Both in the classroom and at home, it’s fun and easy to make music with electronic keyboards!

An electronic keyboard can be many things—an organ, a digital piano, a synthesizer, or a sampler. Most electronic keyboards can even be connected to your computer for a true multimedia experience. Here are some informative articles that explain the basics and help you get started on the road to musical enjoyment. Many of them are available for immediate viewing in your Web browser; some are available for downloading only, in Adobe pdf format.

Be sure also to check out our links and educational resources pages for even more information about the wonderful world of electronic keyboards.

Today's Hot Home Keyboards
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

The Soft Studio: On The Fast Track
Presented courtesy of Keyboard Musician magazine

The Computer Connection
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Arpeggios, Part 1
Presented courtesy of Keyboard Musician magazine

Tricks for Tracks: Learning All About MIDI
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Arpeggios, Part 2
Presented courtesy of Keyboard Musician magazine

Sixth Sense: Developing Hand Embouchure
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

All Over The Map
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

The MIDI Orchestra
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Sample Solutions
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

The Soft Studio: Templates and Layouts
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Stressing Out
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Emulating The Real Thing
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Understanding MIDI - Twenty Essential Facts
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

MIDI Me
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Rhythm Injection
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Sight Reading
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Synth Programming 101
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

The Wide World of Panning
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Getting Loaded
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Sequencing With Style
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Keyboard Basics
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Microtuning
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

A Boot Camp For Sound Programmers
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Oblique Strategies for Desktop Music
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Shaping Your Sound
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Electronic Keyboard Basics
Presented courtesy of IAEKM

Music Software Basics
Presented courtesy of IAEKM

Beyond Virtual Tracks
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Notation and the Internet
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Using Continuous Controllers To Spice Up MIDI Tracks
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Processing: Are Your Effects In Order?
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Digital Wonders
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Future Piano
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

The Portable Home Keyboard Revolution
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Beyond Quantization
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Tracks, Voices and Channels
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Sample Music Arrangements
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Basics: Filters
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Basics: Sample Playback Synths
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Killer Drum Grooves
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Modern MIDI Sequencing
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Making Music With MIDI
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

The Piano Is Not A Gymnasium
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Chart Your Own Course
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Sequencer Basics
Presented courtesy of Warner/Chappell Books

The 2000 Digital Pianos
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician's Digital Piano Buyers' Guide

The Computer Connection
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician's Digital Piano Buyers' Guide

Piano Lessons
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician's Digital Piano Buyers' Guide

Studio Sense: Recording Yourself
Presented courtesy of Keyboard Magazine

EM's Guide To Better Blending
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Doing The String Thing
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

MIDI In A Nutshell
Presented courtesy of Hal Leonard

Sequencers On Portable And Home Keyboards
Presented courtesy of Hal Leonard

Making the Groove: Creating A Hands-On Learning Environment
Presented courtesy of SoundTree

Beyond Chopsticks
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Collaborating With Your Computer
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

How to Choose the Right Gear
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Creature Comfort: Studio Ergonomics
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Software for Songwriters
Presented courtesy of Musician magazine

Organ Talk
Presented courtesy of Rodgers Instrument Corporation

Taking the Mystery Out of MIDI

Presented courtesy of NAMM
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Nine Suggestions for Improving Sequences
Presented courtesy of TI:ME

General MIDI
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

Schoolhouse Rock
Presented courtesy of Electronic Musician magazine

What’s the Difference Between a Sampler and a Synth?
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

Analog vs. Digital
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine

The Difference Between a Piano and Cousin Egbert
Presented courtesy of Keyboard magazine