Electronic Keyboard

Electronic Keyboard or Piano?

Electronic Keyboard and Piano are different instruments and have different teaching methods and exam systems. Both need practice at home so it’s important to have the correct instrument for this as practising on the wrong instrument will affect progress.

For Electronic Keyboard lessons pupils will need a keyboard that has 61 keys, with voice and style functions (sometimes called tone and rhythm) and an auto accompaniment function. The auto accompaniment function generates accompaniments when pupils play left hand chords.  If you don't have or intend to buy an instrument like this, and instead have a digital (electric) piano, then we reccommend you book Piano lessons.

Availability of in-school lessons depends on there being enough pupils wanting to learn to play the same instrument. Lessons may take place during curriculum learning time and/or break and lunchtimes, and please note that at secondary schools the instrumental lesson timetable generally rotates each week so that pupils do not always miss the same curriculum lesson.

Group lessons are only available if there is another pupil of a similar standard to group your child with.  If not, you can either top up to pay for individual lessons, or we would otherwise have

Recommended Year Group
EMS recommends that children should be in at least school year 2 to start learning this instrument, due to both the physical size of the instrument and levels of dexterity required.

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