How to Play keyboards with Feeling!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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So true. When I first met my wife 20 years ago, I would sit at at my piano and she would just sit on a chair and listen. I would say it was my beautiful playing that drew her to me. She would argue it was the wine!!! I can lose myself for hours at a piano.
One of the most beautiful and valuable lessons in music I have ever seen and heard! In my perfect world, you would be one of my three Besties, live next door and we would do lessons at daytime and jam together at a local pub every night. You are a wonderful artist and a gem in the music world. Thank you so much for sharing your skill and wisdom with us. Love and light from Khao Lak in Thailand 🇹🇭❤️☀️🏖🌴🥥🐘🌈
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Such a great human being this guy..... Dear Matt, every day you share with us is quite a blessing to guys like me, who don’t handle music theory, scales and movements like I would... Your kindness, your gentleness and constant humble attitude still weight me to keep up and still have faith in myself and my capacities. The last take of this video, see you brightly smiling and smoothly playing in a faded light, that’s what i call hope in a storm, strongness in a hardweaknessing world. Thank you Sir. May God keep blessing you and those who make you who you are. Stay safe Matt !
Finally someone that now days talks about the true part of making music, feelings.
Thank you very much for inspiring me to start playing keyboard. Your personality really light my desire to play.
I don't know about you, but my father brought me up with that old-fashioned 'boys don't cry' nonsense. To this day, I find it very hard to properly cry and so I think, when you've had that bad day, playing is like crying and just letting everything, all that anger, frustration or bad-feeling, flow out of you and bring you peace.
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Yah its hard for us men of the older generation to show vulnerability but music can be an outlet!
guitar is my main instrument of 18 years now, and for some reason it's the one instrument for which UA-cam teachers address the emotional aspects of playing on a regular basis. This deserves more adequate discussion for learners of anything pertaining to music, truly.
And in the mix of this moment in which technical possibilities are so vast, particularly to those skilled on keys, it's all the more pertinent to keep in touch with the heart of it all.
And in light of all the dynamic range which keyboards can cover, to marry theory and technique with personal feeling can pivotally take musical possibilities from endless configurations of meters and timbres, to absolutely profound vistas of human expression.
Thank you.
Wow...so glad UA-cam brought me here...I have been thinking of ways of improving my flowz when playing and I think I got the point...every instrument has a different vibe...be the conduit... don't just vamp it...let it flow...thanks so much for this...it's definitely for keeps...Thumbs up all the way
This is SUCH a valuable lesson on feel and emotion. I really relate that experience of sitting down and playing after a hard day. Music helps get through the challenges, and it is a great spiritual thing to share. In many ways, feel is the most important part of music.
I absolutely can relate to having a crap day - and play for half an hour :)
There are a lot of chanels dealing with technical stuff, but forgetting the feeling.
Thank you for this GREAT upload!!!
Very nice to hear you play again Matt....
Bravo, maybe this can help current music and bring new generations to find relief
What a beautiful video. Eductional and therapeutic at the same time!
Dear Matt, thank you so much for your tips that you share. Playing well is not just about music theory... It's mostly about the 💘 you put into it. So nice.
True!
So huge and so often overlooked aspect of music creating and performing. Thank you for talking and showing it like this.
All the best in 2022 Matt!
Have a wonderful year full of happiness & creativity!
Matt's here, whispering the secrets to expressing and evoking emotion through music, so we might all experience the joy so apparent in the act. Thanks!
Love this style of playing
another great jam from Matt
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us. 🙏
The introspection time is where we discover the most without thinking thanks for being so relatable in the theory of feel... Humbled. No matter the topic you bring gold.
Excellent lesson Matt - I keep watching it. I always get a lot from your videos. Thanks for putting it together.
Happy new year Matt
The whole purpose of music is to help us feel something, thank you for addressing the most important element of creating.
You are a great piano player with information that no one else is putting out.
A real professional.
Thank you.
Dear Matt...Thank you for sharing your musical inspiration. It is simply an ear & heart opener.....Cheers!
While I’ve been a musician my whole life, I’ve only been dabbling in keys a short while but your thoughts have brought me leaps and bounds, thank you for all of your emotion!
I found myself leaning to the left to watch this at points, what an inspirational video. thanks again Matt.
Thanks for sharing.
Interpreting the sound / timbre to suit the feel makes a massive difference.
Listen and hear
that organ played like a piano had a lo-fi, boom bap vibe goin' on
I really enjoy how your tutorials talk about more than technical stuff. Thanks for another great one!
Beautiful, thanks. It's such a treasure to get in the zone and let something flow through you. They used to talk about genius as something that would come and pay you a visit when you were ready, like a spirit. It's only relatively recently that people have become referred to as being a genius themselves. I much prefer the idea of a genius floating around waiting for someone to be truly in the flow to use them as a conduit 🙂
You said at the beginning of your video that you are going to discuss something "abstract"... that's exactly why I love your videos so much. You always bring something different to the table!... so gifted and thank you for sharing Matt!
