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Very nice, Stephen. Thank you for doing this. It is very helpful for learning two-handed piano-style play.

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Reckon104 wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:48 pm After getting requests from a few people, I did a video on an approach to two handed chord playing. Unfortunately there's more than a bit of wind-baggery going on here as on further review I probably could have made this about a third as long, but I just don't have it in me to do another take. Hopefully some will find it helpful.

https://youtu.be/MTE6vwGpy0I
Great video! Bitwig's on screen grid is especially helpful for videos demonstrating notes played as well.

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Hello, I recently started my own youtube channel with the focus on modular, linnstrument and potentially electric cello, for now mostly improvised stuff.

So here's a little ambient-ish performance clip I made yesterday, thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEM8JTUZLMQ

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Pardon spamming my latest but there's bound to be bit of Linnstrument on here somewhere, though I couldn't tell you where exactly given the nature of my crackers approach to recording. Anyway, here's my modular based pop release salvation - notable if nothing else for the fact that it took almost a decade to make!

https://therapyinterferingbehaviour.ban ... /salvation

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Echoes in the Attic wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:13 pm
Reckon104 wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:48 pm After getting requests from a few people, I did a video on an approach to two handed chord playing. Unfortunately there's more than a bit of wind-baggery going on here as on further review I probably could have made this about a third as long, but I just don't have it in me to do another take. Hopefully some will find it helpful.

<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">https://youtu.be/MTE6vwGpy0I</span>
Great video! Bitwig's on screen grid is especially helpful for videos demonstrating notes played as well.
Roger_Linn wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:15 pm Very nice, Stephen. Thank you for doing this. It is very helpful for learning two-handed piano-style play.
Thanks guys!
t-IB wrote: Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:55 pm Pardon spamming my latest but there's bound to be bit of Linnstrument on here somewhere, though I couldn't tell you where exactly given the nature of my crackers approach to recording. Anyway, here's my modular based pop release salvation - notable if nothing else for the fact that it took almost a decade to make!

<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">https://therapyinterferingbehaviour.ban ... tion</span>
Congrats! Just listened to a couple tracks. Sounds great! I can also say without thinking about it that I don't have the persistence to work on a project for anywhere near that long...and if I did I wouldn't finish it!

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Reckon104 wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:12 am Congrats! Just listened to a couple tracks. Sounds great! I can also say without thinking about it that I don't have the persistence to work on a project for anywhere near that long...and if I did I wouldn't finish it!
Thanks very much! Timescale wise it's a little more complicated that starting this with the intention of completing it a decade ago...

Producing modular based songs (rather than tracks) has been a long term aim, and after returning to songwriting a couple of years back (which ended up as the hostages release), I set about identifying tracks I'd made and previously released on different projects (the oldest of which goes back to 2011 I think) that I could best bend into electronic based pop(ish) songs. The lyrics were written and recorded over the last year when I finished hostages - there's probably a couple of tracks on this that should have gone there and vice versa.

Either way I'm pretty pleased with how it's ended up, in that despite being written in different parts of a 9 year period the tracks fit together well enough and sound like me. I'm never a huge fan of my own vocal and I struggle on a few here, but it ticks the boxes of what I've wanted to be putting out alongside the experimental stuff I do. It's also kept me productive in the tiny pockets of time I now have after the kids came early last year!

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Reckon104 wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:48 pm Hopefully some will find it helpful.
https://youtu.be/MTE6vwGpy0I
Thanks a lot! Very helpful as someone who came from Violin and Bass! Always wondering how some piano players move so easily between the chords. This is something I'll practice now!
But you should definitely test out the tritone tuning I am using all the time. Those shapes are much easier for both hands, and in addition you will not run into those more than three in a collumn or those square shapes which don't work on the LinnStrument.

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Tj Shredder wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:08 pm
Reckon104 wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:48 pm Hopefully some will find it helpful.
https://youtu.be/MTE6vwGpy0I
Thanks a lot! Very helpful as someone who came from Violin and Bass! Always wondering how some piano players move so easily between the chords. This is something I'll practice now!
But you should definitely test out the tritone tuning I am using all the time. Those shapes are much easier for both hands, and in addition you will not run into those more than three in a collumn or those square shapes which don't work on the LinnStrument.
Thanks for watching.

