Two notes in each hand. One small beginning.
It's fine to look at your hands when you need to. With practice, the keys will feel more familiar and you'll find yourself looking down less. You'll see!
A little context
In this earliest lesson, we're introducing our left and right hands to the middle point of the keyboard, called middle C. This is C4—the fourth C up from the bottom on a piano.
While both hands can go anywhere on the keyboard, you'll find the left hand tends towards keys below middle C, while the right hand tends towards middle C and above. This “home position” is often the starting place when you first sit at a piano.
- Left hand
- Right hand
Use any comfortable finger to find each key. Fingering patterns become useful later for scales, chords and melody with accompaniment.
Middle C sits just to the left of a group of two black keys. In C major, the three-black-key group to its left helps you locate A and B. A different selected key may change those notes with sharps or flats.
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A small beginning is still a beginning.
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Your foundation course
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