I was also thinking about buying a keyboard and learning some music theory, but I decided to get a push after watching these videos. Some online stores are selling them new for $419, not sure if this is a permanent price drop.[/quote]
I appreciate the video … again, yet again… head banging against the wall… I end up, putting a finger on a note ( after counting to the note from C) then from C counting up to find the second note, then again , then again , and fucking again… so for 1 goddamn fucking chord, I am busy for 30 seconds … everybody else seems to know this off by heart. … when it comes to chord progression,… and this is no joke, I am busy for prox 3 min, to find 4 chords on the most basic scale, no big transpositions and what not … then in this video he says after a cadence you end with a period somethign something… and I am like, what the fuck… really… no , not today … I am getting angry while writing this … honestly 3 min for 3 chords… not a joke! my success rate is about 80 %… so after I am done there is a good chance all this was for fuck nothing … thanks for posing the vid tho![/quote]
No problem. I meant to provide a better description in my post, but I was pressed for time. What really stood out to me in the video was the fact that chords, such as the triad, always have the same shape in terms of the pattern of buttons that you press. I think this makes playing the push similar to playing a guitar in the sense you can get a lot of mileage out of simply knowing how to play a power chord and moving it around the fretboard without knowing any music theory.
Instead of learning music theory, I really just learned some button patterns that correspond to the basic chords - it’s always the same pattern for every scale, and that pattern sounds good just about anywhere you play it on the push. I also remember a few chord progressions from the videos, they also remain the same for every scale, e.g., the i-iv-v progression always starts on a blue button, moves to the button above it and then moves to the button to the right. I find it much more intuitive to think about chords and chord progressions as geometric patterns on the push instead of notes in a scale. This makes it easy to explore and write melodies on the push without ever knowing what notes I’m actually playing.
Best of luck.
I just don’t see how putting in the time to learn/pay attention won’t pay off with skills