I do clearly see many of the advantages of the tritone tuning. I am not sure I have it in me to make that change at this point, which is why I studiously avoided checking it out until tonight! But yeah, in terms of what I am doing on this video, the tritone tuning makes a lot of sense, and I can see it's advantages otherwise as well.

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A dirge for the ole' red, white and blue...

https://youtu.be/7WxUnQ7FNo4

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Another good one, Steve. I love how all in all your videos, your musical skill is clearly apparent. When a LinnStrument video demonstrates musical skill, the message is that LinnStrument is a professional musical instrument chosen by skilled players, not just another control surface with lights. Thanks very much.

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Thanks so much Roger! For me, one of the downsides of how great of a design it is, particularly in terms of ease of play, is that it is so often tempting to just jam instead of really practice. But on the other hand, I have never experienced an instrument so quickly reward disciplined practice. This is even more remarkable given that we're all sort of making up the pedagogy as we go, so there aren't a whole lot of theoretical short cuts to inherit from our elders. In any event, I'm hoping to bear down a bit over the next few months and work out a few technique challenges I have been having.

On a completely different front, I've been meaning to ask you how (and if) you think Midi 2 stands to eventually change the landscape for expressive controllers like the LinnStrument. This might not be the thread for it (and my apologies if I've missed a discussion of this elsewhere), but I'd be curious to hear your thoughts about that at some point.

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You’re very welcome, Steve.

Regarding MIDI 2, it’s interesting that I haven’t received a single request for it other than a few inquiries about it following its announcement. It currently appears to be a solution looking for a problem, because there’s nothing it does that current MIDI doesn’t do for LinnStrument, though I appreciate that it’s a more technically elegant protocol. It may gain popularity in coming years, or it may be ignored, only time will tell.

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Outstanding piece, Steve. Thanks for sharing.
Jeremy Cubert
Piano | Chapman Stick | LinnStrument | Zendrum
http://jeremycubert.com

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Thanks so much Jeremy!

I just realized that I didn't make clear that it is a cover of a Grateful Dead tune (although significant liberties are taken with the arrangement). The band (or the remaining organization) actually encourages covers on youtube and ones they like they link to on their youtube channel. So I'm hoping that if nothing else the unusual aspect of this video will catch their eye and maybe the video will reach more people who will wonder what the hell I'm playing.

Love 'em or hate 'em (and I know there are a lot in that camp), my opinion is that, if nothing else, they wrote quite a few very beautiful compositions. I'll admit as a kid in high school, I saw Garcia whenever I could. At the time I was kind of a jazz geek, as there were a ton of great jazz clubs right in my neighborhood that I could order a burger and a coke, and watch the likes of Gator Tail Jackson, Sammy Price, Philly Joe Jones, Joe Albany, Percy France, to name but a few. But I'll admit, Garcia's guitar playing really caught my ear and I would ride the subway down to the Garden to see the Dead or the Beacon or Roseland to see the Garcia band.

It must be acknowledged though, that in the early '80s being in high school and liking jazz and the dead made me about as uncool as I could possibly be. It's funny to me now that the NYC hipster scene has embraced both in recent years. My sister-in-law is sort of a heavy in the alt-noise scene in NY (played bass in one of Thurston Moore's recent bands, etc.) and when I told her I was learning some jazz and dead tunes on the LinnStrument she said, without the slightest hint of irony: "how trendy of you." That's when I knew things had changed.

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With the exception of "Terrapin Station," I have never been a GD fan but appreciate their talent. The guitarist in one of the bands I am in is a huge GD fan. He is not too happy when we try to limit solo lengths for songs! I wonder if there is a connection. I guess our next show will just be one song!
Jeremy Cubert
Piano | Chapman Stick | LinnStrument | Zendrum
http://jeremycubert.com

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