How to play the keyboard
The keyboardist is the band's secret weapon. With an electronic keyboard, you can mimic every instrument and play multiple tracks at once!
Know your notes
When you're familiar with how each note is placed on the keyboard, you'll be able to play your favourite tunes without worrying that you're hitting the wrong note.
There are seven basic "natural" notes, CDEFGAB (white keys) and five semitones (black keys). The C Major scale is created if you play just the white keys in ascending order. The pattern repeats and gets higher or lower in pitch, depending on the position of the keys.
How do you differentiate between sharps (♯) and flats (♭)?
Easy. Just remember, when you see ♯ next to a note, you play one semitone (key) to your right. If a ♭ is written next to the note, you play one semitone left to the note.

Read sheet music
Because the keyboard offers a lot of variety and complexity, most composers jot down songs in the form of sheet music.
Learn to read sheet music in our easy tutorial here.

Experiment with sounds

Some keyboards come with sound generating chips, built-in rhythms, instruments, filters and other interesting ways of manipulating music.So experiment whenever you can, record the results, and develop your personal sound!

Some interesting keyboard features
MIDI: A sound bank of different instruments and sounds (in the form of MIDI patches) hat you can upload, select, play, record or mix
Polyphony:Play multiple notes at the same time by just pressing a key
Drum machine: Imitates the sound of drums and other percussion loops
Auto harmony: Automatically adds secondary notes to form a chord when a key is pressed
Wheel and knobs: Adds digital effects to music such as pitch-bending, vibrato, tremulo, reverb and delay