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by **Graspieper** » 09 May 2016, 22:11

Hey all, the video below shows some amazing clavinet playing skills on a Nord Stage.
Can anybody give me some useful hints on how to learn this stuff?
(books, videos, online lessons, ...)

Watch on youtube.com

by **analogika** » 09 May 2016, 23:12

The first thing you have to realize is that the clavinet is a percussion instrument. You have to treat it like a hand drum, and you have to be extremely precise rhythmically.

As to what he's playing:

Look into "blues scales" - there's two, a major and a minor scale. The minor blues scale should get you started along these lines.

(Here, the guy plays mostly the minor scale, plus some other, Dorian-mode stuff.)

by **analogika** » 09 May 2016, 23:15

If you drive, put on your favorite funk records, and practice drumming on the steering wheel in sixteenth notes, with different patterns of left-right alternating. Just groove along, drumming your hands (preferably when driving alone).

Keep the "one" in the left hand at all times - everything else is variable, but the "one" MUST be in the left hand.

This is where you play the bass note that kicks off whatever pattern you're working on the clavinet. Hence the left hand.

by **Ledbetter** » 10 May 2016, 04:45

There are lots of funky videos on YouTube. Search for "funky keyboard" or How to Play Superstition, etc.

by **dhbp-nord** » 10 May 2016, 13:24

...and practice, practice, practice :-)

DH

by **Mr. Marko** » 11 May 2016, 02:39

listening to conga and bongo players helped me

by **dynanord** » 12 May 2016, 06:45

Watch this, that´s funky!!!

Watch on youtube.com

by **analogika** » 26 May 2016, 15:11

Just rediscovered this one:

Check out Andrew Gordon - "60 of the Funkiest Keyboard Riffs" for a bunch of practise material.

That's your ticket, along with everything written above.