compared to UltraNovas and such, it has no menu diving - I have all these wonderful sliders and knobs to learn with and really understand what's going on. To start with I bought a Roland Gaia I know it doesn't get a lot of love, BUT. I've been geeking out for a few weeks, love the deep warbles and hard tones of the bass monophonic analogues, piercing leads of some others, and the rich pads of some of the digital polyphonics. Historically on the electronic side I've enjoyed Depeche Mode, some Daft Punk, and a mix & variety of other stuff but I've just found synthwave, such as Kavinsky, and am somewhat in love:). But I've just discovered synthesizers, got increasingly hyper excited, and it seems I can really really nerd out about them. My first love is guitar, and I've been playing it (badly ) for decades. If I went back to some piano now I expect I would improve dramatically from where I was in short order.
My sense of rhythm if I sit down at a keyboard/piano is way better now than when I was playing piano every day and taking classical style lessons. The ridiculous thing is I haven't taken a piano lesson since 2015, I've been taking guitar. The only reason I mention this is a lot of synth music is pop music that has a lot more in common with guitar centric music. Way more emphasis on using your ears, developing rhythm, playing with others, etc. I have never taken classical guitar but in contrast to piano your typical guitar lessons are near 100% the other way around. The weakness on understanding leads to a difficulty in memorization AFAICTĪll this stuff gets ironed out in piano lessons I'm sure but it seems to happen at a pretty late stage that isn't great for an adult beginner. Weakness on learning to play with others
Weakness on developing a sense of rhythm and playing by ear Huge emphasis on reading music and playing it back even if you're not understanding it Piano is super super super biased towards classical music Nothing beats a teacher but there are some problematic things with piano teachers IME. I do think you need the music theory though, such as awareness of chords and functional harmony.Ĭonsider learning some of the classic synth basslines - they tend to have tutorials on youtube - like Material Girl or Tarzan Boy. (Of course the DX7 was played very much as a piano at times) I mean, to play the melancholy chords of "Drive" by the Cars, you need some of the skills of a pianist, but not rhythmic ones. When polysynths got common in the mid 80s, pianistic fingering of chords (but not necessarily rhythms) was used. So pianistic skills would be wasted in this context. A lot of piano technique is getting both hands working together to play rhythm and melody - but generally synths are doing one thing at a time, and cooperating with other instruments.Ī lot of classic synth lines are monophonic, aka "one-finger" lines, although to play them fluidly with one finger would be pretty hard.
Definitely learn the rudiments of piano playing, up to playing block chords (triads) with either hand.īeyond that, I think they diverge too much.
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