Windows Shortcuts for Producers

1. INTRO: Hey, what's up, guys, gratuitous here. Thanks for checking out my newest course called Windows shortcuts for producers. Now this course is going to teach you keyboard shortcuts on the Windows Operating System. We will cover some FL Studio shortcuts. Not too many were made in this course on mainly focused on keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow when you're using Windows. Because as a music producer, we're always on the computer, whether we're doing product research, backing up your files, writing e-mails, and it's important to know keyboard shortcuts which really speed you up. Alright, so I'm not going to be sharing every single keyboard shortcut there is on Windows, I'm just sharing the ones that I typically use on a daily basis that really speed me up. If you've never seen these keyboard shortcuts, I promised that there are really going to help you and be eye-opening. So if you're interested, enrolled into the course, I'm going to show you keyboard shortcuts for Windows. Alright, this is Windows ten. Hopefully this stuff relates to Windows 11. 2. BEFORE WATCHING: All right guys, so before we get into the course, I wanted to show you my keyboard here because I'm not showing you my keyboard inside the course. In the bottom left of the screen you will be able to see my keyboard shortcuts. I want to start with the Windows key. This is the Windows key and I showed you if you hold on the Windows key and E, it opens up the File Explorer. Here's control, Here's shift, here is tab, here is escape, as well as your F1 buttons. For example, I showed you quickly to go to the address bar in a browser is F6. Now to finish off, there's also Alt, and then here is that apps key I mentioned within the course. Alright, so this is how you can right-click instead of using your mouse, I keep my left hand over here on the keyboard. This allows me to easily go Alt Tab. Or for example, if I want to go Alt Tab and I showed you, you can do Shift. You can see I'm using my index finger. My middle finger is up here. If I wanted to do the Control Shift and escape to get to the Task Manager, I can do that quick. When I look for a keyboard, I like to have the number pad. It has to have the plus and the minus. This has been a really useful keyboard because it also has the play and stop. This is not for FL Studio. This is if I'm actually listening to music. For example, if you are working on a beat tape and you export your beat tape, you can easily pause and play it. Within the Windows operating system. It even has volume, which is really powerful. But what I'm trying to say is finding a good keyboard which has all these features is really hard now this one's by hyper x. I'm not sponsored. I'm really, really happy with this layout. It allows me to use windows really effectively. It also allows me to use FL Studio really well. And so again, I wanted to create this quick video showing the keyboard before we get into the course. 3. 1-1 - Basic Keyboard Shortcuts Overview: All right, so before we get into the basic keyboard shortcuts, I need to cover the really basic stuff just so everyone's on the same page. Once we cover some super basic stuff such as control C, control V, Control X, that is the basic stuff for copy, paste and cut. Once we pass that, then it is going to get really interesting for those of you who already know that stuff. So I just wanted to make this video to let you be prepared that just watched the videos, it will get more interesting. Okay, we are going to cover more about even Windows shortcuts such as like watch if I open up this window, if I hold down the Windows key and the right, you can see if we can do stuff like this. And I will also share in the bottom left you can see all the keyboard shortcuts. And if I'm right-clicking and left-click and okay. 4. 1-2 - The Copy Cut Paste Necessities: Okay, so before we talk about copy paste cut, all that stuff, I need to talk to you about the clipboard, alright, so we can't really see the clipboard in Windows, but when we copy something to the clipboard, we can then paste it somewhere. Okay? So for example, if I right-click, you can see that we have cut which is Control X, copy control C, paste, which is Control V, and select all control a. These are very, very valuable keyboard shortcuts. If I were to go paste, you'll see I have nothing on my clipboard, so nothing pasted. But if I were to highlight this, Go Control C, then press Control V to paste. You can see that that was from the clipboard. Now if I were to just write some numbers like this and highlight that, you can see if I press Control V or you can right-click and go paste. You can see that it copies it to the clipboard and then it pastes it. As soon as you copy something else, it replaces what was on that clipboard. Again, I have to explain that just so everyone's up to speed because if you've been using a computer for a long time, That's the basic stuff of Windows. Control C, control V. I typically do press Control C twice. Sometimes if you press Control C once, sometimes it doesn't copy. And if you also highlight multiple lines, it will also copy that to the clipboard. So watch I'm going to paste and then paste and then paste. So you can see it's actually keeping the space in there. If we make lots of spaces, do this again. You can see that it is making all those lines, okay? So it does copy that stuff and the same thing, even if you are using a website and you copy the text, it will even copy hyperlinks, for example, into Google. I just searched microphone, Let's say we go to Wikipedia here and I just copy this. This is called the hyperlink. Okay? So if I were to come into a text editor like this and press control V, It just paste microphone. Okay, however, if we were in an e-mail or into a text editor or a writer like this, such