Learn the Piano Keyboard Finally get those chords and patterns under your fingers Learning to Play Piano on an Electric Keyboard There are a lot of great reasons for learning to play piano on an electric keyboard. Cost, portability, size, extended practice hours and compact space are just a few. You also open yourself up to an large range of sound options and capabilities. A regular piano keyboard sits at a height of about 179″ so it is best to adjust the stand of your electric piano as closely as possible to that height.
The thing I like most, learning to play piano while living with other people, is the ability to use headphones. Maybe it’s performance anxiety, but when I’m learning new things and experimenting with ideas I express myself less freely when other’s are listening. Under the headphones, they just hear the click, click, click of the keys, which can be an annoying sound all by itself most people are able to get used to it or just tune it out. The journey to becoming good to great can have moments of cacophony, jarring, discordant sounds and dissonance. A lot of it is best unheard by an audience. While your family and roommates may be intensely proud of your determination to stay at it, they will probably appreciate just hearing the soft clicking of the keys while they imagine wonderful sounds being produced. When you want to be heard, you can easily take the headset off and plug into and amp or, if your piano has them, use the built-in speakers.