Playing Piano - The Battle of the Boards 1 Video

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Playing Piano - The Battle of the Boards 1

(Piano playing) Hello and welcome to piano lesson number 24. In this lesson I am going to be talking about a question that I get like all the time and it I was trying to get sick of answering that over and over and over again to 10 different people so I am just going to make video about it. Yes I’m rolling up my sleeves because I am getting ready for business. So this one is going to be about keyboards versus piano, but actually as most people do not realize that is actually a three way competition it is real piano versus keyboards versus digital pianos. Now I am going to explain the differences between the digital, the real and the keyboard that we know them as and explain the different pros and cons towards on and try to help you figure out what is the best for you. Okay, the biggest factor in all of these is one thing, money. I’m not even going to lie. 90% of the time it is just the money issue because everyone knows what the best instrument is. It is a real grand piano. And even my piano it is real and everything as a grand piano but it is not the best you could get, you can get one that is like $200,000 and the reason I don’t have that is because I do not have $200,000 kicking around. I can barely afford this thing because I have been paying for it myself. Anyway, the first one I am going to talk about is keyboards. What keyboards I am going to call them keyboards from now on since most people know them by that, but I wanted to make a distinguished difference between keyboards and digital pianos because most people think of them as a same thing and they are not actually. Okay, a keyboard is basically an entry level of keyboard. They are usually like 30 keys and they can get as big you can even have keyboard that is 88 keys wide and it can have full keys and all those other stuff and it still a keyboard. What makes a sense of keyboard is basically how it works as it reproduces the tones like (Demonstration). Now if you watched my piano lesson number 22, you saw the piano tuner talking about waves and all that kind of stuff and how do like and stuff like that alright? And like 440 hertz (Demonstration) so that is A. So all that keyboard is doing is it’s taking that same A (Demonstration) and sort of simulating and taking the sound from a real piano doing it. All its doing is it is basically reproducing that sound with kind of like made-up kind of fake piano sound and then resonating that at 440 hertz so it is exactly a kind of like simulative it is not real and in any sense. They have not gone to the actual piano and recorded it. They just simulated at 440hertz and then it raise about in lower down for different tones and then when you have more keys added unto it then they just basically take it up and take it down notches. Although I haven’t built them so I probably I am really over simplifying this, but that is what I do know the difference between what the keyboard is. And most keyboards are very compatible with computers and stuff like that they have lots of sounds and stuff like that. They can really be fun to mess around with. They are good for people that do not necessarily want to learn piano as much as they want to just kind of mess around with different sounds and stuff like that. They are also good if you are using them for entering data into it like a computer and you are composing songs. That is another very helpful thing from these types of instruments. So now would I recommend them for beginner? They are good if you—well let us just say that in any case a real piano is always going to be better tann a digital one because the action in real piano is all authentic. There is something about the resonance through the wood and the strings and felt hammers that they just have not really figured out how to completely 100% authenticate it and reproduce it digitally yet. Maybe 10 years from now but at the current time it is not happening yet especially with the cheaper models. The cheaper models have note touch sensitivity. Now if you are beginning piano student and you buy one of those, guess what is going to happen. All you will be able to do is you will be playing (Demonstration) and it they will all sound the same no matter. If you smash it down and bleed your finger and break it or you just touch it the soft because you can possibly do it will always sound the same. Now what that is going to do is it going to train your ear and basically kill all music called creativity that you could possibly have. So I do not know maybe that is something about choice if you want to become a serious musician. But if your goal is to just kind of like plunk around and just makeup that is auto by playing here and I like to play this and do this and just doing it more for like discovery entertainments with no seriousness. You do not even want to like pursue it as goal or you just want to kind of play around with it as a toy without even really thinking about it which if you start if that was your mentality you probably would not be watching this video anyway, because you will not care enough to actually learn anything more about it.

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(Piano playing)

Hello and welcome to piano lesson number 24.

In this lesson I am going to be talking about a question that I get like all the time and it I was trying to get sick of answering that over and over and over again to 10 different people so I am just going to make video about it. Yes I’m rolling up my sleeves because I am getting ready for business.

So this one is going to be about keyboards versus piano, but actually as most people do not realize that is actually a three way competition it is real piano versus keyboards versus digital pianos. Now I am going to explain the differences between the digital, the real and the keyboard that we know them as and explain the different pros and cons towards on and try to help you figure out what is the best for you.

Okay, the biggest factor in all of these is one thing, money. I’m not even going to lie. 90% of the time it is just the money issue because everyone knows what the best instrument is. It is a real grand piano. And even my piano it is real and everything as a grand piano but it is not the best you could get, you can get one that is like $200,000 and the reason I don’t have that is because I do not have $200,000 kicking around. I can barely afford this thing because I have been paying for it myself.

Anyway, the first one I am going to talk about is keyboards. What keyboards I am going to call them keyboards from now on since most people know them by that, but I wanted to make a distinguished difference between keyboards and digital pianos because most people think of them as a same thing and they are not actually. Okay, a keyboard is basically an entry level of keyboard. They are usually like 30 keys and they can get as big you can even have keyboard that is 88 keys wide and it can have full keys and all those other stuff and it still a keyboard.

What makes a sense of keyboard is basically how it works as it reproduces the tones like (Demonstration). Now if you watched my piano lesson number 22, you saw the piano tuner talking about waves and all that kind of stuff and how do like and stuff like that alright? And like 440 hertz (Demonstration) so that is A. So all that keyboard is doing is it’s taking that same A (Demonstration) and sort of simulating and taking the sound from a real piano doing it. All its doing is it is basically reproducing that sound with kind of like made-up kind of fake piano sound and then resonating that at 440 hertz so it is exactly a kind of like simulative it is not real and in any sense. They have not gone to the actual piano and recorded it. They just simulated at 440hertz and then it raise about in lower down for different tones and then when you have more keys added unto it then they just basically take it up and take it down notches. Although I haven’t built them so I probably I am really over simplifying this, but that is what I do know the difference between what the keyboard is. And most keyboards are very compatible with computers and stuff like that they have lots of sounds and stuff like that. They can really be fun to mess around with. They are good for people that do not necessarily want to learn piano as much as they want to just kind of mess around with different sounds and stuff like that. They are also good if you are using them for entering data into it like a computer and you are composing songs. That is another very helpful thing from these types of instruments.

So now would I recommend them for beginner? They are good if you—well let us just say that in any case a real piano is always going to be better tann a digital one because the action in real piano is all authentic. There is something about the resonance through the wood and the strings and felt hammers that they just have not really figured out how to completely 100% authenticate it and reproduce it digitally yet. Maybe 10 years from now but at the current time it is not happening yet especially with the cheaper models. The cheaper models have note touch sensitivity. Now if you are beginning piano student and you buy one of those, guess what is going to happen. All you will be able to do is you will be playing (Demonstration) and it they will all sound the same no matter. If you smash it down and bleed your finger and break it or you just touch it the soft because you can possibly do it will always sound the same. Now what that is going to do is it going to train your ear and basically kill all music called creativity that you could possibly have.

So I do not know maybe that is something about choice if you want to become a serious musician. But if your goal is to just kind of like plunk around and just makeup that is auto by playing here and I like to play this and do this and just doing it more for like discovery entertainments with no seriousness. You do not even want to like pursue it as goal or you just want to kind of play around with it as a toy without even really thinking about it which if you start if that was your mentality you probably would not be watching this video anyway, because you will not care enough to actually learn anything more about it.

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