RockJam 49 Key Keyboard Piano with Power Supply, Sheet Music
RockJam 49 Key Keyboard Piano with Power Supply, Sheet Music Stand, Piano Note Stickers & Simply Piano Lessons., Black
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RockJam Accessories
| Weight: | 1.66 kg |
| Size: | Compact 49 Key board Piano |
| Dimensions: | 69.8 x 23.5 x 8.4 cm; 1.66 Kilograms |
| Model: | RJ549 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Manufacture: | PDT |
| Dimensions: | 69.8 x 23.5 x 8.4 cm; 1.66 Kilograms |
| Origin: | China |
| Size: | Compact 49 Key board Piano |
Son loves it, great starter keyboard. The teaching app is only a limited free course after which you have to pay.
Really good for beginners,stickers very helpful to learn play
I am very pleased with this item and I fine it is great value for the price I paid.
Great item for a beginner or someone who just wants to use it at home
for a beginner this is excellent value for money. but as I progress I find its limitations in that regardless of how gentle or hard one presses the keys, the sound is the same.
She said she can learn playing the piano without the big size really happy
I loved it and for the price a good bargin my son practicing his piano skills everyday for his music lessons at school it’s a really good item for a beginner or for practicing
This unit has full size keys, so is not as compact as it may appear in the photos.
Plenty of voices, but afraid some of them sound nothing like the real thing.
Works fine, sounds fine just the keys are abit small for my liking
Ours didn’t come with the keyboard stickers which was a little disappointing
Got for my 12yr old he was so happy but one of the buttons was stuck so returned no problem
Highly recommend.
Sounds abit tinny, but fine for kids to learn on.
Would recommend for anyone wanting to try piano without spending alot of money.
Audio quality is fine, wouldn’t stretch to high quality sound.
It’s a midi keyboard so has smaller keys than a standard piano keyboard
There are stickers for the keys to show the notes, great for a beginner.
Free trial of piano lesson app.
Has the usual sounds and rhythm buttons, delays, vibrato.
It’s a decent keyboard for learning.
I got this keyboard when it was on offer as I had wanted to learn how to play keyboard/piano for some time and thought this would be a good introduction to see if enjoyed it or not. I think for the price it is a great keyboard. You can play chords, you can turn the volume up and down, it has got settings to change the sound, sustain etc. It came with a 3 month free trial to Skoove (although there are plenty of tutorials you can learn from online). The keys are obviously smaller than a piano or larger keyboard but overall I am impressed! I have had the keyboard just over 3 months and some of the note stickers had started to peel off, I wrote to Rockjam to see if they sold them separately, they answered quickly and have replaced them for free so great customer service too. Would definitely recommend if you are starting out. I knocked one star off for sound quality as the Skoove app occasionally didn’t seem to recognise the sound of a particular key, whether that was the fault of the app/my phone/the keyboard I am not sure.
Great basic keyboard- came with a stand and key stickers to help you read music. The stand is great and can be removed. Headphone jack works well, range of volumes and different sounds such as organ or flute. You can also record yourself playing but this feature didn’t work for me as when i hit record, the keys wouldn’t produce any noise but this may just be a fault with mine. One bad thing is that the actual sound produced was a bit off and not much like a piano it was quite twangy but it’s not too bad, your piano pieces just won’t sound as good as they would on an actual piano, however it’s still okay for learners. Overall I would say this is great value and if you are looking for a keyboard, this is a bargain and will last you a long time. 9/10. Definitely buy this everyone.
Okay the sound is not wonderful (I play it on strings mode because it just sounds better than all of the others) but as a intro keyboard for an adult looking to learn piano, and so testing the water at minimal expense, this is just so obviously right. And from doing so, I’ve discovered that I love it…practicing for hours every day.
The volume is good, the sound is reasonable, the keys a good size and with enough of them to be flexible in choice of music. There’s a load of gadgets on it as well but I cannot be bothered with them; this, for me, is about learning to play music, not to have a bleepy toy.
So if you are an adult considering learning piano, but do not want to lay out a bucket of cash to begin with, I definitely recommend this keyboard. It’s the cheapest life improvement you’ll buy this year.
First off, the good. It’s loud! Plenty of volume for the home user and quiet enough too for night playing, if you don’t want to plug in some headphones. The keys also have a really nice feel to them, with a good amount of resistance and a soft end-of-travel which feels more akin to a real piano than plastic keys.
The range of voices are good too, plenty to choose from, though I couldn’t find an organ sound which makes playing some certain 60’s songs a little harder. Given organ is quite commonly found on keyboards as well I was surprised not to find it. The piano voice itself isn’t going to blow your socks off. It’s not bad, I’ve heard worse, but you know you’re playing a keyboard.
The buttons on the keyboard all have a nice feel to them as well, and the screen is sharp and responsive. The readout of the screen along with the provided key stickers make this great for learning how to play a piano.
However, where it falls short is 3 main points.
First of all, the tone length is quite awkward. It’s ok for most playing, but anything which requires a little sustain isn’t possible as the notes finish too quickly. There is a sustain option on the keyboard but this throws things to the other end of the spectrum, where unless you were playing a really slow soppy tune it’s just too long. If an option to adjust the length of the sustain was possible, or possibly a chorus/reverb option was available instead, that would make this piano substantially more playable.
Another issue I have is there’s a fairly loud click that occurs. If you imagine the click typically heard at the end of a RAW recording, on your phone or something, this is the kind of click I refer to. This click occurs both at the start and end of each note played as well as, for some reason, at regular ~2 second intervals whether playing or not. It becomes very evident when you’re sitting looking up sheet music or something, not playing the keyboard, and there’s just this click every 2 seconds. Very distracting. I haven’t fully tested, but the click volume also appears unaffected by the master volume. Changing any of the tempo options also does not change the frequency of the click.
My final bad point is the keyboard has a tendency to… glitch is the only way I can explain it. At random times, random keys will start producing a harsh buzzing sound when played. The buzzing sound gradually increases in volume, and gradually extends to more keys until the keyboard is powered off and on again. I can imagine if this happened in the middle of a 20 minute piece it would be very frustrating. This glitch doesn’t occur all the time, but when my other half has been playing all day she experiences it a good few times in that day.
Overall, this piano is cheap and marketed at beginners, and for that purpose it just about manages. If you’re a proficient player, this piano is definitely not for you. Likewise, if you’re very picky with your audio, this piano will likely frustrate you so maybe look elsewhere. This piano is definitely for novices who want to learn and I have rated it as such. It’s unfortunate that the 3 issues noted above lose it 1 star even from this simple purpose.