Keyboard Music – The Facts

With the increasing popularity of the keyboard and of keyboard music, it becomes important for beginners and enthusiasts to understand first, what the keyboard is and how it is used to make keyboard music. The musical keyboard, as it is technically known, is basically a set of depressible keys or levers arranged on a musical instrument. By this definition, even the piano is a musical keyboard and therefore can be said to produce keyboard music.

The levers or keys on the instrument we call the musical keyboard usually contains keys for playing the notes, numbering twelve, of the western musical scale. It is built out of a combination of longer and bigger keys and some smaller, shorter keys. Keyboard music is produced by depressing these keys on the instrument. Keyboard music may imitate the sounds of the piano, electric piano, clavichord; or by plucking a string to produce the sound of the harpsichord or the making the sound of air blowing through the pipe or organ or even striking a bell. This certainly is a wide variety of keyboard music, evidently making for a great deal of listening pleasure and accounting for the popularity and success of keyboard music.

Keyboard music

What a lot of beginners and keyboard music enthusiasts do not understand is that various types of musical keyboards require varying playing techniques. This fact accounts for a great many keyboard music enthusiasts to give up after a short period of time, assuming that keyboard music, is in fact, not for them.

For instance, the piano hammer system will give out a louder note if the key is pressed faster. On the other hand, the harpsichord’s plectrum system does not display this sort of difference and continues to produce the same kind of keyboard music whether the keys are touched hard or softly.

A lot of people choose to play the keyboard because they are under the impression that the keyboard is a simple instrument and that keyboard music is easy to make. What beginners do not realize is that playing the keyboard needs some amount of skill and that skill is easy to master. This is because the sequence in which in the hands move is hard to master. The keyboard players must be able to coordinate the hands and use them independently. Often pieces that require wide-spanned chords can be troublesome for people with small hands. Likewise, chords that need complicated movements can also be very difficult.

Master keyboard music

However, like all musical instruments, the musical keyboard too can be mastered to a degree of skill of students, especially beginners, take it upon themselves to practice hard and concentrate on the right techniques. If the correct methods are followed, there is nothing that will stop musicians and students from making the finest of keyboard music. So play on, learn the correct methods and techniques and practice till you are sore. That is the only way to produce fine keyboard music.