Electronic Keyboard - One man Orchestra!

Electronic Keyboard - The presence of hundreds of built-in accompaniments and sounds is what makes the electronic keyboard a very popular instrument. The built-in accompaniments, also known as musical styles or rhythms or auto accompaniments make the electronic keyboard a one man orchestra.

These musical styles cover various musical genres and are meant to accompany any type of song that you play. The accompaniments normally follow the chords which your left hand plays while your right hand plays the melody instrument of your choice.

All the electronic keyboards have the standard styles like Pop, Rock, Jazz, Latin, Foxtrots, Waltz, Swing, etc. and the more contemporary types like techno, house, jungle, Arabic, and Indian.

Musical Band
The accompaniment is actually a group of tracks playing various instruments. The tracks normally play the instruments like Drums, Bass, Piano or Guitar, Strings, woodwind, brass or any other melody instrument. You can mute any of these tracks and practice playing that muted instrument along with the other tracks.

Standard Buttons
Most of the instruments have buttons like Start, Stop, Intro, Ending and Fill-ins which basically lets you create realistic and interesting arrangements while playing. The "Fill-ins" buttons lets you create slight variations of the accompaniment with the press of a button. The Tempo button lets you speed up or slow down the accompaniment. In Pianos, it slows down or speeds up the metronome.

Need more styles
The more accompaniments you listen to, the more you understand about the arrangement of a song and how the various instruments work together. It lets you become more creative. It is good if your instrument has a large number of styles.

Most of the high range keyboards can be updated with the latest styles, available on floppy disk or downloadable from the Internet. You can even create your own styles on most of the electronic keyboards. As you become more skilled at playing the keyboards and using its features, try creating your own styles.

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