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This is an education channel designed to help our studio's students with supplemental material. It's a public channel though, so all are welcome! Please feel free to leave comments with recommendations for future videos.
If you live in the South Bay/South Peninsula part of the SF Bay Area reach out to us about lessons.
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If you live in the South Bay/South Peninsula part of the SF Bay Area reach out to us about lessons.
www.mtsstudios.org/
Guitar #10: Guitar Aerobics
At our studio we use a book called Guitar Aerobics to develop various techniques. We're going to get started on a few of the first exercises in this video.
If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
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Guitar #9: The Different Types of Musical Notation Used By Guitar
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Learn how to read different types of notation and the advantages and disadvantages of all of them. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
Guitar #8: Understanding Other Keys Using C Major As A Template
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Use the Key of C Major as a template to figure out the Key of G Major. Try to figure out more keys on your own. F and D major are a good place to start! If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
Guitar #7: The Key of C Major
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Learn how to play in the key of C Major including the scale, arpeggio, and all the chords. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
Guitar #6: Playing Along With Chords Just Using Single Notes
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Learn how to play simplified parts along with your favorite songs so you can practice what you've learned so far. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them. Here are some examples of songs that use the "4 chord progression" we talked about: ua-cam.com/video/HTYrkOZ5nCs/v-deo.html *NOTE A...
Guitar #5: Understanding Basic Rhythms
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Learn how to understand Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth, and Sixteenth notes. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them. *NOTE ABOUT RHYTHMIC NOTATION* The names of notes can be really confusing. In American English the names of rhythmic notation are based on how much of a measure/bar that ...
Guitar #4: Finding Notes On The Fretboard
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Learn how to find your notes on the instrument in an intuitive way that doesn't just involve brute force memorization. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them. *NOTE ABOUT WHOLE STEPS AND HALF STEPS* Our notation for whole steps and half steps (ex: A_B|C_D_E|F_G_A) isn't a type of stan...
Guitar #3: Understanding How To Play With Your Left Hand
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Learn how to develop your left hand technique so you can play cleanly and comfortably. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them. *NOTE ABOUT FRETS* Sometimes when people use the word fret, it can refer to two different ideas. It can be both the spaces between the metal pieces on the fre...
Guitar #2: Understanding How To Play With Your Right Hand (and TUNE!)
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You want to make sure you're developing good technique with your right hand, and try to work towards playing without looking at it as soon as you can. Focus on learning what it feels like. Aside from making you play better it frees your eyes up to look at visual resources or at your fellow musicians for cues! If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to...
Guitar #1: Pick Something To Work Towards
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It may seem like a silly first goal, but pick some songs to work on. It's important to own this process and have goals. If you don't have a musician or teacher who you can ask questions, please feel free to ask questions in the comments! We'll do our best to answer them.
Guitar: Absolute Beginner Introduction
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In this series we'll be talking through these 10 goals: 1. Pick a few songs that you think you would enjoy learning about. 2. Be able to find your strings with your right hand without looking. 3. Be able control and fret with all 4 fingers on your left hand. 4. Be able to play and name your natural notes up and down from memory. 5. Be able to play whole, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth not...
Trumpet #10: Playing A Piece of Music and How To Practice
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We're going to walk through playing a simple piece together, but what I really want you to take away is this process for learning things: 1. Count out all your rhythms. 2. Name all your notes IN RHYTHM. 3. Play all the fingerings on your instrument while you name your notes IN RHYTHM. Finally... 4. Try to play the piece. -Slowly -In small sections if necessary. 5. As you get comfortable start p...
Trumpet #9: How To Read Sheet Music
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Learning to read music is a huge step in gaining independence on your instrument. If you can't read, you have to have someone spoon feed every idea to you very slowly. Imagine how much less you'd know if everything you've read in English in your life had to be read to you instead of you reading it yourself. It can be frustrating at first, but please take the time to practice learning to read so...
Trumpet #8: The Key of G Major
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We're going to take what we learned about the Key of C Major and apply that to building the Key of G Major from scratch. Once you do this, it would be good to practice with another easy key like Bb or A.
