Piano Lessons

You might be a first timer taking up a new interest in music… or maybe this is your second go at learning to play the piano. Like most music students, you dream that you’ll soon be playing your own favorite songs on the piano. Perhaps you look forward to the fun of playing the piano [...]

Music Terms / Definitions: Staff: A staff of music is made up of five horizontal lines and four spaces. Each line and space represents a key on the piano. Notes and rests are then placed on the staff. Clef: A clef is a symbol at the beginning of a staff of music which makes it [...]

Want To Know How To Read Piano Notes? It’s not as hard as it looks. Learning how to read piano notes is about learning a pattern – as many things are in music. First, if you’re not sure about which notes are which on the piano keyboard, read piano key notes. Notes are named after [...]

A piano is a very wonderful instrument, the music of which floats through the atmosphere, enchanting every quantum of universe through which it passes. Legendary composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Chopin made very famous compositions using the Piano. The music made on the piano is conventionally scripted in the form of staff notations [...]

Lesson 6…Identifying piano notes In this lesson on piano notes identification we will take the mystery out of knowing what tones (notes) are represented by those “black dots” on and between the lines on a Treble Clef and Bass Clef. Have you ever looked at a piece of sheet music and wondered how the person [...]

Notes & Clefs: The table below displays the different types of notes and clefs. All definitions are located at the end of the page. Treble Clef: When reading sheet music, you will notice that there is a treble clef at the top left hand corner of your music book. The notes along side the treble [...]

How to Learn Piano Notes Have you heard of the song Auld Lang Syne? If you know it, then it’s easy and fast to learn to play it on the piano. This song is a great way to learn the piano notes, which is one of the first steps in learning to play the piano. [...]

Music Terms / Definitions for this page: Rest: A rest is a symbol that corresponds to a note value. When reading a rest in sheet music no note is played for the duration of the rest. Beat: A beat is the name for a unit of music. Musicians learn to count beats, and play notes [...]

Play Notes All Over The Piano Keyboard! The Piano Has 88 Keys — why Not Learn To Use Them All? New pianists learn notes first. An understanding of musical notes and their values is the foundation for learning any instrument. That includes the piano. The values of the notes are easy to remember because their [...]