0:35 box postion from previous video 1:20 explanation of Linnstrument layout and thought process 2:10 chord inversions 3:05 1st inversion of C major (E G C) 3:15 2nd inversion of C major ( G C E ) 4:00 Versitilty of Linnstrument over guitar 6:05 simplifying the thinking of layout on the linnstrument 7:50 Right - Center - and Left approaches 9:05 Stacking scales vertically Right-Center and Left appoach 10:10 Playing chords using the 3 approaches ( R - C - L ) 15:40 minor inversions
I have to add Stephen this stuff is old hat to me, I'm just doing it to help you out. :). IF I was to add any criticism about this video it would be the practicality of your finger during theses demonstrations. I've learned over the last couple of years from Jnthn Stein. He says every finger to a column. I noticed you never used your thumb and sometimes your fingering was improvised. You could benefit from adding your thumb as the starting note of the Right approach so (Thumb on the C then Middle on the D then pinky on the E etc etc etc) it flows really well this way. Center approach would be Middle finger C then Pinky D then pointer (next row up) E then F middle finger etc etc...it all flows logically this way. You get the drift with the other fingerings. This way with every finger to a column you can really fly and put stuff into auto pilot. I hope I explained it well enough. Cheers!
I cant thank you enough for your efforts (I'll pin this or put it in the description) and for your excellent observation and suggestion. The issue of fingering has been something I've been thinking and experimenting with quite a bit. I have gone through phases of my own playing using thumb in the way you suggest (essentially one finger per column). And I agree that it might ultimately be the best approach for the most people. However, a couple things stopped me from embracing it, at least at this point in the series. Firstly, I am simply undecided if it's the best approach for me personally. I'm not sure if it's habit or what exactly, but it just isn't what I seem to naturally go for, even though it certainly feels fine to do (you can see in one video of mine I use it extensively "hanging with harry"). So I guess I need to spend more time with it myself. Also, there are certainly times, essentially when you want to go a 4th up, that I prefer using another finger, instead of keeping the fingers all in the same column, which obviously becomes an issue when playing pretty much any arpeggio. However, of course that could be the basis of the approach, with the 4th movement being the exception. And again, maybe that is the best way to go and if it works for you, that's all you need to know. Moreover, the other, possibly more important reason I didn't settle on that approach for this series was that I am doing this with beginners in mind and I've noticed that the vast majority of players seem to navigate towards three fingered playing at least to begin with (which I was actually trying to do in this video, an attempt you correctly pointed out I did not succeed in) so I thought I would start there and slowly add in fingers. At this point in the process I'm just hoping that folks are "fooling around" with improvising, rather than focusing on technique so I thought it would make sense to start where most people appear to be. More than anything, what your comment has illuminated for me is that I need to do a video addressing this topic exclusively. Many thanks again for your help and the very excellent feedback that has been great food for thought.
Hi Steven, I want to echo others that this is a wonderful series. I just got a Linn 200 and I've been following along. Would love for this series to continue!
Hey, Hope you're still around. Love your Linnstrument videos. I tend to come back and watch after my failures at playing this instrument and get encouraged to not give up. Hope all is well and that you're still playing this thing.
Again a great course Stephen. It's a real pleasure to take time and practice the Linnstrument with your very pedagogic approach. I'm starting to get a little cramped with my 128 version ;-) Thanks, David
Thank you Stephen. So nice to have these three videos drop. Your course is so well constructed for me and very thoughtfully presented. Even though I don't have much time to go deep right now, I treasure each of these.
Really appreciate the series. Thanks for putting these together. I'm finding myself drawn more to the 3-4 style of finger positioning, where you play 1-2-3 on row one then 4-5-6-7 on row two switching back over to the 1 on row three to start anew, over that of the left/center/right three-fingers-per-row style as demonstrated in the video. For me, the price of introducing the pinky pays off by always landing the same starting finger on the starting note of the scale. It also seems to bring modal play in more directly. Stephen rightly recognizes the personal preference on finger positioning, so it may just come down to that. I'm only a couple of weeks into playing and clearly don't know enough to differentiate the finer points of this, but I welcome other's insights.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, the fingering is an interesting issue. Even with something like piano, people use different fingerings, so it makes sense that the would be a wide variance of approaches with LinnStrument. I'll talk about this more in the next one, but the last thing I want to do is promote some "right" way to do things at the expense of personal exploration, which is one of the great things about the linnstrument.
