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Top Korg Digital Pianos

The best Korg keyboards and pianos of the moment

In this list we will analyze the best Korg keyboards, going through the latest Korg keyboards released on the market and the cheap and accessible Korg keyboards for all tastes and budgets.

The brand that brought us the legendary Korg M1 and Korg Triton, today presents a wide range of arrangers and stage pianos with multiple functions for live and excellent quality that has characterized this great Japanese brand.

PA Line

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Arrangers are special all-in-one keyboards for soloists, one-man-band keyboards, wedding keyboards, churches and all kinds of events.

They are keyboards that come with a large library of sounds and special rhythms to accompany the main musical genres, and it is common for this type of keyboards to have microphone input for keyboard singers.

Korg PA4X

The brand’s most powerful Arranger today, an impressive keyboard/workstation with more than 1,900 ultra-high quality factory sounds, 110 drum kits and over 550 factory rhythms covering a wide range of music genres with a host of controls and a touch screen for easy use of all its features.

In addition to this incredible arranger stands out because it comes with a vocal processor of the brand TC Helicon incorporated, this processor has powerful effects for the voice and a harmonizer. It also features powerful effects from the renowned WAVES brand to enhance its sound and Kaoss FX effect, inspired by the great Kaosscilator, a legendary effects processor from the Korg brand.

This keyboard does not have speakers, but you can purchase a separate amplification system adaptable to the 40W Bass Reflex keyboard.

 

Korg PA1000

A great 5 octave arranger, with very professional functionalities and a touch screen that facilitates the access to all its functionalities. It features 1750 high quality sounds, 107 drum kits and 430 rhythms spanning many musical genres.

It has 2 loudspeakers of 33 W of power with Bass Reflex.it also features the Helicon TC voice effects processor and harmonizer and the Kaoss FX effect, inspired by the great Kaosscilator, a legendary Korg effects processor. You can read our Korg PA 1000 review.

 

Korg PA700

An excellent 5 octave mid/high range arranger, with a large sound bank of 1,700 sounds, 106 drum kits and more than 370 styles from different genres. It also includes the Kaoss effect, inspired by the great Kaosscilator, a legendary Korg effects processor and a wide range of Korg effects available.

It has 2 loudspeakers of 25 W of power with Bass Reflex.there is also a version of this keyboard with oriental sounds and rhythms. You can read our Korg PA700 review or the oriental version the Korg PA700 Oriental.

Korg PA600

The Korg PA600 is the predecessor of the Korg PA700, it includes 950 sounds of all types, with 64 drum kits and 360 rhythms of many different musical genres. It has a good series of Korg brand effects and functionalities for live.

It has 2 loudspeakers of 15 W of power with Bass Reflex. You can read our full Korg PA600 review.

 

Best Korg Digital Pianos with 88 Keys

For pianists, Korg has a wide range of digital pianos with 88 keys that emulate the hammer action of acoustic pianos with high quality sampled classical and electric piano sounds to achieve the most similar sound possible in studios and stages.

You can read our complete guide to digital pianos.

Korg Grandstage

The most complete digital piano of the moment in Korg, equipped with a powerful sound engine, the SGX-2 with 6 high quality acoustic pianos, the EP-1 with 6 vintage electric pianos, the 3 organs with vintage personality: CX-3, VOX, and Compact and the AD-1 and HD-1 sound motors that include a wide range of sounds of all types.

Its controls make it very easy to access all its functionalities for live performance and it has a Reverb, Delay and Equalizer section that give more character to your sound. Being a piano designed for stages, it does not include loudspeakers.

This piano is available in 6 and 7 octaves, both with the same features, differing only in their size and number of keys. Here is the review of the Korg Grandstage 73 and other of the Korg Grandstage 88.

Korg SV2 (formerly Korg SV 1)

An eye-catching retro design makes this digital piano stand out from its competitors, but it is not only its design that is retro, it has a wide range of vintage-type sounds that make this piano the perfect choice for lovers of classic sound.

It comes in 6 and 7 octaves with the same features and the brand has presented this model in different colors over time.

Its controls are quite intuitive and give access to all the functions of this piano instantly.

