 | I do not profess to be a B3 player - I'm still workin' on that left hand bass thing (you'll hear a few stumbles in this post). Nonetheless, every once in a while I like to put the B3 patch on and have some fun. Unfortunately, it's not all that easy playing a B3 patch on the weighted-action of the Roland FP-4, but it will have to do for now. I have "beefed-up" the internal Roland FP-4 organ patch #1 by adding a touch of the VSTi Organized (check it out here: freemusicsoftware.org This is a really nice VSTi and I like the way I can add overdrive to it. I also added a hint of ReaSynth VSTi that comes with the program Reaper to the left hand to give a little more bottom to the bass. I am playing to a drum loop created in Band-in-a-Box and using the chord progression from the tune "Sunny". I love the key of C Minor as you can probably tell by my heavy use of the C Minor pentatonic scale. There are a couple of other nice versions of this tune on YT and I drew inspiration from them, especially the nice effort by Robbie Benson and of course the killer version with Pat Martino, John Scofield and the great Joey D on the B3! Once again I owe a HUGE THANKS to Jamal at www.midikeys.com for providing the awesome MIDIKeyz software that shows the notes as I play them using the on-screen keyboard. A Midi file and PDF notation file of my solo and the drum loop backing track are all available on my website at http Thanks for listening! |