as library Office or Microsoft Word. Watch this if I press Control and V, it actually has the highlighted link. You can see what I'm trying to say is we can paste this without pasting the hyperlink. And how we do that is you can right-click, you can see Paste Special. And in this case it's a little different than normal, but usually it's Control Shift and v. All right, you can see that this little window pops up and you would want to Paste unformatted text. And now you can see it pastes it like normal. If you were writing an email, it will automatically do unformatted text. But if you're in a software like this, then you have to select unformatted text. Now Control X is cutting it. It removes the line, but it puts it onto the clipboard. Still. Watch if we go, this is another line because this one I have in my clipboard is this is some text. If this is another line, we can press control an x. Let's say we don't want it. And let's say we want to paste it somewhere else. Let's say we wanted to paste it down here. Now I'll just hop into FL Studio and I don't want to show you how this translates just a little bit, just quickly. Okay? If we highlight all our stuff here, watch this. If I press Control and X this cuts it, it gets rid of it all. But again, it puts it into the clipboard inside of FL Studio. And I can paste it back. We can select certain ones in FL Studio swatch. Let's say I didn't want the drum in this clip in there, I can cut them. So this pattern is this pattern. We go to another pattern, Control V. We can paste it. Again. All this copy paste stuff all applies. Now, I'll also show you just some notes here. We'll open it up. So again, if we hold down control and left-click right, we can press control C. Again, I hit it a couple of times. Control V, it pasted it. We can hit Delete to delete it. Or you press Control a to highlight everything. You can press Control X to remove it, but it does put it on the clipboard so we can paste it back with control V. Alright, so again, not trying to go too fast, but once you understand the basic keyboard shortcuts of cut, copy, paste, and select all. It's really going to help speed you up no matter what program you're using on a computer while using Windows. 5. 1-3 - Address Bar Fast Workflow: Alright, in this video I want to talk to you about the File Explorer. So this name actually changed in Windows ten used to be called the Windows Explorer. So this is called the File Explorer is just where you access your files. Now, I want to show you some really fast workflow tricks inside of here, because you're gonna be in folders all the time. Okay? Now, the Windows key, as you can see down here, when key, so if you just press the Windows key, the little menu pops up two axis. If things like your start menu and all that, all that kind of stuff. I want to show you keyboard shortcuts off with the Windows key. If you hold down the Windows key and press E, You can see that it pops up the File Explorer for you. Now right here is called the address bar. It works very similar to your web browser. This is a local little browser. We are able to access all of our different files on our computer. And you eventually want to start learning paths. This is called a path. For example, this PC, you would be able to access all your different hard drives. I want to show you here in the browser you can see that this right here, this is an address bar. It's the exact same thing as this, except this is local. Local meaning it's on your computer and this would be connecting to the Internet. Now it's really important to be able to access the address bar quick. When you grab your mouse, that always slows you down. So the more we can keep our hands on the keyboard, the faster we're going to be how we access the address bar in the File Explorer. Again, that's local is with Alt and D. You can see that I'm just using one hand going down, holding on Alt and D. You can see it highlights right here. So for example, if I wanted to go to my C drive, you just go see and you hit Enter and then there is your C drive. So that's how fast this workflow can be once you start learning. Now when you're in the browser, it is not Alt D, it is actually F6. So for example, if you want to come here and you want to go to a certain website, that's how fast it is. So if you're browsing down here, instead of taking your mouse coming all the way up here, clicking, you can just look down at your keyboard right away, hit F6 and start typing. It just speeds you up just a little bit. And I'm telling you it's just a workflow thing. In the browser, it's F6. In the File Explorer, it's Alt and D. Now you might ask, well, how is that useful? 6. 1-4 - New Cloned Window: Alright, in this video, I want to bring a little bit more clarification to the address bar, and I'm going to be introducing you to a new keyboard shortcut is Control and N. And so what Control and N does is it opens up a duplicate of the window that you're on. And it also remembers the back and forward history, which is super, super powerful. Okay, So essentially, if you want to clone a window, you just press Control. And N. Now I talked to you guys all the time about creating beat tapes. As a music producer, I find that beat tapes are really good for practice, really good for branding. And for me I always like to be consistent in my folder structure, otherwise you get unorganized. So for example, let me just show you quickly. So here is my beat tapes. And if I open up a volume eight, you can see it's laid out like this. So it has the artwork. It has some assets which is just like the track list as a demo compilation. Here's mastered. These are all at the WAV files that you would upload to something like Spotify for online distribution because it's the high-quality. And then the mixed is the FLP, That's the FL Studio project. And then I also