As a piano teacher myself I am constantly trying to balance fun with learning, because you can’t achieve one without the other. It can be a struggle for any beginner to try and find that balance for themselves and get a sense of reward and achievement from what they’ve learned. The RJ461 makes the learning experience very easy because of how much fun you can have. You don’t have to even play for a few seconds when you can let the keyboard play for you with those great accompanying rhythms. So you can take a break between playing and let the keyboard speak for itself – do as little or as much as you want to begin with! If you have a USB port, you will need to plug the A end of the USB cable into the computer and the B end of the USB cable into the USB port on the keyboard. The extreme left white key is always “C,” and then the next one is D. This pattern goes on until G and then it becomes A rather than H. Then the pattern goes on like this – “B, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C…” When comparing the different models, I think important to not what all the models have in common first, then note how they are different. All models have the same key action, are roughly the same size, include 200 rhythms, 200 tones, a teaching function, and 30 demo songs. So the sound is better than it should be – which is a very positive start! There are lots of instruments to play around with, and although the odd one falls a little flat, you will usually find this on most keyboards. It is almost impossible to replicate the sound of a real saxophone, flute or guitar, on a keyboard of this price – but it still does a great job of trying to get there. The main thing is that you can tell what instrument is activated on the keyboard, and you can tell easily. The overall sound of each instrument is as close as you can get for these small speakers.