Nord Stage 3 - Best Piano Sound for Church and Worship Music and 5 Tips for a BETTER Piano Sound!

What's the best piano sound in the Nord Stage 3 for live or church worship music? In this video I talk about what I think the best piano sound is and also share 5 quick tips for elevating your piano sound while playing on stage!

Playing live music with a band, either in church with your worship team or somewhere else, is different than playing the Nord Stage 3 through headphones. When you're playing with other instruments, it's important to make sure the piano sound sits properly in the mix. Hopefully this video will help you and give you some easy steps to picking the best piano sound, but also making that piano sound the best it can when playing live!

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[Soldier_for_CHRIST]

We need a Nord for our church..let god provide us...Amen

[victornikora]

13:35, this where a lot keyboard players miss it, and I mean a lot, what he’s talking about here,
It’s using the right chord progression, it’s knowing how to play these chords effectively not just majors, you have to incorporate minors, because it touches the soul realm, understanding when to use space between these chords to let it breathe out a mood and presence, this kind of anointed skill comes through the musicians diligence and understanding that every note struck is touching a nerve in someone’s spirit, you are just not going through the motions at this point, practicing alone with the Holy Spirit will bring out this skill, the space and breathing is a must, very few in the church have it, most players overplay, too busy, play over the speakers voice, being an anointed musician is being humble and knowing when to execute!
Blessings.☝️

[justinbaldwinOG]

I truly appreciate these videos and walkthroughs! These are the most thorough on YouTube and the fact that it’s in the context of worship services makes it even better! Thank you kind sir!

[davidcarroll]

Brilliant! Started using the White Grand a couple of weeks ago, and I really like the sound in my in ear monitor, we’re still tweaking the house sound. More recently, added the reverb, and that was really a bonus in our space. Based on this video, I’ll get with our sound guy and talk about the Eq levels. We already have strong bass, so definitely not needed there. I’ll give the soft piano a try, I was using a different live setting for underplaying talking, but this sounds much better! Keep up the great hints!

[kathrynaraguz]

for get the ''tutorial'' part of this video... your playing is absolutely beautiful!!

[DojoOfCool]

I roll off some bass on just about all the keyboard sounds on the Nord. I find the Nord sounds are all very full for solo piano playing, but in a group or other styles I find rolling off some bass helps a lot. I usually don't EQ in any highs, but when I want to a touch I will use the Bright option in the reverb section. As for my main choice of piano sound I like the Studio Grand 2 it has less bass, a lot of note definition, and shorter tail on the notes which helps keep things clean when playing fast. When I do want a big piano sound I will use the White Piano.

[michaeldavis]

I use a nord stage 3 HP 76 at my church, and the mane piano sound that I use on it, is the white grand. this has got to be my favorit piano sound that nord has right now. I also have been messing with a lot of EQ and effects to get it to sound good in both the front of house and my in ears. I layor synth pads and organs on top of it.

[LTS]

Hi. Where have you been all my Nord Stage 3 life??? This has helped me so much, plus your videos on adding the pads. ❤❤❤

[manuelvasquez]

God bless you. Blessings from Lima-PERU. My church bought a Nord Stage 3 !!!!. thanks for your videos....

[XenoLogioLP]

30 secs into the video you exactly described my situation. I fell so seen 😊

[Stellalightroom]

thank you for the tips. i didnt know how to use our new nord3 in church

[stevemercadante]

Douglas, love your approach, your conciseness, your cadence (not blitzing through) and your topic selection! I'm involved in worship music as well and just bought the Nord Stage 3 and I'm finding that your videos are extremely helpful! After hearing your 'white grand' I'm going to follow your tutorial and substitute for the royal....could hear the significant difference from your youtubes...hands down, white grand is beautiful...and I can't wait to hear the string res!

[LoveYourself-tdun]

I want A keyboard for My Church Don't have Money 😓 pray For uss

[mrwiswas]

Thanks for those tips and tricks! God bless you!

[Marianst.]

I have all the Nord piano sounds on my Yamaha Montage. I still prefer CFX piano on Yamaha over all the Nord piano voices.

My favorite from Nord, is also White Grand. It has a very nice laid back sound. Love it! I use it, just not as much as CFX.

[rexsplace]

Thank you! Great job. Have Nord 5 stage piano. Will you add videos for that as well?

[WorshipPiano-OliverKuehnel]

Really good video! Thanks for that. God bless you. Greetings from Germany :D

[jozefdani]

Nord ...top piano sound !!!absolute top!

[talkbox]

“More Reverb” is the new “More Cowbell “

[metanoiacoaching]

And your followers might be interested to hear that it works on the middle range if you load a Medium (Med) piano sound and on the entire range if you load a Large (Lrg) or ExtraLarge (XL) sound. (You will simply not be able to turn it on on a Small (Sml) piano sound.)