Hey, thanks for the feedback! I think those are valid points. I also agree that explaining what the Ctrl+Shift hotkey does would have been very helpful here and that I should have had screencast keys enabled. While I definitely say “you probably won’t need this” quite a lot, I do still think those are important ideas to see and be exposed to right away. I used that phrase to separate the things that you will want to use right away from the seeds of more abstract fundamental ideas that will unlock the true power and freedom of the software, but that you’ll need to see examples of over and over and over throughout many tutorials and over a long period of time before things truly start to click. Those are the ideas that are generally skipped over because they’re difficult, but missing them will keep someone at the beginner level for way too long. I’ll try to do a better job of making that distinction clearer in future videos.
Also, please don’t forget that you can ask even simple questions and we’ll be happy to answer! If you’ve watched a video more than once and are still stuck, you don’t need to figure it out on your own.
