I have a electronic keyboard at home and there is no good keyboard teacher available so that is why I decided to learn piano. I just want to know whether I would be going to face any problem while transitioning from piano to keyboard?
How easy it to transit from piano to keyboard?
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Short answer - no.
Good luck on the start of your musical adventure.
Good luck on the start of your musical adventure.
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Its an adventure. A piano is a fantastic instrument to learn and everything you leanr will be ome useful on a keyboard.
Remember that a piano has both percussion and note - weighted keys. Hitbitbhard and you get a sharper attack. Also the damper pedal allows for some sustain.
But : playing an organ for example is a somewhat different beast with a lot more controls added and the hammer action removed. Heaps to experiment with and learn but your piano basics will stand you in good stead for the chords and sequences. Plus you can add feet to the equation!! Watch a guy called lachy doley. Hisnhands are like adhd… continuously adjusting and callibrating and he rocks!
Playing electric piano is most akin to an analogue piano although the tactile stuff becomes key.
Brass and strings and drums all have their nuances and together with bass Id say it always helps to have been in the shoes of one of those guys for a while. I find my time playing trombine as a kid helps.
Mainly remember its called playing because its a journey just like playing in a school yard. It has to be fun!! The learning is not linear - you can learn a bucket load in one session and then take years to master other aspects.
Remember that a piano has both percussion and note - weighted keys. Hitbitbhard and you get a sharper attack. Also the damper pedal allows for some sustain.
But : playing an organ for example is a somewhat different beast with a lot more controls added and the hammer action removed. Heaps to experiment with and learn but your piano basics will stand you in good stead for the chords and sequences. Plus you can add feet to the equation!! Watch a guy called lachy doley. Hisnhands are like adhd… continuously adjusting and callibrating and he rocks!
Playing electric piano is most akin to an analogue piano although the tactile stuff becomes key.
Brass and strings and drums all have their nuances and together with bass Id say it always helps to have been in the shoes of one of those guys for a while. I find my time playing trombine as a kid helps.
Mainly remember its called playing because its a journey just like playing in a school yard. It has to be fun!! The learning is not linear - you can learn a bucket load in one session and then take years to master other aspects.
happyrat1
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You are replying to a14 year old thread.
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Nothing a good tune won't sort out! 
A-men to that.
Even among electronic keyboards, there are important differences. (A musical associate and I had this discussion about electronica and, having lugged around 'classic' tone-wheel furniture, agree that whatever else music can thrive without weight lifting). I have two everyday keyboards and they're quite different: one is a pretty well weighted 88 note electronic piano but the downside is there's no substitute for mass to reproduce the dynamic resistance of a jack lever pushing a hammer especially in the mid-base where this should be heavier - the downside is that the keyboard assembly alone weighs over 50 lbs so 'portable' is stretching things; the second is a clone-wheel with waterfall keys (IMHO actually a step up from a H spinet) which have a pretty flat weight. The former is useless for slides and smashes common to tone-wheel rock organ solos but the latter is quite good. On the other hand, piano, regardless of the accuracy of the synth, are pretty dead by comparison to the weighted keyboard; this is not so bad for electric piano as everyone is quite accustomed to the flat sound and ersatz attack of legacy electric pianos. But there in one rack, I have two very different beasts. I have an ultralight 88 note keyboard which I mostly leave at the cottage - good for grins but your basic spring switch feel. Then I have a classic DX7 (heavyweight) which has a feel all its own but the sounds put it over ... still!
For a different adventure, my sister was a skilled accordion player. I tried it on and discovered a whole different kind of action. Let's just say I never managed to make that expensive instrument sing - I played with / like a jerk. My piano teacher always cautioned 'don't watch your hands' - try to do that looking sideways.
happyrat1
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I have a PC3K8 gathering dust in my storage room that clocks in at 54 lbs stripped naked and past 80 when in the Gator road case.
When it died on me two years ago I picked up a Numa Compact 2x which after the bonusware upgrades does a fine job of providing those bread-and-butter workstation sounds.
Fortunately I don't play out but the Numa can be manhandled with a single hand no problem.
The newer stuff coming out these days is far more plastic than metal and shaves off as much as 80% of the excess weight.
When it died on me two years ago I picked up a Numa Compact 2x which after the bonusware upgrades does a fine job of providing those bread-and-butter workstation sounds.
Fortunately I don't play out but the Numa can be manhandled with a single hand no problem.
The newer stuff coming out these days is far more plastic than metal and shaves off as much as 80% of the excess weight.
happyrat1
Destroyer of Eardrums!!!
At one point I also owned a Juno DS88 which clocked in around 34 lbs.
happyrat1
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I would like to make one caveat about keyboard actions which I feel is significant.
Just as important as the keybed is, I cannot stress the importance of stability in the stand that supports it.
If you play crescendo on a Numa Compact on a crappy, bouncy x-stand, you'll probably end up in a youtube blooper reel.
For me the difference of a stand's stability when testing a keybed is high priority.
On a springy, bouncy, narrow X-stand, a lightweight 88 keyboard is a menace to public safety and ready to bounce off the stage at the first basso profundo.
There have been several good threads in the past on what types of stands to purchase with myself leaning toward Z-Stands.
It would be worth your while to see what's already been written on the subject.
Just as important as the keybed is, I cannot stress the importance of stability in the stand that supports it.
If you play crescendo on a Numa Compact on a crappy, bouncy x-stand, you'll probably end up in a youtube blooper reel.
For me the difference of a stand's stability when testing a keybed is high priority.
On a springy, bouncy, narrow X-stand, a lightweight 88 keyboard is a menace to public safety and ready to bounce off the stage at the first basso profundo.
There have been several good threads in the past on what types of stands to purchase with myself leaning toward Z-Stands.
It would be worth your while to see what's already been written on the subject.