A slideshow about the Functional Music Keyboard

1. Functional Music
Keyboard
Lewis Haughton
- Be able to use basic techniques when playing the
keyboard

2. Welcome to FMK.
• Basic Techniques – Learning the keys
• Appropriate Posture – Angle of body (back/arms),
Curvature of hands.
• Rhythm Exercise – Playing to a variety of tempo/time
signatures
• Using Simple Chords – Understanding what makes a
chord, Playing C major chords.

3. Basic Techniques – Learning the keys
• In terms of playing the keyboard one basic skill that we
should aim to complete is to understand what and where
each key is located.

4. Appropriate Posture - Angles
• When playing the keyboard it is important to have good
posture. There are a number of factors to consider for
example how

5. Functional Music
Keyboard
Lewis Haughton
- Know the functions of the keyboard

6. Functions in performance
• Effects – Understanding what each effect does and how it
can be used in order to manipulate sound
• Chord Sequences – Playing chords in a number of ways
in order to create sequences of chords that complement
each other by using our existing musical knowledge
• Samples/DAW – Knowing what samples are and how they
can be used as well as understanding how a daw can
help us.

7. Functional Music
Keyboard
Lewis Haughton
- Be able to use the keyboard to input midi shaped
data

8. Be able to use the keyboard in order to
input shaped midi data
• Workstation & Keyboard – How our workstation can be
used alongside our keyboard
• The role of midi – How and why midi was born
• Cubase, Reason and Ableton – Popular DAW’s and how
they can be used with midi