Learn piano by playing it
A course you play, not just read: every lesson explains one thing, then hands you an exercise — on a MIDI keyboard, your computer keys or the on-screen piano — that listens to every note and passes you when you play it right. Progress follows you; six mini games turn key positions, chords, scales and rhythm into muscle memory.
Arriving at the Instrument
0/2Before the first note: connect a keyboard, check the sound, sit, shape the hand — and learn the finger numbers every exercise will use.
Your Instrument & MIDI
A MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard or the on-screen piano — all three talk to this course. Connect yours and watch every key get recognised.
Posture, Hand & Finger Numbers
Round as if holding an apple, wrist loose, thumb is 1, pinky is 5. The exercise calls a finger — you press the key.
First Notes
0/4The five-finger position becomes music: middle C and the right hand, the mirror image in the left, and the two clefs that tell each hand where to go.
Middle C & the Right Hand
One thumb on one key, four fingers resting on the next four — and you already own five notes. Everything in this unit is played from here.
The Left Hand
Pinky on the C below middle C, thumb on G: the same five notes, one octave down, with the finger numbers running the other way.
Reading the Treble Clef
Five lines, four spaces and a curly sign that says where G is. Learn to read by distance, not by counting from the bottom, and the staff becomes a map of your hand.
Reading the Bass Clef
Two dots around the F line, middle C perched above: the left hand's staff. Then both staves at once — the grand staff — with middle C sitting in the gap between them.
Rhythm & Both Hands
0/3Playing in time: the metronome, note values that last as long as they say — and the moment the two hands play together, first in mirror image, then a real tune.
Playing with a Metronome
Notes tell you which key; the beat tells you when. A click that never rushes is the most honest teacher you will ever have — learn to play with it, not against it.
Note Values at the Keys
A whole note is not a long tap. It is four beats of holding the key down while the sound fades — and a rest is a note you play by lifting.
Hands Together
Two independent lines, one brain. The method is not bravery but patience: each hand alone until it is automatic, then both at half speed — starting with the motion that is easiest of all.
Scales & Chords
0/4The two building blocks of everything you will ever play: the scale that runs under the fingers, and the chord that sits under the hand — with the fingerings that make both feel easy.
The C Major Scale
Eight notes, one octave — and the one trick that lets five fingers play them: the thumb slips under the hand on the way up and finger 3 crosses over on the way down.
G Major & F Major
One black key changes everything: G major adds an F♯ and keeps the fingering, F major adds a B♭ and the right hand has to rearrange itself so the thumb never lands on a black key.
Triads Under the Hand
Three notes, one shape: thumb, middle finger, pinky on every other key. Learn the shape once and move it — C, F, G, A minor, D minor all live in the same hand.
Your First Progression
I–IV–V–I: four chords that thousands of songs are built on. Play them in the left hand with voicings that barely move, count four beats each, and put a melody note on top.
Pieces
0/3Real music, hands together: three pieces everyone knows, played from the staff with the chords under them — and a practice method that gets any piece from stumbling to fluent.
Ode to Joy
Beethoven's tune from the Ninth Symphony, in C major: two four-bar phrases, a question and its answer, and one dotted rhythm to get right. Your first real piece with both hands.
Twinkle with Chords
The tune everyone knows, with harmony that changes every half bar underneath it — the first time the left hand is busier than the right.
Jingle Bells
Repeated notes, a dotted rhythm that gives the chorus its bounce, a pair of eighths, and a whole note held for four full beats — then the first piece you play up to tempo.
Progress & backup
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