So this week, I finally got around to learning how to play piano/keyboards. I’m just learning beginner stuff through an instructional book I have for the Ipad. I want to take piano and electric keyboard lessons seriously so I can prepare myself to use a MIDI controller sometime in the future. I know nothing about keyboards and MIDI controllers but I’m learning now.

I want to get into MIDI controllers and electric keyboard stuff so I can get into MIDI recording for the DAW sometime in the future. That’s pretty much the way to go if you wanna make your own backing tracks for your songs.

Learning piano is fun and it doesn’t seem all that hard either. Seems like a piece of cake so I can probably get good at the piano in about a year if I keep at it.

I have an old cheap electric keyboard that somebody gave me for free a while back so I’ll just use that to learn on for now until I get an even better and more professional MIDI controller down the road.

I really want to get into MIDI controllers… that way I can add all kinds of orchestration, strings, violin, brass instruments (like sax, trumpet, etc), and can add some organ sounds to my songs. That’s pretty much what I wanna do.

I wanna make the kind of music where you can make hard rock and classical together kind of like what Dream Theater does. Make progressive rock music.

I would like to experiment making some techno/electronica music as well.

This is why I want to get an audio interface with MIDI hookups ’cause the Focusrite 2i4 has that. I didn’t get the Focusrite 2i4 yet but still saving up for that stuff which is gonna take a few months. Soon, I’m gonna order the Focusrite, the two studio speaker monitors, the studio headphones and I should get a pop filter too. I should get a pop filter for the microphone so I can record clean vocals to avoid pop sounds and breathing into the mic, ya know?

Can’t wait to get all this stuff. I wanna make some serious music. Take my time with it and make something really good. You can do all of this in the comfort of your own home instead of paying a lot of money on a local studio. You can make a professional sounding album or a demo right at home. That’s the beauty of home recording.

Kev