Most classical pianists now possess a grand or an upright
piano. Grand pianos are also called flat pianos because the strings run
horizontally, parallel to the flooring. They're truly grand and can measure
from 4 1/2 to 10 feet long.
With upright pianos the strings run vertically, that's up and down. They sound softer and aren't as large as a grand piano, ranging from 5 feet wide to about 3 and 5 feet tall. Now, the first pianos, known as fortepianos, were considerably more silent than modern acoustic pianos of now and had fewer keys.
Typically the most popular keyboard instrument before the piano was devised was the harpsichord. It was designed with small leather flaps that plucked the strings. Now we can have the exact same sound of a harpsichord on a voicing in a computer keyboard.
Some pianists also have an electronic keyboard they hook up to a computer. Electronic keyboards are used in pop and rock groups, also. I 've a Yamaha DGX-220 that my pupils use. Additionally, for recording purposes, I 've a Yamaha Motif ES8 with 88 keys that are weighted.
There are two primary types of electronic keyboard instruments that are used now. We've got digital pianos that are also called electronic pianos and then there are synthesizers.
Digital pianos create a sound much like that of a standard piano, but do not have all the moving parts, such as hammers, strings, and dampers. Most of the newer versions have keys that are weighted and sensitive to touch with piano-like keys. They're more affordable and more portable than a piano. I've seen them at Costco for a fair cost.
Sensitive to touch means that there's some resistance when the finger hits a key (they feel more like pressing a routine piano key), and the player can control the volume of each note. Most have 88 keys like a real piano.
Teachers who favor pianos say that even if the keys on a computer keyboard are weighted, the action differs to control the sound. Technique will develop better on a real piano.
A real piano has a wonderful, rich sound, not an electronic one. Computer keyboards may come close, but they're different.
For the price of a truly great, weighted keyboard you could buy a used upright piano. Now, on the negative, a great piano is neither economical nor mobile. Yet, after all these years, the piano is still the King of Computer Keyboards.
Teachers who approve of computer keyboards say that computer keyboards take up less room and are easier to move around. They do not want routine tunings and check ups. You can even use earphones while practicing. I concur and have used computer keyboards for annual student recitals along with the piano.
Personally, I have played the keyboard at outside weddings and have played a Roland, Korg, and Yamaha in praise and worship groups for many churches. They're all wonderful keyboards. Most of them come with bender wheels and lots of patches (voicings) to select from.
I've had a memorable encounter playing a synthesizer with a live orchestra for a choir cantata. The horn player was ill and the choir manager promptly gave me a call and asked if I was available to play the horn parts. Naturally, I accepted the offer and loved being a trumpet player for this special occasion.
I'd say that a few must have skills for the orchestral pianist would be to have the capacity to play different keyboard instruments like the organ, harpsichord and celesta. Plus, having great sight reading abilities to play quick parts and great listening skills to play right dynamics to blend in with the group.
There's a comprehensive variety of synthesizers available for purchase at Guitar Center with a reach of costs and capacities. Above all, if you're a jazz musician, you may favor touch sensitive keys and particularly having a complete variety of keys in order to play bigger chords and the use of a sustain pedal.
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Not all of us are blessed with lightning quick typing abilities but the demand to type things is increasingly more common. everything from responding to e-mails, sending Tweets, upgrading your Facebook tasks or composing longer reports needs some sort of keyboard ability. So when even some of characters appears to take forever to type out, it is time to learn the best way to type faster on the computer keyboard.
1. Assess your position
If you are slouched down or your computer keyboard is not in a great place to type, it'll change the speed at which you can tap out your words.
So fix your seat, fix your display and fix your computer keyboard (and how your hands relate to it) to get into the most comfortable posture to type away.
2. Move up from a couple of fingers
Despite what the purists may assert, it is possible to type fairly quickly with one finger on each hand plus your thumb to reach the space bar.
But moving up from even one finger to two (one on each hand) will work wonders for your typing speed. Because each finger has less distance to go - because it is simply got to take into consideration half the computer keyboard - you will more than double your typing speed simply with this simple trick.
If you're able to enhance additional to use perhaps three or four fingers plus your thumb, you will be close to the finest touch typist rates with no hassle of having to really learn touch typing.NotePad Tricks
3. Quit looking at the computer keyboard
Sure, you will have to appear when you have to locate a strange character that is hiding on top of the amounts someplace. But for the regular characters and punctuation that you just use day in, day out, you should not need to look at the computer keyboard - looking at the display will give you all the responses you need.
This is difficult in the beginning. So you may need to formulate some sort of display that stops you peeking down at the computer keyboard on a regular basis.
And it'll probably cause a frustrating fall in typing speed when you take your gaze away from the computer keyboard in the beginning.
But keep at it and after several hours or days you'll discover your speed has improved.
4. Enhance your truth
The less times you need to hit the delete or the backspace key, the quicker your complete typing will be.
So focus at least a bit regarding how precisely you are typing. If you are striking delete every third keypress afterward halving that to every sixth press is going to have pleasant positive effect in your typing speed.
5. Get help from your computer
It is not quite as simple on an internet browser but your word processor will have an auto correct feature.
This comes preset with tons of common errors however you can add your own regular typos to it as well. The best way to do this changes between variants and the help is not always helpful on things like this. So check out YouTube for a video tutorial instead - there'll probably be one to show you just what you should do.
