Cheapo keyboard
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No real recommendations, but is a keyboard the best starting point? I'd hesitate to suggest buying any family member a recorder, but that's what a lot of kids start on.
I grew up in a house with a piano, and never really learned to play it, but I did learn how music 'worked'. But I was amazed and overjoyed to learn when I got a saxophone at age 12 that I pretty much already knew where all the notes were.
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G2 turned 5 in September.
I'm wondering if it would appropriate, for Christmas, to get him a cheapo keyboard to see if he has any interest in music.
Any thoughts, recommendations?
MUST. BE. CHEAP.
MUST. HAVE. HEADPHONE JACK.
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We have one for the kiddo. But no headphone jack. She'd never use them anyway.
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Way too cheap, but something to consider, and yes you're going to laugh. When our kid was like 2 a neighbor bought her a present of a cat piano (like this). It's annoying as shit, and no headphone jack, but recently our 5 year old asked me how to play songs like Happy Birthday or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. So I wrote out the notes on paper and she LOVED learning it. I wrote the notes like you see below (for row row row your boat...)
So perhaps not a cat piano, but a similar "toy" piano might work for the next year as they learn the very basics of what note letters mean and how to play a simple song or two.
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Way too cheap, but something to consider, and yes you're going to laugh. When our kid was like 2 a neighbor bought her a present of a cat piano (like this). It's annoying as shit, and no headphone jack, but recently our 5 year old asked me how to play songs like Happy Birthday or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. So I wrote out the notes on paper and she LOVED learning it. I wrote the notes like you see below (for row row row your boat...)
So perhaps not a cat piano, but a similar "toy" piano might work for the next year as they learn the very basics of what note letters mean and how to play a simple song or two.
@89th said in Cheapo keyboard:
Way too cheap
I'm not looking for a durable instrument. This is an experiment to see if it piques his interest. If it does, we can move to something more durable. For $50, I think it's worth the experiment.
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Way too cheap, but something to consider, and yes you're going to laugh. When our kid was like 2 a neighbor bought her a present of a cat piano (like this). It's annoying as shit, and no headphone jack, but recently our 5 year old asked me how to play songs like Happy Birthday or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. So I wrote out the notes on paper and she LOVED learning it. I wrote the notes like you see below (for row row row your boat...)
So perhaps not a cat piano, but a similar "toy" piano might work for the next year as they learn the very basics of what note letters mean and how to play a simple song or two.
@89th said in Cheapo keyboard:
... recently our 5 year old asked me how to play songs like Happy Birthday or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. So I wrote out the notes on paper and she LOVED learning it. I wrote the notes like you see below (for row row row your boat...)
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Consider using Arabic numerals rather than Latin letters for melodic lines, for the following reasons:
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Helps develop her sense of scale, much friendlier to learn key transpositions later.
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Music notation using Arabic numerals is a real thing. Even if she never learns to read the 5-line staff notation later, there is a large library of musical scores notated using Arabic numerals that she will be able to draw from.
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@89th said in Cheapo keyboard:
Way too cheap
I'm not looking for a durable instrument. This is an experiment to see if it piques his interest. If it does, we can move to something more durable. For $50, I think it's worth the experiment.
@George-K said in Cheapo keyboard:
I'm not looking for a durable instrument. This is an experiment to see if it piques his interest. If it does, we can move to something more durable. For $50, I think it's worth the experiment.
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