How do you choose your music keyboard?

That is a question that is consistently asked by students wanting to upgrade from they current keyboard or by people inquiring for piano lessons.

Two main things to consider:

• piano and musical goals
• budget

Piano Goals

Big question. And if you don’t have an answer to that one yet, fine. You can work on your piano goals as you progress. But for now, let’s say, you need a keyboard and you know that you want to play just for fun and you don’t care if you have loads of sounds and you don’t care if you can do all these fancy electronic tricks. Well that means you probably don’t need a synthesizer (a musical instrument that can make all sorts of sounds and can do other tricks to0). You probably just need a simple keyboard with only a few sounds. If you buy a synthesizer, you might never even touch all of these buttons… it might be cool to show your friends though or just to play around for fun. So if a synthesizer is not for you, concentrate your shopping time on finding the keyboard that has a nice feel, a good touch and most probably one having weighted keys.

So my point is to really look at what you think you’ll be doing with you keyboard in the next 2 years (or something like that).

Budget

Keyboard are quite cheap today. You can buy a Yamaha with weighted keys for under a $1000. A big cheaper quality but pretty good is Casio with weighted keys. Casio really improved their 88-key weighted keyboards and they are selling cheap. You can find some for about $650.

Hopefully this can help you choose the right music keyboard for your piano goals. If you have any questions, you can always contact me at info@lapianolessons.com

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