This piano compiles a series of classic sounds with effects that give a lot of body and character to its sound including Reverb, Delay, Compression, Chorus, Phaser, Rotary Speaker, Equalizer, Limiter, Tremolo, Wah, Boost and an amplification modeling system to add saturation, warmth and color to the sound with tube emulation.

In addition to this this piano includes an editor software that gives access to some features not available on the front panel for more advanced users and also allows to share the sound banks created between users.

This piano doesn’t have speakers either.

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Korg D1

A cheap, quality, portable piano with the basics for live pianists and for practicing at home. It has 30 high quality sounds including acoustic and electric pianos, some organs and strings. Includes 3 effects, Brightness, Reverb and Chorus to complement your sound. It has few controls, but these allow you to access all its functionalities easily.

This piano doesn’t have speakers either. You can check our full Korg D1 review.

Korg LP-380

A digital piano with a rather eye-catching design that is available in 6 different colours on the international market with 30 high quality sounds including acoustic and electric pianos, some organs and strings.

It has 2 loudspeakers of 22W.Includes 3 effects, Brightness, Reverb and Chorus to complement your sound. Its controls section is similar to the D1 controls that allow you to access all its functionalities easily.

You can read our full review of the Korg LP-380.

Korg SP-280

A digital piano in principle very similar to the D1 with the difference that this one if includes speakers, includes the same 30 sounds of the D1 with acoustic and electric pianos, some organs and strings, also has 3 its same effects, Brightness, Reverb and Chorus.

Its controls are very similar to those of the D1 as well. In terms of design, the D1 is more square while the SP-280 has the most rounded corners and is available in Black and White, also to take into account, the SP-280 weighs 3 kilogramsmore than the D1.

You can read our full Korg SP-280 review.

Korg B2

A more basic piano, therefore, more accessible in price, with few controls, and only 8 sounds, but of very high quality (3 acoustic pianos, 2 electric pianos, 1 harpsichord and 2 organs, very special for pianists who want a piano to practice at home but that also has a responsible sound for the live.

As for effects it has Reverb and Chorus. It is available in black and white and with its 11.8 kg, it is the lightest digital piano on this list.

You can read our previous model which is practically the same and there is a comparison with Korg B2: You can read our full review of Korg B1.

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Conclusions

Whether in digital pianos or in arrangers, the Korg brand stands out at the moment as one of the manufacturers of keyboard musical instruments with the highest quality models on the market.

There are models for all budgets and levels, with top-of-the-range equipment such as the PA4X that do not have many competitors in the market, as well as mid-range and low-range models for keyboardists on a smaller budget.

If you are interested in buying a keyboard or a digital piano, you can read our complete guide to the cheapest digital pianos and keyboards on the market and you can also read our guide to the best digital pianos and keyboards for the best price.

And if you like the brand you can also see our list of the best Korg synthesizers of the moment.

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Top Kawai Digital Pianos

Top Kawai Digital Pianos

The Japanese brand Kawai has been active in piano manufacturing since 1927 and those almost 100 years of experience have put them in the spotlight as one of the most important manufacturers in the world of grand, half grand and upright pianos. This experience has also led the company to stand out in the world of digital pianos, where they stand out for their quality.

Kawai manufactures keyboards and pianos of a certain quality. There are ranges in which it does not compete like the 61-key musical keyboards.

It competes more in digital pianos that imitate an upright and portable digital pianos. Range in which it has several top sales.

Let’s check the most popular Kawai pianos:

Kawai ES110 (Old Kawai ES 100)

Kawai’s most popular model, competing with the Yamaha P125 and Roland FP 30 in the €500 to €600 range.

Let’s go with your characteristics:

  • 88 Responsive Hammer Compact Action (RH-C) and Harmonic Imaging Sound weighted keys
  • 8 piano sounds + 11 other sounds like strings (high quality sounds)
  • Bluetooth MIDI technology (to be connected to the computer)
  • 192 notes of polyphony that are more than enough to play anything
  • 100 accompaniment styles
  • Layer mode
  • Partition mode
  • 10 demo songs
  • Transposition
  • Metronome
  • You can record what you play
  • Resonance ‘damper’ to improve the feeling of playing an acoustic piano
  • 2 headphone jacks
  • Bluetooth 4.0
  • Line-out (L/Mono, R) for live play
  • MIDI Input/Output
  • Power Supply Jack
  • 2 x 7W speaker system
  • Dimensions: 1,312 x 286 x 145mm (width x depth x height)
  • Dimensions with the HML-1 stand (not included): 1.312 x 286 x 820mm (width x depth x height)
  • A very portable weight of 12kg
  • Includes F10H sustain pedal, lectern and F-350 power supply

Emulates only the resonance of the damper pedal

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The weighted keyboard feeling is famous for the best in its range. Let’s go with a video of this top seller:

You can read our full review of the Kawai ES110.

