Yamaha PSRS900 61-Key Arranger Workstation Keyboard

Piano Software Courses Vs Piano Tuition Books (Part 1)

If you want to learn to play the piano, you can go to a piano teacher or teach yourself. If you're going to teach yourself how to play the piano then you have to decide whether to use piano software courses or tuition books. Whichever method you choose you should ...

Black and White Piano Keys on a Portable Electronic Keyboard

The first thing you need to learn before playing the piano is the piano notes. What are they called? A regular piano keyboard has 88 keys on it including the black notes. The first notes to learn are the white notes, but how do go about memorizing the names of ...

MIDI Makes It Easier!

Music is something we all love and enjoy. It helps us relax and take life easy when we aren't working. The Musical Instrument Digital Interface or MIDI for short, helps musicians input their work into computers and process it. MIDI compatible instruments send out binary codes that a computer can ...

Learn To Play Piano: A Digital Or An Acoustic Piano?

If I have to choose between buying an acoustic piano or a digital piano what is the best choice? let's take a look at the different choices if you want to learn to play piano. Personally I haven't been forced to make the decision between buying a normal upright piano ...

How To Choose A Digital Piano

Digital pianos are a very similar playing experience to an acoustic piano. Although a digital piano uses digitally recorded, or sampled, sounds, rather than a combination of hammers and strings, it can still offer a highly realistic playing feel.The main component of a digital piano is a keyboard with a ...

What Happened To Dance Music?

What is the first thing you hear when when you switch the radio on? If you are lucky enough to tune-in in time to actually catch some music, the chances are it's the latest breed of new-wave-new-rave-alternative-shouty-vocalised-indie-rock. (I call it guitar music for short.) Such has been the case for ...

History of Digital Pianos

A digital piano is a modernized version of the electronic piano that was manufactured and sold from the 1950’s through the 1980’s. Electronic pianos were based upon synthesized sound as opposed to the mechanical sounds carried by the electric pianos which were sold for awhile in the 1960’s and 70’s. ...

Interesting Facts About Musical Keyboards And Where To Buy Them

The musical keyboard has a set of keys that are depressible and produce sound when they are pressed. The keys are large as well as small, adjacent to one another. The best example is a piano. The piano has a keyboard which comprises of a set of white and black ...

10 Things You Might Not Know About the Electric Keyboard

1. Some of you may think of someone playing the electronic keyboard as a "pianist". Well you'd be wrong. They would actually be referred to (by someone who knows what they are talking about) as a "keyboardist". Sounds clumsy, but it's true. 2. The term "electronic keyboard" is used to mainly ...

The Digital Pop Machine

Anyone born during the sixties remembers the decade digital music swallowed pop. The transition from weary rock to synth pop was as fast as the technology that fed it would allow. In 1980, Devo, Blondie and Joy Division topped the charts with their digital pop synth sound and video clips ...