have the MP3 as well as the zip file. If I want to share it with somebody, it's ready to go. If we go to Volume nine, you can see it's laid out the same way we go to volume six the same way. Now, what I want to show you is let's say I want to work in volume six. I want to use this as my reference. I can just press Control and N, it duplicates the window. And another keyboard shortcut I'll show you is you can hold on the Windows key and the left arrow, and it snaps it to the left. You can hold on the windows key, go to the right arrow and it snaps it to the right. We have two, volume six and volume six. So I can just go back because remember it remembers the forward and back history. And if you have a most with a quick back button, you can just hit the back, as you can see, it just went addicted X button one. But I'm using my most to go back. But if you don't have a mouse to do that, you press Alt and back or Alt and left. Ultimate left goes back, Alt and right goes forward. And so let's say, let's say I'm working on a new beat tape. Let's say Go volume nine. Alright, so volume nine, as you can see up here, I'm in volume nine, Here's volume six. So it can be making sure that my folder structure is the exact same. And this is the fast workflow. All right, and again, this is all in the File Explorer. Alright, so here's just a beat tape example I just created here on my desktop. Again, I use this address bar a lot. For example, what I would do is if I want to keep this beat tape example folder open, I would just press Control and N, Now I have a duplicated window. And what I would do is again, if I want to access this PC, I can go this PC and you can just click that. Or if you want to go to the C Drive, you would do that. If you have other hard drives again, you can go to the hard drives right from here. Again, if I wanted to see Dr. Check it out. Boom, I'm right there. Another thing too is if you do type, start typing stuff equal Program Files, you hit Tab and it'll go there. Now one thing to mention in Windows is Windows does backslashes. If you are using a browser, it is forward slashes like this. For example, google.com forward slash and then whatever it is, forward slash. Alright, so that is a web browser is its forward slash, Windows is actually the backslash. But just to let you know again, you go Program Files again, you can hit Tab because you want to get into Program Files. Now let's say you want to look into Program Files, you just hit the backslash. Now it's just going to show you all the folders. I don't use this too much, but I do want to show it with you because that is just the power of knowing keyboard shortcuts. Hope that brings some more clarity into the address bar as well as the keyboard shortcut Control and N, okay. 7. 1-5 - Snapped Windows Organized Layout: Alright, in this video we're going to build off of control and n, which duplicates this window. But I want to further explain about holding on the Windows key and the left arrow, which allows you to snap windows together. Okay, Now watch this. If I press Control and N again, we can hit hold on, hold on the windows key, a gold, right? And if you press down, you can see that you can put windows in the corners. So you can see I have a folder down here, a folder up here and right here, and it's all snapped and it's a super, super-fast. Alright, So that is the Windows key. Now windows actually gives you more control over the snap. That's what they call it Windows snap. And so if we snap your windows, you can see they have a help manual and it tells you that the Windows logo key, left arrow and the right arrow. But what I want to show you is inside a Windows, if you hit the Windows key and type as S, S for snap settings, this is called your snap settings and you can control how you want it to work. And I do suggest playing around with these because you're going to figure out what you like. Because if you even press Alt and tab, if I'll talk about that shortcut in a moment, alt tab. Alt tab allows you to select through all your different windows nice and quick. But this allows you to control how you want it to look. With Windows ten, sometimes it's really visual and they have like animations and stuff. You can set it up just so it's nice and fast and nice and easy. And so these are the settings I have. Again, these are called your snap settings. What I'm saying is if you take a window like this and if you hold the Windows key and go left, depending on what your snap settings were there, you might get different animations and I just set it up so that it's nice and quick. It's just, you know, if I want to go to the left side of the screen, the right side of the screen, Let's say we have in this beat tape example up here in the corner, and let's say we're into beat tape one. You can see that women beat tape one. We're going to beat tape example, we're in this PC. This is really powerful again, if you have multiple hard drives, if you're backing up, it allows you to be in different windows, all on one screen. And you don't have to manually click it and try to drag it. It does it for you. Okay, so watch me hold on the windows key right up. One final thing I want to show you with the windows and left and right is you can actually resize proportionally how big you want a screen to be. So again, I'm going to press Control and N, We're going to hold on Windows key and left. But on the left side, I would press Alt and Tab, and it would go to the next window and you would hit the Windows key and go right. Alright, so I'll talk about alt tab in another video. So you can highlight here in the middle. Now you can see that it is dragging like this. And so we have our closed steel up here. You can see it is proportional. It doesn't look like it is, but it's usually let go. It is. Now, what I was trying to do is always trying to make