[Cailyn]

I'm a guitarist who plays keyboards. Pretty essentially these days I think to be proficient with a MIDI controller. I used to program most of my MIDI instruments right in the DAW but this tends to create lifeless instrumentation in the snap-to-grid environment unless you do a lot of tweaking after. I have returned to playing the performance on a keyboard and tweaking the weak points afterwards.

I spent several years teaching myself classical pieces on the piano but because I skipped all the necessary drills and scale exercises, I never really mastered any of the pieces I played.