Can I Learn Piano on An Electric Keyboard

There are tons of affordable keyboards out there that are almost full sized pianos in terms of number of keys. They are portable, light, easy to cart around and quick to set up. The convienence of the portable electronic keyboard is one of many reasons bands like to have them instead of pianos in their instrumental section.

If you are a beginner and you are interested in learning piano you can use a portable keyboard as your instrument to practice on. There are keyboards, a little bit pricer, that have piano as one of their settings. These piano settings sound as close to a real piano as you can get with the exception of not having the pedals to sustain notes (which can be added on later but for a beginner you don't need to worry too much about sustain pedals).

The basic piano lessons for beginniers are all about locating notes, understand hand positioning and reading bass and treble clefs. Then of course the main part of beginning piano is getting both hands working together. You can do this all on an electric keyboard.

Some of the better electric keyboards have more than 70 notes which is close enough to a full sized piano that they are more than sufficient. Couple that with the fact that most beginner music pieces are usually right in the neighborhood of middle "C" on the keyboard that even a keyboard with 60 notes would do just fine.

If you want to see if piano is for you and don't want to spend thousands on buying one, try it out first on an electric piano and then go from there. You are sure to get enough of a feel for the piano throgh the keyboard that you will know if you want to move up to a piano or not.