Thanks Matt same as picking on a guitar, keys are dynamic. Love your videos have a great 2022
A nice reverb always makes space sound better too :)
The piano sound is absolutely amazing!
I was thinking a lot about Ryuichi Sakamoto and Joe Hisaishi during your lesson, the piano parts took me to Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and the Mononoke Hime soundtrack. Really lovely, cheers
Hi matt, just seen you on an advert on UA-cam so thought I would join you, big fan of Jamiroquai, had no idea you played with the band so delighted that you are on here sharing experience. We have a Yamaha Motif xf6 white anniversary via GarageBand and Logic Pro. Also just started playing piano with ES110W 88 key, late in life but never too late. I have started playing and extend and flow as you describe, it really is fun to do and helps with coordination if nothing else. Thank you for sharing, terrific!
That is a gorgeous keyboard. Good info.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ❤
Solid gold geyser
I really enjoy your music, thank you so much, have a great day.
matt, congrats on 100k! it is well deserved. i hope you know how important you are to our community, and i consider you a friend. please continue doing whatever makes you happy in these videos, because as long as you're smiling, i know they'll be absolute gems.
That line you did (the one ending at 12"37) was so crazy, don t have words to describe ! Such a great meaningful gift ! it was just perfect.
I love listening to you play and taking your advice as best I can. I’m nowhere near the keyboard player or advanced theorist as you, but I’ve played drums for quite a few bands, a few US tours nothing major.
I always search UA-cam in hopes of finding a breakthrough with music theory, as I’ve got a lot of gaps to fill coming from education in rhythm only. I have about 25 years of experience with rhythm and can play all sorts of genres and play to any room, but coming over to the melodic side of things has been overwhelming for at least a decade since I picked up a guitar and really tried to teach myself what I could. Still searching for all the answers.
I’d love to hear what your educational background was before you were a keyboard genius. ❤
Such an insightful video, Matt! You got me inspired to keep going at the keys. Thanks for all of your videos (and music!).
Thank you sooooo much for your lecture how to play the keyboard with your feeling. I haven't been played my piano for ages but I want to start it again🎹❤
Hello Matt. Thank you very much. You are awesome musician.
Another great video Matt, speaking and playing from the Soul... Thank you 😌
I couldn’t agree with you more Matt. I play by ear and it has always been about “how I feel”. I’ve been enjoying a mellow upright (Thank you Nord), which really brings out the gentleness and beauty of the music and I find it so moody and expressive I always leave the piano better for having sat down. Thank you for sharing this as I haven’t heard anyone else sharing it. ! God bless you and thank you for your music and sharing it with us.
I've been playing Mellow Upright XL on my Nord Piano 5 today. Sounds gorgeous.
@@jimharris6389 yes it’s really moody and intimate isn’t it. I’ve got the Piano 3 and medium sample but it’s good. I tried the Piano 5 but found the touch a little light, how do you find it Jim ? (I played most of one weekend so have it a good go …)
@@hughfollett1913 I find it good but I'm pretty new to the piano and have very little experience of acoustic pianos so I'm not the best judge. I'm certainly happy with it and don't feel it holds me back in any way given the level my playing is at.
@@jimharris6389 I think being happy with it is the main thing. It’s a great instrument and if my Piano 3 is anything to go by, will give you years of pleasure. Have fun ! Thanks for replying.
I appreciate your videos very much. Thank you!
This is so beautiful. It reminds me of painting. I often feel that what I choose to leave out is important. People can fill in the gaps with imagination. With colors as well. What to use and what not to use to create a feeling. It is hard to explain but I feel that there is a kind of similarity to music.
I didn't learn how to play emotionally. I just follow what the inner side of me is inspiring me
Thanks for this, Matt!
Great lesson.
I highly recommend modulating stuff with velocity, slight vowel filters can almost literally make your melodies speak. Combining different e-pianos that blend enough to form singular lines yet stand out enough can have this effect without even using vowel filters, some low notes on piano 1 will sound like ah, piano 2 ooh, high ones on 1 ee, 2 ah etc., this becomes strangely apparent when you play some of these e-pianos next to each other, like it wasn't even there before. (Those two different sounds can also respond uniquelly to velocity) Vocoders too, load up samples on a midi file and correspond them to notes etc., something like FL's layer function is great for that.
Space... I call it the power of silence. Mastering silences is an art in its own. No matter if it's music or during a speech or a presentation, it's a particular art of expression that leaves room for thought, contemplation and anticipation at the listener's end.
Thank you for this video, amazing as always
Beautiful piano, beautiful performance. I also use the same MONTAGE. A good synthesizer.
