my keytar

ok this is a bit of a frivolous post. I have been learning to play the keytar since I got one off eBay. I can’t play the piano properly – can’t read music and don’t know scales and fingering. I never had an incentive to learn what a minor scale or mode was – until now, as I am very slowly working my way through Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time.



Here is a soundbite of my bad rendition of half the solo from Led Zepplin – Stairway to Heaven (right click save target as). Hey, I am still practising ok. You can hear the onboard chord sequencer playing over Rhythm 23 “hard rock”.



The keytar rocks. Even though it's almost a toy, and is almost 20 years old, it wails. If you want to read more about keytars, check out the wikipedia article or this guy's most excellent mp3 samples!

All in all it’s a lot of fun. I think it’s interesting how what is essentially a packaging gimmick – small plastic piano with strap and pitch bend wheel – has finally motivated me to learn about scales and piano fingering after 10-something years of refusing to do so.