Learn Piano or Keyboard (Complete) - From Beginner to Pro

Explore the inner mechanisms of the piano, compare electric keyboards with acoustic pianos, and learn transposing and improvisation to express musical individuality while practicing theory and pente skills.

Learn note values from quarter notes to dotted half and dotted whole notes, including beats per note and how the dot adds half value, bar lines, and measures.

Explore how time signatures define beats per measure, distinguish four-four and three-four, and understand upbeat and downbeat for expressive piano playing.

Explore the dynamic continuum from pianissimo to fortissimo, mastering piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, and fortissimo markings and how they shape loudness in playing.

Explore dangling D and balancing B on grand staff, review guide notes middle C, treble clef G, and bass clef F, and practice rearranging measures on piano to reinforce concepts.

Learn enharmonic equivalents and harmonic equivalence by lowering or raising notes by half step, with examples like C as B sharp and E as F in major and minor keys.

Explore enharmonic equivalents by using naturals to cancel sharps or flats within the same measure, while accidentals reset in a new measure.

Explore transposition through intervals and scale degrees using the C major pentatonic (C D E F G), then transpose to G major and build the dominant five-seven chord.

Transpose a musical excerpt from C major to G major using interval and scale-degree methods, recreate the fifth, verify with a second, and match dominant to tonic patterns.

Learn improvisation as personal interpretation by balancing sight reading and ear training. Improvise on a backtrack in C major using the C D E F G pentat scale.

Warm up your fingers with progressive scale practice across octaves, using a circular wrist motion, then learn to chunk pieces by identifying time and key signatures, patterns, and repeats.

Perform a finger independence drill to maintain proper hand shape, lifting one finger at a time with others resting, tapping to hear the sound, following right-hand 1–5 and left-hand 5–1.

Perform finger interval stretches before practice, moving from thumb to pinky, then repeat with the right and left hands; use flat-hand stretches between fingers for consistent progress.

Explore weight transfer from finger to finger by maintaining arm weight from shoulders through the hands to the fingers, like a faucet, and practice with firm fingertips that tap floorboard.

Practice warming up hands together across all piano octaves with varied articulations, including staccato, legato, and accents, while integrating weight transfer, crescendo, and decrescendo in ascending and descending patterns.

Learn the pentascales of C and G, major and minor forms, then introduce D major with F sharp, and show how lowering the third note creates the corresponding minor key.

Learn to build triads from the first, third, and fifth notes of a scale, with C major and G minor examples, and explore inversions and basic fingering patterns.

Finish all theory homework and pieces, then revisit concepts from this and past weeks, solidifying understanding with lifetime access to videos, while using printable musical glossary flashcards to memorize terms.

Practice counting the four counts with backtrack duet #1 in C+, as introduced in the learn piano or keyboard (complete) course for beginners to pro.

Explore the circle of flats and sharps and key signatures, expand from five-note scales to octave scales, and learn the three piano pedals and their purposes.

Discover how to use a metronome to keep steady time, set bpm from 35 to 250, and practice difficult passages by slowing down and gradually increasing speed with allegro tempo.

Explore circle of fifths and key signatures, learning how sharps and flats define major keys from C major to G major, D major, and beyond, using clockwise and counterclockwise patterns.

Learn to read eighth and sixteenth notes and their beat values, compare them to quarter, half, and whole notes with rests, and hear a piano demonstration.

Learn how to prepare a new piano piece by outlining a plan, identifying time and key signatures, tackling the hardest passages first, and spotting repeating patterns to accelerate mastering.

Explore how to use the three piano pedals—the damper pedal, the middle pedal, and the soft pedal—with proper foot technique and lagarto pedaling to shape tone.

Master octave scales starting on white notes like C major, with precise fingering, wrist angles, and preparation for black notes in keys such as D major and G major.

Explore scale degree names within an octave, including tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, and leading note, and distinguish harmonic versus melodic raising and resolution to the tonic.

Master broken triads with legato technique, emphasizing the first note in each triad in a 3/4 feel. Practice major and D minor patterns with crescendos and decrescendos.

Pause and reflect in week three to verify learning by explaining a concept to a novice, identify gaps, and prepare for the heavier concepts in weeks four and five.

Improvise using the G major octave scale over a four-four backtrack in G major, using both hands to explore all eight notes: G, A, B, C, D, E, F#, G.

Develop memory skills by dissecting musical scores, identifying the most important elements to study first, and learning how to memorize a piece so it sticks.

Master recognizing piano intervals by identifying major, minor, diminished, perfect, and augmented intervals; learn above and below notes on the right and left hand, using matching songs to memorize.

Explore circle of fifths ii by reinforcing the sharp and flat key signatures, counting steps with the order of sharps and flats, and identifying relative minors.

Learn four memory types: oral memory, visual memory, analytical memory, and tactile memory, and how they work together to memorize piano pieces, with hands-separate practice, bedtime review, and fail-safes.

Expand octave scales practice by adding E major, B major, and F major, focusing on wrist-friendly technique, memorized fingering, and preparing sharps and flats via circle of fifths.

Expand triad practice to e major, b major, g flat major, and d flat major, using solid and broken positions with fingering cues and a resource sheet to memorize.

Explore eight rhythm variations to drill difficult piano passages, apply them to scales and C major octaves, and tailor rhythms to any time signature for efficient practice.

Reflect on progress from week one to four as you near the final week of the METI method signature piano course; apply what you've learned to compose and perform.

Identify relative minor keys by locating the sixth scale degree or tracing down a minor third, and build natural minor scales using whole-step and half-step pattern on the piano.

Discover how to form major and minor scales—natural, melodic, and harmonic—along with chromatic scales on piano, including leading-note rules and the switcheroo fingering approach.

Explore improvisation with blues scales to add personal interpretation in piano performances, building on minor pentatonic concepts and adding the fifth note to create jazzy riffs.

Explore octave scales 3a with G-flat major and D-flat/C-sharp major, using circle of fifths context, precise fingering, harmonic equivalence, and crescendos for pattern-based skill building.

Explore triad patterns in major keys by examining root-position, three-note configurations, including e-flat major, f major, d major, g-flat major, and all white or all black patterns.

You've finished week five and completed the course, moving from zero knowledge to greater piano awareness; music heals, and explore socials for covers or private lessons, and share your experience.