🎹 Hello Piano Tribe! I’m excited to be here! I actually don’t know how to play piano yet, but I’m really interested in learning. I’ve got a friend who plays and I’ve always admired how expressive and beautiful piano music can be. I joined Piano Tribe because I want to be surrounded by people who love the instrument and can inspire me as I start my learning journey. I’m here to listen, learn, ask questions, and hopefully grow into someone who can play confidently too. Looking forward to connecting with you all, learning from your experiences, and cheering everyone on in their musical journey! 🎶 If anyone has tips for total beginners—like first steps, best resources, or common beginner mistakes to avoid—I’m all ears!

I am 73 years old, retired, living in Toronto, Ontario. I took piano lessons for several years as a child, but none of the technical abilities with respect to the piano have survived. My first brush with electronic music was in the mid-late 1980s. The computer was a Commodore 64 and the software was from Dr. T. The Commodore 64 lasted a year and then I switched to an Atari 1040, but still with the Dr. T suite of software. The weak link of the chain was there was no way, given the equipment available to me at the time, to digitally record and master the compositions. The few that I did were stored on cassette tape, which have long since deteriorated. In any event, fast forward to about three or four months ago, when a dear friend from the Yoga Nidra community. @VALA aka Valgerður Eva Þorvaldsdóttir motivated me to get back into music composition. I've done more interesting stuff in the past four months than I did in several years when I first started to dabble in this. I can't believe how much functionality can be harnessed just in front of a basic PC laptop. My current project is a bit weird, and probably out of scale for what abilities I have to manage it. Over the past week, I have managed, with the help of the ChatGPT AI, to actually build a device in Max for Live. I'm using this device to help me frame working in a 19-tone equal temperament scale. One reason I chose that is because Ableton comes with a large number of esoteric scale tunings including one of of 19 tones. So I didn't have to manage that on my own. Although you can import any kind of scale in the.SCALA format. I am looking to do a kind of a row/serial type work in the style of Schoenberg or Stockhausen. One of the things I wanted was to generate a random set of 19 notes that only selected each note once. Doing randomization in Ableton is easy, but out of the box it truly does random notes rather than reshuffle a specific serial progression. I wouldn't have been able to get to where I am in Ableton without being able to rely on AI to help troubleshoot and explain how and why I should be doing things a certain way, and I definitely would not have been able to build this device without the over-the-shoulder help provided by ChatGPT, in spite of a number of its mistakes and hallucinations. So that's what I'm working on for the moment.

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