MyKeysToMusic

To host a course like this requires regular payments to the course engine provider in order to provide the advanced features required and online availability. Having these lessons on this platform allows me to make regular updates and/or edit individual videos more easily (versus YouTube). So, there will be routine maintenance and upkeep of the course content as I find ways to redo or refine lessons based on student feedback and usage. This course will also continue to expand as I create more content on YouTube and distill that down to a lesson here for students to immediately benefit from. However, if a student were to cancel prior to the year anniversary, the course will remain active for the full year. I'm expecting some will want to do this simply because they have learned the material and don't need the additional years. The vast majority of the students continue their enrollment over multiple years utilizing the course as a handy reference and taking advantage of the ongoing updates.

Maybe yes, maybe no. The Stage 4 is a feature-rich instrument. So far, we've created over 130 individual lessons and more than 26 hours of video content, covering nearly every aspect of the board. Therefore, there are bound to be plenty of new discoveries to be made, even for those with experience.

Yes, you can! And reading the manual will provide you the basic foundations for every feature. However, we take most topics found in the manual and create a lesson from that providing a deeper explanation and actual demonstrations which provide the most effective learning and engaging experience. Video training for people who learn better visually or through audio will likely enjoy the experience of a course like this more than reading the manual. Besides providing demonstrations of the topics, additional perspective and opinion are added throughout the lessons providing the student with practical knowledge and understanding of a given feature from a musician's perspective.

This question always comes down to personal opinion, but I'll share my feelings on this topic because, as a consumer, I often ask myself the very same question. 1) Most of the content in this course is not available anywhere on YouTube, including the MyKeysToMusic channel. 2) YouTube is typically riddled with ads which can be pretty disruptive to the learning experience. This course features no such ads while watching the lessons. Of course, you can purchase YouTube Red and avoid the ads, but that also requires a regular monthly investment. 3) Focused Learning Experience: YouTube is the "wild west" of learning. You may be lucky to find a YouTube "playlist" where you have a beginning and end to a given topic, but here again, most channel creators will sprinkle additional "fluff" throughout a video for marketing purposes like asking for subscribers, thanking the audience, providing updates and all those things that have nothing to do with an actual lesson. I'm very guilty of this on my channel as well. That's just a necessary thing as a YouTube creator. 4) Using a course engine like this allows the instructor to provide "edits" to videos easily as things change or improve. With YouTube, there is no way to replace a given video. All you can do is completely delete a video and replace it with a new one. This breaks everyone's reference to it and shared links. So YouTube is not really an ideal platform to provide a proper training course. That is the primary reason a course like this exists. I want to provide the very best and most enjoyable experience for the person learning the Nord Stage 4. You are paying for the "environment" (platform) as much as you are paying for the content.

Yes! As a paying student, you can ask questions directly via email or post a question in the private community reserved for enrolled students in a paid course. That's another reason for a course like this. As the YouTube channel grows, it allows me to prioritize comments and questions for paying students over non-paying participants on YouTube.