To buy it you have the following options:

Kawai ES8

It has a hammer action system in all its notes to better emulate the feel of the keys of an acoustic piano.

It is a more powerful version of the Kawai ES 110 which is around 1200 euros although it is not as popular in sales but is very competitive in its range. Let’s go with its features that are obviously better;

  • 88 sensitive hammer action keys ‘Hammer III’ (RHIII) with pressure point simulation and triple sensor
  • Harmonic Imaging XL’ sound enhancement effect
  • 34 very high quality sounds
  • Tremendous polyphony 256 notes of polyphony
  • 100 styles with variation
  • Transposition function
  • Intonation
  • String response effect to enhance the experience of playing a real piano
  • Dual and split mode
  • 4-hand mode for two people to touch
  • Recording
  • Metronome
  • 2 headphone jacks
  • MIDI Input/Output
  • Line input for connecting a microphone or similar
  • Line output for live performances
  • USB to Host
  • USB to device
  • Very powerful 15″ 2-speaker system
  • Dimensions: 1362 x 361 x 149mm (width x depth x height)
  • Weight: 22.5kg, also comes with a good sustain pedal

It should be noted that it emulates the resonance of the damper pedal and the piano strings and has 34 sound banks.

On the other hand, it is quite heavy, although with the amount of features it has, it is not bad.

Let’s go with a video of this piano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAB9UJGHZU&t=13s

You can read our full review of the Kawai ES8.

To buy it you have the following possibilities:

Kawai CN-29 (Old CN 27)

Now let’s go with the portable piano from the CN line, the ultra-famous CN 29. A perfect piano if you want to study at home and are not as interested in transporting the piano. It usually costs around 1200 euros.

It has a hammer weighted action in all its notes to better emulate the feeling of the keys of an acoustic piano.

It emulates the resonance of two of its factors.

It has 19 sound banks.

Let’s go through its full features:

  • 88 sensitive keys with hammer action (hammer III)
  • 3 sensors that significantly improve sensitivity
  • Ivory touch keys and ‘Let-Off’ simulation (escape effects, are nuances when the hammer hits the string in the piano system, you can configure various effects)
  • 19 different high quality piano sounds
  • 192 notes of polyphony. The notes that can sound at once on a piano including those that can sound when you play over an accompaniment.
  • Midi bluetooth technology. The MIDI is super important to connect to the computer and work with music production programs.
  • Lesson function. I personally find these functions useless in any piano.
  • High quality effects
  • Dual function or layering to play a piano sound + an accompaniment style such as a violin accompaniment (which sounds in the background while you play).
  • 4-hand mode to divide the piano in two and play with someone.
  • Metronome
  • Transposition function
  • 19 demo songs
  • 1 track sequencer (3 songs, 10,000 notes). For recording.
  • Keyboard cover
  • 3 pedals with ‘Grand Feel Action’. Including the most important one which is the sustain pedal that allows you to keep the note in time if you stop pressing the key.
  • 2 headphone outputs
  • USB to Host (USB MIDI)
  • MIDI Input/Output
  • Bluetooth 4.1
  • Two 20-watt Onkyo speaker system powerful enough to play with other instruments without the need for an extra amplifier.
  • Dimensions: 1360 x 405 x 860 mm
  • Weight: 43 kg

Let’s go with a video demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yfhOBgPD60

It has 2 very good speakers. This is a best seller, don’t miss our full review of the CN29.

You can buy them in the following stores:

Kawai MP-11SE

The Kawai MP 11SE stands out for having 3 independent sections, Piano, Electric Piano and Sub (which groups basses, strings and pads) each one of the parts with its own effects and parameters and allowing this digital piano to create combinations of the 3 motors at the same time to achieve complete and interesting sounds. You can check our Kawai MP-11 review.

