Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Thanks. My computer can handle the Grand piano plug, but I'm thinking 
that if a can find a big cd rom preset for my ESi I can also take it 
to play live... Has anyone tried a really good acoustic piano sample 
cd? I might just try the Steinberg, otherwise...


BTW, Realm, I recomend that you get a simple with book with just 
scales, chords and harmony basics, all scales... that way you not 
only get dexterity but also develop an hear for harmony and musical 
modes... As far as technic I'm one who thinks that, unless you are 
going to be a classical or sight reading piano player, is best just 
to learn by doing that way you sound different from everybody else... 
Is not uncommon for me to get to a jam session and solo in a 
completely different mode than every other soloist and still be in 
tune. Is not that I play better, 'cause it hardly ever the case, its 
just that I heard things differently... When I was learning how to 
play I'd sit every day at the piano trying chords and superimposed 
scales to chord progresssions... just checking how my body reacted to 
them. Most musician have that but when you sit at the piano and 
understand why, you get an additional compositional tool... 

Is nice when one can kill two birds with one stone... :)

just my 2cents...


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> What's a "book"?  Sounds interesting, do you use those to synthsize 
wind 
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> dwoodaman <dwoodaman@y...>
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> You might try it the old fashioned way, grab a few books from a 
> decent music store, there are tons of inexpensive finger studies 
you 
> could get, plus then you don't have to ruin your eyes staring at 
the 
> computer.....
> Dana
> > Speaking of which, anyone know of any good sites with finger 
> exercises fro 
> > improving your chops, or sites with full on piano tutorials?  I 
> haven't 
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> > I looked around and found this plug called "Steinberg The Grand 
> > Virtual Grand Piano"... Has anyobody tried it? I also have an EMu 
> ESi 
> > sampler with 128mb of memory... If anybody know of a good sample 
> cd 
> > or plug please help me out....
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