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jjj333

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  • Birthday 01/19/2022

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  1. Even though I don't follow any kind of tutor, since I daily practice for 90 minutes I clearly notice that I'm progressing. My method is to allow my fingers freely search for the desired notes of any to me known melodies. - To accelerate this progress I practice at a fast rhythm pace which forces me to search for more notes during the same practice time. - I truly observed that this will gradually map my fingers to my memory although the progress is fairly slow. For many years I used to whistle to good music to entertain tourists, here at Sydney's Circular Quay. Thus, my idea is to get my fingers to follow my musical mind, just as I'm able to realize the same in my whistling. Here are a couple of samples of my whistling to interesting tunes for you to enjoy: https://app.box.com/s/mn2n4arwbxl348av012xwdvi8vr7iivy https://app.box.com/s/u68q3fn26jtwb9673xbfc751mef4wq6e
  2. Hi to you wonderful keyboard artists! I'm trying to rewire my brain by playing the Janko keyboard by ear. Would you have some good advice on how to best go about it? - So far, I just blindly guide my right hand to find the tunes I desire to find and I seem to get very slowly better at it. Maybe that's the only way to do it? I already gained some dexterity practice on a piano accordion. The Janko keyboard layout is pretty close to the traditional zebra piano keyboard, yet requires relearning. There are no Janko keyboard tutors of any kind available, but since you great keyboard players earned your skills, you might be able to advise me on how to get on with it, for at age 79 I'm somewhat in a hurry. Maybe I'm on the right track, by just keep on struggling to find the notes for every melody ...until my brain finally got remapped, or is there an easier or more targeted way to Rome? As you see, my setup consists of a DIY Janko Kbd, 120 button DIY MIDI accordion accompaniment, and Tyros 3 Kbd.
  3. Since previous post limited uploads to 2, here are some more Pics of it. Now I only have to paint the Kbd black & white. I send you also a sample sound of the accordion accompaniment, here: https://app.box.com/s/o8mmsm3f4gqpzhaxwtwtninh3542o9rf
  4. Good news! - It took me a lifetime (now with almost 79) I made it all happen: As you know, it was always my ambition to create an easy to learn and play accordion style musical instrument. - Finally, step by step I built the DIY components for it: 1) I converted a 120-button accordion bass to Midi. 2) From 3 PC plates I created a 6x6 JANKO keyboard 3) I created a WYSIWYG notation for it (similar to Klavar notation). It can't get any easier (!!) and to make it sound like a real accordion I got myself the latest XXL MASTER ACCORDION from V3 sound modules, pairing it with an equally excellent MidiToolEx software and voilà, now I'm enjoying the sound of 206 top accordions at a fraction of Roland Midi accordion's costs. In case anyone of you would like to have some more details, please feel free to contact me. To accelerate the notation conversion process I would need to find a programmer for it.
  5. As a young pensioner (74) I at last found the time to enjoy my Tyros3, now bought this B-5 App and the cheap, Chinese "World EasyControl 9" with Editor: http://en.worlde.com.cn/ After hours of trial & error, I figured out that the controller's communication only works, when the B-3 organ App is off or cancelled in B-3 organ App's "MIDI Devices". I know little about assigning CC# and thus, encounter problems: For instance, when I change the button from CC# 3 to CC#12 , save it and then in "Communication" click "Read Scene Data", then the chosen CC#12 automatically returns to CC#3 and ... so I got nowhere! - How to make it stay in the CC# I have chosen? Maybe it is not possible to change the CC# to any CC# I like, because only certain CC# are designed for buttons, others for potentiometer knobs and sliders? This might be the reason this "World EasyControl 9" rejects certain CC# changes? Please kick me in the right direction, for I seem tapping in the dark... Thanking you in advance for your expert advice. Warm Regards, from Joh in St'go de Chile Besides, I used to be a whistler-Muso: Here's one of the 1000 pieces to which I used twitter: https://app.box.com/s/8513ykv7bcl8fuoyaw8sfb2snu3275cv
  6. Greetings to you all! I'm a young pensioner (74) enjoying my Tyros3 and never could afford a Hammond. So, today I bought this B-5 and am quite excited... but now I have to jump from PC to Tyros for every lousy change. There must be a better way? A MIDI compact controller might do the trick? The problem is I don't know a thing about CC MIDI assignment. Also, this controller might be more expensive than the B-5 module. What's the next best option? Thank you in advance for your invaluable advice, Joh from St'go de Chile
