Beginner Players and the Digital Piano

Posted on Aug 8, 2011 in Featured Products, News & Events, Piano Blog | 0 comments

The newest way for a beginner piano player to learn to read music and play the piano is through digital pianos. Digital pianos (especially Roland digital pianos) have a screen displays the sheet music as well as a guide to show finger placement on the keyboard. This program also permits slow and fast-paced practicing. The screen additionally assesses the student’s playing with a score after the song has played—just like a video game.

These digital pianos can be used at home and in group piano classes since they have headphones to prevent the sound of the student’s playing from reaching others close by. The digital pianos also encourage exploring various genres of music like classical, jazz and contemporary to keep the students motivated to practice.

Another benefit to the digital piano is that they have the feel of the acoustic grand piano as opposed to older electric keyboards. In addition, the digital pianos have three pedals like acoustic pianos, while keyboards have one pedal if any at all.

Digital pianos are becoming a popular choice among those learning to play as well as piano instructors; digital pianos are widely used in the Recreational Music Making (RMM) classes which hold 6-8 students on average. Digitals are becoming the piano of choice due to their contemporary and varied sounds and their similarities to the acoustic pianos more so than conventional keyboards.