Welcome to your first lesson. In today's lesson, we will learn about the ABC's of piano. You may have remebered learning your ABC's in grade school. But today, instead
of having to learn 26 letters, you will only need to learn 7( A, B, C, D, E, F and G).
After looking at the image above, you should have found a pattern or a common theme.
The pattern that you should noticed is that: the piano has black and white keys, in which the white keys are sperated by groups
of two black keys and three black keys. For this Lesson we will use the letter C as our starting point. To locate letter "C" on the piano,
locate a group of two black keys and then locate the white key to the left of the first key in the group of the two black keys. (Do not worry, a
video will be provided for each lesson, if you ever get stuck).
(Middle C, as you may be wondering, is simply the key that is in the middle of the piano). Now that you have located C, everything ese is easy!
Because the piano goes from A to G, you can count up from C all the way up to G. And because the piano is a pattern, this series of A's, B's and C's
repeats all throughout the piano. Take a look for yourself: take note of where you bagan, and look at where "C" is each time you reach it.
Here is a video on how to label your piano.
Welcome to your second lesson. In this lesson we will learn about the black keys. As you may have noticed, there are more than just white keys on the piano.
The piano has, as mentioned in lesson 1, groups of two black keys and groups of three black keys.
After looking at the image above, you should have found, once again, a pattern or a common theme.
A piano has white keys that goes from A to G. The black note to the right of it is that name + #(sharp). And the one to the left will be that name + b(flat).
Example: The letter C, as mentioned from lesson one, sits to the left of the group of two black keys. The black note to the right of letter C is C#(pronounced: C Sharp).
When there is no black key or note to the left or the right of a white key, then there is simply no sharp or flat for that note. Take letter C for example, if you look to the left, you will
not find a black note. Therefore, C Flat(Cb) does not exist. With that being said, there is no such thing as a B#, E#, Fb. But there is a such thing as A#, Bb, F# and so on.
As you can see from the picture above, there are two labelings for each black note. Now you may be wondering why this is. It's pretty simple, because you
can go back and say, for instance, "B Flat", you can also go from A and move up to the black note and have it be called A Sharp. So yes, the black notes have two
names!
Here is a video on hsharps and flats.
In this lesson we will learn about chords. A chord is siply 3 or more notes played together. One of the most famous chords is the C Chord. But we
will talk about this later.
Just like how there is a pattern for the ABC's, there is also a pattern for chords. We will mostly look at major chords.
To make a major chord, you simply start on the note you are on, count 5 notes up and then count 4 notes up from that note.
Here is a video that goes further in depth into major chords.
Welcome to your final lesson! After you have went through lesson 3, you will have already learned a lot. With just chords, you can play millions of songs.
You are probably anxious to start playing.
Here is a video that goes much more in depth into chords and how to use them to play songs..