Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 18:11:28 GMT -5
I'm very interested in making videos to do with my flying adventures and find it a lot of fun. My video editing package (Corel VideoStudio Pro) comes with an automatic music package but I have found that something like 80% of it isn't really suitable for my stuff. So as I can't keep using the same pieces over and over again I find myself downloading royalty free material from various internet sites and then editing it to delete bits I don't like and then add the nice bits in at extra places in the tune until I get a final edit that's exactly what I want and of the right length. And I enjoy doing that as well.
I've always had a bit of a musical ear and one of my regrets is that I didn't follow it up when I was younger and learn to play an instrument properly. Like many youngsters, I tinkered with keyboards and guitars but never put enough effort in sadly to make anything of them.
Well now I've decided that although I've left it a bit late in life, it's now or never. While playing around with music for my videos I've realised that huge volumes of really great stuff are being created on the ever more capable keyboard synthesizers that are available nowadays at quite affordable prices - Yamahas, Casios etc etc and that triggered me to do a bit of research on the internet in general and on Youtube. And I've become mesmerised to the extent that I want to be able to do what they do and I just know that I can if I try. OK I'll never in the time that I have available at my age be able to master the musical theory that the guys (and gals) who've been playing piano and keyboards since they were young have, but I don't think that that will stop me being able to create some reasonable music that will give me a lot of pleasure.
So what have I done? Well, Vin will understand when I say that a sequence of events came to fruition this evening as though they were meant to be. Last week I spotted a used keyboard some way away from where I live and contacted the seller who didn't seem to be that fussed about selling it to be honest. But then when I rescanned the ads over the weekend, a much newer one showed up for just a little bit more, but with a stand unlike the original one, and only about 30 minutes fom my house!
And to cut a long story short, I'm now the proud (and excited) owner of a terrific Yamaha PSR-E313 keyboard for not a lot of money which I can't wait to get stuck into learning how to work and then how to play. I've already been bashing out a few one-fingered melodies that sound gorgeous and am really looking forward to getting into it more seriously. There are some great tutorials on Youtube not to mention, of course, paid-for internet courses as well as instructional manuals. And in the final event, who knows, even a human teacher if I get that serious.
My thinking is that it'll be a much better way to pass the dull, rainy days instead of just wasting time surfing the net and messing around on my computer until the day has been wasted and is gone. This, of course, will guarantee that we'll have perfect weather over the coming summer months that will keep me well away from the keyboard
Roger
I've always had a bit of a musical ear and one of my regrets is that I didn't follow it up when I was younger and learn to play an instrument properly. Like many youngsters, I tinkered with keyboards and guitars but never put enough effort in sadly to make anything of them.
Well now I've decided that although I've left it a bit late in life, it's now or never. While playing around with music for my videos I've realised that huge volumes of really great stuff are being created on the ever more capable keyboard synthesizers that are available nowadays at quite affordable prices - Yamahas, Casios etc etc and that triggered me to do a bit of research on the internet in general and on Youtube. And I've become mesmerised to the extent that I want to be able to do what they do and I just know that I can if I try. OK I'll never in the time that I have available at my age be able to master the musical theory that the guys (and gals) who've been playing piano and keyboards since they were young have, but I don't think that that will stop me being able to create some reasonable music that will give me a lot of pleasure.
So what have I done? Well, Vin will understand when I say that a sequence of events came to fruition this evening as though they were meant to be. Last week I spotted a used keyboard some way away from where I live and contacted the seller who didn't seem to be that fussed about selling it to be honest. But then when I rescanned the ads over the weekend, a much newer one showed up for just a little bit more, but with a stand unlike the original one, and only about 30 minutes fom my house!
And to cut a long story short, I'm now the proud (and excited) owner of a terrific Yamaha PSR-E313 keyboard for not a lot of money which I can't wait to get stuck into learning how to work and then how to play. I've already been bashing out a few one-fingered melodies that sound gorgeous and am really looking forward to getting into it more seriously. There are some great tutorials on Youtube not to mention, of course, paid-for internet courses as well as instructional manuals. And in the final event, who knows, even a human teacher if I get that serious.
My thinking is that it'll be a much better way to pass the dull, rainy days instead of just wasting time surfing the net and messing around on my computer until the day has been wasted and is gone. This, of course, will guarantee that we'll have perfect weather over the coming summer months that will keep me well away from the keyboard
Roger
