When I was a kid I had a low end electric piano keyboard. I don't read music, but I loved fiddling with it and working out various songs by ear. A while back my mother decided I did not play it often enough and went to store in our outside storage run on the side of the house with nothing but a black trash bag covering half of it. Of course it rained and killed the thing which made me very sad.
Anyway, I've been moved out for a while now and here and there get a hankering to play this or that song and then lament the lack of a piano to play them with, so I thought I'd look into a cheap keyboard. I have no idea where to start though. I did a quick search on Amazon and
this came up. Looks like a good deal and comes with all the accessories I'd need. Though I have no idea, so I'd like some advice, are there any better ones I could get, what's the best one I could go for with a budget under 200 bucks, is there a place I could get a better price on this one?
I'm no enthusiast, I just want something I can tinker with here and there when the urge grabs me that sounds good, and I'd rather not spend more than 200 bucks if I don't have to.
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Another place to poke around is Musician's Friend, just to browse by price/manufacturer to get a feel for what's available.
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I used to prefer the feel of Casio keyboards to Yamahas in this price range since Casios felt like levers and Yamahas like sponges, but it was ten years back I was looking so this isn't necessarily still valid.
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Oh, I'd like some tips on developing general skills.
If you want to learn to read sheet music, spend as much time as you can sight reading with both hands simultaneously. Force yourself to learn the notes. I always slacked on the sight reading, and it meant that as I got better it took longer and longer to learn pieces as my technical ability outran my sight reading.