@KingIdiot said:
My point is, that if they aren't willing to learn this stuff then they SHOULD come to people like you and stop complaining about money or worry about the " [:)]
Actually, no.
The purchasing expectation is that the customer should be provided enough comprehensible basic training materials to get his start from the OEM, NOT on his own, and NOT from third party. Third party training in music is always the last resort, not the first.
As good examples outside of music: Macromedia University, Adobe Online Training (paid), Truespace online 3D art classes, Adobe Press, Microsoft Press.
I'm sorry, I don't agree with you about the study. It only confirms what those of us who train already know by experience. Creating a program is one art, being able to train people in it is the other art.
Alexander Publishing has been creating training guides in music technology since the DX7. Over the years, we've learned that people want to know enough to be productive and do the most fundamental tasks first. At AP, we believe that technology serves music. So our viewpoint is that the more the customer knows about music, composition and orchestration the more able he/she is to decide and priortize what part of the technology they need to learn for what they're trying to do. Such an approach puts technology training on a procedural, need-to-know basic.