Trumpet #7: Basic Rhythmic Terminology
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Trumpet #7: Basic Rhythmic Terminology
Trumpet #6: Full Octave C Major Scale
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Trumpet #6: Full Octave C Major Scale
Trumpet #5: Develop The Muscles In Your Lips
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Trumpet #5: Develop The Muscles In Your Lips
Trumpet #3: Understanding How To Use Your Lips To Control The Instrument
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Trumpet #3: Understanding How To Use Your Lips To Control The Instrument
Trumpet #2: Understanding Your Valves
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Trumpet #2: Understanding Your Valves
Trumpet #1: Pick Something To Work Towards
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Trumpet #1: Pick Something To Work Towards
Trumpet: Absolute Beginner Introduction
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Trumpet: Absolute Beginner Introduction
Piano #5: Understanding Basic Rhythmic Terminology
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Piano #5: Understanding Basic Rhythmic Terminology
Piano #1: Pick Something To Work Towards
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Piano #1: Pick Something To Work Towards
Piano #6: Building A 5 Note Major Scale In All Keys
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Piano #6: Building A 5 Note Major Scale In All Keys
Piano #4: Coordinating Both Hands Together
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Piano #4: Coordinating Both Hands Together
Piano: Absolute Beginner Introduction
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Piano: Absolute Beginner Introduction
Piano #10: Building Major Keys From Scratch
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Piano #10: Building Major Keys From Scratch
Thank you so much. This has made me so much more confident in getting a trumpet for Marching Band next year! I am in colorguard and I am a first year so as a second year next year, I want to play an instrument because all of a sudden last week I just became completely obsessed with instruments😂❤ PCHS Pirate Regiment❤🏴☠️
Glad to help! Good luck with marching band. It's been a long time since I marched when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.
first of all it helped to me now thank you
Glad to help. 🙂
That was a solid brief. Thanks for the video.
For sure! Glad to help. 🙂
I hate seeing how many views you have and the very lil support you got it's so sad not one thanked you for teaching them
Amazing! Thank you, your video was so helpful
Glad to help! 🙂
You were supposed to play the crash right symbol lol
This is actually brilliant!!! ❤ thank you very much
Glad to help! We always try to make sure to establish ideas in a way that you can think about them logically instead of just using brute force memorization. That way it's easier to figure things out again if you partially forget, and it's also easier to learn new things as you progress. 👍
This video just like other of your videos was really helpful,i would like to get more tips on how to read more complex sheets,also i need lesson of harmonic and melodic minor,would really like to get a feedback
Thanks! If you watch the lesson from this series about building major scales, minor scales basically work the same way but if you use the whole step/half step pattern from the note A instead of the note C. That's "Natural Minor." For harmonic minor replace G with G#, and for Melodic minor replace F and G with F# and G# on the way up, BUT still play F natural and G natural on the way down. As far as reading, what's the issue with the more complex thing you're trying to read? Do you not understand the rhythm, the pitch, or some sort of other type of notation?
I wish I knew how to play drums, otherwise I'd bash the crash cymbals constantly.
I like!
Who's the name of this guy playing drums and talking? Merry Christmas by the way!
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Thanks im making a short animation with a soundtrack
Nice. Very cool. Feel free to share when it's finished. 🙂
God bless you, sir!
Glad to help. 🙂
Who is teaching and demonstrating drums? He sounds friendly.@@MTSstudiosmedia
@@jeromedavis8575 That was me in these tutorials. I introduce myself at the beginning of each series. ua-cam.com/video/56GN1A3obBg/v-deo.htmlsi=aN79BbBjYZhKeJWg
Also, you should consider doing ASMR with the drums, such as doing some tapping on them.
Thanks very much! I'm a solo artist who's working on a song focussed on the drums. This helps me to be able to communicate with the drummer I'm hiring and with my producer.
That's great! Glad I could help a little bit.
Great video, thanks for the explanation ^_^
Isn’t there a special gadget that u can flip snare on and off with foot?
There might be, but I've never had one. There's a decent amount of niche hardware out there if you look hard enough.
Super helpful
Glad to help! 👍
This is so useful. I need to know which drums/cymbals make what sound so I can find samples I can use. Thanks for this great, simple video!
Nice! Glad to help. Good luck getting into producing. 👍
Thank you very much. Great explanatory video .. unfortunately the instructor is facing away from the mic when affects the sound quality ...
Sorry about that. These were made pretty cheaply and quickly with only one camera and it's built in mic. I'd like to do a higher quality one for drums at some point. For our guitar videos we were able to make them turn out a little nicer.
