Beginners Guide to Layering Worship Keys Sounds 

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Good work on this @Sunday Sounds-- newer keys player here and your resources (I've been looking for this one for months!) have been extremely helpful for me! Definitely going to be a longtime customer

thanks

Thanks for this video David it helps a lot but can you make video how to limit the patch layer on Abelton live with Sunday Keys too(Splitting Patch), thanks.

I enjoyed your video and it is a good introduction to combining multiple keyboard sounds in a song/patch. However, I'd like to suggest that what you're describing is more precisely the "stacking" of sounds (tones) one upon the other while playing the same or similar notes (eg in a different octave), which in its simplest form is the piano+warm pad combination of your first example. Whereas in actual contemporary recordings of worship songs, true layering is the mixing or combination of different parts playing different notes. Let me use the example of the keyboard parts for "Joy To The Word (Joyful, Joyful) by Phil Wickham, for which Sunday Sounds prepared its own "song specific patch". First there is the piano in the intro/verse which plays an up then down scalar melody over and over, (Db,F,Gb,Ab,Db',Ab, Gb, F). Then at the chorus a second piano sound is "stacked" over this, but also playing duplicate notes an octave higher. While all of this is going on, "layered" beneath the piano there is a Organ playing sustained chords. The "Keys 1" part is a good example of true layering. It begins with the sound of a single note whose volume swells in and out (probably achieved using an amplitude envelope), then at the chorus a second keyboard sound is layered over the first sound using pulsing eighth note off beats and playing different notes. When the chorus is repeated two additional sounds/parts are layered over the initial two: a sustained then pulsating bass note and a fourth sustained note (a 5th) swelling in and out similarly to the initial single note swell. The "Keys 2" part is another layered one over the piano intro as a descending scale counter melody (Ab,Gb,F,Eb,Db), using a bell like synth lead sound, which later in the song is duplicated and played in parallel octaves. The actual timbres of all the tones/patches are different enough so that an overly complex "muddied mix" of sound doesn't occur from the layering of all of these parts. How to actually achieve all of this with a single keyboardist is another discussion, but your Sunday Sounds song specific patch captures most of the combination of parts.

I really appreciate your patience and time in how you teach I need help in all areas with my worship team at church with sound mixing acoustics etc how can I get help I believe you can help me and my church will be happy to talk to you guys one on one by phone 🙏🏽

Thanks for the help! I just got MainStage to lead worship at my youth group and your videos have been very helpful.

One way I avoid lead sounds accidentally being in the mix when I don't want them is I use two keyboards. Top keyboard has the leads for the one moments while bottom keyboard will have piano and pads or such.

Is warm digi Rhodes in Sunday keys I can’t find it

What are all of the computer requirements for this software?

How do I make the piano sounds more bright? They sound amazing through headphones or in ears at home but when it comes through the house speakers at church it sounds very dull.

Dogo Rhodes and Piano - Mmwwah

I Asked about the Actually Midi Hook up NOT how 2 sounds Sound When Layered Together!!! .

I like how i cant hear anything on subbass. too much for my phone to handle 😂

*I think it was meant to be Digi Rhodes instead of Roads, lol.*

we need sound design

Can u worship with other tones than piano it's so boring and predictable

I'm not sure what faith you have, but there is no such thing as "worship keys'.