Today, my Yamaha Piaggero NP-32B keyboard arrived from Thomann. The NP-32 is a 'home use' keyboard and it has no gigging/professional use pretensions. It sounds pretty good and looks the part in our music room. I bought it to use for my music reading learning challenge, my music teacher said he will teach me chords and how to play songs on it as well as helping my understanding of music notation.
I know the story: pics or it never happened. I will see if I can upload a photo tomorrow or the next day.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The CD which teaches the entire Rachmaninoff works over a weekend is missing. If anyone has one, could I borrow it for a few days.....
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I at organ lessons in my youth -so was used to chord shapes with my left. Ive always noodled on keys (workstations/synths) and continued the chord work with my left, and added octaves and broken chords.
at 50, I decided I wanted to learn proper piano - not to a classical standard though, my aim is to be jools Holland (love the boogie stuff) by the time I retire. Hence picking up a stage piano with weighted keys and 88 notes.
Im practising every day - scale runs with right, then left, then both hands (both up, both down, one up the other down) along with reinforcing chord inversions (really only had one set down automatically) and controlling volume/key pressure.
Im only 5 days in, and Im seeing good improvements.
I still struggle to play melodies/bass runs with my left but thats coming (played solo and with single held chords with the right), but left hand runs with right hand melodies is beyond me yet. My timing just goes to pot. Im determined to get there though f its possible despite, as I say - now being 50.
Think I'll have to join the queue for that too!
Pity about the power supply - I wonder if Thomann should be supplying it with a proper UK 3-pin plug... anyway doesn't matter as you've got it up and running.
I liked the NP series when I was looking a few years ago. I would have got one. (A cheap used Casio digi piano turned up instead, otherwise I'd have had the Yammy.)