Keyboard/Piano Tutorial for Total Beginners

Some tips that I think might help you to start learning to play the piano or keyboard. I hope you feel inspired to learn as an autodidact by just playing around and improvising, by reading books and watching other videos. And maybe you later will also take an actual class or find a coach for your new hobby.
If you have questions, ask them in the comments section please. (Or write me a message.)

Have fun, best greetz
FalkJ aka itekisan

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[cuteplayer2255]

can someone tell me what's the difference between a piano and a keyboard??????

[itekisan]

@cuteplayer2255 Piano: An instrument with a centuries old history, using keys to trigger individual little hammers drumming harmonically tuned strings. Keyboard: An electronic instrument with piano keys, can play various sounds and may also provide automatic rhythm-and-accompany features and more. And then there are synthesizers: Electronic instruments which are used to create entirely new sounds (rather than the keyboard's presets), mostly in the shape of a keyboard.

[itekisan]

@itekisan A sub-set of the keyboard is the so-called E-piano or electronic piano. It's basically a keyboard with only piano sounds (sometimes a handful of others, like strings and guitar), often with a full-width piano keys range (most standard keyboards often are narrower) and usually also with the typical sound modifying foot pedals of a real piano (sustain and damper). Also, most modern E-pianos have very high-quality sounds that simulate a real piano much better than preset sounds.

[HollisterBirdForMe]

A Wiiii Bit Irish??

[itekisan]

@HollisterBirdForMe Not a bit. Either it's pure coincidence that my accent should sound kind of Irish, or I may have picked that up from some songs I listened to or a DVD I watched.

[itekisan]

@HollisterBirdForMe In fact, I'm German and have never been to any English speaking country yet. And as for my roots: Swedish and Polish-German (East Prussia), since 5 generations settled in Germany.

[itekisan]

@2010jamesmartin I am occasionally gay, in the old and original meaning of the word. Never in the new sense though... ;)

[itekisan]

@5secondfuse Ok, then I'm lacking the reference here. I've never seen Borat.

[cuteplayer2255]

@itekisan thank you !!

[CaveofTwoLovers]

Weird accent. Sounds like a mix of Turkish, New Zealand and French accents.

[MrsNoelFieldingXo]

i was watching barney...

[EdWarren2002]

~Watch this video if you wanna play the keyboard/piano~

[EdWarren2002]

This is what taught me how to play the piano!

~If you wanna learn how to keyboard wat this vid~