Playing the Piano as a Music Technology Student
If you've ever entered a music technology course completely blind, you might find yourself saying, "Why is it that we're required to learn the piano if we're taking music technology? I mean, this isn't what we signed up for!" Well, to tell you the truth, learning an actual musical instrument might be the key to having a successful career as a music technologist, and the piano in particular will be one of your most useful tools. As a music technology student, you'll find yourself working primarily on a DAW - that is, a Digital Audio Workstation - where you'll be putting all your inspiration into in the hopes of coming up with a hit song (or a school project, who knows?). As far as I know, every DAW out there comes with a piano roll where you can manually place notes to make digital sounds. Now, most newbies usually just wing it and place random notes that sound good together (which is a totally acceptable way of unleashing your creativity). However, on...
