Keyboard shortcuts can help you to increase your work flow and generally make your experience inside software a hell of a lot easier. Music software is no different, there are a lot of tasks and window switching that goes on in professional DAWs and sometimes knowing the basics will hep you navigate your projects with ease.
Beware though, keyboard short cuts aren't universal and will differ between different kinds of software so if you use a combination of DAWs when you produce, then you might have a hard time remembering what's what for each DAW. A good tip is to keep a print off or a note book containing the shortcuts near to your workstation.
There are also Keyboard overlays for your computer keyboard that display the shortcuts on the keys themselves. If you're a power-user then it's probably worth having a look at these; they're available for pretty much any DAW that you can think of. With a quick Google search you should be able to find the overlays that you're looking for.
Here, we have a video that was uploaded by Reason Explained that demonstrates some of the most common keyboard shortcuts in Propellerhead's Reason. Of course, these aren't all of the shortcuts that are available in Reason, but they should get you started. If you want to have a look at all of the shortcuts then there is a PDF file on the Propellerhead site that documents all of the shortcuts in detail.
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