
Introduction to the course, and how to get the best results from it.
A quick message about the keyboard song choices used in this course, and information about where you can buy sheet music from.
Find out about the piano keyboard layout, including the pattern of black and white notes. Learn the notes names of the white notes and learn how to identify a starting note, from which you can work out the other names.
Learn how the musical stave works and how notes are placed on it. Learn about the treble clef, which is used for right hand keyboard playing. Learn about how to extend the 5-line staves using ledger lines.
Note shapes show duration. Learn about the crotchet/quarter note, stem direction how to count the beat.
Practice some simple four-note tunes using crotchets/quarter notes.
Learn why it's important to use all the fingers on your hand, and the best way to work out correct hand position.
Watch demos of the practice tune with animated piano keyboard.
Learn about notes values longer than the crotchet (quarter note). The minim (half note) is twice as long, and the semibreve (whole note) is four times as long. Learn how to count out each note as you play.
Download the PDF of practice tunes using longer note values.
Watch the practice tunes demonstrated on the keyboard.
Learn about the note values which are shorter than the crotchet/quarter note: the quaver and semiquaver (eighth note and sixteenth note), and how to count them.
Download the PDF for practising tunes with shorter note values.
Watch demonstrations of the Getting Shorter tunes.
Learn the names of the black notes on the keyboard instrument or piano, and how they are represented on the stave. Learn about key signatures and accidentals, and how they work.
Download the PDF of the Ebony & Ivory tunes (using black notes).
Demos of the tunes for the Ebony & Ivory (black notes) lesson.
How dots written next to notes change their duration, and how tied notes work. Don't confuse dotted notes with staccato, or tied notes with slurs.
Download the PDF of practice tunes using dotted and tied notes.
Watch demos of the practice tunes using dotted and tied notes.
What do the numbers in a time signature (metre) mean, and how to count keyboard music in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 (the simple time signatures).
Demos of the tunes practising simple time signatures.
Learn about how silence is represented in music with rest symbols. Find out about their different shapes, and the function of the whole bar/measure rest.
Download the PDF sheet music of tunes to practice rests.
Watch demos of the tunes for practicing music with rests.
Compound time: how to count music written in 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8, and how the beat is subdivided.
Download the PDF of tunes in compound time signatures to practice.
Watch demos of the practice tunes using compound time signatures.
Learn about other common symbols found in sheet music: repeat instructions, the pause symbol and octave higher symbol.
Brief introduction to playing with the left hand on the keyboard: how to read the bass clef.
Download the PDF of tunes to practice the left hand.
Demos of the practice tunes for the left hand.
This lesson will prepare you to play Scarborough Fair on the piano or any other keyboard instrument. You can watch the keyboard notes too.
Download the sheet music and notes for Scarborough Fair.
Preparation before playing House of the Rising Sun.
Sheet music with lyrics and notes for the song "House of the Rising Sun".
Watch the piano keyboard demo of how to play "House of the Rising Sun".
Get ready to play "The Star Spangled Banner".
Download the PDF of the sheet music for "The Star Spangled Banner".
Learn to Play Keyboard Instrument Music Fast!
If you want to learn how to read sheet music notes, to play easy songs on the piano or any other keyboard instrument, this course is for you. You'll be able to play the piano with your right hand, reading notated sheet music. Within a few hours and with a bit of practice, you'll realize that reading music is as easy as reading words, when you know how!
The course is broken down into short steps - each lesson is around 3 minutes in length. Learn a new skill in a short time, watch the demos, practice, then move on when you are ready.
I've included some PDF sheet music, and will of course be adding in more and more for you on a regular basis. Songs you'll learn how to play include "House of the Rising Sun", "Star Spangled Banner" and "Scarborough Fair". Requests for songs accepted!
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