This is Part 1 of a ~12 minute introduction to the new musical instrument called the harpejji by Marcodi Musical Products, LLC. The harpejji is a tapping instrument designed with piano instinct and guitar soul. This video contains a basic tutorial and several musical examples. Various outboard electronics effects are demonstrated as well.
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Introduction to the Harpejji D1: Part 1 of 2
Well, not ALL of it …
Well, not ALL of it. Most keyboards don’t support key pressure (poly AT), so you cannot bend or apply vibrato to a single note in a chord, like you can on a tapping instrument. Guitar-like polyphonic slides aren’t possible on a keyboard, either. Plus, this instrument gives you a two octave range with a single hand and multiple occurrences of each pitch (as many as 8; on a kb, 1 pitch gets 1 key). I agree that the effects are no big deal, but the voicing options and expressiveness are.
That is a really …
That is a really good point.
Neat, but …
Neat, but electronic keyboards can do all of that.
garyopenhill is …
garyopenhill is correct. If you “fat-finger” right on top of the fret, so that part of your finger rests on the vibrating part of the string, you can get this muted sound.
Hi man, i think the …
Hi man, i think the muted sounds comes from tapping directly at the frets, insted of in front of them. So part of the finger tappes the string but part also mutes the string a bit.
Great job on the …
Great job on the video. The sound is nice and warm. How are you making the finger muting sound? Its hard to tell from the video.