this go up and then this one come down. But I don't think that it allows you to resize that way if that makes sense. So you can see that it snaps in there, but we're not getting that line. So if you have it like this, it doesn't look like you can do that. Let me just try this. Since we are here together, I will press Control and N go to Windows key left and go down. And let's see if we can see we can't even resize that. That would be a cool feature in maybe Windows 11. But if you only have two windows and watch this, if we just have these, you just hold down the Windows key and down the Windows key and down. And again, you can resize that if you want. All right, So again, it's all about knowing the shortcuts because it really helps you. Especially like I said, if you are having multiple hard drives and you're backing up, you know, if you're just clicking and dragging doing the manual drag backup method, It's so awesome just to be able to see them nice and clean. Alright, so that is the Windows key. Again, you can go left, right, up and down. And then again this window is culture snap settings. Again, you can check out and play around with all these different settings for the snap settings, this is how I have it laid out. It just allows it to be really fast. And it's what I've liked, especially for doing these videos and courses. It's just more snappy. 8. 1-6 - The REAL Windows Workflow: All right, So this is the last video in this basic keyboard shortcuts section. And I'm just going to cram it full with a bunch of really, really useful keyboard shortcuts and you're going to learn a fast workflow. Okay? So the first one I want to share with you is before I shared with you control an n that duplicates the window. However, if you click on a window, for example, let's say we want to open up beat tape one. So let's say we want to keep this folder open, but we want to open up beat tape one in a new folder. All you do is you just hold down Control and Enter. As you can see, the tape one is open and we also have beat tape examples still open. All right, so that's Control and Enter. If your hand is on the most and you don't want to go to enter, you can hold down control and just double-click. And it's going to do that for you. So watch be taped three bits, A1, V1, V2, V3. And so again, that is Control and Enter or Control and double-click. Now for example, let's say I was creating a new beat tape. And before I showed you, you know, I like to have my organized structure now this is just my example. Let's say I want to create a new folder. Now you can just go Control C, Control V. But what's going to happen is it is going to copy over all the files. So if you had all your song files, it copies it all over. So what I would do is I press Control Shift and N and it goes new folder. I'm just gonna go beat tape for. What I would do is watch we hold on the windows key the right I would click here, I press Control and Enter to make it into a new window. I would press the Windows key and left. I'd hit Alt Tab. Okay, we're gonna talk about alt tab in another video. Comes back to the beat tape window. I would go down and I'm gonna hit the tape for, you can see I'm a beat tape three, which is, this is the layout I want. And as you can see, there is no layout. If I want to create this layout nice and fast, all I would do is I would use the keyboard shortcuts, control shift and, and to create a new folder, we go artwork, Control Shift and end mastered. Now I'm going to screw up on purpose, Let's say I go mixed or something like that. And you're like, Oh no. Now instead of going back to the mouse and right-clicking and going rename, you can hit F2. Watch mixed, boom. This is why knowing the keyboard shortcuts is so powerful. Now I'm going to share with you how to close these windows fast and you do that with control and W. All right, Same here, control and w. Now, the reason I wanted to tell you about control and W is because if you're in the browser, guess what control and w does, it closes the browser tabs. So let me just duplicate this. Another way to close the browser tab is with the middle scroll wheel, also one more keyboard shortcut, I'll tell you here while you're in the browser for fast workflow is control and T. Alright, so I always have my hand close on the left side of the keyboard so I can press Control and W to close tabs and Control T if I want to start writing, for example, a microphone again or something, another keyboard shortcut I use a lot is if we go to the beat tape, we right-click and we go properties, you are going to see that this little window pops up and this is a really, really useful window. Again, this is the properties. It's going to tell you the file size. And this is really useful because let's say your hard drives getting full and you want to figure out, well, what hard drive is causing me so much storage space. You can, you can right-click and go properties, but there's a keyboard shortcut which I use all the time, and it's Alt and Enter. Alt and Enter. We'll open up this properties folder and you're able to see the file size. For example, if we come into here, I would just hit Enter. Let's say we want to see the file, the folder size of beat tape. If you click onto it, you hold down Alt and Enter. And this Properties opens. And you can see that, well, there's, there's no, It has three folders, but you can see that I have nothing in the folders. I think I have our work. Yeah, I can have artwork in here. So watch this. If I also hit Escape a lot. If you hit escaping this window, it doesn't close it. But certain windows, such as the properties, these kind of pop-up windows, typically you can hit Escape to close them because a lot of times it's a little small acts, it's hard to hit, you just hit escape. But you can see that beat tape one has three folders, 123 as you can see