Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Ultimately, a digital piano or keyboard with light up keys can be a great option for a beginner. You may consider it as a very first instrument for someone who's getting to grips with the piano.
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Read More »Casio LK-S250 61-Key Premium Keyboard Our Rating: 4.5/5 Check Prices at Amazon Check Prices at Sweetwater If there’s one thing you can depend on Casio for, it’s a high quality product. This is true for every musical instrument they make. While the brand is synonymous with the calculator you used in school, or your digital watch, they’ve been making keyboards since the 1980s and they do it exceptionally well. This model is no exception. This keyboard is compact and lightweight, but feels exceptionally well built and solid. Casio are known for including lots and lots of voices or tones into their keyboards, and the LK-265 certainly delivers in this regard, with 400 high-quality tones and 150 rhythms, including a Dance Music mode, which allows you to record your own tracks. Of course, we mustn't forget about light-up functionality; this keyboard includes 60 built-in, well known pieces that you can play along with and learn. It even comes in with a built-in lesson function, as well as a fingering guide. This is exceptionally useful as it solves one of my main issues with light-up keyboards; that they don’t teach you which fingers to put where. This one does. Another major bonus is that the LK-265 contains pretty much everything you need to get started, including a pair of closed cup headphones and a keyboard stand. If you’re looking to get started with a light-up keyboard, you can do no wrong with the Casio LK-265. Pros Good build quality
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Read More »And I have to admit, this can be a really useful method of learning for students who are either not confident with reading music, or have difficulty accessing a teacher. Students can learn new pieces pretty much right from the start, without having to rely on becoming proficient to actually read the notes required to play that piece, or without having to rely on a teacher who may prefer the student works on sight-reading or scales first. However, there are some drawbacks, which I’ll cover later in the article. Light up Digital Pianos? Now I’ve used this term, but actually it’s not precisely what I mean. I had always thought light up digital pianos had existed. I’m talking digital pianos here, with full size keys, weighted keys, etc. However, I could find no model of digital piano with these features in my research for this article. I could only find keyboards. These instruments may have full size or touch sensitive keys, but they don’t have weighted keys, they don’t have the full 88 key range of a real piano, and the quality of the voices varies dramatically. So, you should bear this in mind when thinking about purchasing any instrument with light-up keys - you need to be sure that you won’t outgrow it in a few years. In my experience, students who opt for these instruments tend to replace them pretty quickly. Another point I’d like to make is to ensure you buy a model that allows you to turn the light-up functionality off - it can get super annoying after a while, and especially so when you progress to the point where you don’t need the light-up keys. Some of the Drawbacks of Light-up Keyboards If you’ve come this far, my guess is that you’re seriously considering buying a keyboard or digital piano with light up keys. I wouldn't advise against this; they can be exceptionally helpful to a beginner getting to grips with the piano. However, there are things to consider, which I'll cover here. They may cause you to use uncomfortable fingerings I’ve taught students who’ve performed for me music they learned on a light-up keyboard. What I typically find is that these pianos only tell you which keys to play. They don’t tell you which fingers to put on which keys. This can be a huge problem for these students. Firstly, what works at a really slow tempo when learning the music might not necessarily work when trying to play these works at speed or perform them. These students get frustrated because they think there’s something that they’re missing, when in fact the keyboard misled them into thinking that they were doing everything right. With some of these students, I’ve had to go through literally note-by-note to teach them which fingers to put where, and to explain to them why the fingering they taught themselves after using the keyboard doesn’t work. It’s not fun for me and it’s certainly not fun for them. It can be a big knock to their self esteem, which is why I recommend students wean themselves off using the light-up functionality as soon as they are able to. They come included with a limited selection of music Unfortunately, these models of digital piano with light up keys often contain a very limited selection of songs. The most I’ve ever seen is around 100, the least is about 15. And of course, there’s no guarantee that the student is even going to want to play any of these pieces. In which case, a light up keyboard is a complete waste of money, if it was purchased with the intention that it was going to teach the student how to play certain pieces. Because of this, it also makes things very difficult to train your musical ear, since you're just following lights on the keyboard to tell you how to play. This is a really important skill to develop for any musician, not just pianists. I’ve never seen a light-up keyboard with the ability to add your own songs, or to have someone else play them for you and then have the keyboard teach you how to play. I’m sure there’s a way to do this through MIDI, and I’m sure something exists out there somewhere, but I’ve never come across one in all my years of teaching and recommending instruments to students. That means that once the student has gone through all the songs that the keyboard has built-in, without adequate note learning skills, they’re not actually able to learn any more music. This brings me on to my next point.
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