We are talking about a very professional digital piano that usually costs around 2300 euros. Although it is bought less than the others in its range, it is also a top seller.

Let’s go with its characteristics

  • 88 weighted keys (Weight that the keys of an acoustic piano have and that digital pianos try to imitate to equal the touch of the piano. The keys in the high register are heavier and in the high register less. This is different from the sensitivity on the keyboard which serves to regulate the volume of the note. But a counterbalanced keyboard always has sensitivity in the wooden keys that imitate the ivory touch very well. Keys with touch sensitivity very well achieved.
  • Grand Feel piano touch enhancement action with 3 sensors per key. This is actually one of the best acoustic piano simulations ever made. Very successful (that’s why it’s worth what it’s worth)
  • Includes the famous Shigeru Kawai SK-EX and SK-5 piano sounds (various piano and other instrument sounds)
  • 40 sounds
  • Includes 208 configuration memories to further expand your possibilities
  • 256 notes of polyphony (Number of notes that can be played at once. This includes accompaniments that also consume notes. So if you play over an accompaniment more notes will be accumulated)
  • No speakers, but an amplifier simulator
  • DSP (Digital Signal Processing) effects. These are digital effects that modify the sound of the keyboard)
  • Recording in midi format (MIDI allows you to do such wonderful things as connecting the keyboard to the computer, recording a sound track and with certain programs passing with a click what you have played to musical notes in a score. MIDI tracks store the information of the musical notes), mp3/WAV.
  • It also has USB midi and conventional MIDI output
  • 128 x 64 pixel, self-lighted LCD display with good visibility
  • Metronome (Basic study element to study and practice the tempo of a piece of music)
  • Pitch bend wheel (Functionality that changes the sound wave of what you play and then returns to its original state)
  • Modulation wheel
  • A weight of 34 kg and dimensions of 1380 x 452 x 190mm (width x depth x height)
  • Includes sustain pedal (The sustain pedal on a piano or keyboard is used to keep the note playing even if you stop pressing the key) GFP-30
  • Line output in all formats to connect to any amplifier or PA
  • XLR outputs
  • Helmets
  • Input for ‘Damper’/’Soft’ pedal
  • Input for Footswitch (configurable)
  • Input for Expression pedal (configurable)
  • USB input for pendrive and other devices

And now we go to a video of this marvel digital piano:

And you can buy them at the following stores:

Kawai MP-7SE

Although this piano is very similar to the MP-11SE with no separate sections and a slightly more limited sound bank, it has the same acoustic piano sounds and is less popular than the Kawai ES 8 seen before. It is also around 1300 euros.

Let’s go with your characteristics:

  • 88 weighted keys (RH3) that imitate the feel of ivory
  • Each key the three sensors that Kawai uses
  • Includes the famous Shigeru Kawai SK-EX and SK-5 piano sounds
  • 256 high quality sounds
  • 256 possible configurations for the sounds
  • 256 notes of polyphony that’s not bad
  • 129 different effects and variations
  • It doesn’t have speakers but it has an amplifier simulator
  • DSP-type effects
  • Mp3/WAV recording possible
  • Fairly large LCD screen of 128 x 64 pixels
  • Metronome
  • Includes ‘Virtual ToneWheel’ Organ
  • Weight 22.5 kg and dimensions 1352 x 339 x 172mm (width x depth x height)
  • Includes F-10H sustain pedal
  • Jack line output (L/Mono, R or 2 Mono) to connect to any amplification equipment
  • Line input Jack
  • Helmet Entrance
  • It has USB MIDI and conventional
  • USB input for pendrives and devices

Let’s go with a video of this keyboard:

If you want to know more here’s our review of the Kawai MP 7.

You can buy them at the following stores:

 

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Curso gratis online para piano y teclado - principiantes

FREE Piano Course for Beginners

Course to learn to play the piano from scratch

Welcome to the beginner piano course at buscarinstrumentos.com. Our intention with this course is to complement and improve the contents that are on the net to learn to play the piano for beginners. The more courses you take, the better, so we invite you to practice with us.

How to use this course?

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The course is grouped in dropdown lists so that you have everything on the same page and don’t get lost among infinite links. You only have to unfold the lesson by clicking on its title. We encourage you to read the lessons in order, at least to start and go slowly. Well, the course is designed to go little by little and you can progress without being overwhelmed and that way always be motivated.

