1) My friends are teaching me, will it be hard to learn self-taught ( kinda )
2) What’s a good starting keyboard?

Look on the internet. And after Your friends are done giving you tips. Go get some real lessons or practice as hard as you can.

My mother is a music teacher and she charges around $18-20 per 30 minute private lesson. Most of her students come once a week.

Can you recommend any website for lessons on the keyboard.

I need a new hobby since my bf of three years broke up w me over him transferring 1500 miles away and since I devoted all my time to him I’ve realized I have no hobby.

I’ma a slow learner and don’t have any musical experience but Ive had the keyboard for a long while now. Thank you.
And lessons for free

need a new hobby… contact me lol i know … it’s cheese! someone is gonna do it. lol

I want a site where i can get free software that can help me learn piano or keyboard by ear! I own a keyboard but i dnt know where to start! Please help!

Do yourself a favor and get a real, breathing, sitting-beside-you teacher. It will give major benefits in the long run. You get to respect somebody who in some cases (mine), plays a bazillion times better than you, and piano teachers give advice on more than just piano. Something a computer or somebody on YouTube can’t give you.

Good luck in the search!

Lessons for beginners.I have tried the net.But I can not find any.Can someone help me find some lessons.

There is a cool site called Clickforlessons.com that may help you find a keyboard/piano lessons. I used them to find a piano teacher in LA, but depending on where you live it may be more difficult to find someone. You should check them out and see if they can help you.
Good luck!

Or do they have keyboards there?

What will happen on the first lesson?

Do I need to bring anything?

Will other people be there too?

Thank you

dont bring anything with you. there will be a piano at the lesson. it is very unlikely that there will be other people coz almost everyone learns the piano in an individual lesson. the teacher might start with asking you to show them if you can play anything or do anything on the piano. if you cant dont worry, they wont expect you to be able to do anything. they will probably spend most the lesson talking about the piano and its functions or basic music theory. they might also talk about how to sit at a piano and hand positions. dont be worried about the lesson just enjoy it.

i really love to play the keyboard but i can’t seem to find materials that i can use without paying through my nose please can someone help?

Marry a keyboard teacher.

i’m starting to give lessons to a 10 year old just to get him started and things. i want him to know about the notes and basic theory. can someone give me a 10 week plan of what to do each lesson? and is there any free keyboard sheet music i can get hold of for him? thanks!

A ten weeks plan that would be a bit long here
Well he is 10 and never introduced to music theory/practice before, and for sure he likes music and piano.
You know and i know that piano lessons are so boring especially when we accelerate the pace and the student has to read both G and F lines at the same time in the period of 2 months, it sucks.
Well, make it funny and sweet for him.

1st. make his parents understand that after the 1st 10 months he won’t be a Pianist and that it is a whole learning process.

2nd. Make him sing, read and play at the same time.. not so hard, you ‘ll gain time and effort, he’ll just play C D E F then F E D C and utter them with his voice then after that you write them on a paper and make a simple song like C D E D E F D C F E….. all using the same structure , he’ll learn the places on the scale and then read and sing (decode) and play… do the same for the F key, just 2 weeks after the C key depending on the amount of hours you’ll teach.

introduce him to the musical notes using that way and write him some of your "music pieces" let him be sure that he knows well the notes ( sure after you repeat them to him and give him drills)

3rd. Within your notes introduction, introduce him to the rhythm notion. don’t worry kids are so intelligent he’ll acquire it… you just carry on giving him exercises that you wrote but this time, in the 2 nd month try to harden the structure without complicating it!!!!

4th. After he/sh meets the notes and structure (rhythm) now give him the tempo notion and melody and harmony.
as he/she worked out his/her right and left hands on simple things relying first on the Pattern fingering exercise (12345,123) (123, 12345) , and second on the MIRROR EFFECT exercise.
it’s time in the 4th month to begin speaking about harmony and the melody patterns, classical music, theoretical forms….
don’t make the classical teacher!!! just do as if you are telling a fairy tale and enjoying it… sometimes when you are telling the story (which is actually history and description of the musical structure of a sonata for example) play along with it and play funny music… or instances of that history… speak about fuga and play it, and tll a funny story with it… let the student just feel it’s great

take a funny easy piece of music that the student like and give it to him as a reward…
i play for them "Super Mario" and "Zelda" also "Pokemon" well i’m a universal keyboards tutor.

So just simplify it… prepare the parents who are hoping too much, Introduce Notes, draw small exercises, introduce rhythm, introduce tempo notion, now you have someone who knows a little bit from everywhere. Remember to make things so so easy for the little student avoid complex structures, he/she needs to know and learn and thinks that piano is fun
so let piano be fun for him, the funniest the piano is, the better he’ll love it, believe me.
you don’t need Bach, Bethoven and Strauss…. those are from our old school and for advanced level,
your student needs to have fun and know the piano, needs to make sound, give him the opportunity to make sound and boost his self esteem through those small 4 notes exercises.

You’ll say "well that exercise is nothing", He’ll say "i played music from the first time i met a piano, i’m a genius"… see?? he’ll be happy and stronger.
All that because he does not have any music knowledge, when i learnt keys i had 2 years of theory classes…
So the plan is simple, go ahead best teacher ever
i know this might not be what you expect as answer but trust me it works well. Hope it helps you.
Best of luck

I’m a beginner, but I’m can play rather good by ear for a beginner (I grew up with a piano in my house) but my goal is to learn how to read and play music..

I really don’t know, but here is a link to the Florida State Music Teachers Association webpage

http://www.fmta.org/

If you click on the District/local associations link it’ll give you information about your district and who you can contact with whatever questions you may have, help in finding a teacher near you and so on.

I’m thinking of taking lessons.

Would you reccommend an online course, play by CD, local music store or looking for an ad in a local paper?

Also, I’d like to get a portable keyboard with certain sounds such as.. a Hammond organ, a good piano sound, (upright, baby grand or grand piano sound) among others, but those two are the most important.

Any ideas of brands or models you know of or have played would be greatly appreciated.

Yamaha is the best by far, but also one of the most expensive when it comes to portable keyboards. I have played keyboard, and organ, and some piano, for years and years, and I would recommend a Yamaha. However, before you invest big money, I would tell you that you need to have some ear for music and taking an online course won’t cut it. You need to be able to read music too, at least fake books and lead sheets. Go to the music store in your area and try out some demos. As far as online courses go (or CD’s), I frankly think these are a waste of time. It’s like trying to learn a foreign language online. It really cannot be done successfully. You need hands-on lessons, and as I said, at least some ear for music. The only drawback to lessons is that you often have to spend a lot of time at things you don’t like (practicing scales, etc.). If you already have a muscial ear and can read music (stick with fake books and lead sheets, as these are easier by far than entire arrangements), then you have a good chance of picking up the keyboard. You can learn to read music of course, and remember chords are the most difficult when it comes to mastering keyboard, or piano, etc. You must start simple! Hope this helps.