Who I Am

Hey There!

My name is Brett. I am a musician living in NYC with my wife. I have a deep affinity for coffee, and I love getting to know what makes people tick. My relationships with people are what I hold closest to my heart. For as long as I can remember, music has made me feel alive, so I have spent much of my time making music and teaching others to do the same. 

What Is Live Keyboardist?

Live Keyboardist is a blog and Youtube channel that helps keyboardists thrive in an increasingly complex musical environment.

In other words: As music becomes more heavily driven by computers, we as keyboard players often pick up the slack in recreating computer-generated, or computer sequenced sounds.

So Live Keyboardist helps you tackle the challenges that come with the times.

As I see it, there are three areas that many Keyboardists need to thrive in order to recreate much of the popular music being created today in a live environment. If one of these resonates with you, you can go ahead and click on it to start learning about that area.

Sound Design

A lot of music uses synthesized sounds. It can be intimidating at first, but once you get a little handle on it, synthesis is pretty straight forward and approachable.

I’ve written a lot about this topic since it is a pretty useful skill to have.

If you want a more in-depth understanding of sound design, you can enroll in my Sound Design for Keyboard Players course. It’s a great way to get started, comes with some great patches that I will show you how to make. And will put all the information you need in one place, and in a logical order for you.

Building a Live Keyboard Set-Up

Your set up is your instrument! So it’s good to have one that you love to play, and that makes your job easy, and your music sound great.

Here are all my blog posts about getting a great keyboard set up started.

If you want to dig in a little bit deeper, and you use Ableton, Check out my Mainstage To Ableton course.

Growing As A Keyboardist

This is the nitty-gritty, day-in, day-out, of being a keyboard player.

You probably had an effective practice regiment when you were working with a mostly acoustic instrument. What about now that your instrument has changed?

How do you grow as a musician and keyboardist in new and expanded territory?

Always reach out to me!

Hopefully, this has given you some good jumping-off points. I am always available via E-mail. So reach out with any questions you may have.

Looking forward to seeing all the awesome growth you are going to experience on your Live Keyboardist journey.

All the best,

-Brett