New Old Guy Needs Help

[vbdx66]

Hi everybody,

Years ago, I watched the Karen Ramirez video series and they helped me immensely. I had had music theory lesson in a music school and they were pretty advanced but they were more focused at musical analysis of classical pieces, they did not teach you how to apply chords to a melody, which is basically what arranger keyboard playing implies.

Karen Ramirez is really a great lady. She used to work for Roland. Her series of videos were recorded live while she was teaching a bunch of beginners, mostly retired people, who were then learning how to play the Roland Music Atelier, the high-end Roland arranger organ at that time. The people who bought the Atelier would probably buy a Genos or a higher-end Clavinova nowadays (maybe some of them did, actually). The lessons were part of the package for the people who had bought this pretty expensive organ.

Although oriented towards the Music Atelier, these lessons are very well-made and apply to any arranging device, from the PSR E263 to the Genos, as well as to the Ckavinovas, to name only Yamaha models, but these lessons will be useful for players of any brand of keyboards.

Karen starts with really basic stuff then moves on to more advanced concepts (but it is always understandable and doable), and she knows how to make it sheer fun.

Watch her "Playing by ear" series, she will convince you that you, too, can play by ear, even if you never played before or if, like me, you used to play by the dots.

Regards,

Vinciane

[wersianer]

Where do you get the chordfinder bar?

[panos]

Yes Adspin, our left hand on a keyboard controls how the style will play and  for doing this we use chords for the left hand to play.The style follows our chords.

[gfraden]

This thread is great! Adrian, thank-you for starting it with your question.

I enjoyed reading other members' advice and experiences. I learned a lot and hooked up with a couple of places where I'm learning more.

Fantastic! And I got a geography lesson, too!

George

[Adspin]

This thread is great! Adrian, thank-you for starting it with your question.

I enjoyed reading other members' advice and experiences. I learned a lot and hooked up with a couple of places where I'm learning more.

Fantastic! And I got a geography lesson, too!

George

Hi George, i started this thread out of desperation, not knowing where to start, now i have a bit more of a direction.
Youtube videos from Steve Lungrin, The Piano Man and Karen Ramirez, along with Dylan Laine, Pianopig and Mangold Project i find very instructive, as they say in the Tesco advert "Every Little Helps" you have to be in the UK to understand this.