How to Apply Piano Skills to Synth Playing

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Summary: How to apply piano skills to playing keyboards and synthesizers; get expert tips and advice on playing electronic musical instruments in this free music lesson video.

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Ben Anderson Ben Anderson has been playing piano, keyboards, and synthesizers for almost all his life. He took lessons as a young child and took easily to music. Performi... read more

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How to Apply Piano Skills to Synth Playing

Hi, I'm Ben Anderson with Expert Village, and I'm here today to talk to you about transferring piano skills to a keyboard. An important thing to consider when transferring these skills is the difference in playing a keyboard compared to a piano. Piano keys are a lot heavier, and you tend to need to press down a lot harder in order to get the type of sound you want. Keyboards are not as sensitive. There are two styles of different keyboards. There's a semi-weighted keyboard and a fully weighted keyboard. Now, neither of these really feels anything like an actual piano. So, it's a matter of adjusting yourself to how you would play on a piano comparatively to how you would play the keyboard. For example, you can move a lot more fluidly on a keyboard. Let me demonstrate. Differences here being, between a piano and a keyboard, are the sense that your fingers can't move as fluidly on a piano as they really can on a keyboard. That's the beautiful thing about keyboard, and why they're used today in a lot of contemporary music, compared to pianos, because a lot of keyboards today tend to be able to play really intricate and really fast parts. And it's because of how you can play a keyboard that makes this possible. The keyboard is a computer. There are a lot more different components that you need to think about when playing a keyboard. But as a piano player, it's not really much of a challenge to move over to a keyboard. But there are a lot more things to consider.