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Biab is one of the best ways to improve your keyboard playing there is. First, the keyboard parts are displayed on the big piano keyboard across the top so you can see what is happening with the left hand as well as open the notation and see it as written notes. Just mute the piano part and play it yourself paying attention to your left hand and if you're not getting it unmute the piano and listen and mute it and try it again. This is great for people who can read some music and can recognize chord shapes from looking at someone playing a keyboard but just don't know what to play themselves.

Depending on your skill level perhaps you're not good enough yet to understand what you're seeing on the screen. Just copying the notes being displayed won't help you much if you have no idea of the theory behind it so if that's the case then you need some basic theory lessons as well. Biab is great in that situation, you're reading some online theory courses and as you go along it's simple to take what you just learned, load it into Biab and start working on it.

Bob



Thanks for this tip! I wasn't aware of this capability in BIAB, but just checked it out and it seems like a good method to learn from. My skill level is high enough to read the notation and play it (albeit slowly usually). And I'm working my way thru a few Blues Piano books that include Blues theory.

Thanks to everyone else for their suggestions as well. I'll be sure to check "the Google".

Last edited by newbert; 03/09/13 01:34 PM.
Kawai VPC1 MIDI Controller; Asus A53E Laptop running Windows 7 - 64 bit; BIAB 2017 UltraPlusPak (upgraded from 2014 EverythingPak), running from Laptop's Hard Drive.