This was great because i didnt ever really understand what the difference was between bridge and chorus and yaddayaddayadda but the fact that you draw it out and explain in simple terms really helps. I dont know about copyright but id love to see a vid about the song Arriving Somewhere But Not Here by Porcupine Tree
Glad to help. lol jeez... That Porcupine Tree song is over 12 minutes long. If I had to try to break down the form: 0:00 Intro 1:58 Verse 2:26 Chorus 2:43 Verse 3:14 Chorus 3:30 Bridge 4:02 Guitar Solo 4:51 Verse 5:20 Chorus 5:37 Bridge 6:07 Transition 6:20 Guitar Solo 6:55 Instrumental A 7:19 Instrumental B 7:43 Instrumental C 8:08 Instrumental D 8:44 Guitar Solo 9:44 Verse 10:15 Chorus 10:44 Outro to Fade... I mean it's kind of like a normal form but with everything having an extra layer of stuff. Basically replace this: A = Verse B = Chorus A = Verse B = Chorus C = Bridge B = Chorus with this: A = Verse + Chorus B = Bridge + Solo A = Verse + Chorus B = Bridge + Solo C = Extended Instrumental A = Verse + Chorus It's still has the same idea of establishing two things, repeating those two things, contrasting, and then returning to something more familiar. It uses the same concepts but on a larger scale. I hope that helps!
I think I am lost on what the partial column is?
Hello!! Did you watch the other videos in this series? We talk about partials in video #3: ua-cam.com/video/WbLY35FXg0w/v-deo.html That's the word we use to describe the different notes you get by changing your embouchure (how your lips interact with the instrument). 1st partial would be the lowest sound you can get out by relaxing your lips. If you make your embouchure more firm and focused, you can make a higher note come out without touching the valves at all. For most people that higher note is going to be 2nd partial. As you continue to develop your embouchure you'll need to play somewhere between 5 and 7 (or more) partials to play certain pieces of music. In video #2 we go over the valves and in video #3 we go over using your lips to play in different partials. This is the first videos where we put those two things together to play even more notes. I hope that helps! I haven't made too many videos in a while because I've been too busy at the studio. I hope to make more in the future though, and I always try to at least read comments and reply to questions. 🙂
@@MTSstudiosmedia I’ll definitely rewatch it! Thank you!!
@@kaileypaxton5739 Cool. Glad to help. 🙂
@@MTSstudiosmedia I’m incredibly grateful for you and your videos! Sorry I hadn’t responded more, I was at work! What you write makes a lot more sense! Thank you for your time! And hope you’re well!
@@kaileypaxton5739 No worries! Glad to help. I hope the rest are helpful too. Take care!
this is so helpful thank you!
Glad to help. I haven't been able to make many new videos for a while since I've been too busy at the studio, but I'd like to make more in the future. I still try to at least read and reply to comments. Feel free to leave questions or requests. 🙂
@@MTSstudiosmedia I’ve seen that in the other videos on the drum playlist! These are really helpful and so much more straight forward than other drum videos I’ve seen! Thanks for these videos
@@irasemoomoo135 For sure! I mostly made these to help people at the studio, so I'm so glad that other folks have been finding them and feel helped by them. 😊
@@MTSstudiosmedia yeah I’m just starting off and I’m going down the playlist slowly you should keep making more vids! I’m also gonna use your piano playlist :D
@@irasemoomoo135 Nice! That's great. I'd like to make more for sure. I'm just working 7 days a week as is, so I'm super slammed. Someday hopefully.
underrated
Thanks!
Thank you! I just started trying trumpet today and and can barely read the notes. The only thing that’s been saving me is it’s a used book, and someone wrote all the notes above them. But just printed out some music and this video has helped. Thank you! (I play trombone as my main instrument and was not exactly ready for trumpet notes)
Glad to help! I haven't had time to make many new videos recently since I've been so busy at the studio. I try to always read comments though. Feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions.
are you still playing trumpet?
what's the name of that plastic cup obove the high hat
That's a cowbell. There's some that are meant to be hand held, but there's others that are meant to be mounted so you can integrate into the drum set. Thanks for the comment. I've been too busy at the studio to make videos recently, but I'd like to resume some day. In the meantime I try to answer questions at the very least. Let me know if you have any other questions or requests for future videos.
Ty ty !
Glad to help. Feel free to leave any requests or questions if you want. I've been busy at the studio and haven't had a chance to make new videos in a while, but I always try to answer questions at least. I'm hoping to make some more new videos in the future as well.
