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This is probably an uber embarrassing beginner question but I'm stuck between whether to get a digital piano or a keyboard. Ideally I'd get both but due to price-point and limited space I can only really get one or the other at the moment. I've played keyboard to a beginner level when I was a kid and messed about on a few pianos so I understand some of the basic differences between the piano and the keyboard. However I'm not really sure on which is going to provide a better playing experience for what I want? I want to get this right so I actually want to put the hours in on the instrument rather than get bored of it like the almost toy-like keyboards I had in the past.
I mainly want to play rock and pop music from the latter half of the 20th century as well as some more recent pop stuff, at the moment I'm not interested in learning classical music - although I do want to learn some music theory composing is not my main goal as I'd rather just focus on learning existing songs I like. I can sight-read - although only feels like I've got enough dexterity to play chords with my left hand and melodies with my right hand rather than playing both hands separately - it seems to me most keyboard sheet music is chords and the treble cleff and most piano music is independent finger movement on the bass and treble clef - does mean I'd need much better finger dexterity to play a piano v a keyboard - I assume you can still play chords and treble cleff on a digital piano but is that the 'right' way to play it? . I can't play by ear, although I understand there's ear training exercises I can look into further down the line if I want to.
I'm not intending to take it anywhere or perform with it - just have it at home to practice, so portability isn't a massive issue. I like the idea of having a wide variety of different sounds to play with an the ability to make an accompaniment with the keyboard but have reservations that I'd be essentially starting from scratch if I want to move to a digital piano/acoustic piano further down the line of the learning process and having to get used to weighted keys and possibly a different playing style. I don't really want to spend a long time on either one only to switch to the other and then have to start again from scratch. I get this might end up being a personal preference thing but any input or guidance would be welcome.
I mainly want to play rock and pop music from the latter half of the 20th century as well as some more recent pop stuff, at the moment I'm not interested in learning classical music - although I do want to learn some music theory composing is not my main goal as I'd rather just focus on learning existing songs I like. I can sight-read - although only feels like I've got enough dexterity to play chords with my left hand and melodies with my right hand rather than playing both hands separately - it seems to me most keyboard sheet music is chords and the treble cleff and most piano music is independent finger movement on the bass and treble clef - does mean I'd need much better finger dexterity to play a piano v a keyboard - I assume you can still play chords and treble cleff on a digital piano but is that the 'right' way to play it? . I can't play by ear, although I understand there's ear training exercises I can look into further down the line if I want to.
I'm not intending to take it anywhere or perform with it - just have it at home to practice, so portability isn't a massive issue. I like the idea of having a wide variety of different sounds to play with an the ability to make an accompaniment with the keyboard but have reservations that I'd be essentially starting from scratch if I want to move to a digital piano/acoustic piano further down the line of the learning process and having to get used to weighted keys and possibly a different playing style. I don't really want to spend a long time on either one only to switch to the other and then have to start again from scratch. I get this might end up being a personal preference thing but any input or guidance would be welcome.
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