How to learn to play the piano?

In this tutorial we will give you the basic tools to learn the first songs. But it’s important that you then evolve and progress. So if you’d also like to take a look at our resource guide for learning piano.

Sometimes you may wonder how to play the piano. At this point I want to specify that the technique is the same but it is better to go from a piano to a keyboard and the inverse.

There’s another very interesting option. That although they are paid app and interactive programs that guide you in learning the keyboard and are much cheaper than a private teacher. These apps for midi or through their microphone are able to know which keys you are pressing and they correct you if necessary to know if you do it right or wrong. If you are interested visit our guide with apps and webs to learn piano.

Now we’ll leave you our piano tutorial course for beginners. Enjoy it!

LESSON 1 – What do I need to start the course?

Clearly, the first thing you’ll need is a keyboard and time to practice. To begin with, almost any keyboard is good for you, although it should have at least 61 keys and if possible 88 better. There are very cheap keyboards for that price. The important thing when you buy a keyboard is to make sure that it has speakers and do not confuse it with a MIDI keyboard to connect to the computer. There are keyboards that have both, MIDI output port and speakers to sound by themselves, those you can buy without problems. The CASIO brand has very suitable models.

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Don’t miss our selection with the best cheap keyboards of the moment:

Practicing a musical instrument requires a certain amount of time each day. You could start practicing for about an hour a day. To play the keyboard look for a comfortable seat, without arms. It can have a backrest but no arms because it would hinder you to play.

Many times it is more important the daily and constant study that the number of hours that you put yourself to play the instrument. You’d better study half an hour a day than three hours a day and then go two days without touching. If you play every day you will see how you progress and get hooked on this wonderful passion that is playing the piano.

Can you learn to play the piano at home without disturbing your neighbors?

Most of the keyboards you can find nowadays are electronic, besides cheap they usually have an exit for headphones. This way you can play and just listen to it without disturbing your neighbors or your roommates.

LESSON 2 – The Proper Posture for Playing the Piano

Maintaining proper posture when playing a piano is vital to avoid future injuries. We are going to spend many hours in front of our piano so it is important to take care of our health in order to be able to enjoy our instrument a lot.

We have to keep our shoulders relaxed and our buttocks as close to the edge of the sidewalk as we can so that we can move correctly along the keyboard. The elbows have to be more or less at the height of the keyboard. That’s why it’s necessary to have a good adjustable stool. In this video it’s explained great:

LESSON 3 – Musical notes and piano keys

Okay, now that you’re in front of a keyboard we’re gonna explain what you’re looking at. You’ll be in front of a keyboard with black and white keys. A real piano has 88 keys, but it’s quite possible that you’re on a 61-key or 32-key keyboard because they’re the most affordable keyboards. Although this is more than enough for the course.

The white keys represent the musical notes do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si (equivalence to C-D-E-F-G-A-B) and each of the keys receives the name of the key it represents. If a DO (C english system) sounds when a key is pressed, that is the name of that key.

You may be wondering, and what are the black keys? Well, they’re variations of those notes. For example the black key next to a C on the right side is called C#. And it’s a little sharper DO. This is a little more complex but for now you just need to know this.

An octave is an interval of 8 notes. For example DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI-DO is the distance from one DO to another DO. As only these notes exist, this interval is repeated along the keyboard, as can be seen in the following explanatory video:

What’s an octave in music?

In order to give a little support to the course and not to concentrate everything on the same post we have extended this topic in our post about the piano keys and the differences between them. Just in case the video and this text aren’t enough for you. If you have found out well with this text and the video continues reading this post.

LESSON 4 – Our First Scale and Let’s Play!

At this point you already know that they are the keys of a piano and even if you don’t understand many concepts you are already able to start playing notes on the piano. The first thing we’ll do is play an octave from left to right. The notes on the left are the lowest on the piano and the notes on the right are the highest..

When we do this octave we are actually doing what is called a scale. For now, let this concept simply ring a bell. In the following video you will see how the C scale is done, so do it on your keyboard in the same way.

LESSON 5 – Chords, what they are and how they are built

First of all let’s answer the question of what is a chord. One of the wonders of the piano is that we can press several keys at once and they will sound at the same time. The sound produced by pressing several notes at once is what is called a chord. So we can say that a chord is a sound formed by several musical notes sounding simultaneously.