Great lesson Stephen! I'm really interested in buying a Linnstrument, but for the time being i'm practicing along with my Ableton Push 2 (which actually works pretty fine until now haha!). It's dangerous to think that you'll play more and better once you buy the 'perfect' instrument. So for now i'll just practice instead of buying! I'll wonder when my Push 2 reaches it's limits with these lessons...
Hey Stephen, thank you so much for all these tutorials that you've put up. Very informative and thorough. Can't wait to apply these principles to my Linnstrument that was just delivered today. Was kind of curious... what sound/vst is it that you're using throughout this series of videos?
Thanks for the kind feedback! The vst is "acoustic samples tines". It's not mpe , but it's my favorite sounding and most flexible (in my opinion) rhodes vst that I know about. The vst I would recommend for a linn player without a lot of piano/electric piano vsts is Pianoteq. It can handle mpe well and you can have your electrics and acoustics in one place, and even though the electric sounds aren't my favorite, they're certainly usable and fun to use mpe with.
@@reckon104 Thank you for your quick response, I'll have to check these out. And thank you once again for all the great videos. One other quick question...do you know of any other resources on chord shapes/fingerings and scale fingerings?
I'm pretty sure Roger has some diagrams on his website. There have also been some good resources posted on the KVR forum. You might want to check there as well.
Just wanted to say thanks for putting these up. I pulled my linnstrument out of storage and was considering listing it but thought I'd give it one more go. Came across these vids and suddenly it feels much more accessible. Now I'm thinking about listing it to upgrade to a 200. Any chance of another series in the works?
Thanks so much for the feedback and I'm very happy they've been helpful. I didn't plan to stop cold like I did, life got in the way. But I've been meaning to start up again and this is good motivation!
0:35 box postion from previous video
1:20 explanation of Linnstrument layout and thought process
2:10 chord inversions
3:05 1st inversion of C major (E G C)
3:15 2nd inversion of C major ( G C E )
4:00 Versitilty of Linnstrument over guitar
6:05 simplifying the thinking of layout on the linnstrument
7:50 Right - Center - and Left approaches
9:05 Stacking scales vertically Right-Center and Left appoach
10:10 Playing chords using the 3 approaches ( R - C - L )
15:40 minor inversions
I have to add Stephen this stuff is old hat to me, I'm just doing it to help you out. :). IF I was to add any criticism about this video it would be the practicality of your finger during theses demonstrations. I've learned over the last couple of years from Jnthn Stein. He says every finger to a column. I noticed you never used your thumb and sometimes your fingering was improvised. You could benefit from adding your thumb as the starting note of the Right approach so (Thumb on the C then Middle on the D then pinky on the E etc etc etc) it flows really well this way. Center approach would be Middle finger C then Pinky D then pointer (next row up) E then F middle finger etc etc...it all flows logically this way. You get the drift with the other fingerings. This way with every finger to a column you can really fly and put stuff into auto pilot. I hope I explained it well enough. Cheers!
I cant thank you enough for your efforts (I'll pin this or put it in the description) and for your excellent observation and suggestion. The issue of fingering has been something I've been thinking and experimenting with quite a bit. I have gone through phases of my own playing using thumb in the way you suggest (essentially one finger per column). And I agree that it might ultimately be the best approach for the most people. However, a couple things stopped me from embracing it, at least at this point in the series. Firstly, I am simply undecided if it's the best approach for me personally. I'm not sure if it's habit or what exactly, but it just isn't what I seem to naturally go for, even though it certainly feels fine to do (you can see in one video of mine I use it extensively "hanging with harry"). So I guess I need to spend more time with it myself. Also, there are certainly times, essentially when you want to go a 4th up, that I prefer using another finger, instead of keeping the fingers all in the same column, which obviously becomes an issue when playing pretty much any arpeggio. However, of course that could be the basis of the approach, with the 4th movement being the exception. And again, maybe that is the best way to go and if it works for you, that's all you need to know. Moreover, the other, possibly more important reason I didn't settle on that approach for this series was that I am doing this with beginners in mind and I've noticed that the vast majority of players seem to navigate towards three fingered playing at least to begin with (which I was actually trying to do in this video, an attempt you correctly pointed out I did not succeed in) so I thought I would start there and slowly add in fingers. At this point in the process I'm just hoping that folks are "fooling around" with improvising, rather than focusing on technique so I thought it would make sense to start where most people appear to be. More than anything, what your comment has illuminated for me is that I need to do a video addressing this topic exclusively. Many thanks again for your help and the very excellent feedback that has been great food for thought.