Intresting...❣️
Dude appreciate this
Glad to help! I haven't got to make any new videos in a while since I've been pretty busy at the studio, but feel free to leave any questions or requests. At the very least I always try to answer questions in the comments. 👍
@@MTSstudiosmedia you're too nice man. Absolutely following
@@willcoffarchives Thanks! Much appreciated.
Thank you
Glad to help. I've been too busy at the studio to make new videos in a while, but feel free to leave any questions or requests. At the very least I keep an eye on comments and answer questions when they come up. 👍
- How do you mic a drum set with only 3 mics? - Put one inside of the kick drum and take other two in both hands... Great video, horrible sound
The most minimalistic mic setup you could probably do and get a decent sound would be just one condenser mic a few feet away from the drum set. From there I'd probably prioritize using specialized mounted mics for the kick and snare. Ones for the toms would be nice too, but I'd probably do 2 pencil mics for overheads before I worried about that. Put that all together and you'd have mounted mics on all the shells (1 kick, 1 snare, 3 toms), 2 overhead pencil mics, and it's nice to have a nice condenser as a room mic as well. The answer for this video is... zero dedicated mics. This was something just recorded quickly as a learning aid for our in-studio students with the internal mic of the camera. In a pinch you could also use something like a handheld dedicated audio recorder. Some of our more recent videos at least have that, so they have better quality audio. I would like to do higher fidelity version of these at some point, but I've been too busy at the studio to dedicate time to things like that. :(
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have a kit, but I have a keyboard that has drum parts. (Maybe someday I'll get a kit.) But anyway, I wanted to differentiate between sounds so that I can make beats on the keyboard.
Glad to help. I have been too busy at the studio to make any new videos recently, but feel free to leave questions. I still try to answer questions here when I can. I'm hoping I can make new videos based on requests in the future too.
@@MTSstudiosmedia I found a list online of the pictures on the keyboard and what they mean. The cymbals all look and sound very similar.
@@lisalegrand2186 Yeah, cymbals can take a little time to discern. Basically some are used for "riding" [playing steady patterns on] when you play time patterns and others are used more for accenting or punctuating important points in time. Most contemporary music will use the hi-hat for the first one of those things and crash cymbals for the second, but they can both be used for the opposite along with other cymbals that can be used in either role too.
Can I learn drum by using app called Real drum
Is this a question? Learning with an app can really vary from person to person. For some people things click, and they have an easy time learning independently. Other people really struggle learning about music even with 1-on-1 assistance. And there's everything in between or maybe it's one way for certain aspects and the other way for other aspects. You don't really know until you give it a try.
@@MTSstudiosmedia hi, I am also trying to learn drums but I suck at the 123 12 hand thing 😂 I cant quite make my hands in sync.
@@MTSstudiosmedia making my hand sync with different bpm is hardd hahahaha
@@zoul34 Hi! Someone might be showing you things that are more complicated or even unnecessary. I've been playing music for over 20 years, and I'm getting close to have been teaching about 20 years too. You pretty much never need to think in 3 for one hand and 2 for the other or think in two BPMs at once. The closest thing to that is the concept of polyrhythms, and you don't really think two different things at the same time. You build a more complex framework that accommodates two simpler ideas in a new way together. Try going through the rest of this play list to start working on basic rhythm and coordination exercises. Best of luck on your journey! I hope you stick with it.
@@MTSstudiosmedia thanks a lot! I definitely would.
what part of the set has the clanging sound? its commonly heard in old school thrash/death/punk. i cant tell if i heard it or not, on account of the echoing. im pretty clueless when it comes to instruments.
I'm not a 100% what you're asking for. I'm assuming you mean some kind of cymbal. Probably just hi-hats or a crash. If you can point to a specific part of a specific song I can give you a more precise answer.
Hi I would like to know what's that black part called, it's right between the plates on your left side
That's a cowbell. I only went over the most standard parts of the setup, but sometimes people may have additional pieces like a cowbell or a china cymbal or an additional floor tom. I hope that helps! 👍
yeah bro thanks
hi, I was wondering is this 60 bpm?
The first part is in free time, but the part with bass and cowbell is at 60BPM. I hope that helps!
@@MTSstudiosmedia It does! Thank you so much
Thanks for your explanations, it helped me a great deal in remembering the parts of a drum for my coming Music exam.
