Not only are your lessons great for me as a beginner, but now you have invited me to my next musical step, to start working with my voice, I figured that would not happen until after learning to play the Linnstrument. Thank you for the invite, very exciting.
I do think connecting the voice with the instrument is a really key part of improvising and I'm glad you're excited to start working with your voice. It will serve you well! And thanks for the positive feedback!
Loving these lessons!As a teacher myself, I am glad you are taking this at a slow pace in order to integrate the fingers to ear to brain to singing connection---the essence of improvisation.My late great teacher,Lennie Tristano would love it!!!You are also greatly illuminating the idea that the Linnstrument could be an invaluable tool as a first instrument for everybody.The possibilities seem endless...Thanks so much and I can't wait for the next installment.
Thanks for taking the time to put this together @stephen. I like the way you're starting from such a simple basis (C + Dm) and starting to build on that.
So good to have these lessons, I got a lot of good practice from the first one and I can see it will be the same for this one. I like the comments on ear training and improvising. Great points to emphasize.
I am a composer , not a lot of knowledge in piano , more in bass guitar . At the begenning , I wish I would like to learn to play piano , but I have the feeling that it would too much lead me in traditionnels ways of thinking music . However , by learning how to use the LINNSTRUMENT , I am almost pretty sure that it will open a lots of doors for using the rules of harmony and create more original songs . But , pffffffff, it is exepensive ! See if I could get one in second hand
@DEKALBOY I felt the same way about Linnstrument - "wow that's a lot of money for a MIDI controller". After buying it though, it instantly became my favourite instrument and my bass+guitar+Stick are now gathering dust. It's absolutely a game changer for many reasons: it's way easier to get started than most instruments as there's not a lot of training your hands to do unusual things as there is on e.g. piano or guitar, and no getting my embouchure to play brass or woodwinds; the default layout (rows tuned in 4ths) is totally logical and makes it easy to transpose anything almost without thinking; it has all the sound generating benefits of a keyboard MIDI controller, then you introduce MPE and it's like "whoa, this is a whole other thing - now with not too much more practice I can also sound like a credible horn player, or play sounds that don't have any natural equivalent but with feeling". The biggest problem I'm finding is there's just too many options to play with and fascinating stuff to learn. The sheer range of things you can do with just Linnstrument plus a few soft synths can be overwhelming. Do I keep learning how to work with that slide guitar patch, or do I work on my technique for playing bass lines? Do I lay down drum patterns, or keep going with that SWAM trumpet patch? Do I tweak the MIDI CCs on this MPE patch so tilting on the Y axis opens a filter? Hopefully I should be cured of that by the time we get out of pandemic conditions and I resume playing live with other humans... I know this comes across as a fanboy writing, but trust me - I had exactly the same concerns as you did only a few months ago. After buying my Linnstrument now I'm wondering why I put it off for so long.
Yeah, I totally get it about the cost. It is the most expensive piece of musical equipment I have ever bought but I can say I have never for one second regretted doing so.
I love this "just do it" teaching style. It's immediately accessible to all without being a firehose of theory. Looking forward to more.
Thanks so much Zach!
Not only are your lessons great for me as a beginner, but now you have invited me to my next musical step, to start working with my voice, I figured that would not happen until after learning to play the Linnstrument. Thank you for the invite, very exciting.
I do think connecting the voice with the instrument is a really key part of improvising and I'm glad you're excited to start working with your voice. It will serve you well! And thanks for the positive feedback!
Loving these lessons!As a teacher myself, I am glad you are taking this at a slow pace in order to integrate the fingers to ear to brain to singing connection---the essence of improvisation.My late great teacher,Lennie Tristano would love it!!!You are also greatly illuminating the idea that the Linnstrument could be an invaluable tool as a first instrument for everybody.The possibilities seem endless...Thanks so much and I can't wait for the next installment.
Thank you so much for this comment, it's really validating to read. And that's amazing that you studied with Lennie Tristano!
Thanks for taking the time to put this together @stephen. I like the way you're starting from such a simple basis (C + Dm) and starting to build on that.
Thanks so much David, I really appreciate it.
Fantastic series - please keep the coming if you have time! :)
Thanks so much! I plan to do more soon.
Loving these videos Stephen. Thanks for contributing to the LinnStrument!
Thanks so much!
So good to have these lessons, I got a lot of good practice from the first one and I can see it will be the same for this one. I like the comments on ear training and improvising. Great points to emphasize.
Thanks so much George, I'm really glad you're finding them useful!
You should organize all of these videos into a single playlist to keep track
Good idea, I will do so!
I am a composer , not a lot of knowledge in piano , more in bass guitar . At the begenning , I wish I would like to learn to play piano , but I have the feeling that it would too much lead me in traditionnels ways of thinking music . However , by learning how to use the LINNSTRUMENT , I am almost pretty sure that it will open a lots of doors for using the rules of harmony and create more original songs . But , pffffffff, it is exepensive ! See if I could get one in second hand
@DEKALBOY I felt the same way about Linnstrument - "wow that's a lot of money for a MIDI controller". After buying it though, it instantly became my favourite instrument and my bass+guitar+Stick are now gathering dust.
It's absolutely a game changer for many reasons: it's way easier to get started than most instruments as there's not a lot of training your hands to do unusual things as there is on e.g. piano or guitar, and no getting my embouchure to play brass or woodwinds; the default layout (rows tuned in 4ths) is totally logical and makes it easy to transpose anything almost without thinking; it has all the sound generating benefits of a keyboard MIDI controller, then you introduce MPE and it's like "whoa, this is a whole other thing - now with not too much more practice I can also sound like a credible horn player, or play sounds that don't have any natural equivalent but with feeling".
The biggest problem I'm finding is there's just too many options to play with and fascinating stuff to learn. The sheer range of things you can do with just Linnstrument plus a few soft synths can be overwhelming. Do I keep learning how to work with that slide guitar patch, or do I work on my technique for playing bass lines? Do I lay down drum patterns, or keep going with that SWAM trumpet patch? Do I tweak the MIDI CCs on this MPE patch so tilting on the Y axis opens a filter? Hopefully I should be cured of that by the time we get out of pandemic conditions and I resume playing live with other humans...
I know this comes across as a fanboy writing, but trust me - I had exactly the same concerns as you did only a few months ago. After buying my Linnstrument now I'm wondering why I put it off for so long.
Yeah, I totally get it about the cost. It is the most expensive piece of musical equipment I have ever bought but I can say I have never for one second regretted doing so.
Totally agree David.
Stephen, I like the sound of the patch you are using for this tutorial. Is there a preset for it?
I'm using Acoustic Samples "Tines" library, which is my favorite Rhodes VST.
@@reckon104 Adding it to my wishlist