Electric Piano For Practice?

Electric Piano For Practice?

Electric Piano For Practice?

WKMT has released a very nice brief on how practising on a digital piano can end being a very positive experience. We strongly recommend its reading.

A lot can be said about the matter of playing and practicing regularly on an electric piano. Is it bad? is it even prejudicial to our pianistic development? The reality as always is never entirely black or white.

Practising on a digital piano can be truly inspiring! Mainly because the source of sound wealth is purely our own imagination. The fact that the instrument doesn’t provide a complex acoustic sound output translate in us focusing much more on the piece version. The use of legatissimo to encourage the expression of the piece becomes far more pronounced. In other words, practicing on a digital piano can prove to be clearly beneficial for our performance skills.

It resembles more the old instruments in the sense that is quite flat. Regardless how fabulous brands claim their digital pianos are, the truth is that they are always less interesting than acoustics. They are even less interesting than cheap acoustics. The main reason: their sound comes from a recorded source, therefore it is always the same. A sound source that never changes, that is not influenced by the impromptu of the physical world can not compete with the freshness of an acoustic instrument. But is this so negative for us as pianists? Not really. It would be if we had never played on a real piano before. But if we already know how a real piano sounds, then this fact can prove to be very positive. We should never forget that sound comes from our imagination before anything else. We should train to make sure our piano technique is clean and tidy and it translates smoothly what we have in our imagination into sound.

Practising on a digital piano can prove to be a very inspiring experience.