down here. That's another thing to look for as well. Down here, you go to your artwork and you can see the file size. So let's say we had a couple of these and again, I'm just pasting them. I can press Control an a. It's going to highlight them all and it's also going to show me the file size. So these are just different ways that you can access information about folders and files. Again, even if I have all these files highlighted and press Alt and Enter it or tell me properties about all of the files. Sometimes this is useful. If, for example, let's say you took a picture on a camera. On a camera, you can put your copyright information. It would show all this similar information in between that and, and I will talk about the camera here quickly because that is a privacy thing to know about. A lot of these cameras. If you take a picture, it can put your GPS coordinates in there. And many times you have to disable this. Sometimes you can see the information in here and you can remove properties and personal information. Because if you're going to share a picture that you took that has your GPS location on there, on the Internet. People can know exactly where you took that picture. For example, if you're in your home, people can know where you are if you're sharing it online. And so going into the properties and removing it, and honestly the best way is just inside the camera, look for the privacy settings when it comes to the GPS coordinates. So again, a lot of stuff to know, but you can see that that is very, very fast for workflow. All right, we have our Windows, you can press Control and N to duplicate. Actually, sorry, what I should've done is press Control and W to close that, you'd use your arrow keys a lot that that's what I do. If I want to access a folder. If I want to keep this beat tape example folder, I would press the Windows key to the right. I would then press Control and Enter. Here's the next beat tape. Again, we can come here to the left. Again. Look in the bottom left, you can see all the keyboard shortcuts, so that is what the Windows key. I hope that brings a lot of clarity for a fast workflow. I don't use tons of keyboard shortcuts. Once you start learning them, mainly it's like control and W. And then sometimes the tricky thing is knowing the difference between are using control or are using ALT. In the next video is I want to talk to you about how to highlight things that easy. Now this is going to be worker to be talking about how to highlight folders. For example, you can see I can highlight just individual folders, be taped for and be taped to. I can just delete those. We can press Control Z to undo and bring it back. We'll talk about that in the next video, but I'm going to show you that we're gonna be talking all about highlighting when it comes to writing emails, when it comes to your folders and files, alright. 9. 2-1 - Highlighting Text FAST: Alright, in this section of videos, you guys are going to learn that fast keyboard shortcuts when you're dealing with text, when it comes to getting in-between these words as well as highlighting, like I showed you in the previous video about the folders. When you are writing text, there's some very useful things for you to know when it comes to highlighting and when it comes to putting this cursor in-between different areas. Now I'm most is really useful for certain things if you want to get precise, as you can see, we can highlight in here and do different things. But what I want to talk to you about is, first of all, using the arrow keys is pretty useful. Goes one character at a time. If you want to go one word at a time, you hold down control. Check this out. I'm holding on just control and the left arrow key, as you can see in the keyboard shortcut. And this allows you to easily, it allows you to get there faster. So for example, if you are always using the arrow key and you're holding it down and you're trying to get in-between, this takes forever. Now, if you hold down Shift and the left, you can see it starts highlighting words. Now again, you can also use Control to do that full word at a time with shift. So I'm gonna hold down Control and Shift. You can see it starts highlighting words at a time. And so now I'm gonna talk to you about home and end. If you press home, it goes to the very beginning of the line. If you press Enter, it goes to the very end of the line. Now the same thing if you hold on shift and home. It highlights the whole line. If you hold down shift and end, it highlights the whole line. Now when other thing I want you to know, so let's just say we say welcome to the show or something, okay? Now, if you hit backspace, it goes left or right. If we hit Delete, it goes right. You can see that S gets deleted, h gets deleted, all gets deleted. So it's very important to know that depending on which way you want to go, whether you want to go back or whether you want to go. So essentially you're bringing the text to the right, you're bringing it in. Again, the same stuff works. If you want to delete a forward, you hold down control and delete, and it deletes that show today, right? So hold down control and delete and we're just going to delete all the way up to show and we're gonna have today in there. So again, there's backspace, there is delete. So let me just do a quick recap. So I do want to say that the fastest workflow is having your hands on your keyboard as much as possible. If we want to go over left or right one character, you just use the arrow key. If you want to go over a full word, you just hold down Control and left. If you want to highlight one character at a time, you just hold down Shift. Or again, you could hold on shift and control it does the full word. Again, you can also be using the keyboard shortcuts such as control an x to get rid of that. And let's say you wanted to paste it here now, before closing out this video, again, a lot of these shortcuts also apply in the browser. I just want to quickly talk about the home and the end. So the end would take you all the way to the bottom of the page. But instead of always having to scroll up or all the way down, if you're at the very bottom of the page, you can quickly hit home and watch the statistics you read up to the top. Alright, so again, that is this video learning about highlighting. I'll make another video about highlighting folders, okay? 10. 