teach me to play piano. i am beginner
Welcome! I'm so excited to help you start your piano journey.
To help me tailor this session perfectly to you, have you played any other instruments before, or is this your first time diving into music theory and hand technique?
This is my very first time learning music
Welcome! I am so excited to help you take your very first steps into the beautiful world of music.
To start, let's look at the piano itself. If you look at the keys, you will notice they aren't just a random line of black and white. The are actually arranged in a repeating pattern of clusters: groups of two, then groups of three, then two, then three.
Take a look at the interactive keyboard above. Do you see how the highlighted keys form a group of two on the left, and a group of three on the right? Finding these groups is your map for the entire piano.
show me another note
You've got it! Let's shift our focus to finding a specific white key on the piano, using our black key map.
Every white key has a simple letter name from the , which only goes from A to G before repeating. Instead of guessing, we can find the note C by using the group of two black keys. It is always the white key directly to the left of any two-black-key cluster.
Now that you know how to find C using the two black keys, we can easily find every other note. Let's look at the actual mapped right onto the keys, starting from our anchor point, C.