Learning the keyboard

Had my lesson yesterday I did actually enjoy it. She explained how the keys work and showed me inside the piano. I learned the keys (A-G) and where they are on the piano. Followed some notes in my book to get used to where the keys are. Funny how finger 4 and 5 are so weak but they will get better as I improve.
Ive been given homework to do, done half of it ill do the other half later. I should get myself a piano hopefully in September.
 
Enjoyable lesson today, I remembered what I was taught last lesson and I learned some new stuff today.
I am sitting here looking at the checkout deciding if I should buy the Yamaha p105 and stand:p
 
Piano and stand arrived yesterday took 10 mins to setup. Im really pleased with the quality it looks so nice in my bedroom. I sat down and played on it for a couple hours.
Can anyone recommend me some headphones for it though, so I can play it asloud as I want then:)
 
bakes0310 said:
Piano and stand arrived yesterday took 10 mins to setup. Im really pleased with the quality it looks so nice in my bedroom. I sat down and played on it for a couple hours.
Can anyone recommend me some headphones for it though, so I can play it asloud as I want then:)
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Sony MDS-V6

Arguably the best £50 closed headphones money can buy. All the recording studios uses them. The MDR-7506 is the updated version but essentially the same with a different name.
 
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Pics as requested:)
Very happy with the piano it just looks and sounds so nice. Im still enjoying my lessons, its starting to get a bit difficult but im progressing.
 
For £500 that looks pretty decent quality - is it solid? I have sometimes found the cheaper Yamahas can be a bit light and plasticky, though I think they have improved their game recently :)

Good that it has USB too! Enjoy it :)
 
arty said:
For £500 that looks pretty decent quality - is it solid? I have sometimes found the cheaper Yamahas can be a bit light and plasticky, though I think they have improved their game recently :)

Good that it has USB too! Enjoy it :)
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It seems very good quality to me, but this is my first digital piano so cant compare. All I know is that it sounds great and makes me want to practice on it all the time.
 
Rather than staring a new thread, I thought I'd hijack this one! I've picked up a nice Korg with weighted keys for learning on, are there any good beginner books that people can recommend? I'd like to keep it fairly fun and informal as it's mostly going to be when I get time to sit down and play. Ideally I'd like something easy to read as I've never been amazing at reading sheet music.
As Christmas is coming maybe something seasonal, but I'd quite like some more popular music / film scores too, but finding something easy to read is proving a bit of a challenge!
 
I'd personally get lessons, least you'll have someone next to you to give you pointers when you're doing something not quite right, where as a youtube vid can't really give you help in that aspect.

When I was younger I loved Digital Piano's, and i've still got mine, the Yamaha Clavinova CLP-120 (if I remember £1200 when it was bought in 2002-03), and even now it still sounds awesome.

But after growing up, getting a lot more experience, acoustic all the way, my local pub has like an 80s maybe older piano, and you just can't beat that old natural sound (though 2 of the keys didn't work :( )
 
Oh man. This thread makes me want to get a piano pretty badly! £500 for a decent digital piano is actually quite surprising, for some reason I expected anything worthwhile to be £1000+! This makes it far more interesting to me as that takes it out of "dream" territory and puts it firmly in viable purchase territory. Hmmm.
 
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