Music Exchange

Introductory Topics
How to Get Started on Your New Organ 

Part 2 of How to Get Started on Your New Organ 

How to load a disc on a Roland Atelier organ

Creating and saving a Registration on the Roland AT900

Percussion and Sound Effects
How to access and use percussion effects on AT 900, 900C, 800, and R and S series Rolands.

How to access and use sound effects on an AT 900, 900C, 800, and R and S series Rolands.

Custom Rhythms
How to make custom rhythms on a Clavinova, otherwise known as weeding out the garbage.

How to make custom rhythms on a Roland organ

Miscellaneous Topics
How to Split the Keyboard on a Roland organ. 

Playing harmony with thirds and sixths on any Roland organ. 

Customizing your registrations with Quick Registration 

Roland's Atelier website has tutorials also. 

Advancing the presets using the foot switch 

Working with VIMA tunes. Revised edition 

Crawly Fingers: How to dress up your left hand chords.

Chord Theory

Chord Theory: Scales  #1 of the series 

Chord Theory: Key Signatures #2 of the series 

Chord Theory: Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant Chords #3 of the series 

Chord Theory: How to Make Chords from a Scale#4 of the series. 

Chord Theory: How to Transpose #5 of the series 

Chord Theory: The Musical Circle (Circle of Fourths; Circle of Fifths) #6 of the series

Chord Theory:  How Chords Work or How to Determine a Chord Progression (Diatonic Harmony) # 7 of the series 

Chord Theory: How to Determine a Chord Progrression the Easy Way by Just Using the Circle: #8 of the series 

Composing Songs
Composing a Song....Part 1

Composing a Song....Part 2

Composing a Song ....Part 3 

Registration Hints

Gregg Giving Registration Hints 

Karen gives us her approach to Registration: Part 1 

Part 2 of Karen's approach to registrations and composing songs. 

Saving Tempo Adjustments to Presets on an AT 900

Modifying Rhythms

Modifying Rhythms to Match Different Songs: part 1

Modifying Rhythms to Match Different Songs: part 2

Modifying Rhythms to Match Different Songs: part 3

Modifying Rhythms to Match Different Songs: part 4

Improving your playing: phrasing, dynamics, grace notes, chromatics and Improvising

Phrasing 

Dynamics 

Grace Notes and Chromatics 

Improvising 

Playing by Ear
Part 1: Playing by Ear 

Part 2: Playing by Ear 

Part 3: Playing by Ear 

Part 4: Playing by Ear 

Intros and Endings

Part 1: Intros and Endings

Part 2: Intros and Endings

Part 3: Intros and Endings

Part 4: Intros and Endings 

Playing Christmas Music 

Part 1: Playing Christmas Music

Part 2: Playing Christmas Music 

Part 3: Playing Christmas Music 

Making Registrations for Christmas Music

Part 1: Gregg explains how he incorporated sound effects in the registration of Jingle Bells

Part 2: Gregg completes his explanation of sound effects in his Jingle Bells registration

More Registrations for Christmas Music

Part 1:Gregg Isett explains how to obtain an arrangement for White Christmas using the Roland Atelier 900 organ's Music Assistant and Quick Registration.

Part 2: Gregg Isett explains how to obtain an arrangement for White Christmas using the Roland Atelier 900 organ's Music Assistant and Quick Registration.

Improving your Style of Playing

How to Play Chicago Style

How to Play Vibes with Octaves and Thirds

Playing in Six Eight Time

Part 1

Part 2

Playing the Pedals
Gregg Isett gives us some hints on playing the pedals.

Gregg continues his hints on playing the pedals.

Improving your left hand playing

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Recogniziing Chords
Determining Chords by Sight

Playing by Ear: A Further Look
Part 1

Part 2

How to Determine the Notes of a Chord
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chord Progressions: How to Determine Which Chords Come Next

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

AT 900, 900C, 800, S and SL Terminology Explanation

After Touch

Initial Touch 

Arranger Update: Coming soon to a computer near you.

Background

Bender

Chord Intelligence

Chord Hold

1-6-2-5-1 Chord Progression
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Seventh Chords
Part 1: Circle of Fifth and Seventh Chords

Part 2: Seventh Chords in Five Foot Two

Playing by Ear
Part 1: Playing by Ear; Fly Me to the Moon

Reading Ledger Lines (notes above and below the staff)

Playing a Walking Bass on the Pedals

Part 1

Part 2

Transposing, Version 1, Short

Four Minutes, 21 Seconds

Transposing, Version 2, More Detailed

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Using the Chord Circle Device

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Two Note Harmony

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Synth, Pad and Lead

Part 1

Part 2

Music Assistant

Playing by Ear....One More Time

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Playing by Ear....with Gregg Isett

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Creating Country Riffs

Part 1

Part 2

Fills and Riffs

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Fills and Riffs Follow-up

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Open Chords

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Two Note Seventh Chords

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

How to Transpose...Another Approach

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

How to Accompany a CD Played Through a Roland AT 900, AT 900C, AT 800 and AT 500 Organ.

Part 1

Playing Harmony Notes  to the Melody in the Right Hand

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Still More Country Fills

Part  1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Chromatic Chords

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Enhancing Your Music with Chromatics
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Seventh Chords: Five Foot Two

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Five Foot Two
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Stormy Weather
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

How To Harmonize A Melody Line
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Spanish Flea

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Playing 2 Note Chords

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4