I feel like this instrument could be a game changer if it catches in in the progressive rock and metal scenes, it’s just such an incredibly diverse instrument! I really hope to get one some day!
I REALLY like the idea of color coded instruments that can be programmed to a key and a layout. This opens the door to that friend who wants to jam along but never learned an instrument…disabled people…kids…and of course professionals who want to innovate outside their given instrument. I’m a highly competent guitarist, but I use GeoShred all the time.
Hey jordan, Thanks for the concert in Geneva, it was perfect! I have a question, or can we buy the t-shirt from the tour? I can’t find it anywhere....and congratulations again 😀
I consider it easily the best $4000 I've ever spent on anything apart from my degree. The thing to realize, even if you're not all that interested in microtonality, is that this is a keyboard that is fundamentally more efficient to learn to play than the standard piano keyboard while allowing similar kinds of expressiveness and feel to playing the keys. I'm talking like, more than 10 times more efficient, or something along those lines. The key is that you can map the keys such that spatial intervals and musical intervals agree with each other. This means that you develop the muscle memory to play, say, a C major scale, and you now have the muscle memory to play the major scale in every key -- you just move your hands a bit and start on a different tonic. Every scale (and mode), every chord voicing, every other musical object you like, it's the same -- you can transpose it to wherever you want without having to start from square one all the time on muscle memory. This is fantastic for improvisation. Figure out how to play the melodic minor scale, and in maybe a couple hours, you're shredding on every mode of the melodic minor in every key, and the theory of which notes and scales are going to work well with what chords and such is so much more geometrically obvious. This makes it so much more fun and less frustrating to get into than any instrument I've ever come across. It's particularly important if like me, you have a nonmusical career of some sort and can't just spend 8-12 hours a day practising. Every bit of practice is so much more valuable, and I find it super satisfying. Personally, my favourite way to map things is a bit less like the piano than the layouts being shown here: I like to put perfect fifths going up on the / diagonals and perfect fourths going up on the \ diagonals, which means whole tones go across on the shallow upward diagonals, and this turns each key signature into a solid block of the keyboard. The geometry hiding in chord structures, and the relationship between keys (as in key signatures) becomes a good bit more easy to visualize and less stretched out and squashed. It's fun to see non-musicians' eyes light up when they touch the keyboard in that configuration too, since they're almost guaranteed to play something that sounds nice automatically by hitting random nearby keys (you have to stretch slightly for chromaticism, as the semitone is about the distance that a perfect fourth would be in a more piano-like layout, though that's also not too hard with a little practice). This also makes octaves vertical, so you can reach 4 octaves on each hand and really fancy sounding arpeggios become super easy by spider-walking your hands up the keyboard in a simple repeating shape. After a little experience with this layout, it's pretty obvious how a chord is going to feel for the most part just by looking at its shape (major thirds extend to the right, minor thirds extend to the left, to begin with), so it's really changed the way that I think about chord structure and harmony -- even if I was using a more piano-like layout for some specific ergonomic reason tied to what I was trying to play, I'd still probably think in terms of this "Wicki-Hayden" layout now. There's a lot more I could say about how much I love this thing... but I think that's probably enough to respond to a dumb comment. :)
It looks very interesting and is definitely an eye catcher on stage and in the studio. How useful is it for daily work and creativity....???? Good question and I should get one to find out... 🤔
Any plans for microtones? ☺️
The Wizard equipment, by the way you were perfect last night in Paris .
This can give you great ideas for composition!
If this guy could play straw laid on a keyboard position he would do it...
How's the touch? Meaning how's the feel?
I feel like this instrument could be a game changer if it catches in in the progressive rock and metal scenes, it’s just such an incredibly diverse instrument! I really hope to get one some day!
I REALLY like the idea of color coded instruments that can be programmed to a key and a layout.
This opens the door to that friend who wants to jam along but never learned an instrument…disabled people…kids…and of course professionals who want to innovate outside their given instrument.
I’m a highly competent guitarist, but I use GeoShred all the time.
Very impressive! Thank you
can't wait to see you and the other guys in Milan.
ready to tap my foot in 17/8 !!
So when are we getting a microtonal album?
Pretty much what I'm looking for lol
Hey jordan, Thanks for the concert in Geneva, it was perfect! I have a question, or can we buy the t-shirt from the tour? I can’t find it anywhere....and congratulations again 😀
Are you planning on maybe doing any covers with it?
good job in Rome 4 days ago
Bah
i just dont like it . its just dumb
I think it really comes into its own for microtonal playing.
It's fun to comment on things you know very little about!
I consider it easily the best $4000 I've ever spent on anything apart from my degree. The thing to realize, even if you're not all that interested in microtonality, is that this is a keyboard that is fundamentally more efficient to learn to play than the standard piano keyboard while allowing similar kinds of expressiveness and feel to playing the keys. I'm talking like, more than 10 times more efficient, or something along those lines.
The key is that you can map the keys such that spatial intervals and musical intervals agree with each other. This means that you develop the muscle memory to play, say, a C major scale, and you now have the muscle memory to play the major scale in every key -- you just move your hands a bit and start on a different tonic. Every scale (and mode), every chord voicing, every other musical object you like, it's the same -- you can transpose it to wherever you want without having to start from square one all the time on muscle memory. This is fantastic for improvisation. Figure out how to play the melodic minor scale, and in maybe a couple hours, you're shredding on every mode of the melodic minor in every key, and the theory of which notes and scales are going to work well with what chords and such is so much more geometrically obvious. This makes it so much more fun and less frustrating to get into than any instrument I've ever come across. It's particularly important if like me, you have a nonmusical career of some sort and can't just spend 8-12 hours a day practising. Every bit of practice is so much more valuable, and I find it super satisfying.
Personally, my favourite way to map things is a bit less like the piano than the layouts being shown here: I like to put perfect fifths going up on the / diagonals and perfect fourths going up on the \ diagonals, which means whole tones go across on the shallow upward diagonals, and this turns each key signature into a solid block of the keyboard. The geometry hiding in chord structures, and the relationship between keys (as in key signatures) becomes a good bit more easy to visualize and less stretched out and squashed. It's fun to see non-musicians' eyes light up when they touch the keyboard in that configuration too, since they're almost guaranteed to play something that sounds nice automatically by hitting random nearby keys (you have to stretch slightly for chromaticism, as the semitone is about the distance that a perfect fourth would be in a more piano-like layout, though that's also not too hard with a little practice). This also makes octaves vertical, so you can reach 4 octaves on each hand and really fancy sounding arpeggios become super easy by spider-walking your hands up the keyboard in a simple repeating shape. After a little experience with this layout, it's pretty obvious how a chord is going to feel for the most part just by looking at its shape (major thirds extend to the right, minor thirds extend to the left, to begin with), so it's really changed the way that I think about chord structure and harmony -- even if I was using a more piano-like layout for some specific ergonomic reason tied to what I was trying to play, I'd still probably think in terms of this "Wicki-Hayden" layout now.
There's a lot more I could say about how much I love this thing... but I think that's probably enough to respond to a dumb comment. :)
@@cgibbard Thanks for sharing your experience!
It looks very interesting and is definitely an eye catcher on stage and in the studio. How useful is it for daily work and creativity....???? Good question and I should get one to find out... 🤔