Glad to help! I haven't had time to make new videos recently, but feel free to leave any questions or requests here too.
@@MTSstudiosmedia Thank you
IM HERE FOR MY MUSIC EXAM TOO LMAO
Thanks a lot! ❤️
For sure! Glad to help. I've been too busy at the studio to make videos for a while, but I'd really like to do some more in the future some time. It's really cool to see people still using these.
Please do some songs! You are a great teacher!
Thanks! I haven't had a chance to post anything new in a while, but one of my studio partners should be posting a new series pretty soon. If you have any specific requests, I'd be down to take a shot at it if there isn't much in the way of existing resources online. If there is though, I'd probably just point you in that direction. :D
Stupid,Not a Profesional
Very helpful thank you so much 🤩
Glad to help! Feel free to leave any questions or requests. I've been too busy at the studio to make new videos for a while, but I'd really like to make some more at some point.
My parents couldn't afford lessons, let alone a drum kit. You are right to the point with no yapping. That right there deserves a paycheck.
I feel you there! I started music playing trombone in school band because I didn't feel like I could ask my parents to shoulder the cost of me learning anything I actually wanted to do. My dad played trombone when he was younger, so we just had one stored away. Eventually I talked them into getting me a guitar, I taught myself for a few years, and I managed to study music at a state university on scholarships. Now I run a studio in northern California, and I make sure we both provide scholarships for locals and make free online resources for folks in similar situations to me when I was younger. Glad to help! I haven't made much new material in a while since things have been so busy at the studio, but I'm hoping to get to it again later.
For beginners ..drum kits ..how many pieces 3, 4, 5 ...????
Hi! Thanks for the comment. :) For the longest time 5 piece was just the standard for just about everything. More recently 4 piece is what you're more likely to see for new drum kits. I tend to recommend used 5 piece kits for beginners for a few reasons. -Most beginner literature is old, so it's based on 5 piece kits since they were the standard for so long. -Buying used kits is cheaper (and less wasteful potentially) -Since a 5 piece is a kick, snare, and 3 toms (2 rack and 1 floor) it gives you 4 drums in front of you to play with your hands. A lot of beginning patterns will be based on cycles or sets of 4 or 2, so it's nice to have an even number of drums to map those ideas to. That all said, 4 pieces are fine! You don't really see 3 pieces very much. If you search for 3-piece drum set, you'll mostly find high end shell kicks that are just a kick, floor tom, and rack tom, and the expectation is that you would shop for the snare drum a la carte. ;) I hope that's helpful. Feel free to post any other questions or requests. I haven't made any new videos in a few years since I've been too busy at the studio. I'm hoping to pick back up sometime though.
@@MTSstudiosmedia thank for your time. Yes it was helpful. Keep the good work going
I struggle programming drums and generally only make melodies, this is really helpful!
Glad to help! Feel free to leave any questions or requests as well. I've been too busy at the studio to make any new videos for the last few years, but I'd really like to resume at some point.
omg same😂😂
I have played Guitar for many years. I played for a couple small Bands However, I wanted to learn drums to become a All- Around Player. thanks for the Lesson! cheers!
Glad to help! Feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or requests. I haven't made too many videos over the last few years since I've been too busy at the studio, but I'd really like to resume at some point.
this is helpful
Ty
For sure! Feel free to leave any comments if you have any questions or requests. I haven't worked on these videos for a few years since I've been too busy at the studio, but I'd like to resume at some point.
Thanks for the advice I got so excited when I played it because I never learnt music so thank you.
Glad to help! Feel free to leave comments if you have any questions or requests. I haven't gotten to work on these videos in the last few years since I've been so busy at the studio, but I hope to resume again some day.
@@MTSstudiosmedia would love to see an updated trumpet series some time soon there really isnt that much trumpet tutorials
@@dibejac8391 Thanks for the comment! So my phase two for brass instruments is mainly to do the following things: -Expand on rhythm -Improve range and embouchure by doing lip slurs -Really start getting tonal vocabulary dialed in by learning all your major scales -Get started on doing some book work so you can improve independently -Projects, projects, projects! I don't know how soon I'll be able to do a new series, since things have been so busy lately, but if you have any one-off requests I'd give them a look. At the very least I might be able to point to some other pre-existing resources that I'd recommend.
@@MTSstudiosmedia sounds good im looking forward for it😁