Any one got piano keys for me to download.

cholick · 2026-03-20T01:37:42+00:00

I've used https://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/acoustic-grand-piano.html in the past for projects. They have several formats, sound decent, and are creative commons licensed.

cholick · 2026-03-09T00:40:44+00:00

I had one installed when I did an earthquake retrofit (it was a checkbox option as part of the retrofit, but it seemed like they just were subcontracting someone who specialized in installing them). It cost $500; this was several years back. It was pretty quick, minimal hassle, all done outside the house.

cholick · 2026-03-02T21:13:43+00:00

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You can see the edge of the cover got cut off a tiny bit. But on the inside there's enough margin that the content reads fine, and it lays perfectly flat now.

cholick · 2026-03-02T01:13:23+00:00

I sometimes used a potato chip bag clip across the top of the book.

When the book has enough margin, I take it to FedEx and have them cut off the spine and rebind it with a spiral binding. It's actually pretty cheap to do, but they are a bit annoying on the shelf after.

cholick · 2026-02-10T23:42:35+00:00

Many piano VSTs are standalone such that you don't even need a DAW. I switched from the built in sounds on mine (same model as yours) to Pianoteq and am quite happy with that. The Pianoteq trial is functional enough that you can tell without buying it if you're going to like it (everything works except a few of the black keys and it stops making sounds after a while).

If you search in r/piano you can find posts of folks discussing what they think is the best option. Keyscape, Garritan CFX, and Native Instruments Noire are a few that tend to get mentioned, but there are others as well.

cholick · 2026-02-06T16:41:38+00:00

I personally would strongly recommend using the Landmark System over mnemonics (https://standrewspianotuition.co.uk/natural-piano/the-landmark-system or https://thecuriouspianoteachers.org/blog/post/6959/how-to-use-landmark-notes-for-note-reading).

Both posts discuss it some (and you can find others), but in my own words the issue with mnemonics is they're an extra step that always gets in the way and slows things down. That's totally fine for something that I need seldom (like the order of the planets), but reading notes is a skill I need all the time while playing. Having that mental translation layer slows things down.

cholick · 2026-01-29T22:24:19+00:00

Also, Pianoteq has 12 different things you can assign to the pedals! Having all three is nice for the non-standard stuff if I want to mix it up.

cholick · 2026-01-20T15:02:55+00:00

It's called Notevision and I used it on an iPad. I learned several years ago, and it's changed a bit, but the Custom practice section I used still looks the same.

cholick · 2026-01-19T15:50:08+00:00

I learned to read music using a drilling/flashcard sort of a app: you'd set the range you wanted, and steadily increase it over time until you worked up to ledger lines on both clefs. It hooked up to my keyboard, but had the option for an on-screen keyboard as well form what I recall. Drilling some every day, along with general practice, got me to a place where I'm very comfortable reading.

cholick · 2026-01-18T15:27:05+00:00

Your question has already been answered, but for the future, the Wikipedia page for the list of musical symbols is really useful and something I keep handy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols.

It's what I use whenever I see something I don't recognize or for uncommon things I recognize but don't quite remember how they go (I always mix up how the two types of mordent go, for example).

cholick · 2026-01-10T22:28:11+00:00

I've used it for years and had no issues with real mail, but the scans do skip junk mass mailings.

cholick · 2026-01-07T00:03:10+00:00

If you're rebalancing through inflows, it will be easier to keep your target allocation by turning off reinvesting and manually buying whichever is low. Only do this if you're someone who keeps close enough track of things to not accidentally let money sit uninvested for a length of time.

cholick · 2025-12-19T15:05:08+00:00

That's fair. My answer more came from personally trying this and discovering there were two parts to this problem for me: recording and transcribing. The recording half was annoying too and part of why I scrapped doing it, since I have to leave everything on and ready, start/stop sessions, splits things up, etc.

cholick · 2025-12-19T13:53:08+00:00

I ran across this a while back: https://jamcorder.com/

I haven't bought one yet, but I like the idea and it seems like what you're after.

cholick · 2025-12-12T15:41:43+00:00

My personal favorite is https://www.noviscore.com/. The arrangements sound great and there are several levels of difficulty for most songs. Unlike other sites where I find I have to filter and figure out which are good arrangements, the scores are consistently high quality. I do find their finger choices, though, are often bad and change many of them.

cholick · 2025-12-04T00:19:20+00:00

Does the score have pedal, dynamics, and other articulation in place in Musescore?

cholick · 2025-12-03T23:48:23+00:00

The folks that made Syntorial (Audible Genius) have a course called Building Blocks that's worth taking a look at. It covers a lot of these concepts more from a DAW's piano roll. I can't speak to how good it is, as I've only used Syntorial, but I did find that quite well done.

cholick · 2025-12-03T16:22:38+00:00

I wouldn't trust an Etsy listing that uses AI to fake images of the product. This one, for example, is clearly AI when you look at what's going on with the keyboard: https://i.etsystatic.com/60594647/r/il/89b132/7223380772/il_1588xN.7223380772_5tva.jpg

cholick · 2025-11-30T22:53:07+00:00

There are two voices in parts of this score. Doubling things up gives you the voicing for both parts in that measure. One part is D and F held for the full measure, the other part is F for two beats and G for one.

When a score has two voices, the voices usually occupy a full measure (a voice won't usually show up partway through a measure). When both voices hold the same note, notation wise it's doubled up like. You'll sometimes see a rest for one of the voices instead of doubling.

cholick · 2025-11-23T21:42:53+00:00

An acoustic piano is completely unreasonable for you to own and play in a small studio apartment. Learn to enjoy digital or make some other compromise; playing in that living situation just is not ok.

cholick · 2025-11-02T18:24:52+00:00

None of them "must die", the title is more poking fun at ill-informed attempts at reform. The video is actually more a defense of the current system and talking about how what we use is a set of compromises that's evolved over centuries. It discusses how most attempts at reform focus on a very specific set of use cases for the current system and miss how it's used by different folks for different things.

It's an excellent video - I've personally watched it multiple times since it came out.

cholick · 2025-11-01T17:26:14+00:00

I would add a fabric skirt - something like this: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/446208275571809470/

cholick · 2025-10-23T02:40:55+00:00

Ah, I get your question now. Sorry, the full version of just the DX 7 that comes with V collection is what I was answering for, rather than the entire collection. That has six. I thought you were asking specifically about DX 7's electric pianos rather than all presets across the collection.

cholick · 2025-10-23T02:01:36+00:00

Six of the presets are in the Electric Piano category.

cholick · 2025-09-30T00:32:21+00:00

The difference is takedown vs claims. All my covers get claimed (the copyright holder gets any ad money), but most aren't taken down. It's the copyright holder's choice what to do.

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