Learning songs by ear is a great passion of mine and is a skill that I have worked on for many years. It's one of those things that people assume is...
Acoustic pianos can be expensive, particularly the shiny variety. But if you’re not in the market to throw several thousand at a glossy black beauty then you’re looking at the used category of pianos.
The obvious upside to a keyboard is that you can turn the volume knob up or down depending on your audience (or lack thereof) and that ol’ saviour, the headphone jack, is there for your housemates sanity...
So you love listening to piano music and you’ve always wanted to play, or maybe you never thought of playing piano ever before but it seems like it would be fun to learn (it is), but, you don’t have a piano currently...
Unfortunately the technology of the classic film, The Matrix, hasn't being realised as yet (come on science!) so we can’t instantly download the ability to fly a helicopter, or play the piano...
This is an easy trap to fall into: you’ve decided you are going to learn the piano but don’t have one, so you need to find a good piano to learn with...