Nice showcase of Viscount’s Legend 70s e.piano modeler and the new Legend One stage keyboard
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I have a hammered electric Yamaha
It is amazing 
My first song on piano
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That’s a very nice first song, bravo!
Thank you 
I am kinda stuck having fun with my piano. It is me trying to pseudo improvisation and having fun (I am a beginner). Recorded with the memo voice app, enjoy the clicking on the piano.
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I ended up up buying a used kawai digital piano (cn37) which has a good action (RH3).
After giving a lot of thoughts I want to prioritize learning the key properly, seat down and play instead of getting lost in possibilities with stage piano (adding synths, layers, split, hands on interface etc…) but also to give the highest importance in the key feel and action. I would say, even I’m a beginner, that the Kawai delivers.
I’m very happy with my choice and enjoy playing so far 
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I also subscribed to open studio and I start following the course.
What do you do with the PDF material?
Do you print every pages once you have a new course?
Fells like it could be a nice course book.
In general I like it but I find it inferior to True Fire (guitar) which give you a better experience for replaying, following the tab and different camera angle and material in the same page.
But I really enjoy the jump start to easily understand the theory in small steps.
I’m also working through Open Studio’s Jazz Piano Jump Start course.
I use the PDFs to prepare for the GPS videos. The GPS tends to be focused on a particular etude/exercise that’s in the PDF, so I learn to play it, and practice it on my own enough to get the idea of how it should sound. Then when play the GPS video, I’m not as likely to get lost.
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Started the blues part of Jazz Piano Jump Start.
I finally started using the slowdown and loop features, coz the material was kicking my ass. I tried to prepare for the first GPS by downloading the PDF and practicing the blues etude before starting the GPS… and still got humbled pretty good 
I love the challenge though.
I’m enjoying this lesson. The chords just feel so good to play. The little arpeggio that finishes the intro is surprisingly easy to learn as well
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Hello,
I have a question that might be a bit vague.
I’m currently learning to play the piano using an app that recognizes MIDI notes, and I’m really enjoying it.
However, I’ve noticed that everything feels very rigid. Of course, I’m still a beginner, but when I just sit down at the piano and play around without sheet music, it feels much freer—like a stronger “connection” to myself.
It’s as if my mind is on one side and my heart is on the other.
Will this come together over time? So that I can play freely while also knowing what I’m doing?
Sorry if the question sounds a bit strange, but so far, I’ve always preferred knobs over keys
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Strict practice and free play isn’t an either/or thing, it’s a both/and. The more you develop good muscle memory and key awareness through practice, the better your improvisation and free expression will be. Keep doing both, and you’ll be fine.
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I dont play the piano, but I love to play the piano
This is my first song ever made on the piano. I wrote the song for a friend of mine, he is addicted to crack and lives on the street. We have public piano’s in the citytrip, so the reason I wrote this piano song, is that I can play this song for my friend on a public piano.
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Yes, it is normal to feel rigid when you try to learn a new song using sheet music, without hearing how the music is supposed to sound. If you don’t know how the music is supposed to sound, you don’t know how the rhythm/groove is supposed to feel and so that makes you feel rigid.
For example, my piano teacher made me wanted me to learn Minuet in G (the easy version for kids) by JS Bach by reading it off of the sheet music. He did not play it on the piano or play a recording of it before showing the sheet music. So I did not know how it was supposed to sound and had to figure it it out by reading the notation then playing it. I don’t blame my teacher for this though - the practice of learning a song by listening it to it first, then trying to play it with your hands was something Suzuki Method teachers practiced… but my teacher did not come out of Suzuki Method.
Later one, the piano teacher wanted me to learn a pop song that I had heard a lot on the radio before. Because I had heard that song so many times, I knew how it was supposed to sound, so I was able to learn how to play it on piano without feeling as rigid
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Bought a Yamaha YPG-635 for cheap that has the GHS keybed and I love it. Slowly learning to play with two hands after years of playing synths with just one. Following the Czerny beginner book that I bought 5+ years ago for now and learning to read notation. Kind of bummed it took me this long to start, but at least i’m on it now!
I did sadly notice that middle b is somehow scratchy when pressed down. It only happens sometimes and the key works fine, but this got me a bit worried. It does not affect playing while I wear headphones but annoys me without them. Hoping that it would not become worse. Could be just that it needs some oiling or something, no idea how these weighted keys actually work. I suspect that the piano has been sitting quite unused as it had middle notes marked with some tape in place when I bought it.
There are some replacement parts available for the hammer mechanisms and keys if it breaks. Dunno how easy the repairing process would be although, that thing is huge.
I’ve run into the brick wall known as playing the major scale… with both hands at the same time. I’ve been tripped up by the thumb on the right hand not moving to a new position at the same time as the thumb on the left hand. Thus I’ve been stuck at the major scale chapter in Jazz Piano Jumpstart for several weeks.
I joined Alec’s Chord Mastery Bootcamp and Phase 1 is… play major scale with in the keys of C, G, and D… at 120 bpm
So, the only way through the brick wall is to drill, drill, drill, until I break on thru to the other side. I’ve progressed from snail’s pace to playing the major scale in C, G, and D at 50 bpm with both hands, as well as the required chord progression. However I just realized Alec only requires the scale to be played with the right hand, not both hands.
May start taking on this lesson when I want a break from the scale practice