There are many chords but basically the ones you have to learn first are the major chords and the minor chords. These chords are formed by three notes and have certain rules to be built.

It is often said that the major chords are cheerful and the minor chords sound gloomy or sad. We’re going to explain how the major and minor chords of the C-DO scale are formed. View in previous lesson.

What is a tone and a semitone?

They’re units of measure. To guide you we will tell you that between a white key and another also white key that has a black key in between there is a whole tone.

When we have two whites in a row with no black in between, there is only half a tone. Just like between a white and the adjacent black keys there is a semitone of distance. We explain it to you in the following image with the DO-C scale. Also in the following image you have an introduction to the American notation. The English world calls notes by letters. You have the equivalence in the image.

The previous image is vital to understand visually in the piano the distance of the notes in tones and semitones. Once this is understood we can give the pattern to form the major chord of OD which is formed by three notes. The main one is the C itself, the second one is 2 Tones that will be E and the third one that will be a tone and a half of E, so if we have the image it will be G. That is to say, the major chord of C is formed by the C-E-G. All this reading from left to right.

If we want to form the D major chord we would count two tones, from D to E are 1 Tone, from E to F half tone, but as they are two tones we get to black key between F and G, which would be the F#, we already have the second note of the chord. To calculate the third it would be from the F# to count tone and half to the right, we would pass to the white one of the G that you would be half tone, by the black one between G and LA that is another half tone and we would arrive at the A. We already have the full D major chord.

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If we set the D major chord to D-F#-A, so that between D and F there are two tones and between F# and A and a half tone. And as you may have noticed when there are white keys together with no black in between, there is a half-tone distance between them.

Well, at this point if you have understood the two examples of E major and C major you are already able to form the major chords, one for each note C-D-E-F-G-A-B but what about the minor ones? Well, they form following another pattern from the original note and we’ll give it to you next

A minor chord is also formed from three notes. And these will be the chords of minor C, minor D, etc. The distance between the first and second note is tone and half the distance between the second note and third 2 tones. The chord of for example LA Minor will be A-C-E.

This course is not intended to overload your brain with music theory. But to get you playing your first song soon. This that we have explained to you is a little the “hard” part of the tutorial. So if you’ve understood, you can go on without a problem. In the following lesson we will give you all calculated major chords and their equivalent in American notation. It’s always good to know. If you have any doubts, we leave you a couple of very useful videos to understand all this.

Lesson 6 – The major and minor chords calculated also with American notation

Major chords:

  • C Major: C-E-G, American notation: C
  • G Major: G-B-D, American notation: G
  • F Major: F-A-C, American notation: F
  • C Major: C-E-G, American notation: C
  • D Major: D-F#-A, American notation: D
  • Bb Major: Bb-D-F, American notation: Bb
  • A Major: A-C#-E, American notation: A
  • Eb Major: Eb-G-Bb, American notation: Eb
  • E major: E-G#-B, American notation: E
  • Ab Major: Ab-C-Eb, American notation: Ab
  • B Major: B-D#-F#, American notation: B
  • Db Major: Db-F-Ab, American notation: Db
  • F# Major: F#-A#-C#, American notation: F#
  • Gb Major: Gb-Bb-Db, American notation: Gb
  • C# Major: C#-E#-G#, American notation: C#
  • Cb Major: Cb-Eb-Bb, American notation: Cb

What’s that “b” symbol in Bb?

Well, that symbol represents the flat, which subtracts half a tone from the note. Translated to piano if for example we have the white key “A”, the black key next to the left would be half a low tone. With what we could say Ab, on the other hand if we press the black key of the right it would be to increase half a tone, or to make it half a tone more acute. That black note on the right would be called La# (that symbol means sharp).

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As you might have guessed a La# is the same as a Sib or Bb, they are two ways of calling the same note. Why you don’t need to know these two approaches now, we’re introducing you. It’s just to ring a bell in the future.