  7. Yes...I'm not giving up. Somewhere on Google I even heard of a comparison test, in which a (dexterity-wise) hard to play piece was played and the zebra Kbd player complaint that "it was unfair", because on the Janko piano it is much easier to play. In the meantime I managed to cover all Tyros3 zebra keys with galvanized tin. The good news is that the coverings are very strong, touch non-of the adjacent keys, offer a firm platform to epoxy-glue the wooden Janko support blocks and are easily reversible! What more could I wish for? I know, I could have used a cheap MIDI controller, but then I would have to shelve it over or under the Tyros and then its functions will also be somewhat limited. I also converted a 120-button accordion bass (bass part only) to MIDI from an old, electronic Farfisa accordion. It had only one contact per button and so, I had to combine wire up all bass and chord notes via diode blocks... hell of a work! Yet, my eternal patience got me through in a week and it sounds incredible; even manually enhances its styles. The advantage of it is that it very light on the fingers, for each button only needs to touch one silver contact wire!! I have got all details here, in case anyone of you would like to have'em. Before that I converted another accordion bass to MIDI by just adding silver contacts onto its 24 air flaps, yet that made button press considerably harder. So, I sold it for about $US400 on eBay in two days! Here's how I tin covered the Tyros3 keys as preparation for the Janko Kbd glue-on: I also found and bought these great looking buttons: http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6751627197.html?orderId=68006169494390 They are a bit thick (8mm) and I might have to sand them down somewhat. Here is a sgl. Pic of how I tin covered the Tyros3 keys: https://www.mediafire.com/?pf9ddqd6q2f6rs5 Since I'm in a musician forum, I thought of asking you great Musos if anyone of you is interested in combining my emotional creative whistling with your musical creativity? Maybe we can create some unique recordings, because the music market has no whistling recordings. Let's see, if I qualify. My name is Johannes K. Drinda. Here are some Demos of my twitter: http://www.artwhistling.org/international/en/hear-us https://www.mediafire.com/?t0mocnkevh9bz1c https://app.box.com/s/6f72eb90c2002db2e9fc https://app.box.com/s/bluoxacemqlslhtq9bv9 https://app.box.com/s/3ahg6ytsixqnzxzluos4
  8. What could be easier and more economical, than to remove the T3 keys, clip on the thin protection covers and hook the keys back in? Of course not everyone feels technically up to the job. That's probably the only thing I can think of, which creates concerns of "messing up" the T3. Yet, I know what I'm doing and that's why I protect the keys in this innovative way.
  9. Yes... I'm serious. The good thing with these clipped on tin covers is that they protect the original keys and at the same time offer me a firm platform onto which epoxy glue the wooden square Janko keys. Later on, in case I want sell the Tyros 3, I can easily un-clip the tin covers and reverse the Kbd to its original zebra piano Kbd layout. This way I don't need to buy the only available, costly Chromatone Kbd, which sounds awful. Besides, I'm not aiming at becoming a professional musician, but aim at enjoying to play my wonderful T3. That's why I dreamed up the easiest and fastest to learn Kbd, accompaniment and notation. If you know of an even more efficient set up, please allow me to check it out and consider it. Thx, Joh from down-under in Chile at +30 Celsius
  10. I'm still at it... at trying to convert my Tyros 3 zebra piano Kbd into Janko Kbd layout. In the meantime I tried to get plastic printers to fabricate the Kbd keys, but they are as well very expensive. A replacement set of keys costs about $500. So, I had to dream up another solution ...and found one: I just use 0.3mm thin tin covers, which clip onto the keys to protect them. That offers me a firm surface onto which I then epoxy glue the square Janko keys and is easily reversible, in case I need to sell the Tyros later on. The advantage of this Janko musical Kbd is that it offers the learner to play the Kbd 10x faster and easier; i.e. 1 year of Janko practice equals 10 years of zebra piano Kbd practice!! This advantage is too good to be missed. Most accomplished zebra piano Kbd players hate the Janko Kbd, because to them it's unfair to have it that easy ...if it can be made more complicated. The same with traditional notation. That's why I invented my own WYSIWYG Janko notation. It allows to visually transfer the notes from the sheet music to the keys and to forget about irregular scales practice and music theory. I also converted an old 120-button Farfisa accordion bass (bass section only) to MIDI. It was a hell of work combining, wiring/ soldering up all basses and chords via some 200+ signal diodes. This will enable me to enjoy musical creativity just like a singer or whistler, without bothering about irregular scales and chords with #+b and other Garbo irregularities. Now all I would need is to find a PC programmer, who could accelerate the music conversion from traditional notation to my Janko notation, because now zebra piano players tell me that all music notation is written in traditional notation. Besides, I converted an old 120-button accordion bass (bass section only) to MIDI, fabricated a special cover for it, decorated it with cloth of my old shirt and sold it in two day for almost $400 on eBay. It was easy to do: I just added 24 switches onto it air flaps, but I didn't like it, for its 120 buttons had to operate the mechanics and that made the buttons hard to press, whereas my Farfisa accordion bass only activates one soft contact per button!!
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