TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑05 Jun 2019
Imo you'll be much better off by learning some basics about scales/modes, chords, how chord progressions work.
Yes and No. Because even an accomplished keyboard player playing / inventing a chord progression uses up most of the brain capacity to play in time, get the voicings correct, not missing keys, etc. The brain is tapped out while playing and it is nearly impossible to critically listen to what is coming out. That is why pro producers hire keyboard players, even if they can play themselves, so they can just listen to what is played, and direct the keyboardist, like "
yes! that's it", when a nice sequence comes, or "
more of that", or "
try something like" this and hum a few notes.
This kind of player can be a useful tool also for the most accomplished keyboard players and use it as a "hired musician", you put in stuff mess around with it and use nearly 100% of your brain just to listen and envision how the played sequence will fit into a final composition/arrangement with other instruments. And a truly brilliant player can then of course re-play the new composition for that human feel if the music needs it. But it can be a composition tool for both noobs and accomplished keyboard player, but you use it differently. Though I think it kinda needs to be able to handle out of scale chords is some functional way to fit pro-users (don't know yet if it does). Otherwise PB Scaler or ChordBank might be more reasonable ways to mess around with out of scale chords in "similar" workflow.