’m hoping that overcoming it’s problems will prepare me for anything! #DragonBallTraining 😄
Thank you very much
That keyboard has been tried and true
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Bro Kevon. Now we know 🤣😂
Great advice sir
I still own the that old keyboard😔
Does the job for now until I get a new one🤗
I don't know if you mention this in your video but you really don't even have to buy those expensive keyboards anymore, you can buy the Sound library. I personally play with the MKS Extreme software that ai paid 50$ for but still have hundreds maybe even thousands of sounds from 6-7 keyboards that I don't even use. Technology has really come a long way.
You got a PSR 540, I have a PSR 530 and I'm planning to upgrade mine soon, and btw the PSR 530 has some weight to it 😂 I Grew up using my school's DGX-305 then went to a PSR E333 because it's lightweight and easier to carry, later in life I got used to a Roland Fantom X8 and a Korg B1(I think) but yeaaaa I loved em all
I have a PSR550
I bought my Roland XP60 from my friend in 2000. It’s still my primary keyboard. 🤷🏾♂️💪🏿
True!! 😇
Paraphrasing here, but I saw a video with Victor Wooten years back where he talks about how expensive his bass is he said that's not much use if it's a baby playing it.
Me with my $120 alesis but motif sounds and keyscape on pc
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Ha Wisdom 👍🏾👍🏾
Honestly my set up used to be garage band, midi keyboard (keystation 88 by m audio, got that for abt $100) and decent $50 speaker and it worked perfectly. still have the same exact set up but now I have logic pro x so I can get more sounds.
Can you use it to play in something like a church service?
@@Rhema_M Most likely yeah. It functions as any weighted keyboard would and I can get a lot of different sounds because I run it thru Logic. As long as you aren't playing extremely classical church music that would sound better on an acoustic piano it should be fine.
I mainly use my set up for jazz so take what I say with a grain of salt, but honestly it's abt the same, just a different genre.
THANK YOU !!
Yessir! 🔥
As a drummer you told no lies. I've been talked about so much. Because all I had was my sticks and snore and bass pedal. Then I started playing. Now everyone wants to be friends now and wants my number Naw keep that same energy. I AIN'T A REAL DRUMMER REMEMBER! Sorry had a flash back. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿. But Yeah im 36 never once had my own set. I've always had the basics. I know the set could be garbage! But with a bass drum and high hat and my snure. We about to have church. Oh and maybe one cymbal. Funny part. I have a whole heavy piano in my livingroom. I play it but not fluently. How a drummer who has been playing on contracts since age 14 have a piano and no drum set ever lol. Ask God. Nevertheless you told no lies.
I started out with a yamaha PSR200
We could be talking of nords now
I feel like I needed to see this video!!🤣🤣
Affordable instruments has come along way.
Not the Mars, doc 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for the entertaining advice 😂😂
We used to have the same one the small one
I have a Kronos 73 X for my computer room, and a Kronos 88 SE, and Oasys 88 in my studio room - though the Oasys was bought used.
Cool! Which is your fav?
@@IAmKevonCarter The Kronos 88 SE is amazing, but even though it's technically better than the Oasys I always miss the build quality, lighted faders and feeling of the oasys when not playing it. So I guess overall my Oasys : )
If I could help out a drummer, I’d throw those 70 bag of sticks away and leave them a set of brushes and tune the snare drum a little lower because I like having eardrums intact.
Wish you would have put this out last month before I bought this fantom but the 3 songs I do kno sound good 😔 😟 🙁 😥
When God is in it, it doesn't have to be expensive.
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Truth!!!!
i see bassists with $3,000-5,000 basses all the time and they're sitting there playing quarter notes lol. never understood that
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Beautiful sound! The Motif was my sister's first YES 20 years ago! I don't feel the need to get a super expensive keyboard, I have a Casio CS 800 this day, I still play it even after the year 2006 and the only reason why I want to get a new keyboard is to see, is there a keyboard that goes down below A0?? I came across one that goes down to that note but it was terribly expensive and I did not like the sound, but I am interested in the bosendorfer grand piano, but I don't have the money yet( still waiting to become a successful writer) and I don't have the space for it LOL. I practice some very low vocal notes and I have even sang along to pieces dating back to the nineteenth-century and even eighteenth-century and I have gone a full octave lower than the called for piece. Do you know of anything like this?
True man
Interesting
All about that bass!
@@lindorsibande No treble lol
This man said this keyboard got a testimony lol 😂
But you are right.
Just because it’s an expensive keyboard doesn’t mean it’s gonna sound great. Me as a drummer, it’s the same way. I spent $700 On a 5 piece kit and many question themselves spending $1000 - $3000 on a kit. Cymbals…you gone spend some money on those…lol
I purchased Zildjian cymbals here and there, so my cymbals in all cost $1200 but that’s over time.
Now I could have done Wuhan which sound great and cost way less but I bough them for church services. When I left the church, I took my investments lol 😂 (they got a new drummer who is endorsed)
But I hear you Kevon!
Yes I feel for drummers cause the cymbal cost struggle is real
@@IAmKevonCarter oh yes! Unless you are endorsed, you pay much less than what a consumer will pay. A buddy of mine is endorsed by Soultone and cymbals that could cost me $400-$500 would cost him nearly 1/3 to 1/4 that price!
🗣Preach!
I just bought a Nord Grand not two weeks ago. And THEN I saw this video 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Start with what you can afford and LEARN THE INSTRUMENT!!! Once you grow to the point where you literally cannot do what you want with your current instrument, go read the manual. If you do that and still can't do what you want, go rethink your approach. If you STILL come back with the same conclusion, go put on sackcloth and ashes and go fast and pray for 30 days. Then and only THEN if your STILL are at the same conclusion, then you might maybe somewhat possible might want to possibly potentially consider a new instrument... potentially.
Soundman. I don't plays keys for squat. I play trombone. Seems like often times the expensive keyboards get lost in the mix. Players be blaming for them getting quiet because they didn't practice to know the songs. They want to be maximum volume on the one song they know, knowing their name is not on the Marquis or even on the program in the liner notes. Be nice. The drummer and the horns will cover for you if you let them have a slice of the monitor mix.
I still have my $300 Williams Allegro III
That old school PSR Grand voice is my childhood!
You are my favourite keyboard player
Wow 🙏🏽
@@IAmKevonCarter You have a great personality: which includes humour and humility. Your playing is incredible, you teach well and you're a Christian. You're very helpful. We need more people on UA-cam who care about helping people and not just promoting their brand. Keep on doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job.👍👍👌👌👏🙂
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How about an digital piano. .. whom it is for
Yamaha PSR E443
Yes sir. 4
It has testimony :)
Lol 💯
dang i just use a midi keyboard and plug it into my laptop 😭
hey, it works fine! 💪
just make sure nobody tries to “baptize” the brains of your operation 😭
Hey Kevon, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you?