Beautiful piano playing.

Hi! Andrew! great pleasure watching and listening to you allways. You are a very positive person musically, me and my wife, enjoyed watching this video, mostly because how you talk about real things and express your thoughts about gear, stage layout and dificulties to keep all stuff in order when in a gig. Keep up this great work, you really set your self apart from everyone else in this sector. Greetings from Brazil.

@AndrewColyerMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there Tarcius, thank you so much for watching the video, and for the kind words! I'm just doing my best to share what's happening in my world, in an honest way, that is hopefully educational, entertaining, and inspiring. 😀

That was great, thank you so much I had to come back and watch it again. Going to be playing an acoustic guitar gig and although I don’t wanna depend upon a sheet or screen in front of me, it always ends up being an evitable that you have to glance over at something to reference by.

Hi Andrew.. Great video it helped me tremendously.. I am new to using an Ipad for live use.. Never used one before, I am old school with tons of chord changes and notes written in tablets, notebooks, song lists etc., you get the picture... It will be so nice to just carry an Ipad and a extra stand to handle all the music notation.. I was working with 2 bands as a fill in player and had to learn over 100 songs for each band in only a few days and retain all the information.. This looks like the answer to my prayers.. Thank you again for taking the time to create this video.. Take care and God bless...

Thanks for taking the time and sharing this. Greetings from Costa Rica.

@AndrewColyerMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Louis Carlos Obando Lopez! You're welcome! Nice to meet someone from Costa Rica! I would love to get down there - I hear it's really beautiful! Thanks for being here, watching the video, and commenting. :-)

Hey Andrew. I think I meet you at NAMM a few years back. Dave Medd introduced us. Dave bought my case company and we have been friend for years. Enjoyed the video and great advise. Sorry if you are not the guy that Dave introduced me too, but thought that you probably are.

wow great playing man love your setup

@AndrewColyerMusic

4 жыл бұрын

Hey RickyTIckyTV! Thanks for the kind words! I've worked very hard for many years on this setup. :-) I have another video that details my current setup, that I recently used on tour for the 29-date North American tour for "3.2 featuring Robert Berry". In the description box, I've taken the time to put in timestamps for the sections of the video where I'm describing all the pieces of the rig setup and explanations. You might like it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yqmfqpdqg6uriM4.html

Thank you!

Great video- was wondering though how can you see screen when performing outdoors in bright sun etc screen is to dim even with bright setting all way up thanks Mark

Hi, great tutorial!! I'm looking for an app for my band whereby the singer has a master ipad and the 3 band members have slave ipads. So when the singer selects a song depending what he feels the crowd should here,everyone else knows what song is next rather than him having to turn around and tell us!!

@mikebedrosian9588

9 ай бұрын

OnSong does this.

Anybody know what song he was playing at the beginning of the video?

@SeanMuirMusic

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a song called ‘The Way It Is’ by Bruce Hornsby

So you only use iPad like an electronic music script? wow!

22k views and only 700 subs? COME ON GUYS…

Love the setup. But I rather memorise than use the iPad for text. I use it for sound.

@AndrewColyerMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Hello there ElSmusso, thank you so much for watching the video, and for commenting! All the sounds I am performing live come from the keyboards or Mainstage. Up until now, I haven't really want to use my iPad for sounds, because I didn't think the sound quality using a headphone jack was that great, plus it would mean having another device for audio/MIDI routing purposes. I have recently acquired a Radial Bluetooth stereo DI box, which I will be experimenting with this year. One of the reasons I use my iPad for notes is because I sing lead or background vocals on every song, plus I have multiple patch changes per song, when I'm doing a 2-hour concert, I need the notes for when to do the patch changes and also for all of the lyrics. I don't want to make mistakes - especially when you have 2-3-4 people singing at one time, it's important for everyone to be singing the same words! haha 😀 Plus some songs have 5-6-7 patch changes per song. You'll see Jordan Rudess have a tablet in front of him, with musical cues and patch change cues also. What sounds are you using in your iPad when you're performing live?

@ElSmusso

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewColyerMusic hey, and thanks for the reply. I understand better now. I have a Tyros 4 that I use performing in my studio. You know, with a usb3 interface you can plug the iPad in with sound without Bluetooth (which I hate) or the headphone plug. I just bought an Arturia Audiofuse sound card for my 2020 iPad Pro 12,9. It has 3 usb inputs for keyboards and drum pads. THAT is progress, mate :) love from Valhalla here in Norway.

@AndrewColyerMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@ElSmusso - hey dude, so you're performing on the Yamaha Tyros 4. That thing is a SERIOUS workstation! So please pardon my ignorance, but how are you connecting the iPad to the Tyros? Lightning to USB cable? And are you playing the Tyros keyboard to play the sounds on the iPad? And the USB is carrying audio and MIDI data? And the Tyros is acting as the MIDI controller and the audio interface? Same question for your new Arturia Audiofuse. Are you playing the Tyros, or are you just using your fingers directly on the iPad? And using the new AWESOME Arturia Audiofuse just for the sound playback on the iPad? If so, how are you connecting that? With the Lightning to USB Cable? Sorry for so many questions, but I'm in the process of overhauling my studio and stage setup, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do things. Thank you so much! 😀

@ElSmusso

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewColyerMusic Hello there. I have a rather unusual setup. My studio is really a mobile one, in that I have built it in what we in Europe call a WohnWagen. A big Fiat with 6 places for sleeping became my modern studio. I can drive to whatever friend or place I want to get inspiration. Inside I have a Mac Mini and a PC. The Mac is running Pro Tools on a DIgI 003 combined mixer and soundcard. I used to run the Tyros directly into the computer via usb, so that it catches all midi equipment that’s way. The sound I play live is recorded as midi in pro tools, so when I press play, the computer sends the midi back to the Tyros, and the performance is replicated.... played back as it was. But since the Tyros have built in sequencers for sound and midi... often I just recorded it there first, and then sent the midi file to the computer. That was my old setup.... but with an iPad Pro you can do almost the same as I did in Pro Tools, using much less space. The new iPads don’t need the camera connection, nor does it have a lightning connector, it’s all usb C now. I connect the Audiofuse to the iPad, using a usb cable... (I bought an interface for my iPad with usb3, headphone & hdmi.) So that’s all you need to do... but if your imagination runs wild, you can try lots of things. I can also connect my Tyros directly to the iPad Pro, and that functions as a great setup as well. The Tyros has som many midi options that you never really get stuck. Sending sound or midi to multiple destinations at the same time is easy. As for my new Arturia audiofuse... I also bought Studio One Pro 5 from Presonus. I’m running that on a MacBook Pro at the moment... trying to get familiar with the DAW. I also recently bought the Arturia V Synth -package, but haven’t tried it out on the Tyros yet. Just a little Akai MPC midi Keyboard & the Presonus Atom drumpad is connected to the Audiofuse now. And my iPad, is connected to the Macbook so it can also use the sound card routed that way. Too bad I can’t send you a picture, I just made a schematic over my whole studio Wagen. There is a short video from my studio on my channel :) I also have to say that I’m not really a pianist, but a classical guitarist.... so I don’t perform for anyone on the keyboards, I just play for composing. And oh yeah, I use Notion from Presonus to write my scores, both on the iPad, with the pencil, and on the desktop. Not being a “real” pianist, I prefer to write my tracks in peace and quiet before trying it out with sound, but that’s not for everyone these days. It’s not the first thing you learn at school... it’s rather a cacophony of Orff instruments LOL

@ElSmusso

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKqcwaqlfb3dhps.html

Or you could just you learn your material and nail it. It's impossible to sing a song with conviction if you do not know the lyrics! Or play a song with conviction if you don't know the changes!

@elmoblatch9787

2 жыл бұрын

That's true with artists who are playing their own music with highly polished and repeated sets. However, wedding band hacks who are playing tons of different songs and requests need to have the music with them. However, I agree that a song is not truly "nailed" unless it's memorized and internalized.

I want to use iPad as a Sampler player, what a waste to use it only to read music notation, I think a musician on stage must know by memory the whole songs so he can feel what he is playing.

Using an Ipad for a visual monitor seems like a good idea, but that has to be weighed with the confusion factor...however I'm not a fan of using Ipads for reading lyics while singing lead vocals...that just seems lazy and unprofessional. Somebody reading lyrics while singing just seems to be amateur hour in my opinion...