This Book with Online Video & Audio was designed to help the beginning student learn to play the piano or keyboard. This step by step course is designed for elementary school-aged children (ages 5-11) and quickly teaches the student to play songs they will know and love. These lessons start by playing with both hands and gradually build to adding the notes on staff.
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The Keyboard & Finger Numbers
MI Note (E)
Quarter Note or Crotchet
Left Hand & Right Hand
Playing Hands Together
Playing Two Notes Together
Minim or Half Note
Semibreve or Whole Note
RE Note (D)
DO Note (C)
Hey, hey look at me / Double Dots
Au Clair De La Lune
FA Note (F)
SOL Note (G)
Good King Wenceslas / Clef Signs
Cuckoo where are you / 4 Beats
Twinkle, Twinkle / LA Note (A)
Old MacDonald / SI Note (B)
Lightly Row / Piano - Dynamic Signs
Ode To Joy / Forte
Mary had a little lamb / MP
London Bridge / MF
The Chimes / 3 Beats
Rock A Bye Baby
Cat Walking On Piano
Au Clair De La Lune
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Old MacDonald
The Sound of Music
Start With Staff *
Whole Rest
Quarter Rest
Hot Cross Buns
Dodo L’enfant Do
Ode To Joy
Brother John
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Hush Little Baby
Sweetly Sings the Donkey
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Jingle Bells
Lightly Row
London Bridge
The Muffin Man
Ring Around The Rosie
Twinkle, Twinkle
I Am Here
Good Morning Honey
Largo / Dotted Half
Alouette
The Farmer In The Dell
The Wheels On The Bus
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Yankee Doodle
Hickory Dickory Dock
Minuet NO.3 JS.Bach
Lullaby and Goodnight
Happy Birthday
Minuet - Bach / 2 Beats
I’m A Little Teapot
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C D E F G A B C D E F G A B
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The Keyboard
Finger Numbers
LEFT HAND
(LH)
RIGHT HAND
(RH)
DOWN (Lower) UP (Higher)
LOW SOUNDS HIGH SOUNDS
2 Blacks Key Groups 3 Blacks Key Groups
Play any white key with the 3rd finger of either hand, softly and hear it.
Play any black key with the 2nd finger of either hand, softly and hear it.
When you press a piano key down with a LITTLE weight, you make a SOFT tone.
When you use MORE weight, you make a LOUDER tone.
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The name of this key is (MI).
Each key on the piano has a name.
Find any 2 black key group.
The white key on the left of the group is called (MI).
The (MI) key is shown by letter (E).
Now find the middle of the keyboard and start from there.
Use the 3rd (third finger) of RIGHT HAND.
Play the (MI) key and say it aloud.
Repeat this many times with different weight on the keys.
Do the same with your LEFT HAND.
Find and play all the (MI) keys on the piano.
Find (MI) keys at the top of this page and color them (Yellow).
RHLH
E 33
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LH
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A Quarter note is a SHORT note.
A Quarter note has a value of ONE beats.
Get ready & sit upright.
Start from the middle of the piano.
Find 2 black key group.
Find (MI) in the group.
Use the 3rd finger of LEFT HAND.
Notice the notes below: They are for the left hand.
Clap (or tap) ONCE for each Quarter, counting aloud.
Play & sing (or say) the note names.
Find & play any (MI) on other LOWER groups.
Find (MI) keys at the top of this page and color them (Yellow).
Crotchet or
Quarter Note
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Count: 1
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LEFT HAND
(LH)
RIGHT HAND
(RH)
A Quarter note is a SHORT note.
Each Quarter note gets ONE beat.
Get ready & sit upright.
Start from the middle of the piano.
Find 2 black key group.
Find (MI) in the group.
Use the 3rd finger of RIGHT HAND.
Notice the notes below: They are for the right hand.
Use the note with stems pointing up for right hand and the reverse for left hand.
Clap (or tap) & count aloud.
Play & sing (or say) the note names.
Find & play any (MI) on other HIGHER groups.
Find (MI) keys at the top of this page and color them (Yellow).
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ED D E
D E ED
EE
D
D
E
D
D
LH
RH
D D
LH RH
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The name of this key is (RE)
Use the 2nd finger of right hand.
Use the 4th finger of left hand.
Clap ONCE tor each note, counting aloud.
Play & sing the note names.
Play & count the rhythm aloud.
Find (RE) keys at the top of this page and
color them (Orange).
Make the (MI) keys (Yellow).
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E D D DE
D D DEE
C C
C C
C
C
LH
RH
C
C
LH RH
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The name of this key is (DO)
Use the 1st finger of right hand.
Use the 5th finger of left hand.
Clap ONCE tor each note, counting aloud.
Practice each hand separately.
Play & sing the note names.
Play & count the rhythm aloud.
Find (DO) keys at the top of this page and
color them (Red), Make (RE) keys (Orange)
& (MI) keys (Yellow).
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Rain, Rain, go away
Come again another day
Little Arthur wants to play
LH RH
2 34 3 2
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Use the black keys.
Play on another octave.
Notice the fingers number and the hands position.
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Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!
And on this farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O!
LH RH
3 2 2 3 4
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Follow the practice direction on page 30.
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Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!
One a penny two a penny Hot cross buns!
Indicates (MI) with the Latin letter (E).
Explain and Practice the (MI) place on
the lines of each key separately.
Notice 3rd interval on the Bass Line.
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Dodo L’enfant Do
Dodo, l’enfant do, L’enfant dormira bien vite
Dodo, l’enfant do L’enfant dormira bientôt.
Notice 3rd interval on Two Clefs.
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Jingle Bells
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one horse open sleigh
Chord Is Simply Two Or More Notes
That Are Played Together.
Notice The Play On The LH Chords.
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Lightly Row
Lightly row, lightly row, O’er the rolling waves we go.
Sing and laugh, sing and laugh, In our rubber raft.
Look out for that big old wave! It could put us in our grave!
Keep down low as we roll, back to shore we go.
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