2-2 - Highlighting Folders and Files: Okay, continuing on with highlighting, we're gonna be talking about folders now. Now, if you want to highlight all folders, the easiest way is just click and drag them. If you want to highlight them all. You can also press Control on a, again, a lot of these keyboard shortcuts are relatable no matter what you're doing. In Windows. If you want to highlight individual folders, for example, if you want to highlight 14, but you don't want to in three, you just hold down control and you can click them. All right, you can see that you can also deselect them as well. And this allows you to, again, if you want to find all information just on these folders, you would just hold on Alt and Enter for the properties. Or if you want to delete them, you just press Delete, Control and Z. Just like an ethyl Studio. You can undo and redo the same way. And I'll just quickly go to this artwork. And again, I'm just going to copy this a bunch of times. And I'll quickly share just some workflow tricks with this. If you want to highlight your different files are certain files. It's a little bit tricky sometimes and also depending on the view that you're in. So you can right-click and you can access them. I usually like details, that's my favorite one to go into. And I usually always go by date. Sometimes it might be file type, depending if it's like a JPEG or JPEG file is, That's it, That's an image. But we, as music producers, we have MP3s and waves. But sometimes you might have artwork in there or a Photoshop file in there. And sometimes sorting by type is useful as well. You can also see the size, but I typically work by date. Now you can click and drag depending on what view you're in. You can also click and drag in here as well. But sometimes it's little tricky because you can't drag on the texts. It's going to actually, if you wanted, for example, if I want to drag this to the desktop, that's what's going to happen. Okay? You can drag a couple of them. You can hold down control and you can continue on. You know, imagine just want a couple of them. As you can see, if I want to delete these, let's say all of these ones will be deleted, and now we're just left with these. Now, if we click here, you hold on Shift and click. You can see it highlights up to that point. And I'm just going to paste a couple of more of those. Again, we're going to hold on Shift and click in the highlights up to here. If you hold down Control and click and then watch if you hold down Control Shift and click again, you can highlight in-between. So it gets pretty technical. But what I am sharing with you is just that you can highlight files in here, easy. And many times like a thumb. I can't think of an example, but let's say I wanted to delete certain files within this folder. I would be like, Yeah, I want to delete that one, that one. Sometimes I do want to delete certain files and instead of going to right-click and trying to find elite must be down here. Yeah, so there's delete instead of right-clicking and going delete. So it takes a long time. I usually do just hit the Delete button. So that's D, E, L. It's not, the backspace is just delete. You can see that it is deleting a file. If you select and you can go Control. Let's say I do want to delete maybe this one, this one, this one. And maybe you can actually click and drag and you can see that it will actually de-select. So let's say we have these, you hold down Control U, it will deselect them. Or if you go to new files, it will highlight them. Like I said, it's quite technical, but I just want to share with you that it's all about knowing how this stuff works, that you can flow really, really fast. One final thing I'll share with you, I don't use it too much, but sometimes it is useful. Not all keyboards have it, but there is a button that allows you to access the right-click menu. For example, instead of coming here and going Delete again. If I press Control and a, and let's say I want to go to the Windows right-click menu. I can do that right? I guess it's calling it the apps key. You can hit it and it will open up for you. Alright, so not to get super technical, but again, if you want to highlight all your files, you can click and drag them. You can press Control. And a, if you want you to select a certain amount of files up to a certain point, you just hold down Shift and click it highlights them all. If you want to highlight individuals, you just hold down Control and click. And again you can press Delete, not Backspace, and it will delete those files for you. That's it. So again, that's highlighting the previous video is all about highlighting your text, right? Knowing how to get in-between them with Control and hold down shift and highlighting, right? So that's very, very useful when you're writing e-mails or whatever you're doing. Again, you can hit F2 to rename things. As you can see, this is like this and this is a perfect example of where I would use these keyboard shortcuts for highlighting. So as you can see, it's copy, copy, and then copy nine. So let's say I actually wanted to be just up to 300. So again, I'm gonna hold down Control Shift and the left arrow. And as you can see, it's doing a full word at a time. And I would just come up here to this, hit backspace, hit Enter, and it's like now I have my renamed file. Again, you hit F2 to get into that. And there you go. I hope that helps a lot of very, very valuable keyboard shortcuts. We're now going to get into more patrolling windows and getting more into some computer Maintenance and knowing how to look at your computer a little bit better with some keyboard shortcuts. 