Dumbest guy on Forum!!

[shotguntc88]

Hey guy's,

I have been lurking for a week and decided to finally speak at the risk of being barbecued severely!!!

I only know VERY simple playing on the keyboard and used to own a (hides) GEM SK88 since 1999 which finally bellyed up last week, So I found the Fusion for the ridiculously low price at Musicions Friend and bought it.

I hope I can learn from you folks at least how to make all the pretty lights come on! ;D

I will now hide and read some more and learn some fundamentals to help me at LEAST know what a workstation is!

Thanks for the time
Shotgun

[markone]

Welcome, and don't be shy... We all start somewhere!

[trmash]

No doubt. I've had all kinds of help from these guys. I love the Fusion & I'm just getting under the hood. every day I find something new. Right now I'm begging 4 info on drums & making kits. It's not so bad once U get the Alesis protocol in your head.

[mozape]

Just know that there are only dumb answers, not dumb questions.
Wilkommen!

[shotguntc88]

Thanks for the welcome!

I have gathered up a ton of info and printed it out to hang next to the Fusion.

Pray fer me!..........

Shotgun

[mystic]

Hey I must then be the "next to the dumbest guy". The neat thing to remember first and last adn always is that we are all standing in a long line. And as we practice,learn and then share, we change places with the next "dumb guy" who will join us!

Well that is about as much philos as i will share in one message. My thoughts on learning something new is that one must have a goal in mind...because if you don't, once you fire up those lights and turn on the amp, time will go by and though you might have had a great time, not much will stick (except that your love for this keyboard will grow). So before you even fire it up or during some down time during the day start thinking what would I like to learn on this? Write out a month of things you would like to learn, arps, sampling, recording, different synth types... and this isn't even addressing the many things one has to learn mastering playing an instrument such as basic chords, inversions and voicings, arps, harmonic progression, parrallel harmonies, counterpoint, etc.

I try to do something I call minimalist exercises. I start by listing as many of the items that are involved in my current lessons and then making myself focussing on only 1 of them for 10 min or more before taking on 2 of them for another 10 minutes and then 3 of them, etc... Let me give you an example. I have a list that goes something like this: Rythmn: before the beat, on the beat, after the beat, tempo: 60 BPM, 89 BMP, 120 BPM, Note values: quarter notes, half notes, sixteenths, rests, attack, sustain, pedals, etc., etc, this list I just keep adding to and when I am ready to start for the day I start with some warm ups, scales or a new key that i might be learning or a progression. The key thing here is that I am warming up, I never let go and get INTO the joy right off. This helps keep me focussed. After 10 minutes or so then I get my list out and I choose one or two or even three things to learn with such as: Lets see what i can do with sixteenth notes playing before the beat using my sustain pedal. I will just concentrate on listening and it is amazing how many things I learn about phrasing, timing, and on and on and on. After a half hour I might add another element to it like half note rests or adding a different chord over what i was playing on melody.

Now this leads me to an approach on how to learn the Fusion. We first must admit that just like music, there is so much to learn and we must be both patient and persistent as a student. I know that it will take me a year and more to learn it and I will enjoy what it has to teach me. The other day I played for 5 hours and my right leg still is hurting from me keeping time and pounding the pedals... Some of this knowledge is kinectic (the keyboard playing mastery), alot of it of it is mental (filing, saving a mix or program, loading a sample and using it), and some of it intuitive ... (we all are intuitive but each of us specialise in certain things while others in other areas). I have an outlined what i want to learn in the next month, for next month and the month after that. I hope to have some of my sounds posted here so that you see that I am progressing in my path. Anyway I hope that this helps some. Just read through the index in the reference guide and decide what you would like to "master this month."

Good luck and I'll hear your craft as you pass on by...

[xencage]

Hold on there, pal!

I get to be "the dumbest guy on the forum" ;D

Welcome! This is the place for us dummies! Great folks here to help with all your Fusion needs!
Enjoy the adventure you are about to embark upon!

kev