Thanks to Jacob Carscadden for reminding me of this performance, and encouraging me to skip ahead in the episode to check it out!
During my weekly game of catchup watching Late Night with Jimmy Fallon..It’s almost impossible for me to be able to make it till 12:35 these days, I noticed a very cool performance from one of the bands. The band was Squeeze a band that was popular in the 70′s-90′s (I’ve never heard of them either) but what was appealing about the performance was that the Keyboard player was using an iPad! We’ve talked quite a bit about using iPad’s for performance specifically here and here and I’m a huge fan of the iPad so this caught my eye. He was playing a Roland Keyboard for organ sounds, but was also using the iPad for a piano part, and even did a Piano solo, that wasn’t too shabby either!
What’s most impressive though is that the iPad Piano sounded way better and realistic then the crappy sounding organ patch he was using! It’s pretty crazy too that he played a solo on it, and again it was a pretty good. It looks like the app he was using was the app Pianist Pro $9.99 itunes link and as you’ll see in the video, it sounds pretty good!
If you didn’t see it you can check out the clip of the band playing the song on You Tube or watch the whole episode here.
BONUS: Here’s a clip of Classical Pianist Lang Lang performing “Flight of the Bumblebee” on an iPad
About the Author: Will Doggett is a guitarist, worship leader and wanna-be DJ based out of NC. He spends most of his time running and blogging for Loops in Worship, as well as creating custom loops. You can reach him by email at will@loopsinworship.com and find him on Twitter @willdoggett
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