11. 3-1 - The Amazing ALT TAB: Alright, in this section of videos, we're going to be looking a little bit deeper into Windows and how to get really, really fast workflow as well as how to have some computer maintenance skills, how to look a little deeper into your computer and know what's going on. We will cover that in future videos. In this video I want to talk about alt tab. Now most people know about alt tab, I want to show you how I use Alt Tab. Again, you just hold on Alt and tab and this pops up. So depending on the windows that you have open, you can see them. You can see me right here, but you can see it also has another folder open. And then we're also using this application to do the writing in order to see the Alt Tab on a certain screen. So I'm gonna go display settings and you can see that I've selected, this isn't my main window I'm looking at you with right now. And you can see I have it as my main display. Usually I don't have this as my main display. Alright, so as you can see, I have my icons down below. I've just blurred them out. But you can see that this is my main display. And so now I can hit Alt Tab and you can see them. What I want to talk to you about alt tab is when you do alt tab, you go alt tab and if you hold down Alt, this window continues to stay open. If you hit Tab again, you can see now this is called Sublime Text is it's a text editor. It's highlighted. I hit tab again, it goes to beat tape example. Now if you hold down Shift and Tab, now it goes back. So that's really useful to know because if you have, for example, we have this open press Control and N over I have a whole bunch of them open, let's just say. And so if I hit Alt Tab, you're gonna see there's tons of windows open now. For example, if we want to get to one, you can just click with your mouse or you just hit Alt Tab a bunch of times. If you want to go back one, again, you go Shift and Tab. And so it's just all about workflow and how I'm doing that is I use my thumb on Alt and then I use my middle finger on tab. That's the fast workflow. And then I can use my index finger for shift if I want to go back, like if I've missed one or something, you can also close them in here as well. Alright, so nothing really too special with Alt Tab. I just wanted to show you how I use Alt Tab. And it's just hold on Alt Tab. I do hold down Alt, it allows me to look quicker. And so that's it. That's all for this video is just Alt Tab very powerful. Just want to make sure that you know how to use it. 12. 3-2 - The Task Manager: Alright, this is a really important video. I want to introduce you to what's called the Task Manager. Now the keyboard shortcut to access the Task Manager is Control, Shift and escape. This is going to pop up. Now. It might pop up like this for you. You can click more details. Now if you don't want to use the keyboard shortcut, you can just hit the Windows key and you can just type Task Manager. Just hit enter and this is going to pop up. This is called your processes. These are all the different programs that are being run on your computer. It allows you to see your CPU usage and allows you to see what's using your memory. And if somebody is using your video card, as you can see, OBS, which is what I'm using to record my screen, is taking up some video card performance. Now if you ever have a problem with one of your applications and it's not responding. You can come here and you can press end task. That's a quick way to end the program and to be able to reopen it instead of restarting the computer. Sometimes if there's lot of problems going on with your computer, sometimes you just have to restart the computer, but sometimes you can just come into the Task Manager, click on it and go end, and then you can reopen it. Now the next tab I want to talk to you about in this task manager is the startup tab. As you can see, my last bios time was 24 seconds, which is quite long, but my computer does run pretty fast, so I'm not too concerned. I wouldn't be too concerned with the bios number. But what I want to say is this startup tab is the startup apps on your computer. You can also access this by hitting the Windows tab and typing startup apps, but essentially these are the same windows, okay? Again, you can go to the startup apps and you can choose what apps run as soon as you start your computer. So for example, if I were to restart my computer, these apps, as you can see, enabled, stream deck enabled, and you can see that their startup impact. So these ones are high and that's okay because I do use them all the time, but I have some down here. Like for example, I don't use Skype, I don't use Cortana, Adobe, all that kinda stuff. So I disable those. And all you have to do is you can just click on one and just press Disable. Now another way you can look at this as you can see that you can click on a column to organize it. I organize it by status and it allows me to see what is enabled and what is not enabled. So just go through there and you can enable and disable. Now, what I want to say here is don't get too intense. There's some things that need to start with your computer. For example, I have an audio interface. I want to make sure this audio interface starts with my computer. Otherwise, you have to go and manually open up the software and that's just annoying. So my suggestion to you is just be a little careful the startup tab. But you can come in here and disable certain programs that you don't need to start if you never use them. And it will allow