Stupid Black Keys

[aMUSEd]

Can you get keyboards where the black keys are equal size and position to the white keys (maybe still black to distinguish them but otherwise the same)?

[aMUSEd]

Ah - this is what I had in mind - I see you can:

http://www.daskin.com/index.html

this one also has polyphonic aftertouch!

[robogone]

He just comes over as the epitome of the lazy person who wants to make music. Everything has a shortcut to doing the hard work to this guy.

Elitist.

Well glad to see you're on the ball there...

[Nystul]

He seems to make decent music within the context of what he's trying to do, and his advice would work out well for some people. I really think the scale enforcing plugins are the wrong way to go. Here is why I can't see a good argument in favor of it, especially for a simple minor scale: He could just do what he's doing, but base it in A minor. Or any white key mode. Use a transposing tool to get whatever key is needed for the right frequency range. In terms of easy white key noodling it will be practically identical. However I also see a few advantages to that over using a scale enforcer. One is that the intervals you play physically will be the ones you hear, which gives the opportunity to learn what is really going on even if you are transposing. The other is, you have the flexibility to hit a black key and go outside the scale anytime your ear demands it.

Now for something other than the church modes, like that wacky Egyptian stuff, playing on the white keys won't work without the scale plugin. So there it has benefit, but the drawbacks remain the same.

All of this is a pretty minor nitpick. Most important thing is, if you value your wrists, fingers, and instrument, don't use his keyboard technique!

[GeckoYamori]

Besides, it's not like performing musicians aren't lazy either. Can't be a coincidence just how often songs in minor just happen to be in the key of A.

[jancivil]

why are you making excuses for this idiot

[highkoo]

Racist

[robogone]

Well to clarify...my issue is not with the type of music that he is making, nor is it with using aids to learning. Specifically it is with the number of times he says something to the effect that you don't have to learn how to do something properly as there's a tool that will prevent you from having to learn how to do it properly.

Personally I think there's a lot of value in continually learning, both in terms of theory and technique. I don't know there's so much value in learning to the point where the tools can take over and then taking this guy's advice that you don't need to learn beyond that point.

[jancivil]

Well, it's about feeling entitled to a result, a PRODUCT, as a PRODUCER, in music but it's just too much trouble to obtain any musicianship.
It's corrupt. Why music, if music isn't really interesting in itself to you? For bragging rights to something you can't really even f**king DO. For the bucks too. And notice these infants will just use the cracks, 'use the crack of Live, so much better than the fifty dollar fruity loops yo.'

[Examigan]

If he practiced scales and chords 30 minutes a day, he might get somewhere, instead of holding that camera all day.