How to Use the New Keyboard for Rock Band 3

Rock Band 3 offers advanced game-play and new keyboard controllers. Check out how to use this new feature.

Step 1: Check it out
Examine the new keyboard -- 25 piano keys span 2 full octaves below a 5-color bar that corresponds to standard Rock Band instruments. Use the top control panel to navigate the game and the touchpads on the handle to activate Overdrive and bend pitch while playing.

Step 2: Pick it up
Place the device on a flat surface to play it like a piano, or sling the available strap over one arm like a keytar.

Step 3: Play in Standard Mode
Set the game to Standard Mode. As the colored bands move across the screen, press any key underneath the corresponding color to score points. Move up the ranks from Easy to Expert.

Step 4: Go pro
Once you've mastered Standard mode, switch to Pro Mode. Play along with the scrolling onscreen note board. Increase your playing level from Pro-Easy to Pro-Expert, when you'll play the actual notes and chords like on a real piano.

Tip
Use the Trainer feature for additional keyboard practice and to unlock game rewards.

Step 5: Connect to a computer
If you have a computer with music-writing software, connect it to the Rock Band keyboard through the controller's MIDI port. Then, use the keyboard to compose your own tunes.

Tip
You can also plug a MIDI keyboard into a Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro Adapter to play the game.

Step 6: Play well with others
Play Rock Band 3's new keyboard with up to 6 friends -- a drummer, a guitarist, a bassist, and 3 singers. Once you've got a groove, conquer the over 80 songs together and achieve videogame stardom!

Did You Know?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first piano sonata when he was 4 years old.

[CyruzDgamer]

how does this channel have a tutorial for everything, it's magical.

[joecruz]

Is there a way of changing the touch strip and reversing it so the pitch goes up when sliding to the right instead of the pitch going down?

[somedot]

*woah these comments are old you couldn’t even reply back then*

[MrPAULONEAL]

This looks more transferrable to piano playing than the guitar is to real guitar playing....

[endocix]

I don't think I examined the controller right?? My Xbox broke.

[bobdoles]

i think i need a tv too. adn 360 or ps3

[JohnSkene]

if you don't like rock band, then don't watch the videos about it

[sillysean]

On mine for wii there's a little hole what do I do with it ?

[heyitsconnor]

Step 1: learn how to actually play keyboard/piano
Step 2: there is no step 2

[SabaskaTheNoob]

@bobdoles123 and also an electrical supply connected to the mains. and also a house. and also a region to have a house. and also a planet to live in a region. and also a solar system. and a galaxy. and a universe

[Alystas]

Step 7, once you've mastered the art of playing a Keytar on your rock band keyboard, get a real Keytar ^^

[TraceyButtigieg]

Pro Mode is hard I like Standard Mode better

[bobdoles]

@SabaskaTheNoob and the sun or some sort of light fixture which could require a power plant, cabkes of various lengths, wokrers, which need money

[ducttaperulestheworl]

lol... he could barely press the keys accurately

[AODANGELof]

00:36 Rock Band instruments? lol thats a Guitar Hero Controller haha yeah i know, same controller but that's the wrong one x) Nice video though :)