your computer to run a little bit faster because there's less processes unless programs going on and your startup time may be a little bit faster. The last thing I want to share with you is the performance tab. This is where you can see what's going on with your computer. So you can quickly see how hard your computer's working, what's going on, alright, same down here, you can also see your graphics card, my computer. So many times a CPU has a graphics card, as you can see, that that's the Intel graphics card. But I also have a third party, you know, graphics card that I've installed. Also one thing to share on the Performance tab is you also have this open resource Monitor. You can look in there and find out more details. Now, one final thing I'll say with you again, if you were browsing the web and all of a sudden your computer starts. If the fan kicks in and you're like, What's going on? Why is my computer so loud? You can come to the Task Manager. And what I do is I would sort this by CPU and it will share with you what is causing the most stress on your computer. And then you can look into it many times. It's like your backup software has kicked in. And that many times makes your computer run a little bit harder. All right, so that's the task manager. It's a very, very powerful, be very, very careful in here, a lot of things can go wrong. So just kind of think about what you're doing before you do it. In a startup tab again, just certain programs don't go too intense. But that's the task manager is really going to help you see further into your computer and allow you as a music producer to have more maintenance skills over your music production computer. 13. 3-3 - Lock Sleep Restart or Shutdown Computer: In this video, I want to quickly talk about locking your computer versus putting it to sleep versus restarting it and shutting it down. I'll just talk about my workflow and how I approach it. So if I'm at my computer and let's say someone knocks on the door or something. What I would do is I would hit the Windows key and L, What that does is it locks the screen, the computer still running, but it just locks the screen so that when I come back, I have to put in a password to get back into the computer that's locking it. You don't have to do that. But for example, if you live in a home with many people and if you walk away from your computer, you can just quickly lock it without putting it to sleep. And again, you do that with the Windows key and L. Now if it's at the end of the night, most of the time, I do just put my computer to sleep. All right. It's not too often. I've put my it's not too often. I actually shut down my computer. You can shut down your computer, but if we put it to sleep, it allows me to get back up and running nice and quick. Alright. Then in terms of restarting your computer, most of the time, I'll only restart the computer if an update requires it or if I've been running my computer for awhile and I'm noticing that it is acting up, some weird things are going on. I'll just restart the computer and many times it just kinda gives a refresh and things usually go back to normal. So again, if you live in a home with people that can access your computer when you walk away and it's available and you don't trust those people, maybe you can just hit the Windows key and L to lock it, which means that when you come back, you just put your password in and you're back to normal. You can put the computer to sleep, which means that it's just goes into the kind of power savings mode. But as soon as you click the mouse or hit something on your keyboard, your computer should come back to life. Again. You're gonna have to put in your password. If I restart the computer, it's usually because of an update or my computer isn't running smoothly. And very rarely I will shut down my computer fully. Alright, so hope that kinda get some clarity so that you know, when you're using your computer, what you can maybe do. 14. OUTRO: All right, So thank you so much for taking my course about Windows shortcuts for Music Producers. My artist and producer name is gratuitous. I'm an ethyl studio trainer and my real name is Riley Weller. Feel free to check out more of my courses. I have many, many FL Studio courses. I have over 26 ethyl studio courses. If you guys ever have questions, you always feel free to send me an e-mail and reach out. This course was all about learning keyboard shortcuts within the Windows operating system. We talked a little bit about FL Studio, not too much, but a lot of the basic keyboard shortcuts such as Control C for copy, control V for paste, control, X for cut and control, a for highlight. All that stuff typically applies in no matter what program you're using, whether it be a browser, ethyl studio. Now, one thing I also want to say quickly there is once you can learn the difference between copy and cut, it really allows you to save that extra step because cut actually is like copy and delete essentially, but you're just cutting it onto that clipboard. Alright? I hope you guys learned a lot when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. If you're ever confused, just go back and re-watch the video. And hopefully this information doesn't change in Windows 11 too much. But these are the keyboard shortcuts with that I've learned over the years and they have made me so fast. Having multiple monitors does help, but just these keyboard shortcuts alone, even on one screen. It just, yeah, once you learn them, you'll be flowing. So again, you can watch through the videos, learn the keyboard shortcuts. I hope they help you. If you guys have any questions, again, you let me know and if you want to leave a review, please leave a review on the course. It means a lot to me. Thanks for checking it out and go and check out other of my FL Studio courses. Thanks so much.