Very nicely explained Matt. As you say, not often talked about but really does make a difference
Matt, that was inspiring, lovely and awesome all at the same time, totally with you regarding spiritual feeling, playing keys helps me escape it really does … Thank you so much for these videos, take care… 🙏🏻😎💫💥🙌🏻🎹
You got me interested in funk keys! Great fun. Love the chords and the rhythms. Great channel! Thanks a lot.
Great tutorial..I learned a lot ..thanks. The information really reminded of some of the styles employed by Keith Jarret in Koln concert…brill🙏🙏🏿🎩
This was very inspiring and insightful to watch. And soothing! Thank you for this knowledge!
7:56 Yes, it's a magical thing of music.
Woww!!! Very useful and inspiring video, thanks very much for sharing this knowledge 👏👏👏
what would we do without you matt I really have bene lacking feeling in my music lately thanx man
I love this. Thank you for such great video on really undiscussed subject. I've got something to practice when I get off work.
Beautiful lesson, thank you Matt x
Matt gets a like before video even plays...as we wait bated breadthed in harmonic poetry... Exquisite
One of the best lessons.
You're awesome.
Thank you so much for this beautiful demonstration. It’s true, music comes through emotion above all. Everything comes from the heart, from the mind. Thank you Matt! 🎶🎹
Oh we feel it, and we feel you!
I wish someone had explained this to me twenty years ago. Thank you for the valuable insight.
I think breaking up in relationships or missing someone can really direct the soul to make some real meaningful music.
Beautiful chords. Love the Major and Minor 7ths, 9ths, 13ths. You almost can't go wrong with them. Happy New Year, fella.
Really inspirational words 👏🏾 Thanks for sharing Matt 🙏🏾
This goes to my favorites
Matt these videos have been so fabulous - seeing a musician like you just using youtube like this is wonderful, and I've found many of these useful - in particular stealing your chord voicings...
Also the sight of dizzee rascal coming into your studio and getting hyped about synths was wonderful!
Something I would very much enjoy would be watching your approach to putting keyboard playing into a daw - any good tricks, tips etc!
Independently; I have always found that major 7s are what I default to when I'm just messing around on a keyboard, my favourite chords...
Awesome video today!
Very interesting Matt, thanks for the lesson. When I was a lad learning to play everyone told me 'you should make the piano talk' haha - well you can make it talk shout dance and sing - keep up the good work..............
Happy New Year Matt, your videos have been incredibly useful for my playing, thank you and I look forward to your future videos
Often when I play from the hip, undirected for half an hour as you describe, I'll come up with something that inspires me and the whole process is interrupted by wanting to record it or find something to go with it. Invariably it's impractical at that time and the idea and my flow is lost! Conversely, if I sit down consciously to write, inspiration is less forthcoming. I've tried to get in the habit of always having a tape recorder or my DAW running, but even that can be a buzz kill. I'm never sure whether to stay in the moment and let the ideas go, trusting there'll be others when I need them, or be more disciplined and get the idea down, even if it does mean that that moment of play becomes one of work.
Thanks a lot for the inspiration.
Happy new year, Matt... thank you for this lovely stuff!
You're awesome I really appreciate these videos. I'm bout to buy this patch and make a super inspired song
Happy New Year! Thanks for sharing, you are effortless natural, life affirming, and musically inspired, as usual. Such a gift this is, always walk away from one of your videos (and usually right towards the studio) happy, eager, inspired and ready to create.
Excellent video Matt!! Thank you very much for the pointers. Have a wicked 2022 full of music, magic, and groove. All my best to you and the family. Hope to see you sometime soon down here in Mexico. Cheers.
Thanks Matt for your always advantageous and good conceived Videos!👌🏻
It's true: Often it comes to a flow when I sit at my piano and just start playing around by heart, not by mind...
Greetings from Switzerland,
Markus🇨🇭 🎹🎶
Thank you, it was very interesting as always m(_ _)m
I was impressed by how you can adapt your playing for each instrument patches! The guitar sounded so realistic hh.
On violin, I approach a lot the "feeling" part by thinking as if I was saying a "phrase": like a question? then an answer, etc. The musical phrase then takes care of itself with the feeling that comes with it.
Wonderful
Tres belle video quelle ambiance Matt, merci pour tes precieux conseils.Awesome !!
Really helpful video! Feeling is a really important part of music in general
doing the youtube things cause this channel is awesome
It made me feel very feel! Thank you again Matt :)
God Bless play with the spirit and soul. ‘
Thanks Matt. This is a great lesson and full of inspiration.
Thanks for that soft muted piano sample, I'm definitely going to get that one for my Montage/MODX library! 👍
Thank you so much for sharing this! I really think you should make an album of just you playing emotional piano. It’s very beautiful.