keyboards

Interview: Curtis Hudson & Lisa Stevens, Songwriters of Madonna's "Holiday
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Lisa Stevens: I woke up, got on the keyboard and started playing those beginning chords over and over for a day or two. I couldn't come up with anything else. I just kept hearing those chords. Curt said, "Lisa, I hear something with that.

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Yamaha Offers App-Solute Keyboard Control
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Yamaha debuts new apps for iPad and iPhone that help keyboard players get the most out of their instruments: NoteStar, a digital sheet music application for iPad; Song Chords, an application for iPhone that provides interactive songs with built-in

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At 80, Willie Pickens still makes the piano roar
Chicago Tribune
At the same time, this approach to the keyboard makes every chord cluster and odd voicing unmistakably clear, deepening the experience for listeners. Because Pickens prefers to keep matters interesting by regularly changing personnel on the bandstand,

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Jazz review: Trio M at the Musicians Institute
Los Angeles Times
Riding a compact, shuffling groove from Wilson, Melford's chunky chords floated around a slithering bass line by Dresser before she broke loose, alternately chopping notes across her keyboard before letting them tumble gracefully from her fingers.

Deep Purple still smokin'
TheChronicleHerald.ca
UNLESS YOU'RE a rabid Donny and Marie Osmond fan, the name Deep Purple usually leads to thoughts of, or even humming with a throaty noise, the most famous guitar riff of the '70s. The intro to Smoke on the Water is usually the first chord pattern

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