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Welcome JVLee - don't be discouraged by impolite actors online. "SO Finally to my question: Do you know of any video or webpage tutorials that focus on this question? It's not very easy to Google this one. And maybe there's just no such thing, and the only answer is experience?" There is no simple answer to your question. Sometimes you can find a keyboard preset to do the sound you want. Sometimes you can make small adjustments to a preset to get it to sound they way you want. Sometimes you have to create a sound from scratch. Sometimes, it is not possible to mimic a given sound, so you have to accept using a substitute. It will depend on the sound you want, what keyboard(s) you have, your willingness to spend time to get a given sound, your knowledge of synthesizers and synthesis. The Kurzweil K2700 has a good deal of programmability, so at least you have not limited yourself by your choice of keyboard. Some guys will write in to this forum to ask about a particular sound they want or are working on, to get tips and suggestions. Sometimes forum members are able to share a particular keyboard preset to cover a wanted sound. As a general suggestion, I will suggest you learn about the basics of subtractive synthesis: what an oscillator is; what a filter is; what an ADSR generator is; etc. Let us know how it is going.

What are some popular songs that have this forever loop of i - VI?

Congratulations on your niece's wedding. I hope you and all your family have a great day! (And enjoy your new keyboard.)

I Can See Clearly Now Softly As In A Morning Sunrise It's Only A Paper Moon Here Comes Sunshine

I guess I should re-phrase the question. I would like to explore some alternatives to You-Tube that do not involve a large corporation geared towards web monopoly and homogenization - i.e not You-Tube, Facebook, Tik-Tok, or Instagram, and the like. Open-source would be a plus.

I would like to explore some alternatives to You-Tube - both for simple viewing and for uploading media. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I prefer to let them do the talking. So I ask these kinds of questions: Where are you from? Did it take long to get here? Are you here on vacation? (for couples): How long have you been together? Tell me about your kids (or grandkids or pets). How many? Hold old? What do they do? Do you like their music? What do you do for a living? How did you get started in that? I find people love to talk about themselves to I give them an opportunity to do that, and then prompt them to talk some more about themselves.

@Rustar - tell us your experience with that Behringer hot-spot monitor - how is that working for you? What genre of music does your band play?

Full-body covid protective measures - nothing's gonna stop these guys from performing.

I have a home-made chart of Valerie if you want. Musescore - someone else mentioned this. It is a useful tip: free downloadable working notation software. This has proved pretty useful to me in making charts. I recommend it. Mind for Music (here: https://www.mindformusic.com/) Advertised as "the internet's largest collection of Jazz and Contemporary sheet music, arrangements and transcriptions, all completely free!" It has a lot of music; not everything, but a lot. A worthwhile place to visit when you are looking for a chart.

I use the "hit-r-miss" method: I enter a search string into Google "song pdf name of song". This returns a usable file fairly often. Sometimes I enter into Google "lead sheet name of song". This often returns a usable file. Often I end up making my own charts based on what I find online. I keep these on my computer so I can print them out as needed.

Umm....why not turn the volume of the DXR10 down further? Be sure the DXR is set to receive a line signal and not a mic signal. On my DXR (set to receive a line signal), with the DXR volume set at unity, I have to keep the keyboard volume at <50% or else the speaker output is unbearably loud. It seems unusual to me that you are getting unbearably loud output with the DXR volume set to -20 and a keyboard volume of 20% Alternatively, you could buy a small mixer so you can send the keyboard signal to the mixer and then send one volume to your DXR10 and send a different volume to your FOH/recording device.

I do it the old-fashioned way: I listen to the song, make notes, and then write out a chart for myself. Sometimes the chart is nothing more than my notes ("key of A; mid-tempo blues shuffle; Intro by guitar, enter after 4 bars; bridge on IV after 2nd and 4th verse; end walk down from I to V, repeat 3x). And sometimes I need to write out chords for every measure like a fake book. I want to have something on paper I can look at before the song starts, or read along as the song progresses. It seems I lose 20-30 IQ points by stepping on stage (I think the loud noises make it harder for me to think and concentrate), so I don't trust my memory. I want to have it on paper to look at it.

I begin my practice day with some light finger exercises and some scales. I want to get my fingers, hands, and arms warmed up before tackling the more involved classical pieces and improvs that make up most of my practice time.

I just saw this, and thought I would share. Enjoy.