2ND KEYBOARDIST TIPS | AUXILIARY KEYBOARDIST TIPS | WORSHIP PAD TIPS | Worship Keyboard Tutorial

[@juanettevanstaden1378]

Really helpful tips for someone coming from a classical piano background, thank you!

[@shodapad07]

Interesting. Thank you

[@joelmkd9124]

Thank you @Sandra!

[@ConferenceNotes]

Thanks Sandra. I've seen aux keyboardists assuming a "more active" role i.e. using sax, strings, etc and actively engaging in arrangements. I'll be most grateful if you have the chance to cover these in the near future. Thanks!

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Hi P Lee! Thanks for your great comment! Was the aux keyboardist really using saxophone sounds from a keyboard? And what do you mean by actively engaging in arrangements?

[@woodyoulove-reynaldguibone6890]

I think aux keyboard is really a support to the main keys. If you've seen such as auxiliary playing those sounds, maybe those sounds is too much for the main key to cover. And I also think being actively engage in the arrangement is not a problem. Like that's what we want as a team to be more engage in a song even just playing shakers.

[@unhappymaiden04]

Yey! Been waiting for this video! Thank you so much!!!

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Hello again Me-Anne! So glad to see your comment, and I'm so glad this video helped! Is there anything I can help you with in your worship keys playing this season Me-Anne?

[@unhappymaiden04]

Actually, I have been in a transition from playing the aux keyboards to playing the lead keys. :) I have been having problems though of this transition since I have been used to playing pads and taking the lead keys means playing most of the piano parts.I am also trying not to rely on chord charts too much,sSo I hope you could also post videos about chords and riffs and progressions too. Thank you so much!!! Your channel is such a blessing to me :)

[@Puntadelanza27]

Thank you. Very helpful! God bless!

[@susiegooch8582]

Thank you! Very informative.

[@OyedeleSegunfunmi]

This is so helpful! Can you/ do you have a video on like your favorite sounds on the aux for different types of workshop sets. Like do you set up layers on just use one sound

[@lampie6075]

KZbin suggested me to watch this video🤔😉! Wow, so helpful☑️. This specific subject was so relevant today @worship church NL. Next time I will do better🤩!!

[@jaredskeen6986]

WOW! So helpful, thank you so much!!😭🙌🔥

[@hacerclic1020]

Thanks again, Sandra. It's good to see the ambient keyboard part get some recognition. (I don't call it "2nd", since in our church, this is the only keyboard part we have. Also, there is a whole genre of "ambient music" or "space music", based on pad sounds.) As you alluded to, how "thick" you make your chords is related to how thick the pad sound is in the first place. Most pad sounds have a lot of harmonics. The thicker the sound is, the fewer notes you can play together without it sounding muddy. On the other hand, cleaner sounds allow you to play more notes.

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Absolutely love your input again, Gregory! :D

[@hacerclic1020]

Sandra, do you have any recommendations on playing ambient keyboards with a band? When I'm playing by myself I do chord changes like you described in this video. But when playing with the band, I have just been doing a soft, unchanging drone throughout the song-usually a simple triad in the key of the song, often in first inversion so the root note is on top. It works-it reinforces the tonal center of the song and helps fill in the quiet places-but it seems a little boring sometimes. Maybe that's enough-I don't want to sound too "busy". But I wonder if there is more I could be doing. We have two guitars-sometimes three-plus bass. And they are not good about leaving space for each other. Everyone tries to play all the notes all the time, so the overall sound is already very busy.

[@johnnydrumaboi8907]

man it sure did bless you

[@tendaimussa4217]

awesome.....thanx alot

[@ericperalesofficial8594]

This is awesome Thank you, I'll be looking through your playlist to see if you have any videos that you play with a worship band with a couple different songs.

[@SbusisoTsheko]

How can i improve my ears cause i play at church and when they sing a song that i don't know i safer to play and when i hear a song like music and i try to play that song i safer to hear chords or progretion so can you please help me

[@haimshkolnik2092]

What kind of pads you using?

[@isidrovargas4297]

Awesome Video!

[@alejandrogarcia209]

Thank you this really help I'm the organ player at my church and the organ broke so I'm doing second keyboard and I can treat it like the organ complex chords I got an midi keyboard and downloaded mainstage still learning if you have any patches I can use for pad that would help GB

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

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[@dessiplaer]

Are you an auxiliary keyboardist in your new position of service? This is a most helpful video.

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Thank you Jon! I did play synth (aka the aux keys) in my new church but will be playing piano (1st keys) the next time i serve later this month :) Glad the video helped, Jon! Is there anything else I can help you with in your worship keys playing right now?

[@dessiplaer]

Things are going well for me right now. Thanks again, and I look forrward to seeing more videos.

[@BBHAAE]

Very helpful Sandra!

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Thanks Amoolya! Is there anything I can help you with in your worship keys playing right now?

[@BBHAAE]

Sandra Chen.... Ma'am I learnt keyboard almost 10 years ago.... even at that point never got an opportunity to learn it well.... the classes were on n off and ñever really covered proper basics.....I Din even Kno sight reading back then....butby God's grace I was able to Help a rural church in south India with keys for few years....now I've moved out of town for my work and wanna improve on my keys knowledge....I know you've excellent Classes in ur website for a very reasonable price...it's still a huge amount....if I should give u an idea monthly membership is 1/4th on my salary.... lol! But I just wanted to let u know ur free classes are very helpful and although I don't get much time with practice....wn I get it's really productive.... thanks for being awesome.... God bless

[@pipechat9206]

Thank you 😭😭😭

[@brentmuxlow2131]

Thanks Sandra. I've been aux keyboard player for about 3 years now. Do you have some tips on how to play moving string parts in some of today's worship songs or even the Hammond B3 organ?

[@inspiredkeyboardist]

Hello Brent, awesome hearing from you! Hope you're doing great! I'd love to create some teaching on playing strings and organ. Would you be able to suggest some specific songs on which I can teach from?

[@brentmuxlow2131]

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