Keyboards=Cheesy?
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Dream Theatre would be one of my examples where I think keyboards are used too much and sound cheesy.
dreamtheater does over do it allot and i hate key board players who think there guitarist ........you key board players need to either stop it or pick up a guitar and do it the right way !!!!..... same for the guitarist who think they have mastered piano because they can play toccata and fugue on guitar.....even though it does sound cool if done right
IcedEarth556
Metal Keyboardist
I love keyboards. I take lessons on them and play them in a band. I love bands like CoB, Skyfire, Norther and Kalmah, all who use keyboards alot in their music. However, I don't like that band Warmen which seems to be only keyboards.
Sorry, but there's that one sound the prog bands overuse. Don't know the name of the patch or even to describe the sound, except for maybe a helium fart or a mouse being squeezed. Dream Theater uses it, Symphony X uses it...so does Scholomance. In fact, I would really dig the hell out of Scholomance if they cut that out entirely.
yes its like a slightly distorted organ meets cheap toy ray gun sound...along w/that damn pitch bender thing that acts like a whammy bar .........its very cheesy and over used by many prog bands
But that's the thing... the only reason keyboards sound cheesy is when they're overused. If they're used at a time when it's appropriate, and the song needs balance, or atmosphere, they're absolutely great.
Maybe that's the problem with having a keyboardist in the band... them wanting to play when it isn't needed.
Maybe that's the problem with having a keyboardist in the band... them wanting to play when it isn't needed.
Too true. Arcturus uses the same sound on The Sham Mirrors, but it works there or doesn't totally ruin a song for me.
I personally think that keyboards are cool- but only if they're used in proper coordination with the song. Not if it's just some shitty backbeat that continues the whole way through. It's gotta be used wisely- to give the proper effect, otherwise it just makes the sound totally wrong, which can completely ruin a potentially brilliant track.
atmosphere is the key...soilwork does a great job at using keys for atmosphere ...im not a fan of keyboard solos unless its in unisen w/a guitar ....im very picky i cant help it !!
Thornmoon
Fuckin' Bass Player
I love keys in metal! Specially CoB. I can't help but smile when Janne goes off on one of those amazing solo's!! 
Thrash Metal Tormentor
Soldier Of Satan
Depends on band, the style of music and the way they are used. I really hate the power metal-type of synths, the annoying solos of Sonata Arctica and Children Of Bodom.
yes they can but as long as there not over done and a replicant of a guitar ......some keyboard players think they are guitarist .....im very opinionated when it comes to this .....it does take talent to play keyboards like a guitar but itys not neccisary unless there isnt a guitarist in the band or the guitarist cant solo
Fractured
Meh
Power(so called)metal keyboards is really bad...
God...the solos of CoB makes me sick.
But that just because i really don't like powermetal.
But BM bands usally use the keyboard in a good way.
God...the solos of CoB makes me sick.
But that just because i really don't like powermetal.
But BM bands usally use the keyboard in a good way.
SoulVomitor
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Keyboards are good, as long as they're used to add atmosphere, or to make a chilling sound, instead of running the show. I also tend to like alot of bands which use keyboards, so I guess that makes me biased towards them.
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