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Keyboard
Learn the Keyboard with a teacher who plays it. Most people are playing a tune they recognise in about 3 weeks, at 20 minutes a day.
A0-C8 · about 7.2 octaves
Keyboard teachers
Nobody is listed for the Keyboard just yet. Have a look at the other instruments, or come back soon: teachers join every week.
Browse all instrumentsHow a Keyboard makes sound
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A Keyboard sounds because something is hit: a hammer flies at a string, or a mallet at a bar, and rebounds. You control the strike and nothing after it. The note rings on its own and dies on its own, which is why touch, not breath, is the whole technique.
A Keyboard note starts and then leaves. You shape it at the moment you make it; after that, it is gone.
- Overtones you can hear
- 8
- Loudest overtone
- ×2
- Speaks in
- 5 ms
What learning the Keyboard actually looks like
At 20 minutes a day. Short and daily beats long and occasional. That is not encouragement, it is one of the most replicated findings in how people learn physical skills.
Week one
You make a sound on purpose. It will not be a good sound. Everyone’s first one is bad, including your teacher’s.
About 3 weeks in
You play something another person can recognise. This is the moment most people say it stopped feeling like homework.
Around six months
You choose the next piece yourself, and you can hear what needs work without being told. The plateau usually lands somewhere near here. It is normal, it passes, and it is why having a teacher matters more now than it did in month one.
A year
You play with other people. That is the point of the whole thing, and it arrives sooner than almost anyone expects.
The honest specification
- Getting started
- ●●●●●
- The first month
- The messy middle
- ●●●●●
- Months three to nine, roughly
- How far it goes
- ●●●●●
- If you keep at it for years
- Can start from
- age 5
- Chords
- Yes, you can accompany yourself early on
- Portable
- Fits on a bus
- Tuning
- Always in tune
- Practice volume
- 55 dB
- Quiet enough for a flat, most of the time.
- Recommended practice
- 20 minutes a day