Minor Chords

  • A Minor: A-C-E, American Notation: Am
  • D Minor: D-F-A, American Notation: Dm
  • B Minor: B-D-F#, American Notation: Bm
  • G Minor: G-Bb-D, American Notation: Gm
  • C Minor: C-Eb-G, American Notation: Cm
  • C# Minor: C#-E-G#, American notation: C#m
  • F Minor: F-Ab-C, American Notation: Fm
  • G# Minor: G#-B-D#, American notation: G#m
  • Bb Minor: Bb-Db-F, American Notation: Bbm
  • D# Minor: D#-F#-A#, American notation: D#m
  • Eb Minor: Eb-Gb-Bb, American notation: Ebm
  • A# Minor: A#-C#-E#, American notation: A#m
  • Ab Minor: Ab-Cb-Eb, American Notation: Abm

LESSON 7 – Right Hand and Left Hand Technique on the Piano

Well, at this point we’ve already understood several concepts. We are aware of what we are seeing on the keyboard, we know what a chord is and we know a few. But how do you use each hand?

The aim of this course is that you start playing the piano as soon as possible and fall in love with it so we will tell you the basic technique. The normal way to start is to make the chord with the left hand and with the right hand to play the melody of the song. As if our left hand were the guitar and our right hand the voice that sings the melody.

It’s the great thing about the piano, which allows us to use both hands and that’s very powerful.

First of all you have to work a little independence of your hands because otherwise you are going to make a mess. It is important that you are able to play a chord with your left hand and at the same time play a melody with your right hand. At the same time you do everything in a rhythm.

Don’t get overwhelmed ;)! The important thing about music is to start with very simple exercises and then progressively increase the difficulty. If you start with very difficult things you will get a little desperate but if you do things in the right order you will see how you progress without almost realizing it.

First it begins by the following video in which very basic exercises of fingering and independence of the hands are raised. Work them for a few days until you have them well internalized. In this video you will find exercises for the left hand, exercises to release the hand and everything you need to educate the hand of a piano beginner.

Also watch this video that will tell you about the proper technique to play. How to put your fingers, the right curvature and the perfect hand position.

What we want with this course is to gather the right material in the right order and not go crazy with all the information that there is Internet. We love the exercise that comes after the previous video and here we put it.

The problem with many courses on Youtube is that they jump from one video to another at a very high level, but don’t worry, we’ll select them for you and put them in order so you don’t despair. The following technical exercises will be great for you to start playing something meaningful on the piano. But do not forget before practicing for several days the exercises of independence of hands of the first video of the section.

LESSON 8 – Let’s play our first songs on the piano

Well, already at this point we should be able to play our first songs or themes. Of course they’ll be simple. But now we can think, I’m playing music on a piano! And that sure motivates us to keep going.

In this video you will end playing an easy piano song.

Well, if you’ve managed to play the song you might dare to play a classic piano beginner. Beethoven’s “Fur Elisa”. Although at the beginning for a low quality video do not be fooled and look at the whole video, because what is important and great is how well it decomposes each part of the song. The video explains very well what you have to do with your left hand and your right hand.

It is very important for this video that you have practiced for days the exercises of lesson 7, otherwise it will cost you much to touch the subject and that is not the way to learn. You must have the basis of independence from well-trained hands.

Well, in this section we have already finished the course for beginners and we congratulate you if you have come this far. You still have a lot to learn but we hope that what you learn will inspire you and motivate you to never let the music out of your life. In the following lesson we give you some extra content so that you can deep in your knowledge of music theory.

LESSON 9 – Extras of harmony, inversions of chords and degrees

During the course we have guided you so that you can play the piano without knowledge of musical theory. It is true that we have explained certain basic concepts such as that it is a tone and a semitone. Or how to build a major or minor chord.

If you have reached this lesson we understand that you want to go a little further. So we’re going to give you some content so that you can go deeper into the chords and learn new combinations.

What is a scale and the degrees of a scale?

The scales are groups of 8 notes, in this course we have learned the simplest that is C, composed by the notes C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. But let’s go deeper into the structure of scales and learn the concept of degrees.

Within the scales there are more important notes than others, the tonic is the most important and then there are more notes with other names. The chords are built from these concepts. So look at the following video where this is explained very well.

Well, once we understand the above concepts we can move on to talk about chord inversions, which is a very useful resource to expand our vocabulary on the piano. In the following video we will learn the rules for calculating these investments. It starts very simply by explaining the C-DO major chord (major DO-C triad) and the possible investments for this chord.

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