Hi Steven, I want to echo others that this is a wonderful series. I just got a Linn 200 and I've been following along. Would love for this series to continue!
Hey, Hope you're still around. Love your Linnstrument videos. I tend to come back and watch after my failures at playing this instrument and get encouraged to not give up. Hope all is well and that you're still playing this thing.
Hi Stephen, just wondering how you are.....still loving your Linn video...Regards
Again a great course Stephen. It's a real pleasure to take time and practice the Linnstrument with your very pedagogic approach.
I'm starting to get a little cramped with my 128 version ;-)
Thanks, David
Great to hear!
Thank you Stephen. So nice to have these three videos drop. Your course is so well constructed for me and very thoughtfully presented. Even though I don't have much time to go deep right now, I treasure each of these.
Thanks so much Ross. This kind of feedback means a lot!
Really appreciate the series. Thanks for putting these together. I'm finding myself drawn more to the 3-4 style of finger positioning, where you play 1-2-3 on row one then 4-5-6-7 on row two switching back over to the 1 on row three to start anew, over that of the left/center/right three-fingers-per-row style as demonstrated in the video. For me, the price of introducing the pinky pays off by always landing the same starting finger on the starting note of the scale. It also seems to bring modal play in more directly. Stephen rightly recognizes the personal preference on finger positioning, so it may just come down to that. I'm only a couple of weeks into playing and clearly don't know enough to differentiate the finer points of this, but I welcome other's insights.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, the fingering is an interesting issue. Even with something like piano, people use different fingerings, so it makes sense that the would be a wide variance of approaches with LinnStrument. I'll talk about this more in the next one, but the last thing I want to do is promote some "right" way to do things at the expense of personal exploration, which is one of the great things about the linnstrument.
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Thanks for watching!
Great lesson Stephen! I'm really interested in buying a Linnstrument, but for the time being i'm practicing along with my Ableton Push 2 (which actually works pretty fine until now haha!). It's dangerous to think that you'll play more and better once you buy the 'perfect' instrument. So for now i'll just practice instead of buying! I'll wonder when my Push 2 reaches it's limits with these lessons...
Thanks for the feedback. It makes sense that it would be directly transferable to the Push and I'm glad you're finding it useful!
why did you stop?
Hey Stephen, thank you so much for all these tutorials that you've put up. Very informative and thorough. Can't wait to apply these principles to my Linnstrument that was just delivered today. Was kind of curious... what sound/vst is it that you're using throughout this series of videos?
Thanks for the kind feedback! The vst is "acoustic samples tines". It's not mpe , but it's my favorite sounding and most flexible (in my opinion) rhodes vst that I know about. The vst I would recommend for a linn player without a lot of piano/electric piano vsts is Pianoteq. It can handle mpe well and you can have your electrics and acoustics in one place, and even though the electric sounds aren't my favorite, they're certainly usable and fun to use mpe with.
@@reckon104 Thank you for your quick response, I'll have to check these out.
And thank you once again for all the great videos. One other quick question...do you know of any other resources on chord shapes/fingerings and scale fingerings?
I'm pretty sure Roger has some diagrams on his website. There have also been some good resources posted on the KVR forum. You might want to check there as well.
@@reckon104 Thanks Stephen. BTW, just saw your "Bill Evans" video the other day and it's brilliant. Love it
Just wanted to say thanks for putting these up. I pulled my linnstrument out of storage and was considering listing it but thought I'd give it one more go. Came across these vids and suddenly it feels much more accessible. Now I'm thinking about listing it to upgrade to a 200. Any chance of another series in the works?
Thanks so much for the feedback and I'm very happy they've been helpful. I didn't plan to stop cold like I did, life got in the way. But I've been meaning to start up again and this is good motivation!
@@reckon104 seconded. just got one and these vids have been super helpful. looking forward to more. thanks for making them!
@@reckon104 Just chiming in that these were immensely helpful for my improvisation technique not just on the Linnstrument but generally.
You can see your fingers much better in this vid for whatever reason.
Glad to hear it!