[Kanthos]

I'm not really a remixer (well, not yet), but I do a lot of live keyboard playing in rock/pop bands at a few churches in my town. I'm also running the keyboard session for a church music training day in October for all the churches in my town.

To go along with the sessions, I've started a blog with all kinds of tips for keyboard players. There's only a few posts at the moment, but I'm adding at least one a week and have a big list of things I want to cover. Some of it's very beginner-oriented, topics like "Which keyboard should I buy" and "What should I prepare for an audition or rehearsal", but I'm also going to cover topics like how to gig with multiple keyboards, plus give an overview of the different sounds keyboard players use, stuff like B3 drawbar settings, effects choices for electric piano sounds, and so on.

Even if you don't play keys in a band, you'll find some of the topics useful for remixing. Check it out if you're interested; topic suggestions are welcome!

[Meteo Xavier]

I spent $2,000 on lessons and I still can't play keyboard live...

Can compose decently on the piano though.

[Kanthos]

Piano lessons only help you play piano live, which isn't at all the same thing

I'm not going to try and teach basic piano skills through a blog, and that's not really my interest anyway. But, if you've got decent piano chops but wouldn't know what to do sitting down with a band without sheet music, you'll hopefully find the blog useful.

[SnappleMan]

Very cool idea. As a keyboardist I support this.

[Mikeaudio]

Very useful information, and actually information thats not talked about too much. You have my support as well.

[Blue Magic]

I'm definitely interested in this. Thanks alot!

[Kanthos]

Excellent, I'm glad people are interested. Check it out, subscribe to updates, and if there's anything you want to hear about, give me feedback

[Arcana]

Originally Posted by Kanthos

Excellent, I'm glad people are interested. Check it out, subscribe to updates, and if there's anything you want to hear about, give me feedback

On one of your posts (about fingered chords) you write this:

I’m not going to give a systematic course in how to play from a chord chart (look on youtube for more informal ones, or pay for lessons if you need a hands-on approach)

Do you have any good YouTube videos you'd recommend? I think I'm a little bit below your target audience with respect to ability but I'd be curious to know if you have a particular video in mind here.

[Kanthos]

I can't recommend anything off the top of my head. I seemed to remember the youtube user Experts Village having some good tips, but I just took a quick look and couldn't find what I remembered browsing through (that one user has over 100,000 videos uploaded, and 8,600 playlists).

I was busy the last week, so I haven't recorded a few audio clips for that post yet, but I'm going to do that, and for a few others, this week, and I'm generally going to post audio examples of what I'm talking about, so that'll be a start. I learned by getting thrown into a band situation and having to figure it out myself, so I've never really spent much time looking at beginner videos. I'd suggest browsing youtube (or even doing a more exhaustive search through Experts Village) and finding a series that seems to work for you; if you find something worthwhile, I'd be happy to post it and credit you for finding it.

And though I have no intention of doing a formal course, reading anything that I post that has sound examples will help you out too. It'll take a few more posts for it to fall into place, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a decent start just from reading my stuff, based on what's in my head, though looking elsewhere will help too, especially since you can find stuff that's already out there faster than I can create new content.

I assume you have some level of piano skill and some knowledge of theory (enough that you could at least understand when I was talking about chords in that post, and what notes make them up); that's really all I'm assuming anyone reading my posts will have.

[Arcana]

Originally Posted by Kanthos

And though I have no intention of doing a formal course, reading anything that I post that has sound examples will help you out too. It'll take a few more posts for it to fall into place, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a decent start just from reading my stuff, based on what's in my head, though looking elsewhere will help too, especially since you can find stuff that's already out there faster than I can create new content.

I assume you have some level of piano skill and some knowledge of theory (enough that you could at least understand when I was talking about chords in that post, and what notes make them up); that's really all I'm assuming anyone reading my posts will have.

I think one difference is that I don't have a band situation to go into (and no logical segue into one) so I won't have the same "pressure" that you might have I'll take a browse through that archive you mentioned though. Yes, I do happen to have some theory knowledge but my piano skills have deteriorated. A lot of the muscle memory from piano didn't translate very well to the keyboard.