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I am a beginner on the electronic keyboard and I know just enough music to play the melody line on a tin whistle.
In learning the basics there seems to be two different approaches on how the left hand is played on an electronic keyboard.
- Classic piano fingering - for a regular acoustic piano or an electronic keyboard in regular piano mode.
- Electronic auto accompaniment fingering - where the left hand portion of the keyboard (typically at F# to the left of the G below middle C) is in accompaniment mode (sounding somewhat like the strings section of an orchestra).
In both "classic" and "auto acc" fingerings I am talking about using 3-fingered chords (not the single-finger chord feature). In classic piano fingering left hand chords played in their root position will typically cross over the F#-G boundary prompting a change to chord inversions for electronic auto acc fingering.
I have been trying to do some of both - learning 3-fingered inversion chords so I can use the Auto Acc to its best advantage giving me a jump at actually playing some tunes, and in addition to getting the left hand cues from the chord letter located over the melody or treble line, also to a limited extent beginning to get used to reading the Bass Clef which is where the chord conflict occurs with using the Auto Acc.
I have song books of both types - Fake books with the melody line and a chord letter; and Easy Piano books with treble clef, bass clef and a chord letter on top as well. Regular piano books with vocal and both piano clefs are rather intimidating.
Many people seem to make a choice as to which path, classic piano or Auto Acc fingering, they start off on. Is learning the inversion chords for accompaniment fingering as the first/primary set of left hand chords limiting in any way? And if one starts with the Auto Acc approach do many players begin to delve into classic piano fingering at a later date?
I am retired and am simply learning to play for my own pleasure.
In learning the basics there seems to be two different approaches on how the left hand is played on an electronic keyboard.
- Classic piano fingering - for a regular acoustic piano or an electronic keyboard in regular piano mode.
- Electronic auto accompaniment fingering - where the left hand portion of the keyboard (typically at F# to the left of the G below middle C) is in accompaniment mode (sounding somewhat like the strings section of an orchestra).
In both "classic" and "auto acc" fingerings I am talking about using 3-fingered chords (not the single-finger chord feature). In classic piano fingering left hand chords played in their root position will typically cross over the F#-G boundary prompting a change to chord inversions for electronic auto acc fingering.
I have been trying to do some of both - learning 3-fingered inversion chords so I can use the Auto Acc to its best advantage giving me a jump at actually playing some tunes, and in addition to getting the left hand cues from the chord letter located over the melody or treble line, also to a limited extent beginning to get used to reading the Bass Clef which is where the chord conflict occurs with using the Auto Acc.
I have song books of both types - Fake books with the melody line and a chord letter; and Easy Piano books with treble clef, bass clef and a chord letter on top as well. Regular piano books with vocal and both piano clefs are rather intimidating.
Many people seem to make a choice as to which path, classic piano or Auto Acc fingering, they start off on. Is learning the inversion chords for accompaniment fingering as the first/primary set of left hand chords limiting in any way? And if one starts with the Auto Acc approach do many players begin to delve into classic piano fingering at a later date?
I am retired and am simply learning to play for my own pleasure.
