General / Off-Topic trying to learn the keyboard(piano)...any tips?

Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah
Amateur guitarist (self taught years ago mainly by learning Metallica's 1st 4 albums), can't read music and don't want to. Is there an equivalent to tablature for keyboards, and sites similar to songsterr for keyboards. Currently learning Are Friends Electric and Cars (Gary Numan) at the mo with a keyboard (Casio CTK-491) my mother in law gave me in December. Worked a lot out myself (and from what I could work out on guitar) and from a couple of YT vids, got some basic notation (just the notes written down) but wondering how to indicate what octave I'm in (although slowly building up muscle memory which is helping). This is nothing serious, just a little faffing around but any advice will be appreciated. :)
 

Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah
Winterwalker said:
There definitely is such thing as piano tabulatures and there's a wikihow on how to read them, including octaves.
https://www.wikihow.com/Read-Piano-Tabs

Pretty sure a google search will find you some more but 911 tabs has some for piano;
https://www.911tabs.com/top/piano_tabs/

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Dayum I did a search but found nothing of relevance (god I'm crap at selecting search terms), many thanks....hehe I used to use 911tabs back in the day before Songsterr, didn't think of going back!
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
If you don't want to learn to read music, there are programs like flowkey that visualize notation.

[video=youtube;0fsSiXiG6as]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsSiXiG6as[/video]
 

Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah
Chris Simon said:
If you don't want to learn to read music, there are programs like flowkey that visualize notation.
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heh that's cool! cheers.

well I've got Me I disconnect from you, are friends electric and Cars more or less learnt, not very good but it's in me bonce. Although I havn't got the alternative synth part for the end of cars, some googling to be done!

just leant Axel F intro as well...good stuff for an 80's kid :)

down side is at my age I'll have probably forgot most of it by tomorrow!



oh does anyone know if I can connect the kb up to my marshall to get some effects (amp has them built in like echo, phase etc)? headphones out of kb to amp input should do it eh?
 
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Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah
struggling with the parts that need hand co-ordination...I have none, so a bit of a problem! Going to look up tutorials on that....also going to learn Down in the Park and Moonlight Sonata next....oh and the left hand part of Axel F (not that I'll be able to play both parts at the same time tho!

Demascus said:
Use your fingers, I tried using my face, I don't recommend.
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LOL, good advice, never thought of that...what about using me johnson as a third option? ;)
 
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